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This is a screenshot of a viral Tumblr thread, topped with a photo of a small real baby hedgehog playfully tackling a toy brontosaurus dinosaur. Below the photo, three Tumblr users comment in sequence: the original poster (asliceofmysoul) captions the image as a reenactment of how dinosaurs became extinct, a second user named brontozaurus confirms the explanation is 100% accurate, and a third user jokes that they love the 'science side of tumblr'. The joke plays on the popular Tumblr trope of the 'science side of tumblr' making absurd but playfully confident explanations for scientific events, resulting in a wholesome, funny meme.

Hedgehog Dinosaur Extinction Reenactment

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This meme shows a real white dog positioned awkwardly across multiple levels of an outdoor park picnic table: the dog's hind half sits/lies on the upper bench seat, its front legs stand on a lower bench seat, and its head rests on the tabletop. The overlaid text jokes that this awkward pose is a demonstration of quantum superposition, the quantum physics concept of a system existing in multiple distinct states at once. The punchline is that the dog is simultaneously standing, sitting, and lying down, making a silly relatable joke about pop science explanations of quantum mechanics.

Which is it? Quantum Superposition Dog Demonstration

This meme shows a real white …