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randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 年前

xkcd #2823: Fossil

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xkcd #2823: Fossil

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    If 8 trilobites hang out together, would they make a trilobyte?

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      No, they’ll be 1/128 kilotrilobites

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      I think you would need 1,000,000,000,000

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        Wouldn’t that make teratrilobite?

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    The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word “fossiliferous” a lot.

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      Fossiliferous seems like something you’d hear when Bill and Ted become paleontologists.

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        Nobody hinders me from using that word fossiliferously in office or at home or wherever

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    I don’t get it. Who is telling him not to boop the trilobites? What’s wrong with booping the trilobite?

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      Do not boop the trilobite

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        D O N O T B O O P T H E T R I L O B I T E

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        Do not the trilobite.

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    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2823:_Fossil

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    Boop

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    I misread the first panel as “pry open an animal” at first and was thinking, “that is NOT how you make a fossil!”

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