TIME MACHINE

[mizotek]

giving up here

[time--mach1ne]

Sea angel

This was based on stingrays skeleton, because, apparently, they look really cool:

[time--mach1ne]

Just deleted my main brush by accident :/

But at least the art is now finished and about to be posted

[time--mach1ne]

Wip

(•ˋ ^ ˊ•)

[time--mach1ne]

Technically, any digital art is a pixel art Sometimes you just gotta search for those pixels.

[time--mach1ne]

I'm not saying that the world we live in now is terrible, but I kinda miss it when dinosaurs were still around.

[time--mach1ne]

Its always funny when I see a post that goes "it's one of the most beautiful pictures I've ever seen!" and everyone is reblogging it as "wow!", " That's actually so cool! ", "Omg, that's amazing!" and that stupid picture isn't loading

[thetursithan]

In the 2000s, phones had quirks and class....

[time--mach1ne]

Wings

[teathattast]

[thefurriestofchows]

oh,

oh this is absolutely beautiful

[wakingfromthewater]

I saw some James Webb Telescope scientists give a talk and one of them said this was her favorite image because she had waited and worked 25 years to see this.

[teathattast]

200k notes is insane who the hell are u people

[danielkanhai]

it would suck being a new immortal. like it’d be 2109 and people would go, “what was it like seeing ancient civilizations rise and fall like that? seeing the pyramids being built? watching the expansion and growth of the new world?” and i’d just be like, “no…no i was born in 1991. so like, wow i’m gonna see some cool stuff, but, i mean i’m not that much older than just a really, really old person, you know? phones were big back then. so big. but only for like ten years, then they got like, as good as they are now. uh. rhinos existed. don’t think i ever saw one in person. cool, good talk.”

[ayellowbirds]

even worse, imagine being an immortal who keeps missing stuff. “What was it like seeing the pyramids being built?” “Fuck if I know, I was in Madagascar.” “Oh, okay. Well, how was the Renaissance?” “I fell down a hole in Scotland and people thought I was an enchanted well for four hundred years, it was over by the time I convinced someone to get me out.”

[erkhyan]

And now, a lesson in biases:

We barely know anything about Madagascar pre-500CE. We don’t even know whether the island had a permanent population before then, despite finding a bunch of much older signs of temporary human presence.

Malagasy mythology makes mention of the vazimba, a “precursor” ethnic group that might or might not be distinct from Madagascar’s current population.

The point is, we do not know.

So you were in Madagascar when the pyramids were being built in Egypt, i.e. during one of the most obscure, most undocumented parts of Madagascar’s human history?

Oh, buddy, you better go and make a bunch of anthropologists and archeologists really happy RIGHT NOW instead of feeling bad about missing everyone else’s pet Major Event.

[ayellowbirds]

It’s been a decade since we left that comment and you have the best reply anyone’s left to it.

[time--mach1ne]

Changed my name 3 times already and still unsure. Can't think of one that sounds good and would suit me

[time--mach1ne]

Found this cool pic today

[simpleicecream]

Recently discovered species of mosasaur nicknamed "T. Rex of the sea"

Tylosaurus rex (meaning "king of the tylosaurs") is a massive, prehistoric marine reptile that ruled the ancient inland seas of North America approximately 80 million years ago. Described by paleontologists in May 2026, this "T. rex of the sea" was an apex predator that grew up to 13.2 metres (43 feet) long, making it one of the largest mosasaurs ever discovered.

Though it shares the iconic abbreviation "T. rex" with Tyrannosaurus rex, it was not a dinosaur. Instead, it was a colossal aquatic lizard closely related to modern monitor lizards and Komodo dragons.

The discovery of Tylosaurus rex was led by researcher Amelia Zietlow and a team from the American Museum of Natural History, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, and Southern Methodist University.

The fossils were not newly dug up. They had sat in museum drawers for decades, previously classified as Tylosaurus proriger. While T. proriger fossils mostly come from Kansas and date to 84 million years ago, T. rex specimens were primarily found by amateur paleontologists in North and Central Texas and are about 4 million years younger.

The official defining skeleton of the species is on display at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas. Other major specimens, such as "Bunker" at the University of Kansas and "Sophie" at the Yale Peabody Museum, have also been reclassified as T. rex.

At 13.2 metres (43 feet), the length of a school bus or a humpback whale, it was consistently larger than T. proriger. Its skull alone measures over 1.7 metres (5.5 feet) long.

Unlike most other mosasaurs, T. rex possessed finely serrated teeth perfectly evolved for slicing efficiently through the flesh of large prey. Bumps and pockets on the back of its skull indicate massive jaw and neck musculature, allowing for an incredibly powerful bite.

Fossil evidence shows these animals lived highly aggressive lives. A specimen named "The Black Knight" at the Perot Museum features a fractured lower jaw and a missing snout tip, injuries believed to have been sustained during brutal battles with other Tylosaurus rex individuals.

[snowylynxx]

personally the lattice method of multiplication is the reason i hate math

[snowylynxx]

youre telling me that i can make some boxes with lines through them

solve the multiplication equation for each pair of individual digits and arrange them in the boxes just so

AND THEN ADD UP ALL THE NUMBERS IN EACH COLUMN AND GET THE RIGHT ANSWER????

[snowylynxx]

this post taught me that not everyone learned the lattice method in elementary school

[alexisjohnson824]

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

In grade school we learned the normal way to do multiplication one day and then the lattice way the next, except I was sick the day we learned the normal way and they never went back and reviewed it and neither did I and so to this day I only know how to use the lattice method

[audre-falrose]

[ruffboi-mags]

....What the ever loving fuck, this is really cool???? I have NEVER heard of this???

[unicorncryptid]

I swear the jump from the first to the second image is basically that "draw the owl" meme.

[ruffboi-mags]

Yeah it took me a while to figure it out, but I DID! So for me and you and everyone else going “wait wtf just happened????” I present a more step by step breakdown!

So you start with a grid with as many squares as needed to write one number across the top and one number down the side. And draw these diagonal lines through them. Yes you should extend them out the side.

THEN you basically multiply the numbers that match with each square, put the tens digit in the top triangle and the ones digit in the bottom triangle. Like so:

so once you’ve done that, you start adding up the numbers in the DIAGONAL column/row thingies from the bottom right up to the top left, like so:

You only want one digit (tho I assume if the very top/last row somehow gets 2 digits that’s ok, but ONLY in that position) and you’ll carry over to the next column, like if you were adding normally.

Then you start at the top left and just take all the numbers going down and around and put them together!

It does take up a lot more space and has a few more steps than the more traditional long multiplication, I think, but for people who struggle with that I think this would be a handy tool!

Here’s a screenshot of the more traditional style to compare:

I hope this helps! I had to figure it out on my own bc I was never taught this either. :)

[heroineimages]

Huh. I'll be damned. Reblogging so I'll hopefully remember how to do it.

[tiniestabyss]

I learned this way in school and switched to a school that taught the traditional way the next year and all the kids thought I was a witch

[ajzephyros]

I'm in my 30's this is the first I have been exposed to this. WTF.

[neutrinos-and-muons]

I can't do long multiplication, only this method and I'm less than a year out from having a phd in physics

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

[time--mach1ne]

BOOM!