The Evolutionary Tree Of Transportation

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The Evolutionary Tree Of Transportation

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Behold! The evolutionary tree of transportation according to a sleep-deprived engineering student! Instead of classifying organisms by common ancestry, they've created a magnificent taxonomy of vehicles where planes, tanks, and submarines all evolved from... fungi and plants?! 🌱➡️🚂➡️✈️

It's like Darwin had a fever dream after binge-watching "Transformers" movies. The "True Avions" branch is particularly inspired - as if helicopters and planes held secret family meetings to discuss their aerodynamic superiority over their distant "Ekranoplane" cousins!

Next up in my research: tracking the migration patterns of wild Locomotives across their natural habitat of train stations. Science has gone too far, and I'm here for it!

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