THE NEW Miscellaneous Talk That Doesn't Deserve A New Thread Thread Thread (Part 2)

I recall some people also call this period the โ€œpyroceneโ€ or something along these lines.

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Thank you for finding the video!

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Here are Wikipedia articles on Software development life cycle and Software versioning, in case other people are curious about this stuff.

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I wonder if minecraft could use a new software versioning system by nowโ€ฆ

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I wonder if AMD will announce the RX 9080 XT at the same time as Threadripper 9000 gets released (October 2025).

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What would be the benefits of such timing of that announcement?

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Article from Nature on Yilingia.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1522-7.epdf?sharing_token=lyUr4nxTvuHtH7sJDVCmDNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0ONOvBd3SJjO2IEm_TZJ8JEgPHAbGTbs48mO6z_5_L_YG2jjWIg360sjHNGIY_5WREVSgWljmadTNZlXztalNQtuoweL7c4uYwKeUn8_OGdoHidKdxiRJEmZPFLKjK1l3_OkQqwmsLZ3iyzYBkRmNfEzUo08CYlKLkFd3rhCNDKplD8pcLiHxk_wT3EgmmfJHU%3D&tracking_referrer=www.newscientist.com

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How did you even find the article?

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From Wikipedia, in the references section.

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Not quite as arthropod-like as Sprigginaโ€ฆ

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Maybe it could be an ancestor of Aysheaia, Hallucigenia, and other Lobopodia, since we donโ€™t know for sure whether chitin evolved once, or multiple times during the Cambrian.

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Also I wonder if Anomalocarris truly is the first predator or if some other predator kickstarted the explosion before it but we simply donโ€™t have fossils of itโ€ฆ

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Isnโ€™t Aurolumina attenboroughii the first known predator during the Late Ediacaran (562 โ€“ 557 Ma)? Granted, it was sessile, unlike Anomalocaris.

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I meant more like anomalocarris, a free-swimming predator and not a filter-feeder.

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Its probably a worm before that

there literately a era called โ€œWorm worldโ€ before the Cambrian Explosion, and they are the one who push thorte that

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I wonder if perhaps one day weโ€™ll find that wormโ€ฆ

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Who knows what else is there to find in the Ediacaran? If the first moving predator was indeed a worm, it might not be like any worm we have seen; it might possibly be as bizarre as Yilingia .

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Maybe it was soft-bodied, which would complicate getting itโ€™s fossils to say the leastโ€ฆ

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Probably true. Itโ€™s more luck than intelligence to find something like that.
But even those that do, probably go like this:


(Facivermis yunnanicus)

or that:


(Uncus dzaugisi)

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