Evolution
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I respect the hell out of Baxter, he's a hard sci-fi artist. However, he's so unrelentingly bleak I had to quit reading his stuff.
Can you share where you felt that way? Been a while since I've read him.
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I knew exactly which videos those were before clicking on the links
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Can you share where you felt that way? Been a while since I've read him.
The midpoint to the end of Evolution, humans basically devolve and ultimately go extinct.
It's been awhile since I've read anything by him as well.
I remember another book where artifically created people inside a dwarf star were dying due to solar harvesting, IIRC. I remember it being depressing but fascinating. Don't remember how it ends.
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Crustaceans: Crab
Mammals:
WeaselCrabPlants:
TreeGrass. Everything grass.Amphibians & Reptiles:
Unchanged because they are perfectCrabBirds:
360° around back to dinosaursFirst of all, avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs. Secondly, 360° doesn't really make sense, probably they meant 180°. Finally, crab.Fungi: I shan't speculate on the affairs of gods.
Moral of the story: You might not like it but decapods are peak animal evolution. All roads lead to crab.
you seem like an expert and I was actually wondering this yesterday while I was out on a walk cause I tend to think about silly things. So Theropods evolved into birds right? what about Sauropods or like Triceratops? or did they just go extinct
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Crustaceans: Crab
Mammals:
WeaselCrabPlants:
TreeGrass. Everything grass.Amphibians & Reptiles:
Unchanged because they are perfectCrabBirds:
360° around back to dinosaursFirst of all, avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs. Secondly, 360° doesn't really make sense, probably they meant 180°. Finally, crab.Fungi: I shan't speculate on the affairs of gods.
Moral of the story: You might not like it but decapods are peak animal evolution. All roads lead to crab.
Even grass evolves to tree - look at bamboo
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Crustaceans: Crab
Mammals:
WeaselCrabPlants:
TreeGrass. Everything grass.Amphibians & Reptiles:
Unchanged because they are perfectCrabBirds:
360° around back to dinosaursFirst of all, avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs. Secondly, 360° doesn't really make sense, probably they meant 180°. Finally, crab.Fungi: I shan't speculate on the affairs of gods.
Moral of the story: You might not like it but decapods are peak animal evolution. All roads lead to crab.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Plants? Crabgrass.
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Crustaceans: Crab
Mammals:
WeaselCrabPlants:
TreeGrass. Everything grass.Amphibians & Reptiles:
Unchanged because they are perfectCrabBirds:
360° around back to dinosaursFirst of all, avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs. Secondly, 360° doesn't really make sense, probably they meant 180°. Finally, crab.Fungi: I shan't speculate on the affairs of gods.
Moral of the story: You might not like it but decapods are peak animal evolution. All roads lead to crab.
I don't mind being a crab imagine not working. Just be crab.
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Everything becomes crab on long enough timeline, Daniel-san. Be the lobster! Shell on. Shell off. Sift the floor.
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Crustaceans: Crab
Mammals:
WeaselCrabPlants:
TreeGrass. Everything grass.Amphibians & Reptiles:
Unchanged because they are perfectCrabBirds:
360° around back to dinosaursFirst of all, avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs. Secondly, 360° doesn't really make sense, probably they meant 180°. Finally, crab.Fungi: I shan't speculate on the affairs of gods.
Moral of the story: You might not like it but decapods are peak animal evolution. All roads lead to crab.
wrote last edited by [email protected]One fungus will eventually manage to mind control the crabs, like some already do with ants.
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Crustaceans: Crab
Mammals:
WeaselCrabPlants:
TreeGrass. Everything grass.Amphibians & Reptiles:
Unchanged because they are perfectCrabBirds:
360° around back to dinosaursFirst of all, avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs. Secondly, 360° doesn't really make sense, probably they meant 180°. Finally, crab.Fungi: I shan't speculate on the affairs of gods.
Moral of the story: You might not like it but decapods are peak animal evolution. All roads lead to crab.
Mammals: Anteater
Ants: Crab
Mammals: Crabeater
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Crustaceans: Crab
Mammals:
WeaselCrabPlants:
TreeGrass. Everything grass.Amphibians & Reptiles:
Unchanged because they are perfectCrabBirds:
360° around back to dinosaursFirst of all, avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs. Secondly, 360° doesn't really make sense, probably they meant 180°. Finally, crab.Fungi: I shan't speculate on the affairs of gods.
Moral of the story: You might not like it but decapods are peak animal evolution. All roads lead to crab.
360° could be implying they are already that and that they'll go through some cycle from being modern dinosaurs into future dinosaurs, but remaining much the same at the start and end positions. Or they were one of the many that never did understand angles and degrees during geometry
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Crustaceans: Crab
Mammals:
WeaselCrabPlants:
TreeGrass. Everything grass.Amphibians & Reptiles:
Unchanged because they are perfectCrabBirds:
360° around back to dinosaursFirst of all, avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs. Secondly, 360° doesn't really make sense, probably they meant 180°. Finally, crab.Fungi: I shan't speculate on the affairs of gods.
Moral of the story: You might not like it but decapods are peak animal evolution. All roads lead to crab.
Misusing 360° where you should use 180° is a running joke
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Anteaters are more likely than weasels
wow this is fascinating, thanks for sharing!
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you seem like an expert and I was actually wondering this yesterday while I was out on a walk cause I tend to think about silly things. So Theropods evolved into birds right? what about Sauropods or like Triceratops? or did they just go extinct
Groups never evolve into something. Species do.
Theropods are a group comprising a lot of species.
There was one species of theropod that evolved a few characterics we associate with birds. They evolved into a few species and some of them evolved into yet more species. They're at the origin of the whole bird group.
See it like a tree with branches branching out with many branchss just getting cut short. One of that branching branch is the bird group, and it's on the branching branch of theropod.
And yes, the branching branchs that are Sauropods and Ornithischia were all completely cut at the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction 65 million years ago.
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Groups never evolve into something. Species do.
Theropods are a group comprising a lot of species.
There was one species of theropod that evolved a few characterics we associate with birds. They evolved into a few species and some of them evolved into yet more species. They're at the origin of the whole bird group.
See it like a tree with branches branching out with many branchss just getting cut short. One of that branching branch is the bird group, and it's on the branching branch of theropod.
And yes, the branching branchs that are Sauropods and Ornithischia were all completely cut at the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction 65 million years ago.
Thank you, appreciate the answer.
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Even grass evolves to tree - look at bamboo
Or palms.
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you seem like an expert and I was actually wondering this yesterday while I was out on a walk cause I tend to think about silly things. So Theropods evolved into birds right? what about Sauropods or like Triceratops? or did they just go extinct
wrote last edited by [email protected]These are actually questions that I've asked and done digging about in info sources on. I'm sad to report that it does appear that only descendents of theropod species appear to have survived.
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I had a dream a couple weeks ago where I was reading some news about penguins developing a language to talk to each other. And in the dream I was wondering if we as humans were in any way hindering the penguins' capacity to evolve into a sentient species - then realized they were already so close to us. They have arms and legs, can use tools, talk with a structured language and everything - what kept them being labeled as plain animals if they did all that?
In the afternoon I suddenly remembered the dream and for a split second was kinda agreeing with my dream's argument, until I realized the penguins in the dream were closer to Animal Crossing characters than to actually penguins.
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Misusing 360° where you should use 180° is a running joke
Ah good point. I'm more used to people doing it unintentionally.
