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imagine if you were fishing and you saw a giant mean looking fish near the surface and it saw you and was trying to fight you and you got so distracted you couldn't even cast your line so you had to go in the water and kill it with a knife so you can resume fishing
well that just happened to me in world of warcraft
the main premise of temeraire is what if they had dragons in the napoleonic wars. the secondary premise of temeraire is if you're an honourable naval captain with a strong sense of duty and justice that causes you to constantly threaten that honour with your deep-seated psychologically revealing righteous fury everyone will want to fuck you so bad it makes them look stupid including napoleon and the dragon.
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if you've ever pet more than a few dogs you'd Know what dog residue is
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Look at my birthday cake...
So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.
Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.
The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).
The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.
But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.
Conservation is so fucken sick
This was sitting unfinished for a long time but I finally got to it! Just a lil guy to celebrate the summer.
⭐️Through the Generations⭐️
Happy to share that these will be unlockable pin designs in my upcoming pony pin kickstarter!
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People don’t even say w00t anymore.
This sux00rz…
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Comm for Greenguard
Molding and casting the only Lambeosaurus skull found in the U.S.
This is the skull of our Lambeosaurus lambei, Liberty. Here's the process of producing resin casts to gift to local establishments in the towns near where we do fieldwork.
Gaps in the bone were filled with Carbowax so rubber wouldn't snag. Underhangs were smoothed out with clay.
Rubber was poured layer by layer. After that a mother mold (a fiberglass cast over the top layer of rubber) was constructed.
Completed mold
1st and 2nd layers of resin poured into the mold
Expanding foam applied after the resin set
Final product (Steve for scale)!
