Funniest Exhibit at the Smithsonian

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• frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This sounds like a humorous activity to try.

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• IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Neat. I find it interesting that you’re encouraged to touch the exhibit at all. Usually that’s discouraged.

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  • bobo1900@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • Dragonstaff@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    probably a replica the curators down mind people touching

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    • notarobot@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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