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Pademelon1 t1_jb02mcb wrote
Reply to comment by mrpickles in [OC] All-Time Deadliest Accidents and Disasters vs. One Year of Traffic Deaths by databeautifier
Tornados are sometimes referred to as cyclones, but that is an incorrect usage. True cyclones are similar to Hurricanes, except they form in a different region, and rotate a different direction.
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Reply to comment by ManannanMacLir74 in 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple dedicated to mighty thunder god discovered in Iraq. by Rifletree
The Indus Valley was also contemporaneous
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Reply to comment by Timely_Summer_8908 in Blooming Black Lotus by marinated_pork
Not sure the exact cultivar - there's a bunch of double flowered black ones, particularly from the 'Onyx' series.
Note that this is an old flower, with all the stamens having dropped off.
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Reply to Blooming Black Lotus by marinated_pork
Reposted again - Not a lotus, actually a hellebore.
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Reply to comment by mobatum in Blooming Black Lotus by marinated_pork
There already is a bat flower - Tacca chantrieri
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Reply to comment by ApiContraption in PsBattle: Guarana flowers starting to bloom by jkmhawk
Those are the fruit, not the flowers
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Reply to comment by Hammer_Stixx in [OC] Number of English Words by Length in Letters and Syllables by OfficialWireGrind
Yeah, but plenty of initialisms get corrupted into acronyms. Better to use examples that are unequivocal. BMW was a good one. PNG is another.
Don't want to argue, just pointing out that it might confuse some people.
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Reply to comment by Hammer_Stixx in [OC] Number of English Words by Length in Letters and Syllables by OfficialWireGrind
LMAO's probably a bad example there, plenty of people use it as an acronym.
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Reply to comment by Random_Ad in [I ate] Sushi platter by IaryBreko
Surely not above 50, at least in Aus.
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in [I ate] Jalebi by ezzrd
They're pastry, not worms.
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Reply to comment by ghostmaster645 in [I ate] Jalebi by ezzrd
They're pastry, not worms
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Reply to comment by Tervaskanto in [I ate] Jalebi by ezzrd
They're not worms, but pastry.
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Reply to comment by paysbas in [I ate] Dutch pancake by That-Try3995
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Reply to comment by CrAzY_cOdeR4 in The Papua New Guinea representative in The UN by CrAzY_cOdeR4
This is incorrect. It is depends on the tribe, but they are mostly only worn on ceremonial occasions. This representative is dressed like this to bring attention to the plight of indigenous West Papuans that reject the cultural cleansing that Indonesia is performing.
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Reply to comment by Deppfan16 in [Homemade] 1956 German Chocolate Cake by Deppfan16
Ah okay. I thought you were saying that a recipe from 1956 appeared in a 1934 cookbook.
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Reply to comment by Deppfan16 in [Homemade] 1956 German Chocolate Cake by Deppfan16
Time paradox?
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Reply to comment by Deppfan16 in [Homemade] 1956 German Chocolate Cake by Deppfan16
Wait, a 1956 recipe in a 1934 book?
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Reply to Are Neanderthals and Denisovans descendants or relatives of modern humans? And where did each lineage start? by bigsuperdave44
This isn't an in depth answer with references - sorry for breaking the rules.
There are a lot of blurred lines when it comes to delimiting Homo species, and we can almost be considered a single chronospecies since H. erectus. However the basics of it are that the Homo genus evolved in Africa. Then, starting around 600,000 years ago, a splinter of H. heidelbergensis migrated into Europe and Asia, eventually turning into H. neanderthalensis & Denisovans respectively around 250,000-350,000 years ago*.* Meanwhile, H. heidelbergensis populations remaining in Africa were evolving into H. sapiens around the same time. It should be noted that other Homo species existed at the same time as these three, and even bred with each other, but no introgression into H. sapiens occurred.
The first successful migrations of H. sapiens out of Africa occurred around 70,000 years ago, reaching Europe and East Asia around 50,000 years ago. During this period of time, some admixing between H. sapiens, Neanderthals & Denisovans groups occurred, which persists today in H. sapiens as no more than about 10-15% of the genome for particular ethnicities.
Neanderthals & Denisovans then became extinct, while H. sapiens continued to spread into what we know today.
So, in a way, Modern Humans are both relatives and descendants of Neanderthals & Denisovans.
Here is an interesting graph that shows the evolutionary path of the Homo genus
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Reply to Do chimps get acne? by shibbster
This doesn't answer your question, but consider that acne vulgaris is mostly a product of a modern, high glycemic diet & lifestyle - discussed in this previous /askscience thread, and that chimps don't have the same access to this kind of diet.
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Reply to comment by str8bipp in Outback channel country after flood, Australia, [OC] [2000 x 1332] by intrepidphotos
It's a region mostly in south-west QLD that consists of an ancient floodplain - usually dry, it is covered with numerous small natural drainage channels that only flow after rare heavy rain.
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Reply to Study finds Omicron variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which appeared at the end of 2021 have marked genetic differences from the ancestral SARS-CoV-2. The many, distinct mutations in their infection machinery have enabled them to escape from antibodies elicited from the original series of vaccines. by MyLifeisAsaJoker
Did we not already know this?
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Reply to comment by tauntingbob in Toblerone chocolate to cut iconic Matterhorn logo from packaging due to ‘Swissness’ laws by elizabeth-cooper
Nah they're right. When PDO over champagne first became a thing, there were already American wineries producing 'champagne', and they wouldn't agree to the PDO terms for many years. Finally, the PDO was negotiated that historic American champagne lines could continue to be produced, however, it has to mention 'California'.
Only a small number of these historic lines continue to be produced however, and almost entirely for the American market.