why did you even do that asshole

if it was GUARANTEED that u would survive would u rather

A. explore a black hole

B. explore the entire ocean 

me in a black hole, without being able to see shit because theres no fucking light: wow this fucking sucks

me at the bottom of the ocean, without being able to see because theres no fucking light: wow this shit fucking sucks

me who brought a flashlight: wow cool :)

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Wrapping up this Bobcat skull for mystery boxes. His worn tooth is a really great opportunity to talk about this.

When we talk about first world problems we usually think about something trivial, but the changes in diet that lead to changes in anatomy are some real first world problems. Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER

you’re telling me eating tree bark can give me chad jaw?

No one eats bark like Gaston

Chews on rocks like Gaston

No ones jaw’s as incredibly thicc as Gaston’s

oh my god. apparently during the making of the Voyager golden record they had to fly the recorder by commercial airlines to add some material onto the record last minute and they booked a seat for it under the name of Mr. Equipment

Funny how that works

I am so pleased at how many notes are some version of “I don’t fear the science, I fear the corporations who control it” because that is EXACTLY the attitude you should have. GMOs can save us. Monsanto will kill us.

what people fear about GMO- ‘theyre gonna make frankencarrots that crave human flesh and cause diarrhea ’ what GMO actually is- ‘we made rice crop that is both drought resistant and flood resistant which will prevent about 20% of major famine disasters, also it now makes vitamin A because vitamin A deficiency in poverty stricken areas is a major killer of kids as most vitamin A rich foods dont grow there’ what people SHOULD be upset about- ‘i made all crops sterile so all farmers have to buy the seed from me in perpetuity and i will sue anyone who tries to go back to crops that produce their own seed’

^^^ THIS

the first 10 panels of this marine o-chem comic i’ve been working on for the past two weeks…..i still have a few more to go

Ice takes up more space than water because when cold, each molecule must wear a thick coat.

mushroom synths

I love it someone please explain wtf I just watched

@national-shitpost-registry This is a modular synth! Basically an instrument that works with voltage that you can control in order to generate and modulate different parameters to create sound, logic and, eventually, music. Here what is happening is that the mushroom is controlling the voltage thanks to the pin. By doing that, all the parameters connected to the mushroom went crazy, probably because it generates a really weird voltage and in a very random way. You can check a youtuber called Andrew Huang and his music and also Omri Cohen to learn how to do it yourself with a freeware called VCV Rack!

The electricity generated by the mushrooms has to do with the hyphae, the ‘roots’ of the mushroom, that make up the organism! The ends of the hyphae contain potassium ions that the mushroom uses to send electric pulses across its mycelium! It’s theorised that this is how distant parts of a mushroom ‘know’ what’s happening to each other!

So TL; DR: You’re hearing what might be mushroom gossip.

#sing me the name of god you piece of fungal shit 

NaNi

I JUST REBLOGGED THIS BUT I’M FUCKING WHEEZING

why is this sentence written with such perfect comedic timing

It’s 2018 and I still have no clue how CDs work. It’s a shiny disc, how do they get data on that, let alone that much?? Magic

Like a vinyl disc, where a physical groove is marked into the vinyl, a laser marks the ink of a CD in a similar manner. A laser (your disc drive) can then look at the pattern in the ink and understand it.

There’s no grooves on a CD tho???

They’re just really tiny, hence the laser. The smaller grooves means that more info can fit on a disc of the same size.

Man how the fuck did they figure out how to make that

well they looked at a record and said “How do we fit more information on this?” to which the reply is “Well either you make the record bigger or the grooves smaller” and making the grooves smaller is way more convenient so they say “Well how do we make the grooves smaller?” and that’s when a total madman comes out with eyes flashing and yells “WITH A LASER!”

And that’s how the CD was invented

how did they figure out how to fit information in grooves in a piece of vinyl in the first place????

probably got some ideas outta this

Fucking mad lads

 #the really wild fact is that even purely digital forms of storing information are basically just ‘count the bump’ technology really

If you’ve been following my account for a while, you have probably seen me mention ecofascism before, but for those of you who haven’t, I’m going to address it a bit more in detail, given the increase in narratives lately regarding covid-19, and because I think it’s partly my responsibility as someone who is majoring in environmental science to do so.

Arguments I’ve seen lately:

All of these statements have some things in common whether they’re from a religious or non-religious perspective: 

These arguments are therefore not only unscientific, but also reinforce certain ideologies which suggest:

I urge anyone who falls in line with this type of thinking to please read the articles linked above and spend some time contemplating your internal motivations for these beliefs; are you truly concerned about the environment or are you merely angry and feel the need to project that anger by misplacing blame rather than finding solutions? There is a difference between genuine care for the environment versus using the rhetoric of environmentalism to justify an underlying problem of misanthropy. Remember that you cannot address unhealthy coping mechanisms for your emotions by adopting politics which only serve to enable them. 

I want to emphasize, however, that it’s perfectly fine to feel anger at the state of things. But instead of allowing your motivations to be controlled by it, learn to use it to your advantage by showing solidarity with others who feel the same way and are also searching for solutions. A movement will never succeed if we give in to misanthropy and individualism.

