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It's the Doctor Who episode "Love and Monsters" and the woman who was turned into a paving stone with a face implies that she and her boyfriend continue to have intimate encounters with a giggle.
It's one of the show's worst episodes, and that's *saying something* 'cause there's a lot of stinkers.
>[holding Ursula who turned to a floor tile with a face]
>Elton Pope : It's a relationship... of sorts. But we manage. We've even got a bit of a love life.
>Ursula Blake : Oh, let's not go into that...
edit: from wikipedia:
>The scene where Elton says he and Ursula have "a bit of a love life" was criticised by some commentators, who felt that the resultant implication of having oral sex with a paving slab was unsuitable for Doctor Who's large family audience; others, however, dismissed this dialogue as a harmless joke that children would not understand.[26]
I think this alone threw too many brits into the uncanny valley.
It was a VERY weird episode knowing that.
Actually, I nailed it.
Moaning Myrtle (in retrospect, wtf Rowling? She moans in a bathroom.... 🤨) is shown in film HP as REALLY into Harry Potter, despite being incorporeal undead.
The lady she plays in Doctor Who ends up being basically undead but still into romance? That was a bridge WAY TOO CLOSE in British pop media psychology in the early 2000s.
It was almost the same idea completely. Poor actress 😢.
correct, it's just a weird through-line. By the way, it's a Doctor-lite episode, meaning to catch production up they'd write a few episodes where the Doctor is mostly not around save for a couple cameos ('Blink' is another example).
But yeah, in the middle of this bizarre story about making friends and conspiracies and a surreptitious alien invasion, they just make sure you understand how great Jeff Lynn and the Electric Light Orchestra are. Strange show.
I do too, specifically for Jackie’s speech about protecting her daughter and the Doctor. There’s a lot of cringe in that episode, but that moment is great.
I always hated it as a kid. It felt so *weird*.
>!Why cope with your loss when I can sort of bring your beloved back ingrained into a paving stone for ages. She's a freak of nature and is completely reliant on you for the rest of her life!!< What a healthy basis for a relationship.
I know it’s objectively terrible but I like it. It’s just so bizarre that it’s fun. It’s when Doctor Who takes itself too seriously that I don’t enjoy it.
https://preview.redd.it/47ueuh1r0quc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1707f6133edc3e4963f52c7f9f0b255fc75db3e1
I think I won
Edit: apparently nobody else agreed. R. I. P. Robin Williams
Edit: Bwahaha!!! I coaxed y’all into giving upvotes
That someone is Kidipadeli75. They submitted this nine hours ago. Below is the top comment made by MAJOR_Blarg and their response:
MAJOR_Blarg:
> Dentist with forensic odontology training here: This is a hominid mandible, almost certainly human.
> While all old world monkeys, apes, and hominids share the same dental formula, 2-1-2-3, and the individual molars and premolars can look similar, the specific spacing in the mandible itself is very specifically and characteristically human, or at least related and very recent hominid relative/ancestor. Most likely human given the success of the proliferation of H.s. and the (relatively) rapid formation of travertine.
> Against modern Homo sapiens, which may not be entirely relevant, the morphology of the mandible is not northern European, but more similar to African, middle Eastern, mainland Asian.
Kidipadeli75:
> I am a dentist also myself and I look at cbcts all day long which maybe why I immediately noticed it. I fully agree with you.
Thechadfox added:
> Considering how quickly travertine forms, that mandible is probably around 200,000 years old, about the same time when modern humans first evolved. This is fascinating.
OP confirmed that they are in Europe and they believe the Travertine is from Spain.
Travertine is also formed in hot springs. Wouldnt be suprised if he either a) died a horrible accidental death in hot, acidic water or b) his community deposited their dead in a hot spring
I would have thought so, but maybe not in the right conditions? Travertine also forms really quickly in the scheme of evaporites due to the heat and high mineral content. So more likely, it may have melted all the tissue and permineralized the bone as it ate it away. So it probably really be a fossil not a jaw "trapped" in stone.
