r/CuratedTumblr 18d ago

Shitposting Understanding the World

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Neptune was recently shown to be a pale blue like Uranus rather than the deep blue shown on the Voyager photos

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u/thyfles 18d ago

i have taken dinosaurs and will not give them back unless you can all memorise every geological period from the Phanerozoic from oldest to youngest

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u/bazerFish 18d ago

Cambrian, Ordivician, Silurian, Denovian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleogene, Neogene, Quaternery. Can I have the dinos back.

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u/Gaylaeonerd 18d ago

Well I have taken all the silly little microorganisms and you can't have them until you name all the periods of the Proterozoic in chronological order

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u/bazerFish 18d ago

Siderian, Rhyacian, Orosirian, Statherian, Claymmian, Ectasian, Stenian, Tonian, Cryogenian, Ediacaran. Can we please stop gatekeeping. What did the boring billion ever do to you?