Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe just before that, when they started wearing digital watches.
The first digital watch was from 1972.
They were making a joke that digital watches are outdated/out-of-style.
A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life
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Re: A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe just before that, when they started wearing digital watches.
The first digital watch was from 1972.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/54481-far-out-in-the-unchar...
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Re: A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
The first digital watch was from 1972.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/54481-far-out-in-the-unchar... “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a…
Yes. That.
Re: A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/54481-far-out-in-the-unchar... “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a…
Yes. That.
Beat me to it tho was gonna mention instead the exchanging of pieces of leaves part (engineering students in my uni just before 2020 were humanities averse/have compartmentalized knowledge and not well-read, 2 professors passionate about HHGG had their references meet a handful of knowing laughs in a hall of hundreds e.g. "bring a towel" and "this invisibility is powered by the Somebody Else's Problem field" and as you can see even you are seeing it on HN lmao)
Re: A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life
#25What a treasure indeed! I just didn‘t understand why this particular site had so well-preserved soft tissue fossils? I assume it is probably related to the geology of the site during formation of the fossils, and probably the researchers themselves are not quite sure. But I would love to know more, if anyone here understands about this sort of thing.
If I had to guess, they probably have some ideas. In Your inner fish (an excellent book, BTW) Neil Shubin has an afterword where he describes roughly how they went about deciding where to look for Tiktaalik. Basically, you start with whatever thing you want to find out more about; in the case of Tiktaalik, the transition of tetrapods from aquatic to terrestrial living. So you start by finding out where you have expos…
Start with whatever thing you want to know more about. Then draw the rest of the owl