Would be funnier if he put on goggles.
This is like how we only know of the tiniest amount of dinosaurs because the ones we know of died in a Goldilocks zone of fossilisation and there’s likely tons of cool dinosaurs will never know about.
Tattoos too. The areas where we find human remains with cool tattoos don’t coincide with cultures that tattooed themselves, they coincide with places where preservation of tattooed flesh is the most likely. There’s a good chance that humans everywhere had rad tattoos and cultures associated with them that we’ll never know about.
Not to mention all the creatures that just didn’t fossilise because they died away from water or had mostly lightweight tissues. They are nothing but dust on the winds of time. Not at all like our era which will be clearly delineated by … Chicken bones and radioactive waste.
I also think about that. Like, just right now, there are probably thousands, millions(?!) of species of life we have no idea about on earth as we speak, especially in the (deep) ocean. And that’s just right now! Imagine all throughout history, all of the undiscovered life and things that never fossilized, like you said. The number of colors that we have to paint the full picture of life on the younger earth is so incredibly limited.
drink your milk, kids, or else the long march of millennia will forget your bones
Your mom will live on through the aeons to tell of my bones.
I’m fine with it because I am just a single point in a massive soup of life on our planet. Everything is broken down and reformed. This time it formed me. Next time maybe it’ll form a human but it’s not really important. What is important is that I do my best to make it to the end of this form and respect the others along the way.
So wonderful. I won’t forget that.
So we’re just a perpetual stew?
Yeah, nothing is perfect. We’re just trying to be the best we can be. Humans are the best in many ways but always and forever, we are the earth trying to make a better and stronger creature. We are the top of the evolutionary scale but that’s not a ending. There’s always going to be more. In 50,000 years, you and I might be like chimpanzees to the current job holding top life. That’s not a slight on us. We are what we are. This is our time. Let’s make the most of it.
I always wonder about how many are just deep underground in a place we’ll never find them. I mean they’re just sitting there waiting to be discovered, and I’m sure there’s an incredible number of them since the vast majority of the fossiliferous rocks are surely buried. But we’ll probably never find most of them because they’re too difficult to access.
It’s fine because there’s a steady state of a good number of bitchin fossils at any given point
potentially coastal civilizations older than the natural decay rate under salt water
I love rage comics
