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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] FuglyTheBear@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 10 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't that make teratrilobite?

[–] Crul@lemm.ee 45 points 2 years 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.

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do not boop the trilobite

[–] DJKayDawg@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Do not the trilobite.

[–] Tomassci@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

[–] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Boop

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I misread the first panel as "pry open an animal" at first and was thinking, "that is NOT how you make a fossil!"