Cat Gap
en.wikipedia.org71 points by Petiver 4 days ago
71 points by Petiver 4 days ago
I'm surprised that sampling bias is not in the list. Is it possible that these fossils simply haven't been found yet?
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
"We must close the cat gap." - JFK, 1960
The cat gap is due to the long time it took for the mutant descendants of Noah's cats to get to America.
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.
Welp. Now I'm in a wikipedia hole of how cats came to be.