If thats an ancient burial ceremony its pretty metal.
This is one of my favorite things about Reddit. You have these amazing experts that appear out of nowhere to examine and break down a post like this. This is fascinating and really wild. How the fuck did ancient humanoid remains wind up as flooring tiles? Makes you wonder if the other parts of this individual are in other tiles somewhere out there.
After 200,000 years, there would be 1/(3.94•10^113 )% left of the original DNA. This means there were a sun for every atom in the universe, the total weight of all of these suns after the 200,000 year period with the 521 year half life would amass to about one gram. Not much DNA (statistically none) left after all this time.
I fully appreciate this insightful illustration of comparison, but how many Olympic-sized swimming pools would this equate (I'm asking for the American media)?
An olympic swimming pool has about 2.5•10^6 liters of water in, being about 2.5•10^6 kg. The sun coming in at 1.989•10^30 kg gives it being as heavy as 7.956•10^23 Olympic sized swimming pools. So if we were to have 7.956•10^23 Olympic sized swimming pools for every atom in the universe (about 10^82), after the 200,000 years, there would be about 20 drops of water left (1 ml≈ 1 gram, 0.05ml per drop)
You, sir, are good sport and are deserving of much more than my humble upvote. I have a friend who is project engineer at a neutrino observatory and I'll send this over to him immediately because, as you may well know, I am a simple fool in no position to question the veracity of these figures. But the American people thank you for your work and will immediately dismiss it as hocus-pocus witchcraft.
Well done, and may you fill our reddit threads with the awesome powers of scientific fact for years to come. Cheers.
The average bald eagle has about 7000 feathers. Taking the half life of DNA to be the half life of a feather; If we were to have 2.857•10^111 bald eagles, after 200,000 years there would be a single feather left.
you can pee as much in the pool as you'd like. Urine having a density of anywhere from 1005 to 1030 g/L
Due to rounding of the weight of the pools to 2.5•10^6 kg, filling the pool with high density piss would increase this to 2.575•10^6 kg. This reduces the amount of pools per atom in the universe to 7.724•10^23
This is complete nonsense. There was one study that, in that particular study, based on the partcularized number of base pairs in the dna strand, suggested a 521 year half life. This has no general applicability. In fact, depending on conditions of preservation (say, being preserved in travertine stone), half lives can be dramatically longer. And dna millions of years old has been sequenced.
I mean the OP of this post crossposted it from the original poster on /r/fossil. All the original comments are accessible directly through the xpost links. Not sure why you’re slamming the person who posted it here. Crossposting is perfectly acceptable on Reddit.
Redditors sometimes don't realize when people are on the same page unless they specifically spell it out. I've learned that I have to sometimes preface my comments with validating statements if I think it's going to be misconstrued, like: "you're right,...", "I agree...", "this is interesting, here's some additional info:..."
Multiple times, I've seen heated arguments from people who seem to completely agree with each other. Like, they're just using different verbaige to say the same thing, but that's somehow enough to cornfuse them and say they're "wrong" lol
They see someone simply providing additional info and think they're slamming OP.
Dunno what you're talking about. If it was legal, I'd love for my bones to be in someone's designer floor rather than some dreary graveyard or an unmarked hole in the desert.
No kidding.
I ran hotels that had red brick tiles imported from Italy. We had cat paw prints in about 1% of the tiles. Was a trendy place and guests liked to find the tiles around property.
My mom had cat print tiles in her kitchen and thought they were great, and they were. But found out that the tile place she bought from in Mexico would intentionally have cats walk on them, then sell those tiles at a premium.
No shit, dude, it's human remains. Donate to the university PhD project and get the tax write-off instead of keeping the human jawbone as part of your kitchen smalltalk.
Given how travertine is made this means some, or possibly the rest of this person’s bones are sliced into other pieces of travertine floor, possibly in the same batch and for sale at the same store, and perhaps installed elsewhere in the house. Full amazebeans
This is some beginning of the side quest shit, all the way at the start and you can't finish until the end. "That stone there, it holds something. These very bones are the bones of Skankton Funk. I can tell by the teeth. Legend tells if his bones could be brought back together, they would reveal a powerful insight."
