Turtles Eating Things

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Turtles all the way down.

“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?” “You’re very clever, young man, very clever”, said the old lady. “But it’s turtles all the way down!””
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

I know I should come up with some deep story about the where the turtles end, who feeds them, how a dome holds a plate so still, infinite regression, etc.

Wrong.

Here’s a turtle eating a watermelon. nom nom nom.

PLEASE send in some turtles!!