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This is from the three body problem, I know the scene goes a bit differently but this is what I was picturing the whole time. Also I would have looked up character descriptions if I wasn’t mid book and dodging spoilers.
Cao Bin: there was this virgin guy studying a way to slow down the speed of light, but he had never touched a woman before so he started thinking of those two problems as the same. If he could change the laws of physics light-wise, he could also change the one that dictated that he could get no bitches
Cheng Xin: maybe you're the one who's obsessed with–
Cao Bin: and so when they created the nano black hole in Leda, he felt strangely drawn to it. He thought he could communicate with it, that it was beckoning him. And so he went into the event horizon. From our perspective, he's still falling inside the black whole, alive, and he will be forever. But from his perspective, he's already dead
Cheng Xin, who's been depressed for 300 years: damn I wonder what that's like
cheng xin choosing her morals over sacrificing lives of others isn’t anything she did wrong, even if she blames herself for the death of the solar system. cheng xin escaping via lightspeed using curvature propulsion isn’t punishment for her choosing her morals. it’s humanity’s debt paid to the woman they put their burdens on because they couldn’t figure out a way to cooperate long enough to run away. luo ji accepting death via collapse into the two dimensions is his way of making peace, just like wade made his peace, and yang dong made hers. ultimately, earth’s fate was sealed the day ye wenjie decided enough was enough. if the people of earth couldn’t take care of their fellow man, then they had no business participating in cosmic society.
earth died because humanity failed to take care of its people, not because some scientist decided not to trigger a genocide or civil conflict for the sake of science.
Oregon's Fender's Blue butterfly is soon to be only the second-ever insect downlisted from Endangered to Threatened on the ESA.
In the Willamette Valley of Oregon, the long study of a butterfly once thought extinct has led to a chain reaction of conservation in a long-cultivated region.
The conservation work, along with helping other species, has been so successful that the Fender’s blue butterfly is slated to be downlisted from Endangered to Threatened on the Endangered Species List—only the second time an insect has made such a recovery.
[Note: "the second time" is as of the article publication in November 2022.]
To live out its nectar-drinking existence in the upland prairie ecosystem in northwest Oregon, Fender’s blue relies on the help of other species, including humans, but also ants, and a particular species of lupine.
After Fender’s blue was rediscovered in the 1980s, 50 years after being declared extinct, scientists realized that the net had to be cast wide to ensure its continued survival; work which is now restoring these upland ecosystems to their pre-colonial state, welcoming indigenous knowledge back onto the land, and spreading the Kincaid lupine around the Willamette Valley.
First collected in 1929 [more like "first formally documented by Western scientists"], Fender’s blue disappeared for decades. By the time it was rediscovered only 3,400 or so were estimated to exist, while much of the Willamette Valley that was its home had been turned over to farming on the lowland prairie, and grazing on the slopes and buttes.
Pictured: Female and male Fender’s blue butterflies.
Now its numbers have quadrupled, largely due to a recovery plan enacted by the Fish and Wildlife Service that targeted the revival at scale of Kincaid’s lupine, a perennial flower of equal rarity. Grown en-masse by inmates of correctional facility programs that teach green-thumb skills for when they rejoin society, these finicky flowers have also exploded in numbers.
[Note: Okay, I looked it up, and this is NOT a new kind of shitty greenwashing prison labor. This is in partnership with the Sustainability in Prisons Project, which honestly sounds like pretty good/genuine organization/program to me. These programs specifically offer incarcerated people college credits and professional training/certifications, and many of the courses are written and/or taught by incarcerated individuals, in addition to the substantial mental health benefits (see x, x, x) associated with contact with nature.]
The lupines needed the kind of upland prairie that’s now hard to find in the valley where they once flourished because of the native Kalapuya people’s regular cultural burning of the meadows.
While it sounds counterintuitive to burn a meadow to increase numbers of flowers and butterflies, grasses and forbs [a.k.a. herbs] become too dense in the absence of such disturbances, while their fine soil building eventually creates ideal terrain for woody shrubs, trees, and thus the end of the grassland altogether.
Fender’s blue caterpillars produce a little bit of nectar, which nearby ants eat. This has led over evolutionary time to a co-dependent relationship, where the ants actively protect the caterpillars. High grasses and woody shrubs however prevent the ants from finding the caterpillars, who are then preyed on by other insects.
Now the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde are being welcomed back onto these prairie landscapes to apply their [traditional burning practices], after the FWS discovered that actively managing the grasslands by removing invasive species and keeping the grass short allowed the lupines to flourish.
By restoring the lupines with sweat and fire, the butterflies have returned. There are now more than 10,000 found on the buttes of the Willamette Valley."
Reminder that the meburgers weren't something they made as a solution to the nutrition problem. That was already solved at that point. They were purely for Grace's enrichment. It was recreational cannibalism.
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