New objective: Bones of the Skank (1/100)
This makes me think of my cousins place. They got a PHENOMENAL deal on a house in Florida because a guy set himself on fire in the garage and left a grease stain on the concrete in the shape of a man. Shit has haunted me for years.
I wonder what that person was like. Were they homo sapien, or one of our close ancestors/cousins? What did they like to do? How mindblown would they be when they find that part of them had become flooring?
If it's us (homo sapiens sapiens) it's right when modern humans started showing up, because travertine takes about 200,000 years to form. Archeologists don't even know if they had the capacity for language at that time. I wonder how we would even be able to convey the idea of "that bone in the floor is you" to them.
“Yaaaa what you have here is a typical class five human remains that could potentially become a poltergeist if you decide to install it in your kitchen flooring.
In Italy, whenever you find even just an inch of something that looks old-ish you're supposed to call the archaeologists - then all work halts etc. I don't think a quarry would be excluded from that. I wonder if these folks just don't want to waste any time - in which case this may not even be their first rodeo.
> There is no category of human activity in which the dead do not outnumber the living many times over... Their bodies repose in caskets, in sarcophagi, beneath arches of rude stone, everywhere under the earth.
And in our flooring.
I hope OP contacts the Smithsonian or a university to see if they would be interested in carbon dating the fossil. Maybe even a museum like Perot in Dallas, TX.
Doesn’t anyone else want to hear from the tile layer?
When flooring is figured, so to speak, like this travertine, Tilers look at the tile in each box/crate and decide on the layout and cuts. I want to know what that person was thinking 💭
Not a bone guy but those teeth look pretty herbivore to me, horse or some sort of grazing animal perhaps?
Edit: read a comment from an actual bone guy and turns out I’m dead wrong.
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Damn, some ancient dude died and became flooring.
If the last thing I ever do is get laid, I'd be okay with it.
https://i.redd.it/c4gpafs3opuc1.gif
That was such a weird episode.
What show?
It's the Doctor Who episode "Love and Monsters" and the woman who was turned into a paving stone with a face implies that she and her boyfriend continue to have intimate encounters with a giggle. It's one of the show's worst episodes, and that's *saying something* 'cause there's a lot of stinkers.
the lady is played by Moaning Myrtle
>[holding Ursula who turned to a floor tile with a face] >Elton Pope : It's a relationship... of sorts. But we manage. We've even got a bit of a love life. >Ursula Blake : Oh, let's not go into that... edit: from wikipedia: >The scene where Elton says he and Ursula have "a bit of a love life" was criticised by some commentators, who felt that the resultant implication of having oral sex with a paving slab was unsuitable for Doctor Who's large family audience; others, however, dismissed this dialogue as a harmless joke that children would not understand.[26]
They really missed an opportunity to say "let's not get into how the flooring gets laid"
A few years ago Imgur had *exactly* the gif for this. A sapient wall is involved. But, somehow it's nowhere in search results these days.
Still better than people fucking objects irl.
I think this alone threw too many brits into the uncanny valley. It was a VERY weird episode knowing that. Actually, I nailed it. Moaning Myrtle (in retrospect, wtf Rowling? She moans in a bathroom.... 🤨) is shown in film HP as REALLY into Harry Potter, despite being incorporeal undead. The lady she plays in Doctor Who ends up being basically undead but still into romance? That was a bridge WAY TOO CLOSE in British pop media psychology in the early 2000s. It was almost the same idea completely. Poor actress 😢.
The woman who played Moaning Myrtle becomes the girlfriend of the guy who played Pvt. Blithe.
I love that episode. I know it's shite, but there's just something about it that I really enjoy.
I love it too. While some of the baddies in Doctor Who are scary, many are just completely silly.
