CalvinBall wrote:cameras didnt even exist 55 million years ago

Potatoes did, though. At least, I think they did.

EDIT: Well, I guess they're only a few thousand years old. Or at least that's when they started being cultivated.

jamiethekiller wrote:that picture is 55 million years old

Then how is it in color?!?!?!

Big space day with SpaceX recovering all three boosters from the Falcon heavy. In other news, the Israelis moon rover smacked into the Moon. You can't win them all I guess.

thephan wrote:Big space day with SpaceX recovering all three boosters from the Falcon heavy. In other news, the Israelis moon rover smacked into the Moon. You can't win them all I guess.

Hey, it reached its destination

thephan wrote:Big space day with SpaceX recovering all three boosters from the Falcon heavy. In other news, the Israelis moon rover smacked into the Moon. You can't win them all I guess.

where will their occupation extend to next?!

Well, leave it to the internet to try to ruin the black hole story:

Online trolls hijack scientist’s image to attack Katie Bouman; they pick the wrong astrophysicist

I just read that and its hilarious. They wanted a white guy because of gender identity, but got a gay white guy who defends the young female phd candidate.

FWIW, I was down on the space coast during the Falcon Heavy launch. It was super awesome to see that thing go up, even from far away, and as cool to see the boosters return. I did not realize that the boosters fire to correct trajectory, but then the fins do all the work to get it almost to the pad. So there was the burn to align, then that was the end of the show from where I was.

Phred posted something about the banana that tastes like ice cream in another thread and it reminded me about this fungus disease that is genuinely threatening the banana with extinction. I heard about it 3 or 4 years ago because our school almost had a theme day about it, but then it slipped my mind and I went back to eating bananas without a care in the world.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-42777803

This is the second time the disease has spread. The first time it killed off the type of banana we used to eat (it was better than the one we eat now). We had to switch to the inferior Cavendish banana because it was immune to the disease. Now that immunity has been lost as a new form of the fungus is killing the cavendish variety. Part of the reason this has happened is because we neglected the tons of varieties that used to exist in favor of one that was able to transport easily. The same thing has happened with apples. We have a handful of apple varieties when there used to be hundreds. I posted an article a few years ago about some old dude who was traveling the country trying to collect the old varieties before they die off. He was literally driving around neighborhoods looking for old apple trees.

anyway, enjoy your bananas while you can

I won't miss 'em

and here i thought there was only one robot on this board

phatj wrote:I won't miss 'em

your children's children will see an old cartoon where someone slips on a banana and they won't understand. This is life-changing.

Sez "Monkey"boy. YOUR AGENDA IS SHOWING, SIMIAN

There's nothing I can even say to that. I feel so exposed.

i am drawing a huge blank on the term/phrase that was so overused in the late 90's through the early 2000's to describe cataclysmic, life extinction events such as meteors and volcanoes.

it was one of those huge buzz words/phrases of the time.

azrider wrote:i am drawing a huge blank on the term/phrase that was so overused in the late 90's through the early 2000's to describe cataclysmic, life extinction events such as meteors and volcanoes.

it was one of those huge buzz words/phrases of the time.

Extinction event or Extinction Level Event (ELE) ?

Just starting to scratch the surface about human history

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-oldest-af ... ation.html