GreatTitEnthusiast
@GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz
- Comment on Evidence 2 weeks ago:
The boomers in my life are starting to come around with it but they believe and combination of
- it’s not man made
- it won’t be as bad as people say/we can’t know the future
- green tech like electric vehicles are too expensive
The first two are frustrating but don’t really matter if we can engineer our way out of three. My dad got solar panels because they would pay for themselves eventually. I’m not saying we can just green tech our way out of the climate crisis but if green tech gets good enough it will go a LONG way
These are just anecdotes from interacting with my family. Your mileage may vary
- Comment on Ant Societies Rose by Trading Individual Protection for Collective Power | Department of Entomology | University of Maryland 2 weeks ago:
“You have nothing to lose but your chains” ~ Ant Carl Marx
- Comment on Pika Pika 1 month ago:
- Comment on Save the Tits! 1 month ago:
Oh shit
- Comment on Labcoat! 1 month ago:
This is just regular lab safety
- Comment on Edible Wood 2 months ago:
- Comment on Relativity 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 3 months ago:
I started playing games in the 2000s and bought one old game where the default was inverted controls
Trying to play that game broke my brain. I don’t remember if I eventually realized it was a setting I could turn off
- Comment on 4 months ago:
It was trying to be hard sci-fi but… It’s still a bit magical
- Comment on 4 months ago:
The book The Quantum Magician makes this mistake
The protagonist has a quantum brain and to use it they have to turn off their consciousness in order to not collapse the superposition. I face palmed whenever they mentioned it
- Comment on LYING TO CHILDREN 4 months ago:
- Comment on Magic Rocks 5 months ago:
That book sounds wonderful. My local library has it through Libby
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 months ago:
Look I get you but points at gums I need dentures
- Comment on I got plans this weekend. 11 months ago:
Found the novelization
- Comment on pew pew 1 year ago:
I’m not sure what you mean by “advanced” but they’re really not
An Immense World by Ed Yong had a section on Mantis Shrimp and while their fascinating creatures with a really interesting vision system, their color perception isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
I’m reciting this from memory so if anyone knows better please correct me:
Mantis Shrimp have compound eyes with three sections: 1) the main section detects movement and is what they primarily use to see 2) the second section detects color. When the shrimp detects movement it will look at whatever it was with it’s color detecting section to determine if it’s prey or predator. This is a whole separate section of the eye and is unlike how ours function. The reason why the shrimp has so many detectors is because, unlike our eyes, the shrimps eyes don’t combine different color receptors to see color. The book likened it to a bar code scanner that uses the presence of certain color combinations to detect what’s there 3) one really neat thing the mantis Shrimp can do is see spiralized polarized light. We cannot see polarized light but there’s a lot of b polarized light under the ocean so seeing it is fairly common. What’s NOT common is polarized light that travels as a spiral. Mantis Shrimp seem to have evolved the ability to create spiralized polarized light and use it to communicate. As far as we know no other animal can make or see it.
- Comment on True Love 1 year ago:
Literally me
- Comment on Synthesize deez nutz 1 year ago:
In 10-15 years people will be nastalgic for Fortnight the way people are nostalgic for Xbox 360 halo