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Roots of Mother Appalachia (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.cntraveler.com/story/appalachian-mountains-may-have-once-been-as-tall-as-the-himalayas

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mountains.age !> dinosaurs.age, thus mountains.age <= dinosaurs.age

mountains.age > bones.age

So dinosaurs.age => mountains.age > bones.age

And dinosaurs.age > bones.age

His logical reasoning skills are sound though, as is his sarcastic humor.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe, this sentence, out of context. The rest of the post makes it abundantly clear that the ages of these things go:
mountains -> bones -> dinosaurs

The poster may either be a victim of Poe's Law, in which case their "joke" wasn't very funny, or they could be making the logical deduction as you describe but as a mistake. I thought it was the latter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's no mistake, he's just poking fun at the imprecise language used in the article. We all know what the author meant but only because English is more forgiving than math. I'm not saying I was rolling on the floor or anything, but it wasn't that bad of a joke imo