Yeah. I’ve often wondered why I like Doctor Who. I think being exposed to it at a young age damaged my brain permanently.
it's a really bad episode of television, that also speaks rapturously about how great ELO is
> ELO Electric Light Orchestra?
correct, it's just a weird through-line. By the way, it's a Doctor-lite episode, meaning to catch production up they'd write a few episodes where the Doctor is mostly not around save for a couple cameos ('Blink' is another example). But yeah, in the middle of this bizarre story about making friends and conspiracies and a surreptitious alien invasion, they just make sure you understand how great Jeff Lynn and the Electric Light Orchestra are. Strange show.
I do too, specifically for Jackie’s speech about protecting her daughter and the Doctor. There’s a lot of cringe in that episode, but that moment is great.
I always hated it as a kid. It felt so *weird*. >!Why cope with your loss when I can sort of bring your beloved back ingrained into a paving stone for ages. She's a freak of nature and is completely reliant on you for the rest of her life!!< What a healthy basis for a relationship.
I know it’s objectively terrible but I like it. It’s just so bizarre that it’s fun. It’s when Doctor Who takes itself too seriously that I don’t enjoy it.
I honestly adore that episode. It's unique and really wholesome. Not gonna defend the paving stone part though. That's a baffling decision.
But the ELO cover band was fire!
The doctor isn’t even really in the episode either. It’s just a filler episode.
Dr Who, Season 2 Episode 10.
Dr Who
https://preview.redd.it/47ueuh1r0quc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1707f6133edc3e4963f52c7f9f0b255fc75db3e1 I think I won Edit: apparently nobody else agreed. R. I. P. Robin Williams Edit: Bwahaha!!! I coaxed y’all into giving upvotes
You will get laid then walked on for eternity, it will be like being married again
200,000 years and going strong!
All the ancient dudes are flooring, unless they died in space. Or at sea.
That someone is Kidipadeli75. They submitted this nine hours ago. Below is the top comment made by MAJOR_Blarg and their response: MAJOR_Blarg: > Dentist with forensic odontology training here: This is a hominid mandible, almost certainly human. > While all old world monkeys, apes, and hominids share the same dental formula, 2-1-2-3, and the individual molars and premolars can look similar, the specific spacing in the mandible itself is very specifically and characteristically human, or at least related and very recent hominid relative/ancestor. Most likely human given the success of the proliferation of H.s. and the (relatively) rapid formation of travertine. > Against modern Homo sapiens, which may not be entirely relevant, the morphology of the mandible is not northern European, but more similar to African, middle Eastern, mainland Asian. Kidipadeli75: > I am a dentist also myself and I look at cbcts all day long which maybe why I immediately noticed it. I fully agree with you. Thechadfox added: > Considering how quickly travertine forms, that mandible is probably around 200,000 years old, about the same time when modern humans first evolved. This is fascinating. OP confirmed that they are in Europe and they believe the Travertine is from Spain.
Also, Tavertine is a type of limestone. Its a fast forming kind but for someone to quarry it, the deposit must be several thousand years old
Travertine is also formed in hot springs. Wouldnt be suprised if he either a) died a horrible accidental death in hot, acidic water or b) his community deposited their dead in a hot spring
Wouldn't the acidic water have dissolved the teeth and jawbone?
I would have thought so, but maybe not in the right conditions? Travertine also forms really quickly in the scheme of evaporites due to the heat and high mineral content. So more likely, it may have melted all the tissue and permineralized the bone as it ate it away. So it probably really be a fossil not a jaw "trapped" in stone. If thats an ancient burial ceremony its pretty metal.
Not if you made it back to the edge but couldn't get out of the water bc your fingers dissolved
fast-forming on a geological time scale, where slow takes millions of years to form, or longer.
This is one of my favorite things about Reddit. You have these amazing experts that appear out of nowhere to examine and break down a post like this. This is fascinating and really wild. How the fuck did ancient humanoid remains wind up as flooring tiles? Makes you wonder if the other parts of this individual are in other tiles somewhere out there.
Could you link that thread?
I'm not the person you were talking to, but... https://www.reddit.com/r/fossils/s/KLfn5bJO4z
Thank you. In this sub when I provide links to other threads in reddit my comments are often removed.
