#DeepScan

[labete-du-gevaudan]

In October of 1987, Operation Deepscan was put into effect. This massive scale expedition to find the legendary Loch Ness Monster was comprised of 24 boats that spread out over the loch. The boats, however, couldn’t cover all of the loch during the operation; they could only scan around 60%. On the first day of the three day expedition, 3 strange creatures were caught on the scan around 256 - 590 feet under water. It was said that they were “larger than a shark but smaller than a whale”. The same creatures could not be found during the second or third days. 

[callmearcturus]

PSA FOR PEOPLE WHO USE SUBTITLES

If you name the subtitle file the same thing as the video file, VLC will automatically detect the subtitles and add them instead of making you do it every time

So see here, I had the .srt file in another folder because I keep all of my subtitles in their own folder just for neatness

But if you rename the .srt file to the same thing, it'll just KNOW. You don't need to use Handbrake to permanently link them.

wait wait I'm gonna try something.................

OKAY SO IT DOES DEEPSCAN

So I have Dune (2021).mp4 in the Films/ folder.

I have the .srt file in Films/Subtitles/.

IT STILL DETECTS AND AUTO-ADDS THE .SRT.

WOW I WISH I KNEW THIS LIKE SO LONG AGO

this doesn't help when you want to have multiple subtitles auto-populate, for that you will still want to break out Handbrake and add the .srt files to the video file, but if you only need on subtitle this is great.

[generationexorcist]

Loch Ness Monster Hunter Who's Studied Creature For 50 Years Reveals What 'Nessie' Really Is

After spending five decades trying to hunt down the Loch Ness Monster, this expert reckons he has finally got to the bottom of what it really is.

Adrian Shine - who has been studying the elusive mythical creature that supposedly stalks in the Scottish Highlands since 1973 - has some bad news for fellow enthusiasts.

The naturalist led a major sonar exploration in Loch Ness dubbed 'Operation Deepscan' back in 1987, but even with £1 million worth of equipment, he was unable to find anything concrete.

He's published several scientific papers on the phenomenon as well as a few books, so he certainly knows his stuff when it comes to Nessie...

[professeurm]

damn homegirl got promoted nicee

alt text:

buffy: There's something worse than firing?

kennedy: I let Deepscan in on what happened. And we want to promote you to Senior Operative. Theo may be broke now, but he's got a lot of friends who aren't. And he told all of them what you did. And now every Silicon Valley C.E.O. and venture capitalist with a dot-com wants to hire you to protect them

[themoonofblueside]

i havent finished angel & faith season 10 and i think comic writers should be shot for making slayers into something like the police but also. faith does not join deepscan happily. she chooses to join kennedy and deepscan because she realizes that even after her travels with giles where they functioned half like a slayer and her slayer, after giles gives his home and belongings to faith, after her and angel bring giles back and giles decides to join faith in london...the second giles sees buffy they are back as a duo, faith is discarded once again. she joins only when she sees that 1. her life before with the other slayers is thorn up because of angel 2. she just refused to become a team with angel 3. giles got her original slayer back

their departure scene is so bitter as well because giles is aware that he is fucking over faith again. giles is just a ball of fucking either faith or buffy over but throughout the comics it's mostly faith and she is incredible bothered by being used and no one seeing her as a vital part of their team. in buffy season 8 giles first calls her because there is a dirty job and then he calls her because there is a job to protect buffy. even in his death when he leaves everything to faith, faith consoles buffy by saying that giles saw faith would need more financial/general support, and then when he decides to leave faith he tells her that faith is used to being strong and she'll deal with it.

the thing with faith is that she CAN be alone. she survived most things without any support or anything, but she doesn't want to. she plays into the loner persona but she first arrives at sunnydale because she hears there is another slayer, then she latches onto the mayor because he shows her support, she's bothered by being outside of scoobies, she shows immense progress when angel supports her, she's again willing to come save angel, then helps buffy multiple times, then decides to become a support slayer for the younger slayers in the comics...most of these are for being a side character but really, we see that faith likes being part of a group/duo more than going on her own and she is constantly let down by people/institutions and left alone.

this was supposed to be about how deepscan is not exactly portrayed in a positive light and shown as a last resort for faith but i got sidetracked

[beardedmrbean]

LOCH NESS, Scotland — The legend of the Loch Ness Monster has fascinated generations of curious minds. This weekend, 90 years after its first modern supposed sighting, enthusiasts descended again on this picturesque lake in a quiet corner of the Scottish Highlands in the hopes of turning myth into reality.

