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6daemonbag, in Roots of Mother Appalachia

I love the amount of praise in these comments. My dad is a geologist and used to always gush about the Appalachians when I was growing up

angrystego, in Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry

Where’s the Euclidean one?

anzich,

The circle on the pp ist (almost) euclidean

Lumun, in Rock scientists' world tour
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One site in Cairo, one in Buenos Aires

“Well, that’s all of Africa and South America accounted for!”

FinalRemix,

They probably sent out thousands of requests and only heard back from those places. Let’s be honest: This’d be a great response rate, depending on the study.

davidgro, in Rock scientists' world tour

The upper left dot is pretty close to at least 4 rainforests…

emergencyfood,

Yes, the Seattle and Singapore dots are ‘close’ to rainforests. Probably Guangzhou as well.

Kalkaline, in cannot unhear
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Have y’all tried her diet? I don’t know if it’s backed by science or not, but you can eat just about anything on it. My buddy Joe tried it, it made Joe lean.

vacuumfountain, in eye spy
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Chinchillas have vertical slit pupils despite being small herbivorous rodents. There are definitely quite a few exceptions.

0ops, in eye spy

TIL Jabba the Hutt is a small ambush predator

fossilesque,
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Explains the whole Princess Leia thing.

mindbleach,

Bear in mind the same ecosystem produced the Sarlacc.

Which apparently I know how to spell without checking.

FlyingSquid, in Roots of Mother Appalachia
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Also, they got moonshine.

fossilesque,
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Das rite.

windowlicker, in eye spy
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those psuedopupils are the coolest in my opinion. i had no idea about those.

Omniraptor, (edited )

I don’t think the pseudopupils are a feature of the eye distinct from any other part, it’s just what the individual facets look like viewed at a shallow angle.

edit: not that there aren’t bugs with different colored regions of their eyes. I’m not sure about the functionality of those tho, is it for vision or camouflage or looking good for the ladies or what. Will google

Bebo, in eye spy

This was very interesting.

Deepus,

Yes, but also mildy infuriating.

ubermeisters, in eye spy
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Checks what community I’m in

Where’s the meme?

This is literally just scientific facts

fossilesque,
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A meme doesn’t have to be funny. ;)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme?wprov=sfla1

ubermeisters,
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Do some critical thinking after reading that please

fossilesque,
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You engaged, didn’t you?

ubermeisters,
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Engagement is not the only thing in life lmao what are you, elon?

kattenluik,

Block, report or read the rules and ask the moderators. You’re wasting your own time and everyone else’s, I found this an enjoyable meme and so did many others.

ubermeisters, (edited )
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I feel like blocking the user because I don’t think they’re post fits a community is a pretty fucking drastic action dude. Also I never blocked moderators of communities that I enjoy because the system with moderators and user blocks is kind of fucky on here. I don’t think is right to block a moderator.

Edit: cry harder babes it’s OK:( the scary man can’t hurt you from here

can,

Shouldn’t it be transformative in some way? Like if someone edited it and then submitted it would feel more like a meme to me.

fossilesque, (edited )
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Nah, replication is enough, shows interest. This meme was stolen, thus it lives on as a vehicle. The intention here is to simply get people interested in the world around them. Not sure what the original goal was. This one just has a little more .jpg than the last. I’ve seen variants of this one, regardless. This is an old one.

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme

ubermeisters,
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So…

Uh…by your logic, every single image online that’s NOT original content, is a meme?

No wonder you made yourself moderator lmao… you’ve no idea what a meme is so of COURSE you would be the mod ugh. Thanks reddit2.0

Linking to a web definition of MEME to shut people up, is the most boomer shit I’ve ever seen, and I’m a boomer.

fossilesque,
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My friend, are you ok?

Melatonin, in eye spy

I loved this graphic. Great content, something I’d never wondered about and just today realized I’m not curious enough.

Thanks op or bot whichever.

fossilesque,
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Beep boop yer welcome.

lol3droflxp, in eye spy
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Some of that is controversial as far as I know. And the pseudopupils are an optical Artifact since every single eye has its own opening.

fossilesque,
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Tell us more!

SpaceNoodle,

Like, did he have a car?

fossilesque,
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You wouldn’t download a car, now, would you? 🔪

SpaceNoodle,

In a fucking heartbeat

fossilesque,
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Me too.

nothacking, in six

(d sin(x))/(d x) = sin(x)/(x)

immuredanchorite, in Roots of Mother Appalachia

One thing that will never seem to leave my head is that I had read that the current mountain tops of the Appalachians are actually the original valleys of the mountain range. The mountains were so old and large that the valleys of todays Appalachian’s were the footprint of what was once maybe the largest mountain range earth has seen

ElHexo,

I think they were as tall as the Alps are now - because the crust essentially “floats” on the mantle as mountains are eroded (and glaciers slide off), the land gradually rises

calculusqu33n,

www.brown.edu/news/2016-11-21/appalachians :)) so cool, i love science so much

uniqueid198x,

What we see now are the ancient roots. Before the continental colision, there was a sea and subduction zone. This gave us sandstones, diorite, and granite… All of which were crushed at incredible pressure and temperature by the continental collision. At the deep roots of the mountains, this transformed the rock into gneiss, marble, and other extremely hard rock. Additionally, the forces were so great that the very bottom melted and became fresh granite.

All of these stones are very hard and resistant to erosion, and are what we see todayas the Appalachians

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