• @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    1131 month ago

    Paul Walker died cause him and his friend were speeding and street racing. Similar to Ryan Dunn who died drunk driving. I think it’s been long enough to call them out and remind people they didn’t die as heroes, they died being idiots and luckily didn’t kill a bunch of innocent people with them

  • Draconic NEO
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    130 days ago

    Would Anomalocaris actually do well in the modern world. I feel like they probably wouldn’t do so well in the modern ecosystems of much more evolved marine creatures. Would get out-competed very quickly, and likely face plenty of other challenges. Being out-competed is likely the reason they went extinct in the first place.

  • @EtherWhack@lemmy.world
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    831 month ago

    The thing with Robin is that, regardless of his mental health, he would’ve been the type of person to curse the choice of bringing someone back to be wasted on him.

    While it is commonly believed he took his life due to a constant battle with depression, we do not know exactly what his resolve was, and bringing him back could be seen as hell in his eyes.

    • @Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      421 month ago

      It wasn’t depression. He was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia.

      He allegedly took his life so he wouldn’t slowly lose himself, and become a burden on his family.

      • @EtherWhack@lemmy.world
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        321 month ago

        Parkinson’s, actually. They corrected it to LBD during his autopsy.

        Apparently him and his wife weren’t satisfied with the Parkinson’s diagnosis as he had some abnormal psychological issues, so they decided to have some neurology tests scheduled. He unfortunately took his life before the appointment, so he never knew the real diagnosis.

    • @Tyfud@lemmy.world
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      Whoever downvoted you, has never seen actual Robin Williams Standup or knows much about his political views.

      Robin hated Bush Sr. and Jr., especially Jr., with a passion.

      trump would send him off the deep end, as you suggested.

  • @Cano@lemm.ee
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    511 month ago

    No offence to Robin Williams, but I think having a living specimen of an ancient species who lived millions of years ago might help scientists advance evolutionary biology by a lot

    Or maybe not, but look at that little guy, he’s so cute :D

    • @LordGimp@lemm.ee
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      321 month ago

      Fuck that dumb ocean centipede. Robin Williams is worth 20 ocean centipedes easy

      • FuglyDuck
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        51 month ago

        Yeah. I dunno. They look like that weird alien parasite from TNG that tried to take over star fleet while eating bugs.

    • @Dagnet@lemmy.world
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      31 month ago

      That specimen might also die really quickly considering it’s a whole different world, not even the atmosphere is similar, and without more of it’s species to multiply I would say it would be really cool to see but not super helpful to study

  • @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    371 month ago

    Robin Williams had a degenerative nerve disease, bringing him back as he was would be cruel.

    Bringing him back healed, or young and healed? I’d let you hunt some species to extinction for that.

  • @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    171 month ago

    If Mr. Williams was unhappy I would not bring him back to this world we have now.

    I would want to make heaven on earth before I woke anyone … except my pets.

  • @ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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    231 month ago

    As much as I would love for Robin Williams to be back and brightening the world again it would be incredibly selfish of us to forget that he was incredibly unhappy in life and killed himself in a very unpleasant way because of it.

    So definitely the centipede.

  • Cyborganism
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    231 month ago

    I normally don’t care when celebrities pass away. But I genuinely cried when Robin Williams died. And I’m still sad about it.

    • @demesisx@infosec.pub
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      I was on the set of Sea of Trees with Gus Van Sant when the news broke. Needless to say, we wrapped suddenly the moment the news broke.

    • Lemminary
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      21 month ago

      Same. It’s the only celebrity death that I’ve grieved so far.

    • @abbadon420@lemm.ee
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      21 month ago

      Great, now I see priests and quire boys doing pottery class tigether in church under the guidance of Unchained Melody on the organ.

      • @RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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        21 month ago

        I shall read now from the Book of Dalton: Chapter Three, Verse Four…

        “Be nice. Until it’s time… to not be nice.”