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Mary Anning (Entry 050.PS3420)

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History, Society & Culture

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In which a working-class woman becomes one of the greatest scientists of her age, discovers dinosaur poop, and sells seashells by the seashore. Certificate #36073.

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piando Ferries, there is another way. We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can

0:46.0

only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:51.3

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this

0:55.6

monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:58.9

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

1:05.4

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology

1:09.5

to decrypt our transmissions, this is our legacy to you.

1:13.4

This is our time capsule.

1:15.4

This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 0.50.

1:47.0

dot P.S.

1:48.8

3420.

1:51.8

Certificate number 36073

1:56.0

Mary Annning was born in 1799 in the south of England, the word

2:17.4

dinosaur did not exist. In fact, dinosaurs did not exist.

2:27.4

They did. They had lived hundreds of millions of years ago. I hope you weren't saying that she conjured them.

2:29.7

She changed the course retroactively of history actually.

2:33.7

She not only invented the concept of deep time but in fact invented deep time.

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