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.
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.
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 🤷♂️
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.
"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"
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themoken@startrek.website · 141 pts · 163d
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.
definitely_AI@feddit.online · 22 pts · 163d
Well that was a particularly brief moment of wonder.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 19 pts · 163d
The orphan crushing machine shall continue crushing!
Krafting@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 163d
If you Duckduckgo Linux, the logo turn into a penguin
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 163d
Aw, so it does. Cute!
u235@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 163d
I love this!
LytiaNP@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 163d
Moby dick
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
That's adorable.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 162d
There's a whole bunch of different search logos.
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/DuckDuckGo/Easter_Eggs
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 162d
Everytime I go to fandom the website is worse than last time.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 42 pts · 163d
Who the fuck still uses Google?
Omnipitaph@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 163d
idk, like most of the population of the US, right?
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 163d
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.
TheOctonaut@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 163d
This is your brain on ActivityPub
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 163d
It's a tough world out there.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 37 pts · 163d
Google used to do these because they were cool.
Now Google still does these because they want us to think they're still cool.
AffineConnection@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 162d
This Easter egg has been around for many years. I accidentally discovered it ages ago.
housedogpartyfavor@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 163d
but then i’d be using google
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 26 pts · 163d
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.
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 163d
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.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 163d
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 🤷♂️
fartographer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 163d
I said it was because the mammals were better at hiding and all the dinosaurs ate each other
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 1 pts · 163d
Maybe the teacher liked that kids over-active imagination?
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org · 3 pts · 163d
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.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 1 pts · 163d
It's been a wild recent change of categorization based not on features but on genetic evidence whenever possible.
grue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
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.)
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 1 pts · 163d
TBF I could find a book from the last couple of years claiming the dinosaurs weren't real.
minamoog@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 163d
future civilizations will have a plane fly across when searching 9/11
Trex202@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 163d
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
List
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
Not used to, still works. I'm going to wash my hands now.
Trex202@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 162d
Still do, but I used to too
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 16 pts · 163d
Im taking this as a threat by Google.
BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 162d
Stop using google.
JoeBidet@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 163d
long story short: don't google
irelephant@kbin.earth · 10 pts · 163d
if you Google 67 Google does the six seven gesture
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 163d
😭
piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 162d
67 gesture? Is that kid friendly?
irelephant@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 162d
its a kid doing it funnily enough
definitely_AI@feddit.online · 1 pts · 162d
It's no 69 but it's getting there
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 162d
Peak lemmy comment section
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
In what way? Please expand on this opinion.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 161d
People arguing over OP’s choice of search engine instead of just appreciating this Easter egg
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
You think that is just a lemmy thing?
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 161d
Something very common here, for sure
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 159d
As they should
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 162d
"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"
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
Meteor happens (shoutout to SimpleFlips)
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 163d
🪥
definitely_AI@feddit.online · 2 pts · 163d
WTF?
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
Ikr?? To soon Google, too soon...
definitely_AI@feddit.online · 1 pts · 162d
Hahahahaha
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 159d
Missed opportunity to have the meteor land in the crater on the image.