[HN Gopher] When Armor Met Lips
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When Armor Met Lips
Author : akkartik
Score : 196 points
Date : 2024-03-17 16:44 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| jimkleiber wrote:
| I thoroughly enjoyed the author's writing style. Anyone know
| where I can find more by him, Doug Muir?
| HankB99 wrote:
| Google knows: https://crookedtimber.org/2024/01/03/welcome-to-
| doug-muir/
| jimkleiber wrote:
| Normally a blog just lets me click the author's name and see
| more by them, and even the link you posted doesn't really
| show more essays.
|
| This one did though: https://crookedtimber.org/author/doug-
| muir/
| daemonologist wrote:
| Thanks for the link, that's a worthwhile click - their
| previous article is great too:
| https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/08/occasional-paper-the-
| ir...
| HankB99 wrote:
| > geology nerd
|
| Shouldn't that be "paleontology nerd?"
| skavi wrote:
| See footnote 1
| HankB99 wrote:
| Where is footnote 1?
|
| I just looked up the authors of the article from their links
| at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363885520_Seals_w
| ha... and none mentions geology, though they did mention
| paleobiology, paleontology and fossils.
|
| What did I miss?
| nearbuy wrote:
| The footnotes for the article are in the first comment. The
| author put a humorous footnote about being pedantic.
| mannykannot wrote:
| "Pinnipeds evolved about thirty million years ago. They showed up
| first in the colder parts of the northern hemisphere, _then in
| the Antarctic_ , then in temperate zones."
|
| That's an interesting sequence, given that the continents then
| were about where they are now.
| ricardobeat wrote:
| Maybe they evolved in both places independently, or maybe it
| took a couple million years for a pod of seals to make the
| journey from north to south, and then start dominating the
| local ecosystem.
| nateb2022 wrote:
| It is possible that they fed on extremophiles which thrived in
| really cold regions and later evolved to feed on other food
| sources.
| thriftwy wrote:
| It takes one volcanic winter for them to cross the oceans and
| emerge on the other side, without being fit for the warm
| waters.
| pfdietz wrote:
| "So, you're saying the nautiloids did okay until the pinnipeds
| sealed their fate?"
| Terr_ wrote:
| I'm nautiloid to say more about their spiral into the depths.
| B1FF_PSUVM wrote:
| Also: https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-
| death/#com...
|
| about Voyager 1, recently in the news
| vitiral wrote:
| I really enjoyed this article, but I was really disappointed. For
| some reason I thought it was going to evolve into a Lovecraftian
| epic of how the grand and horrifying civilization of the ancient
| cephalopods and their relatives was thwarted by another species,
| one who paved the way for our own ignorant and doomed
| civilization to thrive.
|
| I kept this feeling until the very end [spoiler] even when it was
| revealed to be seals I held out hope they could be a Lovecraftian
| player in a grand epic saga.
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