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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

No, they'll be 1/128 kilotrilobites

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Wouldn't that make teratrilobite?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hover text:

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do not boop the trilobite

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Do not the trilobite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Boop

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 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!"