• Draconic NEO
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    16 months ago

    Would Anomalocaris actually do well in the modern world. I feel like they probably wouldn’t do so well in the modern ecosystems of much more evolved marine creatures. Would get out-competed very quickly, and likely face plenty of other challenges. Being out-competed is likely the reason they went extinct in the first place.

  • @[email protected]
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    516 months ago

    No offence to Robin Williams, but I think having a living specimen of an ancient species who lived millions of years ago might help scientists advance evolutionary biology by a lot

    Or maybe not, but look at that little guy, he’s so cute :D

      • FuglyDuck
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        56 months ago

        Yeah. I dunno. They look like that weird alien parasite from TNG that tried to take over star fleet while eating bugs.

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

      That specimen might also die really quickly considering it’s a whole different world, not even the atmosphere is similar, and without more of it’s species to multiply I would say it would be really cool to see but not super helpful to study

      • @[email protected]
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        6 months ago

        I’ll give him a select list of hearts I want him to dance-fight his way through.

        Subtitle A: “The dancing just went from ‘dirty’ to ‘deadly’.”

        Subtitle B: “Watch out, he’s changed his shoes.”

  • @[email protected]
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    436 months ago

    Robin Williams, but he comes back fully cured of everything and he gets to live a full life happy.

  • @[email protected]
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    396 months ago

    Robin Williams had a degenerative nerve disease, bringing him back as he was would be cruel.

    Bringing him back healed, or young and healed? I’d let you hunt some species to extinction for that.

  • JackbyDev
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    6 months ago

    I have a shrine to Paul Walker in my basement. (Not a joke.)

    Edit: can’t find a better pic in a timely manner and I’m in bed.

  • Cyborganism
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    246 months ago

    I normally don’t care when celebrities pass away. But I genuinely cried when Robin Williams died. And I’m still sad about it.

    • Lemminary
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      26 months ago

      Same. It’s the only celebrity death that I’ve grieved so far.

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      5 months ago

      I was on the set of Sea of Trees with Gus Van Sant when the news broke. Needless to say, we wrapped suddenly the moment the news broke.

  • @[email protected]
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    76 months ago

    When I say I don’t care about celebrities that includes the “good” ones. Weird centipede thing 100%.

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    836 months ago

    The thing with Robin is that, regardless of his mental health, he would’ve been the type of person to curse the choice of bringing someone back to be wasted on him.

    While it is commonly believed he took his life due to a constant battle with depression, we do not know exactly what his resolve was, and bringing him back could be seen as hell in his eyes.

    • @[email protected]
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      436 months ago

      It wasn’t depression. He was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia.

      He allegedly took his life so he wouldn’t slowly lose himself, and become a burden on his family.

      • @[email protected]
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        306 months ago

        Parkinson’s, actually. They corrected it to LBD during his autopsy.

        Apparently him and his wife weren’t satisfied with the Parkinson’s diagnosis as he had some abnormal psychological issues, so they decided to have some neurology tests scheduled. He unfortunately took his life before the appointment, so he never knew the real diagnosis.