May I offer you regular moon bears & one golden moon bear though?
hm. I’ll allow it.
So happy to see a clear pic of a golden moon bear. They used to just be a rumor.
He’s just a regular mom bear with a negative color filter.
I know you’re being silly, but let me be serious for a moment.
So, a lot of the species in certain parts of Asia aren’t particularly well-documented in the ways we’re accustomed to in the “Western world”. Which gets into a lot of ambiguity. There had been rumors of “golden bears” for a long time.
And to those who know about bears, this is incredibly exciting! The problem is, the people who would mention “golden bears” didn’t distinguish them clearly.
Understand, there’s sorta three tiers:
Species - distinct, separate species. This used to be treated as meaning “cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring” but that has proven a little fuzzier than we used to think.
Subspecies - can interbreed, but generally doesn’t.
Morph - distinct set of features which show up within a population but do not constitute a separate population.
(If you’re the nitpicky kind of person, you will please note how i said “sorta” before you do your “Well actually” bullshit. The last couple of decades have wrecked our approach to taxonomy.)
Anyway, so there had been rumors of golden moon bears, but no proof. The most optimistic but least likely option was that these would prove to be an entire new species of bear. Which is, remarkably, plausible for the regions in question where our knowledge of species populations is vague enough that there could be a whole other large carnivore out there. And finding a ninth species of bear would be a hell of a thing. But that’s not likely.
Finding a subspecies would be pretty damned cool, and explain why they’re only rumor most of the time.
But the most likely option was color morph. Just like some people are blondes or readheads, sometimes moon bears are golden.
It wasn’t until the 90s that someone actually mounted a trip to various parts of Asia, following rumors of golden moon bears - which was challenging as these rumors often originated with illegal hunting - until they managed to find a number of actual golden moon bears, and gather enough DNA samples to determine where they fit taxonomically. Disappointingly, it turns out they’re just a color morph - but now we know.
even with those four numbers there are countless possible combinations good luck with figuring out which one is the right one you punk
*straightens calculator*
It’s pretty likely that it’s a four digit number, and as there are four digits chosen there, that means that there cannot be any repetition. This mean that there are:
n!/(n-4)! possible orders. As ‘n’ is 4 (number of digits available). 4!/0! which becomes 4x3x2x1/1 which simplifies to 24. That means that there are 24 possible combinations of codes. This would take you about two or three minutes to input all possible codes.
Unless an alarm goes off if you don’t get it right in 3 tries
*straightens calculator again*
Kick the fucking door in
well ‘technically’ the code is most likley 1970. statistically, a majority of people, when told to choose a 4 digit code will choose their birth year. and this key pad is obviously a few years old to put it nicely, thats most likley it.
some sherlock holmes shit just went down over here
No, no, no. Don’t base your deductions of psychology. Let’s talk chemistry. When you first press a button, there’s more of the natural oils on your skin, and therefore it wears down the numbers on the keys faster. Obviously 0 is the first one, then. Try 0791 first.
Sherlock out.
woah.
it got better
and this is why the sherlock fandom could either rule the world or end it….
Close, but not quite, I think. People will almost always choose a number they can remember. What’s memorable about 0791? Try 0719 - a birthday, 19th of July. That is more likely.
Those deductions are great and all, but unnecessary.
The light is green.
The door is already open.
And that’s why we have a John Watson.
This is “top 10 favorite posts” level.
Omg, it’s actually on my dash! This post is like a fossil!
Idk if I’ve rebloged this before, but I’ll reblog this legend again
Smithsonian? I’ve found the quintessential Tumblr and Sherlock fandom post. Yes. I would consider it definitive.
Ahh it’s back.
“And that’s why we have a John Watson”, indeed 😂
Legend of a post. 10/10 recommend reblogging.
this post is on my dash I feel HONORED
THE POST OF LEGENDS HAS RESURFACED ON MY DASH
I’VE ONLY EVER SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS OMG
On your dash? I dig for gold like this,,, by looking at my mutual pages.
I’ve only seen this on Pinterest!
*gasp* THE SACRED TEXTS!
:O
THIS IS A LEGENDARY POST I HAVE BEEN GRACED BY IT’S APPEARANCE!!!
Why did Tumblr stop doing stuff like this, it’s genuinely fascinating, and cute that we include our favorite media in things we do
Well. Since you asked. I was on tumblr as this post was being built in 2013. The height of superwholock. Which has, since then, been declared peak cringe. So people picked new fandoms to openly love in earnest. Which were also eventually declared cringe. Eventually the youth decided to cut out the middleman, and declared loving anything in earnest to be fully cringe. So it has been a really long time since the day to day users of tumblr have let any fandom create anything nearing the cultural phenomenon that was superwholock. And it is exactly those cultural phenomena that are needed to create posts like this.
So. What happened? Cringe culture happened.
Try and imagine what would happen if this post wasn’t the “sacred texts” only ever seen in screen shots and in pinterest. Try and imagine any current pop culture detective media fandom creating this post today. They’d be slaughtered for being cringe by the time (in this case) Sherlock was mentined.
But because this post is 10 years old and completely broke containment, it’s celebrated when it graces our dashes.
I blazed a small fandom event announcement. Because I was genuinely excited to be part of a Big Bang for a wonderful movie. One of the first responses I got was “Why would you blaze this?” Because of genuine excitement. Because I wanted to celebrate the friends I’d met in the fandom To spread joy to people who might also like the content but hadn’t seen it yet. The fact that that was genuinely not realized made me sad. I love thing, I celebrate thing. I’m too old for cringe. Cringe is dead. Love what you love. Enjoy the small things in life, it’s too short to do otherwise.
i know i have made this specific gripe before but from the salesfloor, with love: stop sidesaddling your cart you take up the entire goddamn aisle and knock over all my nice displays with your oblivious wide turns the handle is right there it is literally easier to push the cart than to pull it why do you do this i want you to stop as much as i want to understand aaaaaaauaughghghggghg
my own fucking roommate….. this is what father gascoigignine meant by beasts all over the shop or whatever
i have a theory that people feel silly putting their little hands together up on the handle, like it’s too feminine or something
related: have you ever encountered one of these maniacs
no but one time my coworker saw an instacart shopper finish loading up the cart into their trunk and instead of walking it back to the cart return they lifted it up and hurled it over the fence and down the hill into the road below