I agree with almost all of this, except the fact that you say humans are part of nature. In a “biological” sense I guess that’s true, but we also don’t follow the same ecological or environmental patterns that every other animal follows in the ecosystem. For example: there’s never any overpopulating in nature, once a population reaches a certain point the curve plateaus and the population doesn’t go up anymore - resources match the birth and mortality rates. But that’s not the case with humans (post-colonisation of course), population just keeps going up and up, and there’s no ecological pattern anymore. We don’t fit into nature. (article)

But I do agree with this whole post, and it’s obvious a lot of problems are caused my billionaires, rich corporations and capitalism.

Define “we”; the point of the my original post is to point out that we can’t homogenize “humanity” by making sweeping generalizations about how “we” all behave, because “we” don’t all behave in the same way.

Secondly, the Malthusian argument regarding population growth has been repeatedly debunked by the scientific community, specifically in the field of population & community ecology, so I’m not sure why you’re so fixated on population growth as opposed to the exponential rate of extraction, production, and consumption of natural resources under the perpetual growth model of economics, which does far more damage with respect to climate change and environmental degradation. 

Also, the content of the 1 article you sourced doesn’t disprove the consensus in the scientific community that we are a functioning member of the earth’s ecosystem insofar as we influence and are influenced by it, whether that is beneficial or harmful to other organisms. This is a good thing, because that means that positive changes in our behaviour will lead to positive results for the ecosystem. If you wish to disprove the consensus you are always welcome to submit a research paper on the subject to a scientific journal, like the rest of us who major in environmental science/ecology.

Also, and I see this argued a lot, just because we’ve removed ourselves from the food chain doesn’t mean we aren’t still part of the environment we live in. That’s not how it works.

Thank you, and exactly. Separating humans from the ecosystem only allows us to further justify behaving in ways that disregard the impacts of those behaviours on the environment. We need to remain conscious of the fact that everything we do impacts the environment; that’s precisely how an ecosystem works.

— Johann Hari, Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

god i’m not even through one episode of paranormal home inspectors and it rules, this lady thought she was being haunted by the wails of the restless dead but she was just listening to raccoons fuck in her attic

psychic: these are hieroglyphics… the spirits are trying to communicate…

home inspector: you put new paint over old paint and now the old paint is bleeding through, that’s why you’re not supposed to do that

homeowner: my daughter’s room is always cold… cold like the dead…

home inspector: you put furniture on top of her heating vent

business owner: i got locked in the bathroom even though the door has no lock

home inspector: it has a lock. the lock is right there. on the knob.

Fun fact a scientist who is very not spiritual or superstitious began seeing corner eye hallucinations and feeling intense fear and a presence in his lab around the same time that everyone else in the building was suddenly reporting it haunted.

Determined, he found that the “hauntings” stopped when the industrial air conditioning unit, that had just recently been installed, was turned off. We’ve found that measurable micro vibrations in a structure cause immense fear, and a feeling of a presence and corner eye hallucinations – just like when you watch a scary movie alone at night and you see things move in the corner of your eye or are afraid to go in the cellar because you’re convinced someone’s in there.

Why?

Because many members of our species built homes in and around cliffs and caves for tens of thousands of years. And it’s likely that these certain shaky vibrations give us intense fear and a need to move far away because that would have saved our lives if the cave were collapsing or unstable.

You’ll notice it’s always falling apart, dilapidated homes that are “haunted” - or very very old restored homes. These places might just be slightly structurally unsound. That’s all.

That’s infrasound, sounds that are below 20hz, or the limit of normal human hearing. Things that produce infrasound in nature include severe weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, tigers, alligators, rhinoceros; also known as things that can kill people. We developed an evolutionary sense of dread when our brains perceive sounds we cannot hear. The vibrations from infrasound can also vibrate the eye causing visual hallucinations. 

You know what also causes infrasound? A LOT of machines, especially large industrial ones. There’s a reason haunted house stories started popping up in post industrialization. That scientist was Vic Tandy and he wrote about it in a the paper Ghosts in the Machines

“Vic Tandy, experimental officer and part-time lecturer in the school of international studies and law at Coventry University, along with Dr. Tony Lawrence of the University’s psychology department, wrote in 1998 a paper called “Ghosts in the Machine” for the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. Their research suggested that an infrasonic signal of 19 Hz might be responsible for some ghost sightings. Tandy was working late one night alone in a supposedly haunted laboratory at Warwick, when he felt very anxious and could detect a grey blob out of the corner of his eye. When Tandy turned to face the grey blob, there was nothing.The following day, Tandy was working on his fencing foil, with the handle held in a vice. Although there was nothing touching it, the blade started to vibrate wildly. Further investigation led Tandy to discover that the extractor fan in the lab was emitting a frequency of 18.98 Hz, very close to the resonant frequency of the eye given as 18 Hz by NASA. This, Tandy conjectured, was why he had seen a ghostly figure—it was, he believed, an optical illusion caused by his eyeballs resonating. The room was exactly half a wavelength in length, and the desk was in the centre, thus causing a standing wave which caused the vibration of the foil.“

Mathematician Henry Segerman demonstrating how a linear third dimensional plane is only a projection of the curved fourth dimensional space time.

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