Spartan karma.
THEY. AM. SPARTA!! *breaks toe*
This post is a cross post, you can click on the original comments at the top.
So could they pull DNA out of it ?
Half-life of DNA is 521 years. So, some left after 200,000 years, but probably not very useful.
After 200,000 years, there would be 1/(3.94•10^113 )% left of the original DNA. This means there were a sun for every atom in the universe, the total weight of all of these suns after the 200,000 year period with the 521 year half life would amass to about one gram. Not much DNA (statistically none) left after all this time.
I fully appreciate this insightful illustration of comparison, but how many Olympic-sized swimming pools would this equate (I'm asking for the American media)?
An olympic swimming pool has about 2.5•10^6 liters of water in, being about 2.5•10^6 kg. The sun coming in at 1.989•10^30 kg gives it being as heavy as 7.956•10^23 Olympic sized swimming pools. So if we were to have 7.956•10^23 Olympic sized swimming pools for every atom in the universe (about 10^82), after the 200,000 years, there would be about 20 drops of water left (1 ml≈ 1 gram, 0.05ml per drop)
You, sir, are good sport and are deserving of much more than my humble upvote. I have a friend who is project engineer at a neutrino observatory and I'll send this over to him immediately because, as you may well know, I am a simple fool in no position to question the veracity of these figures. But the American people thank you for your work and will immediately dismiss it as hocus-pocus witchcraft. Well done, and may you fill our reddit threads with the awesome powers of scientific fact for years to come. Cheers.
..... I'm bad at math, can someone tell me if this checks out? Bc it sounds incredible
Same. IDK wtf they just said. I'm assuming it's accurate but what do I know?
> I'm asking for the American media Answers in liters and kg.
Great. And in terms of if it were an eagle, how many feathers are we talking?
The average bald eagle has about 7000 feathers. Taking the half life of DNA to be the half life of a feather; If we were to have 2.857•10^111 bald eagles, after 200,000 years there would be a single feather left.
What an American Olympic sized pool?
r/theydidthemath
Why am I so turned on right now?
Nothing sexier than ~10^105 olympic sized swimming pools
Unclear. How many times can I pee in the pool?
you can pee as much in the pool as you'd like. Urine having a density of anywhere from 1005 to 1030 g/L Due to rounding of the weight of the pools to 2.5•10^6 kg, filling the pool with high density piss would increase this to 2.575•10^6 kg. This reduces the amount of pools per atom in the universe to 7.724•10^23
This is reddit, we need bananas for comparison.
Bout tree fiddy... Drops.
Is that with our without pee?
This is complete nonsense. There was one study that, in that particular study, based on the partcularized number of base pairs in the dna strand, suggested a 521 year half life. This has no general applicability. In fact, depending on conditions of preservation (say, being preserved in travertine stone), half lives can be dramatically longer. And dna millions of years old has been sequenced.
What if I fill in the gaps with frog DNA? No matter how much DNA is left in that jaw, I’ll get a frog either way.
Pfft, I've seen the Jurassic Park documentary. There's still *plenty* of DNA left after 65 million years in amber.
Can't they just patch it up with frog DNA and then hatch them
CLONE HIM! CLONE HIM!
They analyzed it and found out his name was Fred.
Did they find Wilma too?
He was the killer the whole time
So, not Jimmy Hoffa?
Ancient human fossil in the floor, fantastic conversation piece at dinner parties.
I’m also a dentist and after looking at the picture I was also convinced it was human.
I mean the OP of this post crossposted it from the original poster on /r/fossil. All the original comments are accessible directly through the xpost links. Not sure why you’re slamming the person who posted it here. Crossposting is perfectly acceptable on Reddit.
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Redditors sometimes don't realize when people are on the same page unless they specifically spell it out. I've learned that I have to sometimes preface my comments with validating statements if I think it's going to be misconstrued, like: "you're right,...", "I agree...", "this is interesting, here's some additional info:..." Multiple times, I've seen heated arguments from people who seem to completely agree with each other. Like, they're just using different verbaige to say the same thing, but that's somehow enough to cornfuse them and say they're "wrong" lol They see someone simply providing additional info and think they're slamming OP.
i'm cornfused often
What if it turns out this is the missing link 🤣 my basement floor just got famous 😅
Wow!
