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submitted 1 week ago by AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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Yes, I do still browse reddit, mainly for hockey and some niche subs that aren't here yet. Once in a while I dip my toes into r/all to see the garbage that floats to the top and this one popped up today.

r/conspiracy has always been a shithole, but when I first saw this post I thought it was on a meme sub, but no, those morons actually believe this shit. Truly blows my mind how amazingly stupid a lot of people are.

If you feel like having some of your brain cells commit suicide you can read the comments here - https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1m6p3p6/octopuses_lived_before_dinosaurs_and_were/

If there's a better way to share a reddit post without giving them clicks let me know and I'll edit my link. I know I've seen it before but I don't remember what it was.

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[-] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 68 points 1 week ago

No clear evolutionary path in the fossil record.

...for the creatures that have no bones and only a beak that could even fossilize? Color me SHOCKED their ancestors didn't leave fossils.

[-] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 week ago

You... are looking at a fossil of one. That's what the post is about. I mean, maybe they fossilize less frequent than other animals, but it seems like they do.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yup. It's not that soft tissue DOESN'T fossilize, it's just that the conditions to do so are much rarer, and soft tissue is obviously much more susceptible to degradation before fossilization.

[-] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Not gonna lie, I was assuming even the picture was made up/AI bullshit. Bit of egg on my face there

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

The sentiment is still correct though, even bone fossils are exceedingly rare. I can’t remember the exact estimate but of all the people alive in the US, archeologists 1 million years from now would be lucky to find 60 human bones. I’m not sure if that included teeth however.

[-] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

The fact that there are very few fossils of soft bodied creatures kinda misses the point.

All the evolutionary diversity of molluscs is still alive. Squids, nautiluses, cuttlefish, snails slugs.

What’s the hypothesis here? An alien meteorite landed with 800 types of cephalopod, that just by chance share 97% of their DNA with slugs and snails that already existed on Earth?

[-] Nico_198X@europe.pub 26 points 1 week ago

slugs and snails are ALSO aliens!

sweating profusely

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

What if the protooctopus is a common ancestor to the 800 types of cephalopods?

[-] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Then why are all those cephalopods so closely related to all the other non-cephalopod molluscs?

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Alien cephalopod had sex with molluscs? /s

[-] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The best scientific theory is the sexiest one, so yes.

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

Small discussion about this fossil on Lemmy yesterday:

https://mander.xyz/post/34422423

To recap: that's not the correct age or species. Soft tissues do make fossils. This protooctopus looks different from modern octopi.

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Hooray, I've been referenced! Now I'm a real science doer!

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

plenty of sea critters have blue blood

horseshoe crab blood (blue) is even widely used to verify disinfection procedures

[-] DrSoap@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I read about that. It made me feel bad for the horseshoe crabs.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is that even an octopus? Like yeah, it has tentacles, but that doesnt mean its an octopus.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago

The wiki article has more info, but it's basically one fossil, originally classified as octopus, but that is now retracted and its connection to anything is not known yet.

Oh no, so that falls right into the Reddit trap of, well then it must be alien.

[-] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

If you're expecting any kind of critical thinking or even the slightest bit of intelligence, then you won't find it in that sub lmao

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I used to browse r/SaturnStormCube and the like for occultist story ideas so I'm used to crazy. But this is just full blown stupidity. There was 1 redditor talking about arms, and they said it had 10.

[-] proceduralnightshade@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

If there's a better way to share a reddit post without giving them clicks let me know and I'll edit my link.

There's redlib and its instances, but as with YouTube links and piped/invidious, I prefer the original link and think it should always be present. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

Lazy people can just replace www. with safe on their own and they're good, so https://safereddit.com/r/....

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago

God damn it. I had work to do today and now I'm going to be reading about octopuses instead.

[-] DrSoap@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Resident alien has a funny gag related to this where the alien saw an octopus in a restaurant and the octopus said we've been waiting for you!

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

And was voiced by Nathan Fillion. Was a great cameo...plus we get Jewel Staite in this season. Just need Adam Baldwin, Gina Torres, Summer Glau, Morerna Baccarin, Ron Glass and Sean Maher and we got the crew of serenity back.

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I've got some bad news for you about Ron Glass ...

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yea I know, but... maybe like a picture on the wall or something.

[-] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Without reading the title I looked at the image and thought someone was cooking octopus and really really burnt it.

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Super crazy alien monsters from outer space!!!!!!

Dies after a Max of 4 years

[-] RedIce25@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Shit Americans Says

[-] ptolemai@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Looks like octopus senbei Gis tako sembei

[-] pubquiz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

And surprisingly tasty. It's a complete package.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They don’t have eight arms. If anything, they have eight crazy toes and one foot.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 1 week ago

Who is they? Some people here sait the same shit about the same post. And it wasn't even a conspiracy sub.

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