#Science Deal

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 295

So, maybe Danny should have been more specific when he said he wanted to get reincarnated, because this? Is not an ideal situation. 

See he’s fine with being a clone, really, but uh, apparently the scientists want to terminate him- which, like dude, he’s not even melting or actively dying! So what if he failed at their tests, his body is three, give him a break! 

Well, at least it’s given him certainty in getting out, because these are Not good people. He wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt and- hold up, another clone? Brother? Two brothers? One aged up, one in the middle of it- since his own aging-up failed past three? 

Oh hell no, they can’t experiment on his brothers, those are his brothers and living people just as much as he is! Time to break out- and he’s taking those papers thank you- and gonna’ grab his… he’s gonna’ call them his triplets because they’re the same age, just aged differently. 

Now hold his hand, they’re runnin’ to the mountai- oh thank fuck, the physically-oldest of them can fly. To the mountains while they have the cover of night and they can figure things out. At least his life isn’t boring yet…

[solarmorrigan]

The boundaries of Steve and Robin's friendship quickly become all but nonexistent. They can talk to each other about anything, ask each other about anything

And Robin has questions

She's never seen a dick before, has no real intention of seeing one in the future, and finds the concept of them both mysterious and weird. But she can admit to a certain amount of academic curiosity about how they work. And then she remembers that her best friend, Steve, is A Guy™ and could surely answer at least some of her questions

Meanwhile, Steve, due to the aforementioned lack of boundaries, has all but forgotten that he never actually came out to Robin as trans. He's been merrily carrying on just assuming she already knows

These two facts collide one day at Family Video when they're both idly watching some mindless teen movie they've put on for the day while waiting for customers to show up. They reach what seems to be a very contrived skinny dipping scene, which makes Robin think, and she turns to ask Steve, "Hey, do dicks float in water?"

And Steve, without even looking away from the screen, shrugs and asks her, "How the fuck should I know?"

It takes half a minute of silence for him to realize that Robin is staring at him with no small amount of bewilderment and concern

(They later come to the agreement that they'll just have to wait and see if Steve ever gets a boyfriend, and then ask him all their dick-related queries)

[thaikovski]

(crystalclouds-recordings)

[reasonsforhope]

"The world's coral reefs are close to 25 percent larger than we thought. By using satellite images, machine learning and on-ground knowledge from a global network of people living and working on coral reefs, we found an extra 64,000 square kilometers (24,700 square miles) of coral reefs – an area the size of Ireland.

That brings the total size of the planet's shallow reefs (meaning 0-20 meters deep) to 348,000 square kilometers – the size of Germany. This figure represents whole coral reef ecosystems, ranging from sandy-bottomed lagoons with a little coral, to coral rubble flats, to living walls of coral.

Within this 348,000 km² of coral is 80,000 km² where there's a hard bottom – rocks rather than sand. These areas are likely to be home to significant amounts of coral – the places snorkelers and scuba divers most like to visit.

You might wonder why we're finding this out now. Didn't we already know where the world's reefs are?

Previously, we've had to pull data from many different sources, which made it harder to pin down the extent of coral reefs with certainty. But now we have high resolution satellite data covering the entire world – and are able to see reefs as deep as 30 meters down.

Pictured: Geomorphic mapping (left) compared to new reef extent (red shading, right image) in the northern Great Barrier Reef.

[AKA: All the stuff in red on that map is coral reef we did not realize existed!! Coral reefs cover so much more territory than we thought! And that's just one example. (From northern Queensland)]

We coupled this with direct observations and records of coral reefs from over 400 individuals and organizations in countries with coral reefs from all regions, such as the Maldives, Cuba, and Australia.

To produce the maps, we used machine learning techniques to chew through 100 trillion pixels from the Sentinel-2 and Planet Dove CubeSat satellites to make accurate predictions about where coral is – and is not. The team worked with almost 500 researchers and collaborators to make the maps.

The result: the world's first comprehensive map of coral reefs extent, and their composition, produced through the Allen Coral Atlas. [You can see the interactive maps yourself at the link!]

The maps are already proving their worth. Reef management agencies around the world are using them to plan and assess conservation work and threats to reefs."

-via ScienceDirect, February 15, 2024

[strawberrycircuits]

hello valve fans. quick question

info: you get to choose if youre a scientist, test subject, security guard, merc, secretary etc wherever it applies because let's be honest none of those options are exactly safe

[ofekma]

"noo but this time it's different! Our antisemitism is morally justified! We really do have a good reason to hate the jews!" - every antisemic person at any point in history.

