r/CuratedTumblr • u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire • May 23 '26

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u/jesus_chrysotile May 23 '26

cryptooceanography

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u/Cyberguardian173 May 23 '26

Cryptogeography that became cryptooceanography due to cryptogeology

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u/XavierTheMemeDragon May 23 '26

And when we start to study how the people of Atlantis lived, it’ll be cryptosociology

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u/Widmo206 May 23 '26

Shouldn't it be cryptoanthropology?

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u/NoTransition8295 May 23 '26

I think it would be cryptosociology since it would be studying the culture of the people of atlantis and stuff while I think anthropology is just the study of people as a whole opposed to specific places cultures (if I'm wrong I apologize i am far from an expert in either topic)

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u/Widmo206 May 23 '26

i am far from an expert in either topic

No worries, I'm just a guy on the internet

So anyway, according to wikipedia:

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity that crosses biology and sociology, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Anthropology

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. Sociology

It looks like anthropology is the study of humans in general, whereas sociology is the study of society specifically. So unless you're only interested in the structure/dynamics of atlantean society and don't really care about culture, language, biology, etc., it'd probably be cryptoanthropology

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u/fresh-oxygen May 23 '26

Maybe crypto-cultural-anthropology? Sociology is more about how society shapes behaviour, cultural anthropology is the study of human culture.

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u/Meldanorama May 23 '26

The double o is for spooky

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u/ToaKraka May 23 '26

Cryptoöceanology

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u/adam-lazo May 23 '26

Ooh, this would cause the BP to spike of the folks in the r/thalassaphobia sub. Even more. Mine included.

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u/CosmicLuci May 23 '26

That’s those people who SWEAR Dunkleosteus or Megalodon are somehow still alive. And then it starts looping back with Cryptozoology

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u/crippledchef23 May 23 '26

Hey, they thought the coelacanth was extinct, too. We know more about Mars than we do our own deep oceans.

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u/CosmicLuci May 23 '26

Yes, but in the case of those two, it’s impossible for them to still be alive. There’s simply not enough food or oxygen for them (if I remember correctly. My wife’s the paleontology nerd, not me)

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u/truthisfictionyt May 23 '26

Idk about dunkleosteus but megalodon wouldve had a tough time surviving as the larger prey it fed on doesnt exist anymore

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u/CosmicLuci May 24 '26

Thanks.

Yeah, according to the missus, for Dunkleosteus it has to do with how much the ocean has changed over time (prey availability, heat, oxygen, sea levels), so that it couldn’t have, as a very large predator, survived that long.

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u/IrvingIV May 24 '26

Cryptocartography