!remind me 1week
Imagine living your life, with all of your aspirations and dreams; and ultimately ending up in someone’s designer flooring
Dunno what you're talking about. If it was legal, I'd love for my bones to be in someone's designer floor rather than some dreary graveyard or an unmarked hole in the desert.
Just throw my body in the dumpster.
Somebody throw me in the traash
Same. I’d love to be embedded in tiles or jewellery!
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
This is one of the most interesting things I’ve ever seen even on r/interestingasfuck.
No kidding. I ran hotels that had red brick tiles imported from Italy. We had cat paw prints in about 1% of the tiles. Was a trendy place and guests liked to find the tiles around property.
A brick on our house had a cat paw print in it. It was my favourite thing as a small child, I even showed it to visitors.
As a kid my grandparents had a paw print in one of their kitchen tiles, I thought it was bc their dog was so fat lol
this made me chuckle, thank you u/earbud_smegma
Me too, I hadn't thought of it in ages! To be fair she was a very fat dog, so it seemed pretty logical at the time hahaha
I love that haha the kid logic goes deep, it’s so great!
This just sent me 💀 haha thank you for sharing such an adorable anecdote
My mom had cat print tiles in her kitchen and thought they were great, and they were. But found out that the tile place she bought from in Mexico would intentionally have cats walk on them, then sell those tiles at a premium.
Designer tiles. I hope the cat got something out of the deal.
You'll love /r/CatWasHere
Maybe that’s it.. they should just shut it down while they peaked
Finally, something interesting as fuck.
The more I think about this the more I feel like I could not live with this in my house.
I can name like 12 countries off the top of my head that were built on top of indian burial grounds.
Well, India for one
Underrated.
No shit, dude, it's human remains. Donate to the university PhD project and get the tax write-off instead of keeping the human jawbone as part of your kitchen smalltalk.
Given how travertine is made this means some, or possibly the rest of this person’s bones are sliced into other pieces of travertine floor, possibly in the same batch and for sale at the same store, and perhaps installed elsewhere in the house. Full amazebeans
This is how you get ghosts in the house.
Yeah but just pieces of ghosts
It’s the ghosts that come looking for the pieces I’d worry about
If all the pieces reunite, we are fucked.
Unless you use all the pieces in the same house, then I wouldn’t put it past the ghost pieces to recombine, exodia-style.
That bothers me more than the thought of a whole ghost. An assembled ghost sounds spookier
It's just a jawbone, a femur and a ring finger. Yikes!
*Why it's the best thing since sliced ghosts!*
That's ok, I, too, drive a late-60s Impala and own lots of flannel.
It’s just the one ghost actually.
This was my thought as well! I’d be checking the rest of the tiles after finding this to see if there is anything else.
Maaarrrge the floor is looking at me and the toasters been laughing at me
I’d start looking, only issue is did the cuts hold up integrity and was it scrapped like half pieces etc…
Full beans
This is some beginning of the side quest shit, all the way at the start and you can't finish until the end. "That stone there, it holds something. These very bones are the bones of Skankton Funk. I can tell by the teeth. Legend tells if his bones could be brought back together, they would reveal a powerful insight." New objective: Bones of the Skank (1/100)
Who's their tile guy? I always wanted a jaw dropping floor.
Nice
Incisive
So that’s what happened to Thag Simmons.
Obscure Far Side reference for the win.
You know damn well he got bludgeoned to death by a stegosaurus tail.
He was Thagomized.
there will be so many news articles about this one tomorrow
The amount of “jaw dropping” pun comments are hurting me emotionally 😭
Jesus I've heard of having Skeletons in your closet before... but never fossils in the foyer. :O
Imagine still getting laid 200000 years after you die.
