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Statherian by The Ocean
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Statherian by The Ocean
I've decided to post another drawing of a pre-Ediacaran weirdo. This is Tawuia, a genus of strange, sausage shaped organisms from the Proterozoic. To my knowledge, the oldest specimens of this genus come from the Chuanlinggou Formation, which dates to roughly 1641 million years ago during the Statherian period, while it's latest appearance is apparently in the Ediacaran.
Despite what some depictions may suggest, Tawuia is generally believed to lack a holdfast (some fossils assigned to Tawuia do preserve evidence of a holdfast, but these contradict the anatomy of most Tawuia and therefore are not included in the genus, and the disks sometimes preserved at the end of specimens are found on both ends, which is impractical for a holdfast). The exact identity of Tawuia is uncertain, but I believe the most widely accepted idea as of now is that they are coenocytic (a kind of cell that contains multiple nuclei) macroalgae. As for size, they apparently reached 2.5 to 18.4 mm in length.
The circular structures seen along the outside of this Tawuia are epibionts (organisms that live on the surface of other organisms) that are preserved in several specimens of both it and the fellow Proterozoic macrofossil Sinosabellidites from North China.
(As a side note; I've also uploaded this reconstruction to Wikipedia, though it has been helpfully edited by a fellow wiki user to get rid of the lines)
Here are some papers on the subject*:
Proterozoic carbonaceous macrofossils are key to understand the evolution of early eukaryotes and how they acquired macroscopic sizes. Howev
PDF | On Jan 1, 2021, Qing Tang and others published ONE-BILLION-YEAR-OLD EUKARYOTIC EPIBIONTS IN NORTH CHINA | Find, read and cite all the
Macroscopic fossils from the Chuanlinggou Formation of North China: evidence for an earlier origin of multicellular algae in the late Palaeoproterozoic (the link doesn't work for this one)
*Unfortunately, all but the middle one of these require you to log in via an organization
The Ocean - Statherian
"Statherian" by The Ocean
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What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you’ve attained in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality… because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others. Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don’t, you can’t want it anymore. In order to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It’s not the ‘it’ that you want, its the fantasy of ‘it’. We are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. This is why we say: the hunt is sweeter than the kill or, be careful what you wish for—not because you’ll get it; because you’re doomed not to want it once you do. Living by your wants will never make you happy.
Statherian by Ocean (The Life of David Gale, 2003)
What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals And not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires but Those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality... because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives Is by valuing the lives of others Fantasies have to be unrealistic Because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore. In order to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent It's not the 'it' that you want, its the fantasy of 'it' We are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. This is why we say: the hunt is sweeter than the kill, or: be careful what you wish for - not because you'll get it: because you're doomed not to want it once you do Living by your wants will never make you happy.
The Ocean - Statherian (quote from: The Life of David Gale (2003)
The Ocean - Statherian
"What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals, and not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality... because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives, is by valuing the lives of others. Fantasies have to be unrealistic, because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore. In order to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It's not the 'it' that you want, its the fantasy of 'it'. We are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. This is why we say: the hunt is sweeter than the kill, or: be careful what you wish for - not because you'll get it: because you're doomed not to want it once you do Living by your wants will never make you happy."
The Ocean - Statherian
@3:00 - holy shit
Statherian - The Ocean ///// This is why we say The hunt is sweeter than the kill, or Be careful what you wish for. Not because you'll get it But because you're doomed not to want it once you do. Living by your wants will never make you happy.
