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Neil deGrasse TysonThere is little evidence to suggest that mastodons communicated by "tooting," and even less to suggest that they possessed the dexterity to play with a little paper airplane
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cpi@neiltyson delete this
🌹🇨🇦Joshua🇨🇦🌹@neiltyson why you gotta ruin everything? Sure they didn't fly paper airplanes and probably didn't toot. That's not the point. The point is fun.
You remember fun, don't you? Maybe as a boy you had it once?
69HeadedHydra@neiltyson oh no! They found us
Lumpy Louise@neiltyson and next I suppose you're gonna say the Earth's not flat 🙄
Graphiar@neiltyson Please be real
Alex HaasWoah if this is real, I’d be so happy. @neiltyson please be real!
Michael Carroll@alexhaas @neiltyson is there such thing as “verified” for mastodon? Does it go against the point of mastodon?
@mcarroll @neiltyson To my knowledge, there isn’t. I don’t think it necessarily goes against the point of this network. cc: @Gargron
Stan Chang 🐑@neiltyson please be real too! Haha
fash bash@neiltyson is this really ndt
because this toot is annoying enough to make me think so
Paul Gregoire 👾🖖@neiltyson Neil always around to find faults.. lol
S. Joshua Swamidass@neiltyson it’s clear that is elephants communicate, in part, by tooting. There is good reason to think that mastodons are the same in this respect…#evolution
Bambi@neiltyson but! There’s also no evidence to the contrary.
Thom Pintello@neiltyson
I was going to suggest “trumpeting” but it has three syllables. Non-starter.
I was going to suggest “trumpeting” but it has three syllables. Non-starter.
A_Canadian 🇨🇦🏳️🌈@neiltyson Whether or not mastodons “toot” would depend heavily on what they ate, I guess?
Steve@neiltyson this is the science I came for
Sam Vekemans@neiltyson looking forward to your toots!
FrizWhiz@neiltyson… perhaps Mastodon ’toots’ broke the Pleistocene smell barrier, an echo down the centuries of Apatosaurus tails breaking the sound barrier…
ThatNickPowersGuy@neiltyson So what you’re saying is… these things are technically possible?
killerloopone@neiltyson good day Mr. Tyson, any chance you could start duel posting your social media to Mastadon. As a Twitter refugee I would love to see more of you here.
Jade@neiltyson don't know about tooting but we know they were BIG.....tooting and tweeting...😆what next?
Jeff Anthony@neiltyson You say “little”….which implies there must be at least “some” evidence of mastadon toots…. >..>
Steve Pilon@neiltyson Mastadon - where you can post one toot, and go viral five years later.
@stp @neiltyson great point! Imagine it as a stock that skyrocketed and he got in ahead
Big Tentacle@neiltyson just read your bit in Starry Messenger with the “inanity defense.” This is similar to the “absurdity defense” argument I have against the Multiverse where everything possible exists. Where’s the universe where everyone is named Fred and has two noses? Three noses? Three million? What are the odds of being in a universe that makes as much sense as this one?
@neiltyson Welcome! Was felling sad when I deleted you from those I was following on the birdsite.
Brandon@neiltyson BUT, they also snort. I would say a ‘snort’ would be a good word to reclaim. I D.A.R.E you!
RWolfBaldassarro@neiltyson Little evidence, sure- but you are saying that it is not impossible. The evidence is out there somewhere.
Rob Bos@neiltyson You're probably a fake account, but god help me if you haven't managed to match NdGT's tone with this post.
IgnatzActually, vocal ability had not yet evolved, but they could create an enormous array of toots, and some say the effective vocabulary may have been 800 different toots of varying lengths, scents, and pitches.
No paper airplane. But they did come up with a makeshift paper boat and an origami birds that flapped its wings.