Besides, we’ll surely get better imagery when the Ramans send the other two ships through the system.
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Ok, for “possibly untrue” this is a stretch, but isn’t it nice to have a solid “true” (and “wow”, for me at least) from time to time?
Ok, I suppose it might be not quite a full moon. Debatable. But still cool.
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a real-life Dali painting. if only the people’s legs were 5x longer.
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The wide orbit should avoid The Three-Body Problem.
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Dr. Kelly spent a long afternoon in her institution’s natural history collections photographing preserved animal rear ends, from amphibians to reptiles to birds, then turned her lens on the back ends of a friend’s live chickens. What she couldn’t find in person, she and her colleagues scavenged online, until the team had amassed a hefty survey of the known cloacal landscape.
(Conspicuously absent from the roster are the majority of mammals, including humans. “We are the odd ones out here,” Ms. Manafzadeh said. “We have weird extra holes.”)
Most vents look like nondescript slits — some horizontal, others vertical — or rounded holes, sometimes shrouded by a wrinkly wreath of skin or a smattering of scales, Dr. Kelly said. The Psittacosaurus variety might have been a bit more adorned. The team’s reconstruction showed that the vent was likely flanked by a pair of dark-colored lips, pinched on one end and flared at the other, creating a sort of drawn-curtain look.
(added) link to paper:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31891-1
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anything that is not definitely true, is possibly untrue
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@Wanderfound, you have to keep us up to date on this! Your own backyard (metaphorically)!
I almost don’t dare hope.
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I was 7 when I first heard about this. In my 20s when I heard that there were still reported sightings. So not quite my whole life, but if true, this is so amazing.
It feels too good to be true. As if good things can’t happen.
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From a few years back, but I remember this - very wonderful! And Ubly is not too far south from where my mom and her sibs and mom had the farm.
There’s some flashing ad banner at the top, and some further down but it’s a short article.
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I know they’re keeping the location quiet for now, but this is an older camera-trap video from somewhere in northeastern Tasmania:
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I’m glad that no one tried to fill in those black bars with mirrored, low passed video.
Possible, but unlikely.
The group in question has apparently raised false alarms before, and it would be surprising if there was a population of thylacines undetected by the fox-monitoring programs (which do things like DNA analysis of scat samples etc). Thylacines were large apex predators, not shy little things; lots of territory and food required.
Still, wait and see. Y’never know.
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This is the advantage of a local source: everyone else I’ve seen is getting super excited, and close knowledge managed expectations is better than wild speculation.
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Is this the one supposedly sighted in the Adelaide Hills? Soz, haven’t watched the vid. But if it is the Adelaide hills one, I reckon it’s very unlikely. There’s Bass Strait and a whole lotta country between Tassie and Adelaide. 
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Apparently just pademelons, but I can’t find a decent discussion of that, only screenshots of a facebook post, because… reasons?
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Stop eating all the animals. Leave the varmints alone.
I mean, really. Haven’t they done enough. Oh look, they’re on strike.
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