Comment on Funniest Exhibit at the Smithsonian

IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  probably a replica the curators down mind people touching

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  • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was thinking that or they just have a lot of them.

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    smithsonianmag.com/…/iconic-photos-give-rare-glim…

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wow, they’re all pining for the fjords?

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    • renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      why does this look like an ai image

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    • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Imagine the smell.

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      • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Probably just smells like old upholstery. Taxidermied animals don’t really have a smell

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  • notarobot@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would be a dick move for them so say “come touch this fake thing”. I hope it’s not

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    • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I completely agree

      The only exception would be if there’s a sign saying something akin to “This replica was designed to feel exactly like a real fossil bla bla bla”

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      • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There are some fossils that were actually casts of the real thing because the actual fossils were too fragile for display

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• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Right? There were a lot of exhibits that promoted touching. I think it was for kids mostly because they were all lower to the ground.

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• Dragonstaff@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There are a good number of real fossils you can touch.

  I expect these are more common and there’s not much more scientists can learn from them.

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• bobo1900@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean, it’s a gigantic million years old fossil, what can some touching do? It probably won’t even tip over

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