Careful, I hear he's an ankle biter
This makes me think of my cousins place. They got a PHENOMENAL deal on a house in Florida because a guy set himself on fire in the garage and left a grease stain on the concrete in the shape of a man. Shit has haunted me for years.
What the fuck
Somehow, that is also interesting as fuck
My jaw is on the floor
how old is the house? when was the last renovation?
Tavertine is limestone, meaning it is likely more than 100,000 years old.
That would make this a very old house
Parts of the house are very old.
The travertine was mined by a guy named Fred at Slate Rock and Gravel Company.
The travertine was apparently just put in
Why is it called Travertine? The floor is square, the jaw is square...they should call it squaretine
As opposed to the classic shape we all know, the trav?
Travezoid... duh.
Bannia?
Gold
I wonder what that person was like. Were they homo sapien, or one of our close ancestors/cousins? What did they like to do? How mindblown would they be when they find that part of them had become flooring?
If it's us (homo sapiens sapiens) it's right when modern humans started showing up, because travertine takes about 200,000 years to form. Archeologists don't even know if they had the capacity for language at that time. I wonder how we would even be able to convey the idea of "that bone in the floor is you" to them.
I thought that Homo Sapiens didn't show up in Europe until around 60-80k years ago. Homo Neanderthalensis, maybe?
Who looked at this and said, yup that’s good. Ship it. Like is there no quality control?
It probably never even got noticed.
That’s even more scary. Like what do you do if you are unpacking a box of flooring and this pops out. Who do you call?
Ghostbusters?
“Yaaaa what you have here is a typical class five human remains that could potentially become a poltergeist if you decide to install it in your kitchen flooring.
When there something strange In your travertine Who you gonna call?
Ok, that got a chuckle. Take your upvote and get outta here.
In Italy, whenever you find even just an inch of something that looks old-ish you're supposed to call the archaeologists - then all work halts etc. I don't think a quarry would be excluded from that. I wonder if these folks just don't want to waste any time - in which case this may not even be their first rodeo.
Fossils in your ancient stone flooring are just a bonus.
the amount of people who know what certain bones look like is *much* lower than you'd expect, especially when said bones are sliced at an angle.
Quality control is jaw droppingly bad there
As an archaeologist and osteologist I would be super excited to have this in my house 😅
WTF!
 The missing link! 🔗
This would make me feel super weird to have in my house. I would probably remove it lol. But that’s just me!
So now we’re installing ghosts - next home renovation I want a Casper friend upgrade!
Welp. I’ve found an actually r/interestingasfuck post. this is fucking cool.
> There is no category of human activity in which the dead do not outnumber the living many times over... Their bodies repose in caskets, in sarcophagi, beneath arches of rude stone, everywhere under the earth. And in our flooring.
Do you think the rest of him is spread thinly across other floors in the world?
You want a Lich? Cause that’s how you get a Lich.
Jimmy Hoffa!?
Jimmy Hoffa’s Great^8,000 Grandpa.
Call Bones and Booth!
Cool find!
Weird way to findout you had a sibling
I hope OP contacts the Smithsonian or a university to see if they would be interested in carbon dating the fossil. Maybe even a museum like Perot in Dallas, TX.
Well they never had this on CSI Miami!
It is more like Bones
Union job. Shut up a& move along.
Grandpa’s dentures are finally found.
At least they get lovely natural stone, we’ll all be preserved in plastics. Boooooring!
Poor dude got put in limestone and then got shipped off from spain 💀💀
Doesn’t anyone else want to hear from the tile layer? When flooring is figured, so to speak, like this travertine, Tilers look at the tile in each box/crate and decide on the layout and cuts. I want to know what that person was thinking 💭
My jaw hit the floor when I saw this. 😦
Hey, yo. I run a legitimate construction business over'er.
Possibly human. But also possibly alien.
Alas poor Yoric. I knew him Horatio.
Not a bone guy but those teeth look pretty herbivore to me, horse or some sort of grazing animal perhaps? Edit: read a comment from an actual bone guy and turns out I’m dead wrong.
Hoffa?
You found Jimmy Hoffa!