Organizers billed the past weekend as the largest organized “Nessie” hunt for 50 years.

And the hunters came armed with high-tech help: sonars for mapping the lake bed, thermal-imaging drones for scanning the surface and hydrophones to hear strange sounds from the depths.

The events were even opened to the global public — hundreds were invited to a live stream of the water’s surface to add more eyes to the search.

But even with all the machines and added manpower, the gathering at Loch Ness was as much about reviving old lore as settling hard science. Organizers said they planned the weekend to excite interest in the legend among a new generation of Nessie hunters.

“It’s about inspiration,” said Alan McKenna, the head of Loch Ness Exploration, an independent research group based on the lake’s shores that planned the event as a kind of call for volunteers. “For very selfish reasons I don’t want the Loch Ness mystery or interest in Loch Ness itself to diminish in any way whatsoever at all.”

Those “selfish” reasons don’t include a commercial motive, said McKenna, who added that he is also an unpaid volunteer. Though the legend could bring in as much 41 million pounds (about $52 million) each year to Scotland’s economy, according to one 2018 study reported by Scotland's Press and Journal newspaper, enthusiasts like McKenna say the search is really just about having fun, keeping faith and exploring the natural world.

Like the surface of a lake, the Loch Ness legend seems to reflect the hopes of those who gaze into it.

“I think she has babies and she’s looking after them right now,” said Alba Sydow, 8, as she surveyed the loch with her parents from the Deepscan, one of the organizers’ search boats. “So that’s why she’s hiding from us.”

Alba’s father Malcolm Begg, 47, a pharmaceutical company employee, had his own remarkably specific ideas about the monster.

“I think it’s like a diplodocus with fins,” he said, referring to a Jurassic-era dinosaur while lamenting that most images of the monster have been too grainy to discern a definitive shape.

The focus of the two-day event was at the Loch Ness Centre, which organized the proceedings in partnership with Loch Ness Exploration, a voluntary research team. The recently renovated center is housed in a former hotel where Aldie Mackay, a hotel employee, sighted a “beast” or “whale-like fish” in 1933, the first modern “sighting” of the monster that set off the global phenomenon.

But the legend dates back to writings from the seventh century in which an Irish monk reported having encountered a “water beast” that had mauled a swimmer.

Nessie has been so popular for so long, her myth can sometimes feed herself (if, like Alba, you imagine the monster as female).

Alistair Matheson, the skipper of the Loch Ness Centre’s Deepscan search boat that trolled the lake with volunteer searchers like Alba, showed how the boat’s sonar technology had recently spotted a perfect outline of a huge Nessie-shaped monster.

But the shape on Matheson’s radar screen turned out to be a sunken Nessie model that had been made for a movie about the monster and then abandoned at the bottom of the lake.

Even the Loch Ness Centre’s logo — the instantly recognizable picture of a sort of humped eel cruising through waves on the lake’s surface — comes from a fuzzy 1934 black-and-white photo that was later proven to be fake.

Still, Matheson describes himself as a “believer,” though he imagines the monster as “something from this earth or something a bit more realistic” than some kind of ancient, alien or supernatural being. Scientists have speculated that the sightings could be huge catfish or giant eels.

But short of emptying the entire lake, Matheson said nothing will ever truly disprove a legend that has become a matter of faith for so many.

“People come here, they’re desperate, they’re looking, they’re searching,” he said. “And they really, really want to be able to hope that there is something that us humans, you know, we think we can know everything, to an extent.”

The weekend in the Scottish Highlands attracted some for whom Nessie is more of a vocation than a hobby.

Ken Gerhard, an American cryptozoologist who researches and writes about “animals” like bigfoot, Chupacabra and Mothman that live on the fringes of our known reality, traveled to Scotland from the states just for the event.

“I’m 90% convinced she exists,” said Gerhard, who also seemed to believe in the monster’s femininity. “I’ve never had a sighting or an observation, but if you immerse yourself in the evidence, you have over a thousand good sightings that are very consistent.”

Beyond the shaky photographic “proof,” believers’ primary argument in favor of Nessie’s existence is that the lake’s immense size and dark, peaty waters make it impossible to rule out the existence of even a large creature. 

