Holy fuck this carving looks absolutely beautiful
90You too, huh? Something about it speaks to me. The simplicity, clean lines, dunno?
34I think it’s something about the skill needed to make this and the fact that no machines were involved. It’s quite something though.
21Modernist art deco, like it was made in the 1930s
4Not just the clean lines, but the smooth curves too. It's difficult to do something like this and not make it all bumpy and uneven. Definitely lots of skill and time involved.
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What's the meme here
65It's a screenshot of a Twitter post, that's a meme right?
16Well if we want to get pedantic, every unique thing passed around and spread is a meme. Jokes, art styles, idioms, words, greetings, most social behavior really. And you can go a step further and say diseases, species, even all of life is a meme.
And if there ever was a place to use this definition of meme it would be... LinguisticMemes, but this is a good second place.
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If I remember correctly, Homo sapiens sapiens was not only coetaneous with Mammoths, but we are widely considered to be one, if not the main cause of their extintion.
Also constructions like Gobekli tepe, with it's carvings and decorations, predate the extintion of Mammoths by something like 6000 years.
46Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.
Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.
13Count it!
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Well, that's a new word on me. Thought spell check corrected contemporary.
13Well, ice age ended and elephants still live.
6I... am so disappointed this didn't go where, for a split second, my brain thought it was going.
Homo sapiens sapiens was not only coetaneous with Mammoths, but we are widely considered to be one
Chickens are dinosaurs - and humans are mammoths!!
5birds are the continuation of the theropod dinosaur lineage.
humans are the continuation of the early synapsid lineage also present at the time (which later gave rise to the early mammal progenitor).
when people say birds are dinosaurs they mean the lineage didn't branch as much as it did for humans, which I think is more survivorship bias than anything.
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Weren't there like full blown civilizations at that point? Kinda weird to refer to mammoths as if it were some stone age prehistoric period and be surprised that someone could craft something like this then lol
37Just using some tiny mammoth population on an isolated island in Siberia to state "MAMMOTHS WERE STILL ROAMING THE EARTH WHEN BLAH BLAH BLAH" is somewhat disingenuous.
20Is it a lie though?
7Roaming the earth means roaming all - or at least a very significant portion of - the earth, not some very isolated region. So I would say yes - if some tiny population of mammoths was still alive in some limited area at this time, they were not 'roaming the earth'.
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Also pretending that 4000 years ago humans were still hunter gatherers or something (it's kind of implied in the wording imo). 4000 years ago there were plenty of fairly developed civilisations around.
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That is a locust.
19Locusts ARE grasshoppers. If enough grasshoppers group up in the same area they literally become locusts and fuck everything up.
27Maybe, but a locus is a type of grasshopper.
11grasshopper are light thin and green. that is easily double the mass, chonky, and looks like it's ready swarm downtown LAPD
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Ur mom is a locust. Huht huht huht.
8One hopps grass the other grasses hopps.
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Hematite = best tite
12tite (or titi) means penis in my language
4he ma means "him, mother" in my language
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How much for the weight? I'll take two.
7The eyes don't make sense to me. How did they know to use this pattern? Are there some really big grasshoppers out there?
4No doubt there are insects big enough to be able to see the patterns on the eyes without magnification.
15- Exactly this. Just eyesight & time.
- Not to mention that some insects even have a bit of contrast between the lenses so it's easier to understand they are compounded.
- And additionally due to individual lenses compounded eyes arent smooth - by reflecting light at different angles you can make the "bumps" obvious.
- Also if there is like a water droplet on grasshoppers eyes you can clearly see it's surface structure. Just like you can see individual pixels on your (high dpi phone?) screen the same way.
Tho I bet they didn't study this ones eyes:
It's called a fairy wasp (wiki/Megaphragma_mymaripenne) and it's only the third smallest insect known.
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I'm sure they had plenty of experience with bugs in their environment, both alive and dead. I'm sure you can see the eyes pretty well close up.
6The aliens lent them a magnifying glass
5Grasshoppers can get quite big
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