So Peter refused to do business with the unicorn chimera, and that’s why it didn’t make it into the fossil record. But it’s unclear why Peter refused to do business with it.
It’s also unclear to me how Peter is in charge of the fossil record.
Peter seems to be acting as a censor, trying to maintain the respectability of the archive. He doesn’t want to let any oddball riffraff in.
“it’s unclear why Peter refused to do business with it.”
Sometimes, he’s just not that into you.
As a child, I was fascinated by the fantastical creatures discovered in the fossil record, but I often wondered about the animals we will never know because they left no fossils.
JP for the win.
I think we have to be half asleep and living in the mindset of the cartoonist. Chimera and non-sequential critters don’t find their way into the fossil record implying an evolution of forms through time and this is an issue between creationists and science. So it’d be funny if the chimera and non-sequential critters were deliberately barred from the fossil record…. just how that would work and even what it would *mean*….. well, you have to be half asleep and living in the mindset of the cartoonist. … Apparently it would consist of Peter standing behind a rock with the words “Fossil Record” on it and turning the creatures away.
Of course, Blinky, this is pretty much the same as your great-grandmother’s brother who, because he never took any photos that survived, essentially never existed.
(If you have a genealogist in the family, make that “great-great grandmother’s brother”)
Bill – that is the same as when my uncle showed up in his family movies, we knew it was about to end, but dad is not even in ours that much.
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So Peter refused to do business with the unicorn chimera, and that’s why it didn’t make it into the fossil record. But it’s unclear why Peter refused to do business with it.
It’s also unclear to me how Peter is in charge of the fossil record.
Peter seems to be acting as a censor, trying to maintain the respectability of the archive. He doesn’t want to let any oddball riffraff in.
“it’s unclear why Peter refused to do business with it.”
Sometimes, he’s just not that into you.
As a child, I was fascinated by the fantastical creatures discovered in the fossil record, but I often wondered about the animals we will never know because they left no fossils.
JP for the win.
I think we have to be half asleep and living in the mindset of the cartoonist. Chimera and non-sequential critters don’t find their way into the fossil record implying an evolution of forms through time and this is an issue between creationists and science. So it’d be funny if the chimera and non-sequential critters were deliberately barred from the fossil record…. just how that would work and even what it would *mean*….. well, you have to be half asleep and living in the mindset of the cartoonist. … Apparently it would consist of Peter standing behind a rock with the words “Fossil Record” on it and turning the creatures away.
Of course, Blinky, this is pretty much the same as your great-grandmother’s brother who, because he never took any photos that survived, essentially never existed.
(If you have a genealogist in the family, make that “great-great grandmother’s brother”)
Bill – that is the same as when my uncle showed up in his family movies, we knew it was about to end, but dad is not even in ours that much.