[friday]

i cant even commit to letting my species die smh

common fur
uncommon muzzle

this fella's kinda weird. tell me something weird. it doesn't have to be related to the notdog but bonus points if it is.

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[miraphoenix]

username: miraphoenix

notdog name:Pearlescent (or Pearl, for short)

something weird: The history of this planet is really, really long. An example of this; humans and T. rex are closer together in time (65-66 million years of separation) than T. rex and Stegosaurus are (85-90 million years of difference). Where this gets really weird, is thinking about the history of fossilization on this planet! Fossils are like gemstones, in that they're really rare, and take a long time to be formed on the planet. Like gemstones, fossils also are constantly being eroded out of the rocks they're found in, and exposed to the world; this is how most dinosaur fossils are found today.
But the thing is, that erosion is a constant process that has been happening on this planet for billions of years! So fossils that were made early in the history of life (say, 400 million years ago) almost certainly were eroding out onto the surface long before the first humans evolved.
All of this is a very long way of saying, that it isn't unreasonable to imagine a scene where a carnivorous dinosaur in the late Cretaceous was snuffling around for a meal, and came across the weathered, mineralized fossil of a dinosaur from 100 million years earlier, or the fossil of a trilobite from 350 million years earlier! I wonder sometimes, what that dinosaur would have thought. I wonder how many fossils eroded out and have been reworked into new rocks, long before any of us were ever born. Maybe that makes me the 'something weird' for this post, but honestly, who knows. XD

(If that's not weird enough, I learned that this year diamonds will actually start to chemically cease to be diamonds if left at surface temperature and pressure for long enough, because the diamond lattice is only stable indefinitely at the temperature and pressure at which it was formed.)

[DyersEve]

username: ♥ Sylveon ♥
notdog name: Safhara
something weird: the notdogs remind me of worms on a string owo

[friday]

username: miraphoenix

notdog name:Pearlescent (or Pearl, for short)

something weird: The history of this planet is really, really long. An example of this; humans and T. rex are closer together in time (65-66 million years of separation) than T. rex and Stegosaurus are (85-90 million years of difference). Where this gets really weird, is thinking about the history of fossilization on this planet! Fossils are like gemstones, in that they're really rare, and take a long time to be formed on the planet. Like gemstones, fossils also are constantly being eroded out of the rocks they're found in, and exposed to the world; this is how most dinosaur fossils are found today.
But the thing is, that erosion is a constant process that has been happening on this planet for billions of years! So fossils that were made early in the history of life (say, 400 million years ago) almost certainly were eroding out onto the surface long before the first humans evolved.
All of this is a very long way of saying, that it isn't unreasonable to imagine a scene where a carnivorous dinosaur in the late Cretaceous was snuffling around for a meal, and came across the weathered, mineralized fossil of a dinosaur from 100 million years earlier, or the fossil of a trilobite from 350 million years earlier! I wonder sometimes, what that dinosaur would have thought. I wonder how many fossils eroded out and have been reworked into new rocks, long before any of us were ever born. Maybe that makes me the 'something weird' for this post, but honestly, who knows. XD

(If that's not weird enough, I learned that this year diamonds will actually start to chemically cease to be diamonds if left at surface temperature and pressure for long enough, because the diamond lattice is only stable indefinitely at the temperature and pressure at which it was formed.)

Winner! These facts are really neat

[miraphoenix]

Oh, thank you!! ^ ^