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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Checks what community I'm in

Where's the meme?

This is literally just scientific facts

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A meme doesn't have to be funny. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shouldn't it be transformative in some way? Like if someone edited it and then submitted it would feel more like a meme to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Nah, replication is enough, shows interest. This meme was stolen, thus it lives on as a vehicle. The intention here is to simply get people interested in the world around them. Not sure what the original goal was. This one just has a little more .jpg than the last. I've seen variants of this one, regardless. This is an old one.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some of that is controversial as far as I know. And the pseudopupils are an optical Artifact since every single eye has its own opening.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tell us more!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Like, did he have a car?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You wouldn't download a car, now, would you? 🔪

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In a fucking heartbeat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Me too.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I loved this graphic. Great content, something I'd never wondered about and just today realized I'm not curious enough.

Thanks op or bot whichever.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Beep boop yer welcome.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This was very interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, but also mildy infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

TIL Jabba the Hutt is a small ambush predator

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Bear in mind the same ecosystem produced the Sarlacc.

Which apparently I know how to spell without checking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Explains the whole Princess Leia thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Chinchillas have vertical slit pupils despite being small herbivorous rodents. There are definitely quite a few exceptions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

W-shaped pupils likely also help cuttlefish see color and polarization of light, despite not having any cone cells in their retinas!

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/polarized-display-sheds-light-on-octopus-and-cuttlefish-vision-and-camouflage/

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-colorblind-cuttlefish-may-see-living-color