Cat Gap

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71 points by Petiver 4 days ago


orbital-decay - 2 minutes ago

I'm surprised that sampling bias is not in the list. Is it possible that these fossils simply haven't been found yet?

corgiorgy - 3 hours ago

I used to run a Twitter bot called @itsavailable that would mine interesting strings that were not registered .com domains and tweet them out at a regular cadence. One of its sources was the most-visited English-language Wikipedia page titles in the past hour.

One of the only domains I ever bothered purchasing for myself was https://catgap.com

msuniverse2026 - 3 hours ago

"We must close the cat gap." - JFK, 1960

felineflock - 2 hours ago

The cat gap is due to the long time it took for the mutant descendants of Noah's cats to get to America.

exasperaited - 3 hours ago

Ignoring the much more obvious explanation that they simply buggered off to do their own thing and there was nobody around to bang a plate with a fork.

grubbs - 4 hours ago

Welp. Now I'm in a wikipedia hole of how cats came to be.