Tlaloc_Temporal

Quick, someone make a heavier Honda Accord and destroy the universe!

“You like pets? Name every pet!”

“Eukaryota”

Crackly blue is water? I’d even think ice before water.

Technically, this is processed cake. Yellow cake that is.

As a Canadian, I share your confusion. I think that phrase was just a common descriptor of mitochondria in US textbooks, or a catchy line in a popular US biology video.

It’s just strange enough to make a big impression on bored students, so I’m not surprised it’s been memed so hard.

This isn’t learned behaviour though. The kites tried eating the invasive snails immediately, but they were too large to be cracked by their beaks, being two to five times larger.

The change to eating the larger non-native snails was facilitated by larger beaks seen in the years after the invasion.

It seems like the local applesnail had a crash due to drought in the early 2000’s (partly caused by the draining of wetlands for development), and the invasive island applesnail was first seen in 2004. There are even more species of invasive snail now, but the opportunity likely arose because of a population crash.

The fittest in this case are the kits that can eat the snails they find, not by being less picky, but by having larger beaks.

Evolution is just the change in allele frequency of a population over generations. This includes 90% of the population dying before they figure out new food.

Cats were originally used for their curiosity, but training hamsters and eventually parakeets led to much smaller machines.

By that argument, most of these should be black.

Selecting one wavelength are discarding all the others, and sometimes shifting that wavelength to a more convenient hue is great for science, but feels like cheating when looking for a specific colour.

It’s like looking for pictures of red cars, and getting a car that’s 90% rust, a picture taken in a forest fire, and a picture taken through red-tinted glass.

Hey! I’m using one of those devices!

Or just that it needs to focus on from of itself like filter crabs, or that it needs to see through things like kelp forests or hole enterances.

Given it’s size and the extreme binocular vision, it’s unlikely to have any ambush predators.

I looked it up, it has bony plates all over it’s body and likely a lateral line, so seeing predators directly may have been less necessary. It was also a suction feeder, so likely an active predator of much smaller things. It may have needed good forward vision because it’s maneuverability was poor.

I’d argue that we can’t do a resurrection because that’s really complex, not because we don’t know how.

I’ll also point out that there are people alive today who were declared medically dead that live normal lives because we made their heart beat again.

More wheels is also good on low traction surfaces, or to reduce ground pressure. An extra axel can also reduce the chance of beaching on rough terrain.

Well, not quite. Rust eats into iron because oxidised iron is larger and much more brittle than unoxidised iron, physically ripping itself out of place.

Many oxides arent that much larger than their base metals and form a nice patina protecting the metal underneath, like in aluminium.

Other oxides destroy the structural integrity of the metal and eat into it, forming corrosion. Rust is just corrosion specific to iron.

So it’s like chewing cud, except it’s multiple passes of the same stomach instead of different stomachs.

TL;DR: Beaks are a lot lighter and more easily adapted than teeth.

I think Fedecan donations go toward shared infrastructure expenses and projects, while sh.itjust.works donations go toward SJW expenses exclusively.

sh.itjust.works donations would go toward shared experiences expenses to some extent, but not other Fedecan projects.

I’m not part of the project though, that’s just my interpretation.

Legolas can also tell that they carry spears and their leader is taller than average. Spectral information is unlikely to tell him that.

I think it’s been styled to match the spectrographs in the background.

Still hard to read.