#thagomizer — Public Fediverse posts
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Dear @count_01 ,
Your nom de Mastodon inspired me to visit the search engines and thence to Wikipedia where today I learned:"The term thagomizer was coined by [cartoonist] Gary Larson in jest. In a 1982 The Far Side comic, a group of cavemen are taught by a caveman lecturer that the spikes on a stegosaur's tail were named "after the late Thag Simmons".[1]
The term was picked up initially by Kenneth Carpenter, then a paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, who used the term when describing a fossil at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting in 1993.[2] Thagomizer has since been adopted as an anatomical term[3] and is used by the Smithsonian Institution,[2][4] the Dinosaur National Monument,[2] the book The Complete Dinosaur[5] and the BBC documentary series Planet Dinosaur.[6] The term has also appeared in some scientific papers describing stegosaurs and related dinosaurs.[7][8][9][10][11]"
Among a long list of boyhood dreams that never came to fruition was my desire to grow up to be a paleontologist.
As I enter my dotage it consoles me enormously to know that Gary Larson, whose sense of humor I revere, was responsible for giving some dinosaur tailbones an (informal) scientific name based on one of his cartoons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
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TIL the Axel jump in figure skating is not so named because you rotate about an axis, as a wheel does an axle, but is named for its inventor, Axel Paulsen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_jump #thagomizer
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Behold! The punctured vertebrae #Dinosaur #Fossil of an #Allosaurus caused by the #Thagomizer of a #Stegosaurus. The spikes (seen to illustrate fit) were used for defense. The thagomized allosaurus survived as evidenced by healed bone. #Science #PaleoSky 🧪 🦕 See: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Sometimes I mourn for Thag, of #Thagomizer fame. poor fellow.
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The CAD for this bot keeps getting more complicated.
#combatrobotics #3dprinting #Battlebots #combatrobot #makers #antweight #robot #150g #fairyweight #thagomizer #horizontalspinner #cad #tinkerCAD
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Okay, y'all are probably familiar with the #Thagomizer (if not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer). In last night's #dream, I was in the same lecture, except it went on - once the thagomizer was removed, you got a long metal fork called Thag's Choice Stick which enabled us to change the environment of the neighbouring region - warm the lakes, slow the rivers, things like that. I or someone else in the dream used it and damaged a major ecosystem. And then switched it back.
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@stevesilberman It was a sad day in cubicle farms everywhere when Gary Larson's "Far Side" cartoons were replaced with "Dilbert" on the cubicle walls. #Thagomizer #GaryLarson
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I've now uploaded to thingiverse the design files and basic instructions to create your own version of this bot:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5792280
#combatrobotics #Battlebots #makers #creativecommons #thingiverse #thagomizer #cad #3dprinting #engineering #hobbies #maker
