Insomnia

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• Norn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Regardless of topic, I can relate to the need to look something up in the middle of the night for peace of mind.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    i looked up the number of deaths during the napoleonic wars like yesterday

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Was it more than 10?

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    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The bare necessities of knowledge for sound sleep.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This isn’t really a mystery. We know the fossil record is incomplete, something like 99% of species are almost certainly not represented in the fossil record and what is present will massively be biased towards marine life.

  Plants don’t fossilize particularly well anyways so it’s not surprising that we don’t have records for these organisms. The fact that we have records for the existence of phones at all is probably evidence of them suddenly becoming massively prolific (I wonder if some major environmental change occurred around that time ☄️) rather than them springing out a thin air.

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  • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They were dropped off by aliens. The very same ones who returned millions of years later to build us pyramids. It’s a very philanthropic extra-terrestrial community

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Until they flatten all the buildings and make the survivors fight through a murder dungeon for their entertainment

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fuck this moron.

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    • BucketBong@p.hobo.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Like, I’ll try.

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• bert_brause@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  what? Sorry, what does it mean? I cheated my way trough computer science - archeology / biology are not my expertise.

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  • RandomStickman@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think it means we don't know what the ancestors of those plants are/what they evolved from. They just kinda showed up in the fossil record.

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    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Which, tbf, it’s a miracle enough of the fossil record exists as is. I’m sure there was a LOT that was lost to the sands of time

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      ehh, modern biology doesn’t construct evolutionary history from fossil records, but from genetic similarities.

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    • F_State@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Relatively few lifeforms end up fossilizing and then some of those fossils later get eroded. The percentage that make it to the present is low.

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  • lemonskate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That the fossil record is incomplete

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Your mom’s record is incomplete

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  • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It means our knowledge of their ancestry cuts off at that point. Anything else is speculation without additional information.

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    • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That is exactly what the comic says but its not true, fossil records for ferns go back to the devonian several 100 million years before the Cretaceous

      ontariobeneathourfeet.com/dinosaur-salad-ancient-…

      www.amerfernsoc.org/about-ferns

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Imagine you are trying to infer the structure of a tree by only know the positions of its leaves. Now imagine doing the same, but only 1/100 of the leaves are above ground.

    It’s only a small fraction living organisms which remain alive today. Most species and families which have ever been are extinct. And most are so old we could never do DNA work on them. Among the living, we can do some good DNA work and that’s made a huge difference. But then go back far enough and there are just massive nonconformities.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “I can’t get… no… sleeeeep…”

  techno music

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Paleobotany my beloved

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I usually schedule it to tommorrow and the forget it.

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