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Bipeds rule (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

OMG Lisp alien!

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Ah yes, bipeds, a species named after its well known tendency to walk on four limbs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Oh huh. Until I read this comment I assumed it was written from the perspective of the weird alien things, and "bipeds" referred to the humans…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Gorilla are bipedal but use 4 as well. Bipedal just means primary mode not sole mode.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair the one that was spotted when they got their name was standing on two legs at the time and the scientist couldn't be bothered to keep watching

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I dig this, what's the source?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

I found it on a raypunk group, but reverse image search suggests

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/69252/pg69252-images.html

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Those trunks look, uuh... conspicuously versatile.