What does it do?
This thing was being discussed on some science websites:
It's being discussed, OF COURSE, because it's supposedly a measure of Trump's CO2 pollution, delivered backwards into the Cretaceous Era by witches riding on Tardis broomsticks.
This thing should be discussed for its FANTASTIC shape. Those things on the outside are described as protective scales, but they don't look like any other scales in nature. Scales are variations on rectangles or diamonds. These things look like differential ring gears. A toothed circle with a bridge spanning the open center of the circle. It can't work as a 'shingle' because it can't overlap and doesn't cover.
The bridge part vaguely resembles a stapes:
but the ring gear part doesn't resemble anything else.
LIFE IS PURPOSE.
This machine can't serve the purpose of a scale or protector. It must be doing something else. Does the bridge part act as a trap for smaller microbes? Bacterium floats into the center, bridge contracts and pulls it in for digestion?
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