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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

wish lion’s mane jellyfish would stop doing that

coastalqueerlive

doing what?

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

i was going to say doing THAT

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but apparently this photo is fake which is an enormous burst of relief to my already fragile, suddering psyche.

sadly though THIS photo of a barrel jellfish is real

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don’t like that

getgoodloser

Yeah sure that photo is fake, but what ISN’T fake is the fact that the largest lion’s mane jellyfish found was about 36 meters long. The average blue whale is about 25 meters long btw.

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Here if you’d like to see it:

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we DO NOT TALK ABOUT TENTACLE LENGTH that is VERBOTEN

wolfy8tyu

damn, the girth on those tendrils tho

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT TENTACLE GIRTH

our-littlewiccanwitch

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Getting this notification with zero context was thrilling and horrifying all at once

wordwelder
mashkara45

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markwateneymemorialcrater

This would be great for a children’s hospital

ragsy

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imboredandneedalife

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This. This is why i love this hellsite. Where else would you see bloodied walls and call it color theory.

lizzietheshortdork

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seperis

This entire post makes me happy and I don’t know why.

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Okay, I do know why I love it. 

First, Defender of the Integrity of the Color Red and Let Me Tell You About Color Theory: shine the hell on you crazy diamonds. My greatest hope is more random appearances of color theory in borderline applicable posts; in this case, technically speaking, it was rather applicable in letter if not in spirit. And the chart showing positive associations with red…I mean, I didn’t realize they did indeed outnumber the negative, so I learned something new.

Second, this post encapsulates one of the many reasons why tumblr is a hellsite none of us will ever actually leave. We all–every one of us–is brimming over with far too much information and enthusiasm about a subject so niche that outside academia or some poorly considered acid trips in college there is literally never an opportunity to even segue into it IRL and you can only adhoc lecture on the subject to an empty room so many times; it’s lonely, sure, but you’re super tired of restraining orders so no more street corners or coffee shops for you, buddy.  No, you were not holding anyone hostage, either, at least by any legal definition, and the judge agreed, so good job, lawyer.

Tumblr though…here, no matter what that interest or niche is or how incredibly unlikely anything related to it could possibly come up, someone will post something with a set of words that could reasonably be inferred as Invitation to Speak On My Topic, Fuck Yes I Was Waiting For This. You may have to squint for ‘reasonable’ but if you have an interest, you will make it work.

So let’s not pretend any of us  have ever–even once–resisted the siren call of Thing I Want to Talk About Until You Wish You Were Dead But You Can’t Stop Me So I Win. Color theory, the glory of graphene, deeply unsettling facts about snails, top ten lists of personally terrifying lakes, the evils of mint and a short history of brutal mint invasions into unsuspecting yards, Victorian nipple play, we all have one of these and these comprise subjects fairy easy to find a jump point.

And as a one, we all value those posts; who didn’t suddenly look at mint in a totally different way?  Who is terrified to go to England because you’re pretty sure the Strid will somehow find you?  I rest my case.

Each of us–in our own way–have looked upon the equivalent of a blood soaked hallway and thought–and were not wrong–”It’s finally happened. I can tell them they are maligning the color red and explain exactly why. Color theory.”

Thank you for your time.

wordwelder
hockeylvr42

Out of all the cool stuff that mythbusters ever shot on high speed camera, shooting a soccer ball at 60mph out of a truck traveling 60mph is one of my favorites

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Just look at it. It is the most perfect visual representation of Newton’s 2nd law of physics I’ve ever seen. The ball, which was shot out of a CANNON, drops straight down. Two equal and opposite velocities completely canceling each other out, leaving the soccer ball to drop to the earth with a net velocity of 0. Sir issac newton would be proud to tears of this gif.

And yet this “myth” is nothing more than basic physics at work. A 10 year old with an interest in science could have told us this is possible. 60mph in one direction minus 60mph the exact opposite direction is 0. Basic.

But what makes this so frieken cool is the fact that they went through all the trouble to actually demonstrate the invisible laws that govern the way our universe works. To get this shot both the soccer ball and the truck had to be moving at the exact same speed. Real world variables make that extremely difficult to pull off. It took them hundreds of attempts to get it right. They went through all that trouble to “prove” something we have known as fact for hundreds of years. And we get this amazing gif to watch as a result.

Mythbusters is incredible. Science is incredible. And the fact that this experiment in physics can be used in science classes for years and years to come to help children learn about physics is incredible.

wordwelder
spontaneousmusicalnumber

A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore

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The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:

We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.

It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.

An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.

I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.