SCIENCE
Subatomic Numerical Patterns: Quarks, Mathematical Magnificence, and the Particle Junk Drawer
In this conversation, users speculate about the mysterious, seemingly engineered nature of domesticated cats. User garbotalk jokingly notes how cats occasionally behave as if something is watching through their eyes, which prompts fieldlilly to highlight a bizarre anomaly: the entire feline fossil record seemingly shifts or hits a wall roughly 11,000 to 13,000 years ago, leaving cats as one of the few uniquely domesticated animals across globally isolated ancient cultures. Fieldlilly tags Reptiliandude to investigate if cats are part of a larger historical game, pointing out how the medieval attempt to obliterate them as “witch companions” directly backfired into a devastating plague spread by unchecked rats—resembling a cosmic “checkmate” against humanity. The thread concludes with a brief disruption by automated bots and a cryptic reminder from user DankNethers about the mantis shrimp, alluding to the way aliens can see through the complex eyes of the shrimp via quantum particle entanglement, leaving the group to ponder the hidden designs embedded within Earth’s fauna.
SCIENCE
Subatomic Numerical Patterns: Quarks, Mathematical Magnificence, and the Particle Junk Drawer
In this conversation, users speculate about the mysterious, seemingly engineered nature of domesticated cats. User garbotalk jokingly notes how cats occasionally behave as if something is watching through their eyes, which prompts fieldlilly to highlight a bizarre anomaly: the entire feline fossil record seemingly shifts or hits a wall roughly 11,000 to 13,000 years ago, leaving cats as one of the few uniquely domesticated animals across globally isolated ancient cultures. Fieldlilly tags Reptiliandude to investigate if cats are part of a larger historical game, pointing out how the medieval attempt to obliterate them as “witch companions” directly backfired into a devastating plague spread by unchecked rats—resembling a cosmic “checkmate” against humanity. The thread concludes with a brief disruption by automated bots and a cryptic reminder from user DankNethers about the mantis shrimp, alluding to the way aliens can see through the complex eyes of the shrimp via quantum particle entanglement, leaving the group to ponder the hidden designs embedded within Earth’s fauna.
Image: A photograph of A female Odontodactylus Scyllarus mantis shrimp. Mantis shrimp or stomatopods are an ancient group of marine predators that are only distantly related to other more familiar crustaceans, such as crabs, shrimp and lobsters. While most occur in shallow tropical marine waters, a few species are found in more temperate seas. Although they are called mantis shrimp, they are neither shrimp nor mantid (a species of insect), but received their name due to their resemblance to both praying mantis and shrimp. Mantis shrimp appear in a variety of colors, from shades of browns to bright neon colors (Photo by Roy L. Caldwell, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley – National Science Foundation via Wikimedia Commons)
Source: GT, "Last chance question thread for reptiliandude" r/reptiliandude ( 14 April 2018) https://www.reddit.com/r/reptiliandude/comments/8c5j0f/last_chance_question_thread_for_reptiliandude/
fieldlilly: Seriously… Cats.
garbotalk (Moderator): Sometimes I think someone sees through the eyes of my cat to watch over me. But then she chases her tail and I shake my head at the thought.
fieldlilly: Seriously. The fossil record of the entire cat species ends about 11,000 to 13,000 years ago and they are the only animal other than dogs that are widely domesticated thoughout multiple cultures for pets. That is NOT a coincidence. Oh, and thier attempted obliteration in the middle ages because of thier association with witches… and then… Plague caused by fleas carried by rats “oh maybe cats aren’t so bad afterall…” sounds like check… then checkmate type of shenagians… well u/reptiliandude anything to elaborate on?
explorer1357: Fieldlily, who replied to you? Im seeing 2 deleted comments… This cat thing is pretty interesting…
garbotalk (Moderator): Bots
fieldlilly: Bad bot
DankNethers: 😉 Remember the mantis shrimp…
garbotalk (Moderator): That is both cool and disturbing.
