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• DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This, of course, was summarized most eloquently at the zenith of human evoloution: the 1982 hit single by Toto clearly stating, “I bless the rains down in Africa.”

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  • NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh wow all this time I thought they missed the rains of Africa

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    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Some of those rains went unblessed because someone missed them.

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    • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “I guess the rain is down in Africa” for me.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You think rain is your ally?

  You merely adopted the damp. We Brits were born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see dry sand until I was already a man…

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  • flicker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Heh. Molded.

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    • Deebster@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Their spelling was moulded by the US

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Run! He’s a mossman!

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• EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Was that area a desert 250,000 years ago?

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  • ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The whole continent of Africa (as every other continent) went through several major climate changes, small and big. Pretty sure there were at least five major turnovers from wet to dry climate and back since then, and numerous before.

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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fun fact, there are some theories that the Sahara desert was actually caused by over foraging from early goat herding.

      So to a degree out ancestors may have already caused some climate change.

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      • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Your ape’s first anthropogenic climate disaster.

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      • skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Republicans and climate science deniers favorite fun fact

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The North African region was a lush verdant region 11,000 years ago, which is not so long ago considering humans already spread far and wide around that time.

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• Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m still missing something here. For it to be useful, I’d imagine that it would need to inform decisions, and do so where existing senses would fail.

  At least in my environment, if I can smell rain, I could also just as easily use my eyes to see the cumulonimbus clouds and say “rain, due east”.

  In the savanna are there scenarios where the only awareness of rain would be smelling it? Can you derive directionality at 5 parts per trillion? Does it matter?

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  • erev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    you can smell it coming before you see it imo. that gives you time to get to shelter and to move to where the water/food is

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• MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’d think more African animals (especially predators) would have that ability, then

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