[teratocrat]

finally, some good fucking tumblr ads

[pjackk]

i love my yoy/pet

[kuueater]

Visit Original Link

MY ULTIMATE CREATION

[needsmoreexplosions]

We’re coming close to ten years on this puppy

[junglejim4322]

Man with female hysteria x woman with male loneliness or something

[junglejim4322]

Better call Saul

[eroscestlavie]

everyone envies me for my Mateo Point

[elliespectacular]

Deeer

A YTP of a bowhunting instructional VHS. I picked up a copy of this tape at a flea market and was delighted to find that it had been digitized and uploaded to YouTube.

Initially I had some inexplicable technical headache with the project file and had to start the whole thing over, but I'm happy I could preserve what I'd started and produce a hefty 10+ minute video.

Full YTP with captions here!

Thanks <3

[lavagoth]

Visit Original Link

[tinybed]

[decemberwinter]

[pangur-and-grim]

what I've learned from having other people edit my work is that I have a sick addiction to commas

[pangur-and-grim]

there have been four editing passes on my spider sex book, and each time they take away so many commas. no fresh commas are being added, this is just a continued culling. if you see a comma in the final book please understand that it survived so much

[pangur-and-grim]

[veemochi]

[paksthestoic]

I love the “captain’s log” mechanism in Star Trek as a method for time skips and exposition.

I am, however, devastated that we never got an episode where any captain’s voiceover is strained and slow. very precise about the events they’re describing. While the screen itself is showing the most batshit insane events and making it clear that the captain is trying VERY HARD to keep everyone involved out of a court martial.

[hooved]

FUCK it was in parallel australia

[grox]

The CIA did some neferpitou shit to charlie kirk & now they got him in a lab covered in frankenstein stitches using his body to train S.J.W Bush

[hope-for-the-planet]

New Solar Tech Makes Desalinating Seawater Cheaper Than Producing Bottled Water

Engineering teams around the world have been attempting to develop new methods of seawater desalination.

Scientists in China have developed a more efficient form of solar desalination that uses 47.4% less energy than alternatives. After the first year of testing, the scientists believe that at scale it would be able to desalinate water more cheaply than producing bottled water.

The goal is now to scale the technology for use in coastal areas and islands experiencing water insecurity.

[wizardshark]

For the last two decades we've been told constantly that fresh water use is THE next crisis. That water wars are going to be completely inevitable.

This is very, very important.

[spiderfuckersworld]

We will need to do something with the brine. It.should be given to me. I will drink it.

[urists]

Found the paper (abstract, the rest behind a paywall) and I am... suspicious...

Reads to me like atmospheric-pressure evaporation, and since they are reporting pure evaporation rate, I'm assuming there's no regen/recycling, etc.

Average maximum solar irradiance is ~1000 W/m^2, from which they are apparently generating 38 kg/(m^2-h) of water vapor. According to my best buddy engineering toolbox, water takes 2256.4kJ/kg to boil. We can plug that in to see.

So they're asserting 38.14 kg/(m^2-h), while the theoretical maximum is 1.5 kg/(m^2-h). Either I'm missing something (always possible!) or this is possibly wrong.

[urists]

I DID find the supplemental. Which includes this nice note:

So: not 20L a day from 0.75m^2, 20L a day from ~8m^2, including 2kW of solar. Can plug that in:

That's actually possible for just straight evaporation, not even including regen etc. Shifty reporting but at least physically possible.

[kittenchomp]

elden ring turtle girl

[sanctus-ingenium]

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[sforzzz]

it's totally ok to dislike things. right?

[sforzzz]

i have to go delete some posts