Scientists discovered remarkably preserved dinosaur-era bird wings trapped inside amber for nearly 100,000,000 years, with feathers and tissue still visible
So what are you waiting for? Extract the DNA, and get to cloning. We have a Dinobird Air Force to build!
no link?
Only the pic?
Poor bird ☹️
Coooooooooooooooooooool
dinosaur-era bird
So, a dinosaur?
Avian dinosaur, but yeah we should totally just call it a dino wing for short.
100 million years spelled out like that gives it a lot more scale of how long ago that is.
And this is the mid-Cretaceous – as feathered dinosaurs go, Anchiornis was around 60,000,000 years before that, and Kulindadromeus perhaps even earlier.
And still it doesn’t really, considering the exponential scale used for writing down numbers.
The only way that would really give a proper sense of scale is the good old tally list. But with that it would harldy be possible to count up to 100 million.
Nonsense, we can crowd source this. Look, I’ll start:
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We could write a bot to do this.
How many bits have been sent over the internet? Probably more than that measly 100 billion.
We only got to three, and someone immediately jumps in and tries to AI the whole thing. This here is our entire problem.
What’s the problem? 100M digits even in worst case Unicode would be less than 1GiB. Totally doable in the modern world.
Forbidden potato chip. No seriously, this is pretty damn cool
We need to get a c/ForbiddenSnacks already
5 second rule has long since passed, yes.
Depends on where you start the count from 🤔
Or how broad a time scale we’re talking about. On a stellar evolution time scale, it’s roughly 5 seconds.
Touché
