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by colechristensen20 hours ago |
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upvoteby saaaaaam20 hours ago|
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Maybe. But I don’t see anything in this piece that says that it’s a fossil, rather than something that resembles this person’s idea of a fossil. It doesn’t look like a fossil to me. It looks like a piece of rock that’s been bashed about a bit.

And given the whole premise of the piece is “this should not be here!” I don’t really understand the point you’re making. The author says it’s a strange find in that area - so either they have a valid point or they don’t.

I don’t know if it’s a fossil. It doesn’t look like a fossil to me. I’m not a fossil expert. The only way to tell if it is a fossil is to do some analysis on the actual specimen before writing screeds about what it might or might not be based on visual similarity.

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upvoteby throw123456789118 hours ago|
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It says right there it’s a seashell hard as a rock. Guess why, Sherlock.
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upvoteby saaaaaam17 hours ago|
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No it doesn’t. It says “ I found a fully solid rock that eerily resembles a seashell”.
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upvoteby margalabargala17 hours ago|
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To be clear, you are looking at the photographs in the linked article, and asserting that you think it's not a fossil?

It's visibly very clearly a fossilized sea shell. You are being a useless pedant about the author's choice of verbiage.

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upvoteby throw123456789117 hours ago|
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Well, it's your words against his. You're not much of an expert by your own account in other comments. It's irrelevant if it's from a correct geological period, it's a rock hard seashell. Go and read up the definition of "fossil".
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upvoteby tokai19 hours ago|
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Author points out themselves, in the second paragraph, that its not a strange find. The strangeness of the find is his personal experience. Not that its a strange find geologically.
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upvoteby oh_my_goodness18 hours ago|
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I agree it's not a strange find. Because fossils. But then what was the big deal about finding it?

Remember, the same author says "I found a seashell in the middle of the desert!" "shouldn't be here" and "coastline 500 miles"

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upvoteby saaaaaam17 hours ago|
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And then the author takes a massive leap from “I found a fully solid rock that eerily resembles a seashell” to doing an analysis that treats it as though it actually is a fossil.

And that analysis finds out that the shell the assumed fossil most resembles is completely out of period.

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upvoteby colechristensen20 hours ago|
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If we're going to rate annoying takes on the internet, "some guy who knows nothing about a topic being snarky because AI was involved" is far worse than somebody doing something with AI.
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upvoteby saaaaaam20 hours ago|
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Guy?

And I think you’re arguing yourself into a hole here.

What makes you think I know nothing about the topic? I have donated - at their request - three fossils to national museums.

But I’m not an expert by any stretch.

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upvoteby MattRix19 hours ago|
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It’s obvious you’re not an expert at the topic because we can all read the original article and then read your posts in this thread…
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upvoteby saaaaaam17 hours ago|
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I’m really not sure what you mean. Did you actually read the article? There is nothing in there that confirms this is a fossil. One moment the author says “I found a fully solid rock that eerily resembles a seashell” and the next minute they treat it as though it is a fossil but their analysis shows that the shell the piece of rock most resembles is from a completely different geological period.
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upvoteby colechristensen7 hours ago|
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Who cares? What if it isn't? What are the consequences? It's still an interesting post.
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upvoteby saaaaaam2 hours ago|
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A number of people in this thread arguing with me in a remarkably personal way apparently care quite a lot. And I guess you must care at least a little bit given you’ve made the effort to comment.
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