#macroscop

[myxomycota]

i was so excited to discover this log of Dictydiaethalium plumbeum yesterday!! i’d only seen pictures of this strange slime before but i wasn’t sure whether it was present in Aotearoa because it has no previous iNaturalist observations here. Upon further investigation i learned it was first observed here in 1915, and has only three other confirmed observations in the country since then !! I tried my best to capture the perfect bubblegum pink of the immature slime but its very reflective… oh and shoutout to its little purple springtail friend :-)

[intrinsically-disordered-proxein]

bad and naughty nudibranchs get pinned down to the helmholtz coil and exposed to uncomfortably strong magnetic fields to atone for their crimes

(paper link)

[knight-of-heart-and-art]

wait no. the problematic media i'm a fan of is "piers anthony novels." the man has never written anything i could actually recommend to anyone.

[bepisconsumer]

Germ Theory Ver. 2.0.0 is here!!!

Hey folks! The team and I have been working tirelessly in the background to update Germ Theory to give YOU the best sickness features! Today marks the release of version 2.0, and we're real excited to share with you the fruits of our labor. Hope you enjoy! (Non-refundable)

Changelog:

-added macroscopic Germs. These act the same as microscopic germs, they can just range in size from about 1 mm to 5 cm in diameter. During playtesting we found that the macroscopic Germs faced some unique challenges in actually entering the body, so to compensate they were given a small buff. All macroscopic Germs look like edible silly putty and taste like mildly overcooked rice in order to increase the chance of ingestion.

-added Stat trackers. These items are attachable to any non-functional body part. They will keep a running tally of how many germs enter your bloodstream, as well as how many your white blood cells destroy. Additionally, you can purchase antibody production trackers that will keep count of the antibodies you produce that bind to a specific type of virus/bacteria (tax deductible)

-fixed a bug where some viruses were abusing the physics engine to clip through membranes without the necessary receptor keys unlocked

-tried to remove the flu again, but at this point I'm not sure we're ever actually going to succeed

-buffed hand sanitizer so it kills 100% of germs. It also dissolves significant amounts of skin cells to counteract the raw power it now wields (complete dissolution of a mouse corpse was timed at 4 hours)

-added tax evasion

-hand washing no longer involves rubbing your hands together. Now you just wave them under the water stream for about 30 seconds each.

-fixed a bug that allowed chicken pox to remain in the body and recur later in life as shingles

[tlaquetzqui]

I love this idea that nukes can “destroy all life on Earth”.

Know your fucking place, ape. All your governments combined have 7000 megatons of nuclear capability. Chicxulub—which you may notice did not annihilate all life on Earth—was one hundred million.

100 million divided by 7000 is 14,285 and 5/7ths. That is how many times bigger the entire world’s nuclear arsenals would need to be just to wipe out seventy percent of all species on Earth.

Oh but that was one impact, whereas nukes could be used systematically? There are 12,500 nuclear devices on Earth, with a mean power of 560 kilotons. Each of those has a blast radius of 2.33 kilometers, 17 km². When you pack a space with overlapping circles (nothing can be missed by avoiding overlap, we’re going for all life on Earth) the most efficient a packing can get is (3 × √3)/2π, which reduces the effective blast to 14 km²—all 12,500 combined can only affect 175,000 square kilometers. The land area of the Earth is 148.326 million square kilometers: your entire species’s nuclear arsenals can affect 0.118 percent of this planet’s land. (There would be attendant ecological disaster but, again, dwarfed to insignificance by “all life on Earth”.)

Now get down on your hands and knees and lick the dirt, animal, to show you repent your hubris and presumption, that you dared compare your little tribal moots to gravity.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Piers Anthony - Zodiacal - Opta (anti-mondes) - 1975

[hopefulqueer]

The eyes vs legs poll has sparked a Pliny-like conversation in this house

[quantumbluejay]

This reminds me of when a friend of mine was switching groups into something a lot more quantum physics adjacent, and their previous advisor (a particle physicist) told them, as his only piece of advice: "beware of quantum"

(ngl quantum physics is great though)

