{"id":3187,"date":"2007-09-21T10:10:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T10:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/09\/trilobites-didnt-go-extinct\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T10:10:20","slug":"trilobites-didnt-go-extinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/09\/trilobites-didnt-go-extinct\/","title":{"rendered":"Trilobites didn&#8217;t go extinct&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;they just evolved into beings of pure electromagnetism and infested the sun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trilobyte_strip.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/trilobyte_strip.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I know that we humans are prone to finding familiar patterns in weird places, but I have to say I find the claimed resemblance less than compelling. When looking at the rather amorphous blob in the centre of the image above, I don&#8217;t really don&#8217;t see this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/trilobite-redlichia-jpg><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trilobite.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/\/Trilobite.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amorphous bug-like thing? Perhaps. Trilobite? No.<br \/>\nMore annoying is the fact that the focus on fluff relegated to a footnote the somewhat more interesting point that the &#8216;trilobite&#8217;, which is actually a sunspot, formed in a way which hadn&#8217;t been observed before. I&#8217;m all for using striking pictures as a hook, but doesn&#8217;t removing the actual scientific content somewhat defeat the point?<br \/>\n(from <a href=http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2007\/18sep_trilobite.htm>science@nasa<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;they just evolved into beings of pure electromagnetism and infested the sun. I know that we humans are prone to finding familiar patterns in weird places, but I have to say I find the claimed resemblance less than compelling. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/09\/trilobites-didnt-go-extinct\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planets","category-public-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}