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Chicxulub
Not to be too much of a downer, but all of these cute Google search results and other "quirky" "fun" things billion dollar corporations do used to seem so harmless but now it just reads like a friendly logo on a baby mulching machine.
Well that was a particularly brief moment of wonder.
The orphan crushing machine shall continue crushing!
If you Duckduckgo Linux, the logo turn into a penguin
Aw, so it does. Cute!
I love this!
Moby dick
That's adorable.
There's a whole bunch of different search logos.
Everytime I go to fandom the website is worse than last time.
Who the fuck still uses Google?
idk, like most of the population of the US, right?
My wife. She's a software developer. She also uses Chrome. I honestly don't get it. The other day she Googled a particular hotel and the top results were websites pretending to be the hotel.
This is your brain on ActivityPub
It's a tough world out there.
Google used to do these because they were cool.
Now Google still does these because they want us to think they're still cool.
This Easter egg has been around for many years. I accidentally discovered it ages ago.
but then i’d be using google
Fun fact, most of what we know about the impact and the meteor comes from data found during Nuclear Weapons Testing. The energy needed for crystallization at impact sites gave us the data we needed to extrapolate for the force of impact at the crater, alongside other factors such as liquification of granite.
Also fun fact: ‘a meteor killed the dinosaurs’ is more or less universally accepted now, but younger folks might not realise it’s a pretty recent theory.
It was first proposed in 1980, they found the likely impact site in 1991, and it was officially endorsed by an expert panel in 2010.
I have books on my shelf from the 90s that say no one knows what killed the dinosaurs.
In elementary school in the 90s I remember an exercise where we had to imagine what killed the dinosaurs. I came up with an implausible scenario of overpredation, and because I grew up in the south a classmate of mine said the Biblical flood killed them all and was praised by the teacher 🤷♂️
I said it was because the mammals were better at hiding and all the dinosaurs ate each other
Maybe the teacher liked that kids over-active imagination?
In a way, the demise of the dinosaurs is kind of like the fall of Rome (the 5th century one), in that the conditions created by the impact wiped out many of the dinosaurs, but birds survived and are only not considered (by some) to be dinosaurs because of our categorisation, in the same way that the fall of Rome which was completed by Germanic invaders left the Eastern Roman Empire to survive long after that, and despite denial from some, has direct descendance from the Roman Empire.
I wonder when we'll find out that flood basalts (the Deccan Traps, in this case) are the "exit wounds" of the meteor impacts?
(That's my hypothesis, anyway, but I don't have the geology background to investigate it properly.)
TBF I could find a book from the last couple of years claiming the dinosaurs weren't real.
future civilizations will have a plane fly across when searching 9/11
We used to be able to get it to do other things
"Barrel roll" would spin the page around and "Askew" would tilt the page
Not used to, still works. I'm going to wash my hands now.
Still do, but I used to too
Im taking this as a threat by Google.
Stop using google.
long story short: don't google
if you Google 67 Google does the six seven gesture
😭
67 gesture? Is that kid friendly?
its a kid doing it funnily enough
It's no 69 but it's getting there
Peak lemmy comment section
In what way? Please expand on this opinion.
People arguing over OP’s choice of search engine instead of just appreciating this Easter egg
You think that is just a lemmy thing?
Something very common here, for sure
"If you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock), the AI summary burns a gallon of gas, contributing to making the planet uninhabitable, helping to create your very own mass extinction event"
Meteor happens (shoutout to SimpleFlips)
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WTF?
Ikr?? To soon Google, too soon...
Hahahahaha
Missed opportunity to have the meteor land in the crater on the image.