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Comparative anatomy (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The context of this comment is amazing.

Imagine a creature, that died over 65 million years ago (earth was at the other side of the galaxy back then) and yet we can detect how the muscles attached to the bone

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

earth was at the other side of the galaxy back then

Hoooly eff.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Right now you’re orbiting the galactic core (well basically, its very close) at 240km/s +/- ~30km/s (Earths rotation of the Sun).

And it still took 65 million years to complete less than half an orbit of the galaxy.