[teaboot]

Kink at pride, drag queens, traditional family values, blah blah blah. I'm washing laundry and listening to my radio shows and stitching together a body harness on my sewing machine. I've worked at a dungeon and I've worked at a sunday school and nothing matters and we should all calm down. Put on a garter belt and go to the fucking farmer's market. Fucking hell

[internetskiff]

(Art below the cut btw)

TOPIC: INTELLIGENCE DAMPENING SPHERE POST-DETACHMENT RE-ASSIGNMENT

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Sphere's adapted surprisingly well to conditions outside of the Central AI Chamber. We've noticed a marginal increase in intelligence after it's exposure to "HER" neural imprint. It is now capable of recognizing (and even using) a "double entendre" in a sentence - likely picked it up from her (have you people considered attaching an "attitude suppression" sphere onto her yet? Would be great). It's been annoyingly talkative to the staff. Suggest re-assignment to Subject Caretaker duties. Quite literally the lowest hanging fruit - it's mostly automated anyways, even a toddler couldn't mess it up. Just find a use for it so it stops pestering me on the catwalks, thanks.

[cienie-isengardu]

Kid Eileithyia, kid Ares and very concerned Zeus & Hera

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Eileithyia (still little) goddess of childbirth & midwifery: *retelling in great details the most horrible, bloody childbirth she assisted, when Ares was away from home* Ares (still little) god of war: SO COOL!

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Concerned Zeus and pregnant Hera: ...

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Zeus (to still unborn Hebe): Hebe? It's me, Zeus, your father - please, don't be like your siblings! You hear me? BE NORMAL! Hera (to still unborn Hebe): Yes baby, listen to your father!

[padawansuggest]

Cody: -and what can I do to repay your kindness… for… the poison? *having just asked a witch in the forest to give him something that will get rid of his landlord’s abusive husband that isn’t traceable to him or her*

Obi-Wan: *tapping his chin in thought* your firstborn child, I suppose?

Cody: I’m… infertile.

Obi-Wan: Great! I can’t get pregnant anyways. I know of an orphanage nearby though, we can check it out on our third date?

Cody: …why didn’t you just ask to go on a date with me?

Obi-Wan: I’m already planning to pursue that, I just wanted to test the waters and see if you were interested in kids.

Cody: Ohhhh, okay, yeah, I want kids. I have like twelve siblings, twenty-three cousins, and as an adult they are starting to reproduce on their own, I totally want a huge family.

Obi-Wan: *blushing* How huge?

Cody: *shrugs* I mean, I’m twenty five, I could totally beat my dad’s record if we start adopting soon. My older uncle works in the social system, he’ll get us in to visit the kids and see who fits. I’m thinking first date. Seeya this Friday, sweetheart!

Obi-Wan: *blushing super hard while Cody runs off to go poison a man, looking over to where Anakin and Ahsoka, his first adopted kids are hiding in a bush* Wtf just happened?

Anakin: *wheezing, tears leaking out* Oh my god, I think the firstborn rouse finally got you in over your head, oh my god, Soka, Soka, hold me I’m dying-

Ahsoka: *laughing just as hard* Oh my god, Ani, we have a stepdad!

[candycatstuffs]

Doof 101 was THE superior post pnf timeline and had the most potential for continuation actually

[standsforjinxed]

I don’t think that man has a medical degree but it’s free if you survive

[linddzz]

Luckily the "what if the SHARK impregnated our ray???" seems to be dying down and bigger news organizations have the corrected information in their articles, but I wanted to share this great blog post by marine conservation biologist David Shiffman that covers both the cool actual science that got overshadowed while actually calling out the facility for how unscientifically they handled it and for the fact that they doubled down (esp since newer media they've put out is softly backtracking and it looks like they're attempting to play it off as a joke that the news misreported. Nope. They put the idea out there like it was as possible as parthenogenesis while calling themselves scientists at a "shark lab")

From the conclusion:

Unfortunately, poor handling of this story has made it likely that we are on track for another year where the most-shared news story about a shark or ray is pseudoscientific nonsense, rather than about their dire conservation needs, their importance to marine and coastal ecosystems, or amazing new discoveries about them. As a longtime supporter of zoos and aquariums and the roles they play in public science education, I am especially troubled by some of the public-facing communications here. If your goal is sharing knowledge with the public, there’s value in gaining accurate knowledge about the subject yourself first. Sharing wrong facts is not “raising awareness” or educating the public, and falsely claiming “anything is possible, don’t trust the experts” is, to put it mildly, not helping the ocean.

It's a great article to drop in if the "omg shark/ray babies???" keeps spreading. Or if you just enjoy niche science drama. The aquarium world doesn't get much of that

[blue-ravens]

listen i'm sorry but WHAT IS THEIR DEAL

[amartworks]

Shauians, another sapient species from Rainmaker.

Trying to keep these kind of brief and not swamped with information. Blue and green are very attractive colors to them (associated with wealth), purple and pinks are the color of flesh and has the same dramatic connotations as red have for humans.

[zachsanomaly]

If these things hadn't been *fairly recently* killed off by sabertooth cats, it would've been a lot easier for us to make the connection that the two legged dinosaurs were just big ol birds. Literally just a t-rex that traded in teeth for a beak. (they ate horses)