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Early Arthropods

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'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects
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tbd
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'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects

International Station

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Welcome to the International Space Station Exclamation Point!
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marcrichter
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Isn't it transcribed ROSKOSMOS - or is that the 4th wall joke?
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jlvanderzwan
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"Ok, who was in charge of the translations?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoWVRhgEqI&t;=29s
HannesL
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Wow that took a long while for me to understand... There is of course a space between those words...
Helsingborg, Sweden
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Welcome to the International Space Station Exclamation Point!

Fifteen Years

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"Want to feel old?" "Yes."
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<3
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deezil
63 days ago
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Why's my face leaking?
Shelbyville, Kentucky
triss
65 days ago
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I'm not crying, you're crying.
bodly
65 days ago
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<3
Austin, TX
GaryBIshop
65 days ago
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So Sweet! Hooray for getting old!
sfringer
65 days ago
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Life!
North Carolina USA
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"Want to feel old?" "Yes."

Canon

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Achilles was a mighty warrior, but his Achilles' heel was his heel.
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marcrichter
180 days ago
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Word - literally
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mrfiddles
180 days ago
Wait, what? Do you have a link, that sounds like a fun rabbit hole
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jlvanderzwan
180 days ago
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Imagine online forums but handwritten letters and books instead. How much spare time did these monks have?
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Achilles was a mighty warrior, but his Achilles' heel was his heel.

Tukey

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Numbers can be tricky. On the day of my 110th birthday, I'll be one day younger than John Tukey was on his.
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marcrichter
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Initially misreading the decimal separator for 110k years made this go from puzzling to even funnier! 😂
tbd
jlvanderzwan
224 days ago
Same, "oh is the joke that he's only off by a factor of two but with waaaay too much significant digits?"
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Numbers can be tricky. On the day of my 110th birthday, I'll be one day younger than John Tukey was on his.

The Roads Both Taken

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When you worry that you're missing out on something by not making both choices simultaneously by quantum superposition, that's called phomo.
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marcrichter
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Brilliant alt 😂
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When you worry that you're missing out on something by not making both choices simultaneously by quantum superposition, that's called phomo.
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