Testaments to the Boom Times to Come (Posts tagged I LOVE IT)

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
copperfire
strangebiology

According to this post, this moose skull spent a few years underwater and became covered in barnacles and coral. 

Her friend found it while diving off Vancouver Island, Canada. Photos and info from Facebook user Timi Gidai.

elodieunderglass

that is definitely the face of someone who is getting to hold a barnacle-encrusted moose skull

I LOVE IT deer imagery never turn your back on the ocean oh Canada
minimoonstar
systlin

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

I love it design history perfected tools