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xkcd #2823: Fossil (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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[-] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 63 points 10 months ago

If 8 trilobites hang out together, would they make a trilobyte?

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

No, they'll be 1/128 kilotrilobites

[-] FuglyTheBear@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago

I think you would need 1,000,000,000,000

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 11 points 10 months ago

Wouldn't that make teratrilobite?

[-] Crul@lemm.ee 51 points 10 months ago

Hover text:

The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 7 points 10 months ago

Fossiliferous seems like something you'd hear when Bill and Ted become paleontologists.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Nobody hinders me from using that word fossiliferously in office or at home or wherever

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't get it. Who is telling him not to boop the trilobites? What's wrong with booping the trilobite?

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago

Do not boop the trilobite

[-] DJKayDawg@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Do not the trilobite.

[-] Tomassci@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

D O N O T B O O P T H E T R I L O B I T E

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Boop

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I misread the first panel as "pry open an animal" at first and was thinking, "that is NOT how you make a fossil!"

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