klarawodehn

'*•.¸♡ worldz&wordz ♡¸.•*'

[zegalba]

Fata Morgana

a superior mirage caused by warm air resting on patches of colder air in an atmospheric duct that acts like a refracting lens. Objects on the horizon could appear to be mirrored, distorted, or float. This form of mirage could be the reason for the Flying Dutchman Legend.

[sukinapan]

[ultraklarawodehn]

from https://gabiabrao.substack.com/

[ultraklarawodehn]

[thewildfrontierdrop]

“9:22, Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun, so once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood.”

Pi (1998)

[life0verflow]

[supplyside]

fusion reactor

[liberalsarecool]

This is more than a coincidence.

Trump Media buys a fusion energy company with stock and the competeing fusion company loses it top MIT scientist by murder?

[ultraklarawodehn]

[space-pics]

N79 (Webb + Chandra)

A new eye-catching compilation of images is being released that features data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory along with a host of other telescopes including NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

[ultraklarawodehn]

im thinking of making a new project thats gon be memeticly called "I AM going to replace AI" and its going to be me trying to _do_ and surpass the general publics usage of AI by being available as a chatbot or """generating images""" but its going to be super funny because i don't even remember highschool level of mathematics and stuff so its just going to be me being like NO ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE let me use MY OWN GENUINE STUPIDITY but also i will prolly learn a thing or two in this meantime (thats a plus to all the fun already)

my question rn is the way i should make this going bc feeling like starting an net-artish platform for this would just come rly flat and corporate-y the same way this whole internet thing is going for the past years and it just sounds meh

i would rather just tell all my friends im doing this and they can sms me their questions all the time maybe !!?

[espressotanuki]

I'm really feeling this robotgirl thing but I'm also hyperfixating on marine ecology and those two don't mix easily

[rjzimmerman]

Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign

A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does savi

Excerpt from this story from National Geographic:

Beneath the ocean's surface, a symphony ripples and rolls, ricochets and hums—and whales pour their songs into the deep soundscape like streams of molten silver.

Deep within the noise, a 32-mile-long cable stretches out from the California coastline along the seafloor, tethered to the ground 3,000 feet below the surface. At its end is a two-inch-wide metal cylinder standing on three legs. This hydrophone, an underwater microphone, can record and trace the ocean’s shifting harmonies for years on end.

“Once you truly start listening to how many things make sounds in the ocean, it’s really amazing what you hear,” says Jarrod Santora, an ecosystem oceanographer and research biologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

By tuning in to these underwater songs, scientists can decode the rhythms of ocean life, listening for signs of imbalance and resilience, and tracking how marine species respond to human impact. As whales navigate seas transformed by climate change, noise, and industrial activity, their voices offer a vital record of a world in flux.

“It wasn’t until I plugged in a hydrophone that I realized this world of sound can help us understand human impacts, nature, and the balance between,” says John Ryan, a biological oceanographer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

In a study published earlier this year, which traced more than six years of acoustic monitoring in the central California Current Ecosystem, Ryan and a team of researchers found clear patterns in whale song across seasons and years. By chance, the recordings began during a massive marine heatwave unlike anything seen before in the region. The study documented whale songs beginning in July 2015, and revealed that different species responded differently. Humpbacks have a more diverse diet and were able to adapt to harsh conditions; their songs didn’t change. But blue and fin whales feed almost exclusively on krill, and their songs were detected less often than years prior.

The heatwave reduced the food whales rely on and triggered harmful changes in ocean chemistry, allowing toxic algae to bloom. “It caused the most widespread poisoning of marine mammals ever documented. These were hard times for whales,” says Ryan.

As prey became scarce, blue whale vocalizations dropped by nearly 40 percent alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations, the recent study showed. 

“When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” Ryan adds. “They were spending all their time just trying to find food.”

[lookcaitlin]

[coleopterabyte]

Part of the reason I'm so adamant about encouraging people to get comfortable with bugs, my own interests aside, is because we cannot have a bright, solarpunk future without them.

A green future is not a bugless future. It is, in fact, a fairly bugful future. If you care about ecological stability, then you need to start with bugs, because they're the most at risk with our current use of pesticides.

[powerline-ambience]

[abandonwave]

E.V.O.: Search for Eden (SNES), 1993.