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weepingwidar

Hélène Béland (Canadian, 1949) - Un Capteur de Lumière (Light Catcher) (2012)

#art

the-wolf-and-moon

Black Marble, Earth At Night

#space #photo

beaubeaubeauyourboat

THE BEGINNING AND THE END: Shellstown, 153rd Marine Base

What are we doing in this backwater base anyway? It's called due diligence, Miss Valentine.

#opla #nico robin #gif

amazingeurus

#one piece #art

arte-artem-artibus

Fred Tomaselli - Untitled (Expulsion), 2000, diptych: leaves, pills, insects, mushrooms, printed paper collage, acrylic and resin on panel, 213.3 x 305.1 cm

nebulations

[ID: A collage made of natural materials which shows an explosion of warm-toned materials like leaves, insects, and petals emanating from what might be the head of a floating, elongated shape. The rays shoot through a black background, and to the right are two human beings with visible nervous systems walking together atop grass and leaves. End ID]

#art

nightmarereverie

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vilkass-deactivated20170207

I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales.

#lotr #gif

resetmyfeelings

40ouncesandamule

this post had everything I could hope for

yorgen-sh

#video #turtles #living things

toasthaste

according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.

eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??

turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.

sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around

and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start

#living things #giant squid