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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Apparently it is hard to draw a horseshoe crab in a T-shirtEnglish
2·13 days agoDon’t blame me, I call them limules. I’d say something about carcinisation, but tbh I don’t think they even look or move enough like crabs for it to apply. Someone just called it that and it stuck I guess.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Apparently it is hard to draw a horseshoe crab in a T-shirtEnglish
4·13 days agoThey’re not crabs! They’re not even crustaceans! They’re not even mandibulates, which means insects and myriapods are more closely related to crabs than they are! They aren’t even antennulata, which means they’re further from crustaceans than trilobites were!
What they are is cheliceriforms, like sea spiders and arachnids.
They can be consumed, but not all of them, and there is a risk of poisoning.
Well, there’s certainly a double entendre in chosing it as the name of a satellite, but it definitely comes from the name of tgat comic book character. Which itself is a play on asterisque (this symbol: *), which, of course, comes in turn from aster as you said.
His compagnon Obélix has a name which works on two levels: It can be seen as a play on obelisk (he is himself a sculptor of menhirs, which are vaguely similar to obelisks), but “obèle” is also the French word for the dagger symbol (†), which is an alternative to the asterisk.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Spez (Reddit CEO) just put out an announcement talking about how they'll verify bots vs humans. Get ready for a wave of new users into the Fediverse pretty soon!
5·1 month agoYou’re right in theory, but it’s Spez we’re talking about. I tend to consider that the following is a rational reaction to Spez preparing to take any action about anything in any context:



No, that’s estrogen. An estonian is a small strong coffee.