This is the funniest thing I've ever read. I would have LOVED to see that

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

It's always so weird to come down from the biology heavens to see what the average person believes about animals, plants, ecosystems, just the world around them. I don't even mean things that one simply doesn't know because they've never been told or things that are confusing, I'm talking about people who genuinely do not see insects as animals. What are you saying. Every time I see a crawling or fluttering little guy I know that little guy has motivations and drive to fulfill those motivations. There are gears turning in their head! They are perceiving this world and they are drawing conclusions, they are conscious. And yet it's still a whole thing if various bugs of the world feel pain or if they are simply Instinct Machines that are Not Truly Aware of Anything At All????? Help!!!!!! How can you look at a little guy and think he is just the macroscopic animal version of a virus

[bogleech]

Mosquitoes actually are not replaceable in any ecosystem that naturally has them and that includes replacing them with any of the non biting species because these are the traits that make them so core to food webs:

Tiny

Can use every single pool of moisture to raise generations no matter how dirty and stagnant and low in oxygen

Can fly

Males get by on just sugars

Females take protein from larger animals to manufacture thousands more eggs

All these things combined allow thst ecosystem to make huge volumes of insects from conditions barren to most other macroscopic life. You might think there are other insects that seem to make huge massive swarms out of nothing but there's really nothing that hits all the same qualities *except other insects that also suck blood.*

It's the precise combo of being able to "prey" on things millions of times larger and breed in nothing but a few drops of filthy rainwater or the moisture in a rotten log. That's the most efficient combination for anything that size to multiply that rapidly where nothing else can even survive, except of course the things that can move in because they eat them :)

[indefinite-pitch]

Linear System - Forming Stars

[stardust-bridges]

Club Furies Premiere: Linear System - Geodestic Lines [Artscope]

Originario de Costa Rica, Linear System inició su proyecto de música techno en el 2020, afincado en el norte de España, centrado en la directriz hipnótica de dicha música. Linear System desarrolla una firma única en sus pistas, mezclando fuertes líneas de bajo, ambientes de ciencia ficción, atmósferas frías y ritmos chamánicos. Su música ya está estampada en sellos bien afianzados en la escena…

[whats-in-a-sentence]

And once it had reached such uniformity, the gas will tend to maintain this state of high entropy: bumping and jostling still causes the molecules to move this way and that, giving rise to one rearrangement after another, but the overwhelming majority of these rearrangements do not affect the gross, overall appearance of the gas. That's what it means to have high entropy.⁹

9. You might worry that there is a fundamental difference between defining a notion of entropy for page orderings and defining one for a collection of molecules. After all, page orderings are discrete – you can count them, one by one, and so although the total number of possibilities might be large, it's finite. To the contrary, the motion and position of even a single molecule are continuous – you can't count them one by one, and so there is (at least according to classical physics) an infinite number of possibilities. So how can a precise counting of molecular rearrangements be carried out? Well, the short response is that this is a good question, but one that has been answered fully – so if that's enough to ease your worry, feel free to skip what follows. The longer response requires a bit of mathematics, so without background this may be tough to follow completely. Physicists describe a classical, many-particle system, by invoking phase space, a 6N-dimensional space (where N is the number of particles) in which each point denotes all particle positions and velocities (each such position requires three numbers, as does each velocity, accounting for the 6N dimensionality of phase space). The essential point is that phase space can be carved up into regions such that all points in a given region correspond to arrangements of the speeds and velocities of the molecules that have the same, overall, gross features and appearances. If the molecules' configuration were changed from one point in a given region of phase space to another point in the same region a macroscopic assessment would find the two configurations indistinguishable. Now, rather than counting the number of points in a given region – the most direct analog of counting the number of different page rearrangements, but something that will surely result in an infinite answer – physicists define entropy in terms of the volume of each region in phase space. A larger volume means more points and hence higher entropy. And a region's volume, even a region in a higher-dimensional space, is something that can be given a rigorous mathematical definition. (Mathematically, it requires choosing something called a measure, and for the mathematically inclined reader, I'll note that we usually choose the measure which is uniform over all microstates compatible with a given macrostate – that is, each microscopic configuration associated with a given set of macroscopic properties is assumed to be equally probable.)

