Is that a joke I’m too dumb to get?
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samus12345@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Here he is ca. 1886 at around 50 years old:
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
samus12345@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
You’re right, I made a mistake, I put the correct one in.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Oops, you’re absolutely right, I grabbed the wrong photo, Fixed.
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
me too. I thought i was more blind than the tortoise in question lol.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Yeah, same lol
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Older than the association of the color pink with girls, and blue with boys.
samus12345@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
He’s been around humans long enough to see to see, what, 6 or 7 generations come and go?