Several volunteers mentioned that Loch Ness contains more water than all of the lakes of England and Wales combined.

Indeed, McKenna said they had heard some “fantastic bizarre” sounds on Friday, but unfortunately the recording equipment hadn’t been plugged in. 

“It may well be gas escaping from the bottom of the loch,” he said. “It could be an animal.”

“Of course it could be the elusive Loch Ness Monster,” he added. 

So if any of the attendees were expecting this weekend to yield a revelation, they went home disappointed. 

Nobody found the monster — but maybe that was never the point.

For many, this was a pilgrimage of faith — a kind of rejoinder to the high-tech dictates of hard facts that have left us so little room for magic and mystery.

“I think there’s always going to be a small part of me that wants to believe,” said Craig Whitefield, 29, a medical administrator from Scotland who spent the weekend scanning the lake’s surface with binoculars.

Like other volunteers, Whitefield said that only emptying one of the largest lakes in the world and checking every nook and cranny of the lake bed would satisfy his curiosity.

“It’s the same with every legend out there,” he said. “It just takes one person to believe and it just continues.”

[alaric-greyson]

Didn't see it in the notes so wanted to throw in some info here.

Brannan's actually probably talking about Adrian Shine here.

Thanks to the legend of Nessie, Adrian Shine's work in the 1980s studying the ecosystem and physics of Loch Ness gained a wider exposure than would otherwise have been possible. In 1987, Adrian organised “Operation Deepscan”, which involved a sonar curtain sweep of the loch. The operation was filmed by over 23 TV crews from overseas.

In the 1990s, Adrian concentrated on “general scientific work on the environment of Loch Ness, to see what creatures may or may not be in it.”

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

[percontaion-points]

Firebird chapter 6

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Chapter 6

“Yes—we’ve received a DeepScan transmission from just outsystem. Our forces were initially turned back, but—” “Firebird? What word of her?” The poor little Wastling.

Oh, don’t act like you give a shit about her.

“You don’t know? That the Federacy answers any offense against a peacekeeping force by striking the offending planet?” Firebird stared at him. “I’ve never heard of such a thing.” “It’s not happened in years—no one has pushed the policy.” “They don’t know,” she whispered. “I’ve sat on the Electorate—they don’t know.”

I’m chalking this up to more of her innate stupidity. They 100% know, but they care about their own self-interests more than keeping the peace.

“The… irradium project,” she said carefully. “I don’t like unlimited warfare any more than you do.”

And yet… you actively participated in it. Eagerly, I might add.

“Re-form your squadrons at nine-oh degrees from the Twinnich quadrant.”

Chapter 6 summary: Back with Firebird’s family, we’re introduced to Count Tel, who is…??? Firebird’s brother-in-law and also her cousin? I don’t fucking know. It’s probably both, but I’m not too worried about it. Anyway, he tells Firebird’s sister about the latest attack, but she’s only interested in her sister. Which is ridiculous, because she’s going to stand by while her older sister issues the order that Firebird must die. Anyway, Bren goes to visit Firebird, and they discuss the reason for the war. Which is basically: mineral resources. Bren finds it ridiculous that Firebird’s people don’t know that this is breaking some old peace treaty, but Firebird insists that it’s true. Before he leaves, he gives her a bunch of books about the local government. She doesn’t like how thick and without pictures that they are, but she eagerly starts reading. Later, Bren is awoken by people saying that there’s another ship approaching their own. He goes to get Firebird, and takes her up to the war room… Everybody is surprised to see her there, but nobody says anything. For a POW, she sure is being treated awfully nice. They stand around for a while as the other ships get closer, and it’s so fucking boring. It’s like the author forgot that she was allowed to skip ahead to the actual good stuff, and didn’t have to include the navel gazing. Then some stuff happens, which is vague, confusing, but most important of all: boring as fuck all. None of this makes any sense. It’s like the author straight up forgot to explain half of this stuff to the readers. Like this is actually book 10 of some series, written in a language that I took five duolingo lessons on.

Hire me to fix your book! Copyediting, proofreading, developmental editing, sarcastic editing, and more! 16 years of book-editing experience. Message me anywhere for pricing and further details.

[mazterize]

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[thenewnio]

Nessie and Operation Deepscan.

[gameshowquickies]

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[kamana-mishra]

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[columbianewsupdates]

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