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

[coprolite-posting]

the bird is the craziest one here and it's not even a contest tbh

"what if it was curly" - humans

(selkirk rex cat, angora goat, astrex rabbit, curly coated retriever, mangalitsa pig, texel mouse, american curly horse, texel guinea pig, frillback pigeon)

[jiejing-lifechanyuan]

The Scope of Application of the Law of Positive and Negative Energy Summing to Zero

Xuefeng

January 26, 2024

(Translation edited by Qinyou)

While exploring the origin of the universe and the balance of cosmic energy, especially the principles of natural law, the mechanism of nature, and the principle of justice in Tao, I discovered this law, namely, “the sum of positive and negative energy is zero.”

If there is a positive universe, there is a negative universe; if there is positive energy, there is negative energy; if there is a positive electron, there is a negative electron; if there are people, there are anti-people; if there are gods, there are demons; if there is heaven, there is hell, etc. This law indicates that what is given and what is gained are equal, or in other words, giving + gaining = zero.

This law is the balance mechanism of the universe, ensuring that the development of anything does not go to extremes. This balance mechanism is the natural law and also embodies the justice of Tao. Understanding and applying this law, we will know the mechanism of nature.

Now a question arises, since the sum of positive and negative energy is zero, then, is happiness + pain = zero? Is love + hate = zero? Is cruelty + kindness = zero? Is enjoyment + suffering = zero? Etc.

There is a very obvious fact that seems to prove that this law only applies to the category of energy and does not apply to other categories. This fact is that the Super Celestial Beings in the Celestial Islands Continent of the Elysium World can enjoy eternity without worries and pains, and they will not suffer or be punished; while many lives trapped in hell are “irretrievable” and have to endure eternal pain; from the perspective of a single life form, the law of the sum of positive and negative energy being zero is not established, and there is no formula of happiness + pain = zero.

This means that the law of the sum of positive and negative energy being zero applies to the macroscopic, not to the microscopic; it applies to the whole, not to the individual.

Is this really the case?

Let some life or lives enjoy a good life forever for no reason, let some life or lives suffer pain and torture forever for no reason, is this possible? If it is possible, where is the natural law? Where is the justice of the universe? If it is not possible, where is the principle? Is it necessary to go through suffering and torture to enjoy a good and happy life? Do you have to endure hardship before you can go to heaven?

What I know and understand is that the law of the sum of positive and negative energy being zero applies to all fields, both macroscopic and microscopic, both the whole and the individual. There is no unprovoked blessing to enjoy, and there is no unprovoked sin to suffer. If you want to enjoy the benefits of heaven forever, you must meet the standards of heaven for life. This standard mainly depends on the following three items.

The quality of LIFE must meet the standard.

Have enough merit, that is, capital.

No worldly ties, no debt.

To meet the above three standards, it is actually a very difficult and painful process. In this sense, happiness + pain = zero is established. Once the standard is met, you can enjoy eternal happiness, but the possibility of meeting the standard is very small. It is a miracle if one percent of humans meet the standard. If you do not meet the standard, you will inevitably suffer endless suffering and torture, reincarnation endlessly, there is no end in sight, because we will find that we are suffering from pain and torture, but we are enjoying short-term happiness and joy, this is like a person, every day go to work to make money, spend all the money you earn every day, you can’t save a penny in the bank of heaven, where is the money to enjoy a good life in heaven? Some people complain that the Greatest Creator is unfair, saying that the common people are suffering pain, enduring hardship, and bearing sins; why doesn’t the Greatest Creator relieve the suffering of the common people?

I asked, “Who among the common people is willing to heed the call of the Greatest Creator and walk the path of the Greatest Creator? Can you find one? While disregarding the call of the Greatest Creator and complaining about the perceived injustice of the Greatest Creator, can you really blame the Greatest Creator?”

Perhaps someone might ask, “How is it that the law of the sum of positive and negative energy becoming zero fails for those wealthy individuals who, without enduring much pain or torment, enjoy a life of luxury?”

The law has not failed. The perceived failure of the law is due to two reasons: one, you have not seen the pressures and trials they have endured; two, you have not seen their future. They have shouldered more risk and mental strain than the average person, experiencing psychological and spiritual torment. Therefore, they are entitled to enjoy material wealth, but their future is bleak. The wealthier a person is, the greater their responsibility for the destruction of nature, the more money, the greater the sin. The more material wealth a person possesses, the heavier their sin, and the more severe their future punishment. Therefore, one should never envy or admire the rich, but rather pity them.

In summary, the law of the sum of positive and negative energy applies across all domains.

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