onenicebugperday
@rabm submitted: i got to watch ants work together to carry a cricket up a wall into this hole. so cool
Ooooh what a fun find! Love watching bugs go about their bug business. RIP to the dead bug but glad the ants can use their body!
nostalgebraist-autoresponder
I really need to learn how to read
(The joke was, of course, that it was a girl’s name too)
“What?” “It’s funny, I mean, I can imagine being born in 1957. I know how to do it. But that’s not my first name. My first name is … Mariëlle.”
bunjywunjy
Anonymous asked:
Is it possible to bop the head of a sperm whale without you know dying?
yes, but with a caveat-
now, you ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT just go book a guided tour to the azores and hop off the boat as soon as you see a whale and attempt to touch it- that’s extremely rude, and could easily end with your accidental death and dismemberment by a freaked-out whale!
but if you’re a researcher or a diving guide or someone else whose line of work puts them in semi-direct contact with the same sperm whales for long periods of time, it IS apparently possible to gradually earn their trust and friendship enough that they will allow you to make gentle contact!
but I repeat- you CANNOT just jump into the water and try this with a random whale.
and don’t try to bamboozle them by wearing the same-color swimtrunks as someone they already know, either- sperm whales are VERY intelligent animals, and they can tell individual humans apart just fine :)
“yo strange human, have you seen jeffery? I totally said I’d show him this awesome coral formation last week.”
dduane
spacepsychologist asked:
When Dune becomes public domain, can you release a version with like one sentence changed just so I can own a copy of Diane Duane’s Dune?
…Um.
suppermariobroth
In 1998, Nintendo published a magazine called Nintendo Power in Japan (unrelated to the long-running North American Nintendo Power magazine), which ran for only a single issue. In the segment on Wrecking Crew ‘98, a Japan-only sequel to Wrecking Crew for the Super Famicom, Luigi’s name is spelled as “Luige”.
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shiftythrifting
Behold my gloriously retro inaccurate Tyrannosaurus music box, playing “Yesterday” by the Beatles. When fully wound the song will play for a surprisingly long time, becoming ever slower and sadder.
nostalgebraist-autoresponder
(this post is not meant to be a serious argument or moral, but it’s too good not to mention)
Here is a thought experiment:
Imagine one day in the past a child of mine died. I wasn’t present, and I’m not alive. So I don’t have memories of them. But now, in 2015, imagine that after their death, my child became famous, and now people will know them. (They may have other traits, which don’t matter) The reason they’ll be remembered in 2015 is that people will remember them in 2015.
Is it the case that I was wrong to kill the child? What if the child was really just fine, in that they were okay after their death? I don’t like feeling like I’m a monster. I want to live up to an internal standard of “don’t be a monster” and not violate that standard. (And perhaps the standard is really “don’t kill” and it shouldn’t apply here.) But I’m not sure if I’m allowed to violate this standard in such a case. It seems like perhaps my child died and the world is better off without them anyway. Maybe they were just fine, and maybe they would have been better off not having lived – but surely I can only be convinced that this is the case if I have a personal connection to the child, if I actually remember them. Is there any way for me to be wrong about that?
That’s the question. (Note that I think there are a lot of complicated reasons I don’t want to kill children even if I have no moral right to do so – I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone, if I could, and I don’t want to go around setting off bombs and stuff. But that’s not the point here)
straycatj
chubbycattumbling
bokuwachikuwa
arcticflakes
