What’s the meme here
little hopper
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That the Sumerian’s will use anything but metric.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Apparently, muricans are a lost tribe of Sumerians.
Hold on a sec. I need to write up some golden tablets or something.
TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 8 months ago
This guy doesn’t get bronze age humor.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Neolithic mfers will see you writing a stone tablet and think “this fool doesn’t know how to sharpen” 😂😂😂
kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
It’s a screenshot of a Twitter post, that’s a meme right?
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Well 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.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, that’s a new word on me. Thought spell check corrected contemporary.
Malgas@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.
Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.
Pips@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Count it!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Well, ice age ende and elephants still live.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I… 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!!
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
birds 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.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Birds are dinosaurs. Humans are not mammoths
Asafum@feddit.nl 8 months ago
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
MadBob@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I think the pyramids at Giza were a few millennia old at that point eh?
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Not millennia, but several centuries.
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 8 months ago
To be fair it’s still hard to get over that Mammoths were still around at that point; it really feels like they’re from a much earlier era. Also hard to really grasp how advanced people were even that early on.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Several, yes. Egypt, Uruk, Indus, etc
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just 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.
witx@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Is it a lie though?
Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Roaming 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’.
Gloomy@mander.xyz 8 months ago
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.
Etterra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That is a locust.
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Locusts ARE grasshoppers. If enough grasshoppers group up in the same area they literally become locusts and fuck everything up.
prayer@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Maybe, but a locus is a type of grasshopper.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
grasshopper are light thin and green. that is easily double the mass, chonky, and looks like it’s ready swarm downtown LAPD
theangryseal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 8 months ago
One hopps grass the other grasses hopps.
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 8 months ago
That’s nothing; Tigers and Pandas are still around in the same time period as the electronic device you used to post this!
When people are using mental interface devices to gravitate to their Mars colony it’ll be such a mindbender to realize ye olde memes were being made at the same time all those mammalian fossils from extinct species like elephants and rhinos were carbon dated to!
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hematite = best tite
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
tite (or titi) means penis in my language
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
he ma means “him, mother” in my language
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
How much for the weight? I’ll take two.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The eyes don’t make sense to me. How did they know to use this pattern? Are there some really big grasshoppers out there?
Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
No doubt there are insects big enough to be able to see the patterns on the eyes without magnification.
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 8 months ago
An alternative that I like to use in the lab is squinting and holding the sample really close to my face. Perhaps they used my method if the bugs weren’t big enough?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Exactly this.
Not to mention that some insects even have a bit of contrast between the lenses so it’s easier to understand they are compounded.
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.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
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.
BigBenis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The aliens lent them a magnifying glass
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Grasshoppers can get quite big
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Holy fuck this carving looks absolutely beautiful
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You too, huh? Something about it speaks to me. The simplicity, clean lines, dunno?
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think it’s something about the skill needed to make this and the fact that no machines were involved. It’s quite something though.
bamfic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Modernist art deco, like it was made in the 1930s
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 8 months ago
Not 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.
TayamExplorer@discuss.online 8 months ago
Who says “you too, huh” unironically like they’re the centre of the universe? Holy fuck the ego trip is real with this one.