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Ah, the real Bugs Bunny.
No wonder he seemed immortal... his colony just kept making more.
Also, I just can't resist sharing:
I need to rewatch those
Whats the last one from? Looks familiar, but I keep coming back to Mass Effect
All three are from the same franchise: Resident Evil movies, the last one is the Red Queen, an avatar of an AI control system based on the daughter of the creator of the T-virus.
its the AI of a young alice controlling the resident evil hives/ bioweapons. the 2nd one seemed to have been taken from parasite eves, dog transformation.
FALSE!
If the 6 “limbs” include the specialized limbs on its head, then the Easter Bunny is not an insect because the 6 legs on an insect come out of its thorax.
This means…the Easter Bunny is an alien! I’m on to you alien sympathizer!
I am Speaker for the Dead.
I’m currently rereading the Ender Saga and I’m in the middle of Speaker for the Dead - such a good series
Speaker for the dead was 93% of the value. The rest it started with. It was meaningful. I don't mean to negate that. It really just Rubiksish puzzle dimensplaining.
Who is to say what's part of the thorax and what not? There are other instances of insects having a thorax that looks divided. In some insects (I think it was beetles) most of the "abdomen" is actually their thorax and so forth...
Ah! But insects are defined by having 3 body segments: head, thorax, and abdomen. Regardless of the size of each segment, all 3 exist in their adult form. And! All insects have their 6 limbs coming out of their thorax. No record exists of an insect with limbs coming out of their head.
I’m onto you alien sympathizer 🤨
Yes, that's true. What I meant is that there are insects out there where the segments aren't as obvious. Look for example at beetles where it's hard to distinguish between thorax and abdomen. It could be that the thorax in easter bunnies start shortly in front of the "ears" and ends just behind the last pair of legs ;)
easter bunny also has the forward facing eyes of a predator.
Shit, I definitely see it now that you mention it.
And the beady eyes of a foccacia hammocker
Jesus wasn't dead for three days. Dude died at like Friday night and was back before Sunday morning!!! If you got off work on Friday at 5 pm, and then came into work 6 am on Sunday, you would not call that a 3 day weekend smh lying ass Sunday school teachers
Okay but that's still not the point. The point is I had this dream where instead of a big stone wheel in front of the tomb, they put a big wheel of cheese. And it was up to you and me to help [Cheesus] eat his holy way out of the tomb so grab a cracker.
The point is I like cheese and if we can make a religion around it I'm there.
edit: it was right there i don't know why i missed it the first time
Have you considered melting the cheese and getting him out using nacho based instrumentation?
i have now. why is this not part of church in cheese country is what i want to know
I don't even know where you people got the easter bunny from and why does he lay/bring eggs??? It makes no sense
The rabbit doesn't lay eggs. They are both Celtic fertility symbols. Ostara is a spring festival tied to the spring equinox focused on awakening and rebirth. The church of Rome repurposed it into Easter.
Got it. The Easter Bunny is an immigrant, over 1,500 years old, and has at least one ovipositor. Let me restate the remaining question: Why does it lay/bring Celtic fertility symbols?? I learn so much here.
The bunny, and the eggs are both symbols of fertility. I’ve no idea why it’s the way it is nowadays though. Commercialisation?
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Huh... are we really sure it's not just a mammal that lays eggs? Occam's Razor and all that.
Platypus exists, so there's precedent
It's also called a "duck-billed" platypus, so there must be other types. "Kangaroo-eared" platypus really doesn't seem any more far-fetched.
Recently I've been reading the book Eifelhelm, which features a character named "Okham." Another character familiar with him says he's met Okham's successor and says "he used your razor." It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize that wasn't meant literally. My first thought was that it was unsanitary, though the relevant part of the book is set in the 1300's so I suppose that wasn't a major concern.
A mammal with a cloaca, yeah. A cool mammal.
I love this truth
You would.
so the bunny is a INSECT hybrid.
I am not taking advice from someone who thinks that mammals have a cloaca...