Is that a joke I’m too dumb to get?
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samus12345@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Here he is ca. 1886 at around 50 years old:
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, I just think it’s cool to see an animal in such an old photo that’s still alive today.
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
I don’t think that photo is from 1886, not with those vehicles in the background. So I assumed it was a joke comment or AI, but all the subjects had normal finger counts, so I assumed joke.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The photo is from 1947, not 1886, according to my hasty googling.
The tortoise is from ~1832 and still alive and would’ve been around 50 in 1886.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You’re right, I made a mistake, I put the correct one in.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you have a source for that date? Those cars in the background don’t look like anything that would’ve existed in 1886. In fact the first car put into production was patented in 1886 and it looked like this:
Black and white image of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, an early three-wheeled automobile
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Oops, you’re absolutely right, I grabbed the wrong photo, Fixed.
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Heh. I just spent half a minute squinting the dark trees in the background, looking for the outline of a car. I didn’t realise the picture was swapped.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
me too. I thought i was more blind than the tortoise in question lol.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Yeah, same lol
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is definitely funny. I was just thinking, “How many fads and fashions has this one tortoise seen in his life?”
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Older than the association of the color pink with girls, and blue with boys.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 year ago
He’s been around humans long enough to see to see, what, 6 or 7 generations come and go?