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perihelions
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The Silurian Hypothesis
Evidence for the cephalopod hypothesis. Sentient octopusers would have had gone through large numbers of shoes
bregma
5 months ago
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Or gloves. Depends on how you look at it.
kombookcha
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If an ancient octopus wanted to wear some rubber-like workwear to do his dirty civilization-building, would he wear a big glove with 8 'fingers', or would he wear a flexible thimble on each tentacle?
dhosek
5 months ago
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I think it would be individual sucker covers.
kombookcha
5 months ago
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God what a pain in the ass to put them all on and take them all off, no wonder they didn't make it
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