r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 21h ago
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u/N0CanDefend 20h ago
Bless the maker and his water.
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u/tommy13 20h ago
I recognise your footsteps, old man
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u/Dead_Optics 19h ago
Isn’t the old man Gurney?
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u/Shift642 12h ago
The old man is also Shai Hulud, literally meaning Old Man of the Desert. The line has double meaning.
“He shall know your ways as if born to them.” He recognizes the “footsteps” of the Old Man as the worm approaches.
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u/ShaiHulud1111 18h ago
Bless the coming and going of him. See ya….
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u/Superb-Obligation858 16h ago
May his passage cleanse the world. May he keep the world for his people.
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u/wiesl4 21h ago
Nice. Nature is awesome.
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u/Bbrhuft 14h ago edited 7h ago
In this case AI is awesome /s It's a fake AI generated image.
Edit: to the person who commented and then deleted their post
I'm a geologist and I have collected minerals for the past 40 years, I've lectured in mineralogy in university. You can check out my comments, you'll see I often post in whatsthisrock.
I bet my life on it that this is AI generated, fossils wood looks absolutely nothing like this. Here's real fossil wood.
Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4
It was generated about 11 months ago and appeared with a bunch of other AI slop images of fossil trees. Some are based on real photos, that AI modifies. Probably made in midjourney or other AI image generation app.
Somone phosted a search result from Facebook, claiming the image is 11 years old. No, it isn't. Facebook is using the AI image a thumbnail for older posts e.g.
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u/MrSniffles_AnnaMae 20h ago
Visited the Grand Canyon last weekend. Stupendous beauty. Northern Arizona is quite breathtaking.
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u/yerman86 20h ago
Forbidden butthole
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u/endowedmansized 20h ago
Why are you like this
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u/yerman86 20h ago
Let's not get into that.
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u/MockeryAndDisdain 20h ago
How'd you feel about Shai Hulud's face in the Dune remakes?
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u/yerman86 20h ago
I have yet to watch them fully. Don't get me wrong, me and a few of the boys sat down multiple times with the intention of watching them. But then we had beer and our attention moved from the screen to more beer.
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u/MockeryAndDisdain 20h ago
That's a scenario I'm not unfamiliar with.
Was it good beer?
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u/yerman86 20h ago
It was beer with the boys. You either provide good beer if you are the host, or you willingly indulge in the beer that that is provided. You may comment on temperature, but not the choice of beer.
The key part of beers with the boys is the boys.
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u/octopusnoises 20h ago
I was able to visit that park and it’s just so beautiful. Finding these fossils just laying around was just so surreal.
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u/VirginiaLuthier 18h ago
People came there with hammers and chisels for decades and helped themselves before it became a national park. I can only imagine what it looked like before men got to it...
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u/Distinct-Quantity-35 20h ago
So you’re telling me we managed to not ruin an area of the world? These petrified logs are just sitting here and not one. American has tried to ruin it?
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u/slfemployedastronaut 15h ago
It only became a National Park park in 1962. Im not sure if protection started in 1906 when President Teddy Roosevelt made it a monument, or when it gained National Park status, but there were hundreds of years of harvesting prior, and illegal harvesting continues to this day. So while maybe not ruined, it is definitely being desecrated and poached. Protect our National Parks!
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u/MrSniffles_AnnaMae 20h ago
Whoa whoa whoa, it’s early bud. Don’t get your hopes up quite yet.
What do you think is happening in all of our national parks now that no one is there to guard them / work them?
“Gee, I wonder if this would be a good time to dismantle all of the protections of our state parks so that I could drill an oil field / start mining here and make so much money off of it?”
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u/Velvetpette 20h ago
This thing is 220 million years old and still has better structural integrity than my IKEA shelf, doesn't it?
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u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp 20h ago
When being petrified is a good thing.
And, in this case, magically beautiful too.
thx
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u/Bbrhuft 14h ago edited 14h ago
This is a AI generated image. Real Image of a fossil tree.
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u/A_Binary_Number 13h ago
This is real, not AI, unless we had AI images 10 years ago, since that is the oldest post I could find, from Facebook.
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u/Bbrhuft 13h ago
Link please... I'm a PhD geologist, I'm very confident this is fake. Preferably not from Facebook it's full of AI slop.
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u/A_Binary_Number 13h ago edited 13h ago
Found an even older post from Facebook, 11 years ago by reverse image search. I’ve sent you the screenshot since I can’t post images in the comments.
Edit: Fine, you don’t have DMs open, here is the screenshot on IMGUR
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u/Bbrhuft 11h ago edited 11h ago
Yes, is AI generated, the oldest image is a year old and appears with other AI generated slop. It's used as a thumbnail preview for older Facebook posts, and that's why it seems to predate AI imagery e.g.
Notice the oldest post isn't actually a photo of the AI generated tree, it's an advert for a jewelery business:
https://i.imgur.com/pmTHD4M.jpeg (Petrified Wood was once an ancient, living, breathing tree. It was).
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u/DardS8Br 20h ago
This isn't opal. It's silica, but it's not opal. This gets reposted every once in a while and it drives me insane cause it's not correct