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llewelly

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I tried to write an introduction and it was so empty it collapsed inward on itself

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john, to random
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Does anybody know if there’s a traditional composite material that behaves something like fibreglass? As in fibre/fabric laid up in a binder of some sort to make a stiff material in arbitrary forms.

Paper mache is one but it’s too weak (I think, maybe there's a super version?). I'm considering things like cotton or flax in casein glue or pine resin... but I doubt it will work.

(And my last casein glue experiment stunk like rotten milk for weeks!)

llewelly,
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@john @mike if it's for your bike, maybe you should add or some such to the post?

gay_ornithischians, to random
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i still haven't read moby dick but the picard misquote is so much better than the actual passage imo

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians now I'm curious: what is the Picard misquote?

mike, to random
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@llewelly I only just realised I wasn't following you!

llewelly,
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@mike
I think this has happened twice before, and I fear there are things I boost (I boost a lot of things, and probably some I shouldn't), which bother you, and then you stop following me and forget about it. That's perfectly ok, I'm just bringing it up because you might change your mind after you follow me for a while. Which is ok. Also, as much as love sauropods, I don't really know much about them, and don't often have interesting things to say about them.

mike, to random
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The Brachiosaurus altithorax holotype FMNH PR 25107 in the ground

I was cleaning out my Downloads directory — which, even after my initial forays, still accounts for 11 Gb that I really need to reclaim from my perptually almost-full SSD. And I found this beautiful image under the filename csgeo4028.jpeg. The thing is, I have no idea where this image came from. The file's timestamp says it's been 16 months since I downloaded it from somewhere, but there is no associated…

http://svpow.com/2024/05/01/the-brachiosaurus-altithorax-holotype-fmnh-pr-25107-in-the-ground/

llewelly,
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@mike what a beautiful photo. Unfortunately I have even less idea where it came from than you do. You didn't happen to make a visit to the Field museum 16 months ago, and go through their archives? Or know someone who would pick up a scan like that for you?

llewelly,
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@mike
the tragicomic aspect is that my first thought was "in a perfect world, it would be on the FMNH website". But of course I thought surely, someone else would have thought of that first, so it must either not be there, or be difficult to find, so if I try to find it there, I'll either end up sad about the decline of the web, or sad about my own inability to find things, so I didn't try that. Now that I'm trying it, keywords like "Brachiosaurus type specimen" work great and find neat images.

llewelly,
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@mike
interestingly, "sauropod" as sole search keyword turns up only 19 results, but among them are two pics of a Brontosaurus partway through the mounting process. Quite the extensive wooden scaffolding holding it up.

https://mm.fieldmuseum.org/48e683df-0de9-4cd0-a0ec-deaba6ceec1b
https://mm.fieldmuseum.org/7f7a8dc6-fd96-4814-b086-0d13b5850697

john, to random
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Honestly, I think cyber-trucks are kinda cool when they're rusted up. It's a feature.
https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/112363540123883283

llewelly,
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@john
if they were owned by Jawas instead of annoying rich people I might agree with you.

futurebird, to random
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:: The story of a child housekeeper who works for ‘Mnimal’ a cleaning tech company that claims their robots systems can bring your home to a state of “elevated minimalist cleanliness” via “smart targeted cleantech interventions” neither robots nor software can deliver any of this effectively, so an army of young workers must either laboriously attempt to clean via remote control or simply sneak in to the house on guise of ‘a routine service call’ and do it by hand. 1/

llewelly,
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@futurebird I cannot tell whether this is a near-reality fiction, or a factual news story?

gay_ornithischians, (edited ) to random
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imagine that palaeo peeps find dragonfly relatives that are even bigger than griffinflies and they end up calling them birdflies

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians
imagine paleo peeps find meganurans as big as houses, and call the houseflies.

: )

john, to blender
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I need some tech advice: I have some .usdz files I made of my grandfather’s wood carvings, and I'd like to put them online.

The javascript USDz viewers are making my head hurt, and maybe I should be using a different format anyway. Is there a standard way of doing this?

llewelly,
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@john
@PeterFalkingham , is this your kind of question?

futurebird, to random
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This morning the South Bronx smells like summer. There is a perfume in the air— a sigh of the earth, the smell of mosses life. Birds are making a huge racket— blossoms dance their way down from the trees. I didn’t need a coat today! Today is a great day to find a queen ant!

It’s incredible to me that there is no way as of yet to scan the air and identify smells. I wish I could pinpoint, name the elements of this smell of summer— all I want is a universal identifier for millions of chemicals!

llewelly,
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@futurebird
the nose: capable of recognizing millions of different chemicals.

the brain: can name none of them.

the sinuses: obstruct it with mucus at inconvenient times.

ElleGray, to random
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incredible book cover

llewelly,
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@ElleGray
I almost wish the Richard Ellis book The Great Sperm Whale had a cover like this as well. (It's mostly about the scientific and natural history view of sperm whales, but it also discusses Melville's book and its influence at length, although perhaps too much length.)

futurebird, to random
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When people talk about the days of mass media in the form of the evening news, Dan Rather, everyone "on the same page" with wistful longing... I get why. The current landscape is chaotic.

But, that period of more centralized media left a lot of people out. It made certain perspectives impossible to contemplate.

Like during the early days of the Gulf War: the antiwar movement was invisible.

llewelly,
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@futurebird
would you rather the new media of the damned, or the Dan Rather of old media?

llewelly,
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@futurebird 1/8
on evolution: I read essays and books of Gould and others at what seems, in retrospect, a very young age. And yet I grew up around many people who rejected evolution. The few who "accepted" it thought of evolution purely in terms of the outdated "Great Chain of Being" concept that Gould criticized so frequently. And in those days, any scicom that wasn't aerospace or physics adjacent wasn't especially popular.

johnl, (edited ) to Black_cats
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Trying to do a jigsaw puzzle but can't figure out where this big black hairy piece goes.

llewelly,
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@johnl
the place of a piece can be determined by its shape. But this piece has every shape and no shape. It goes everwhere and nowhere.

markwitton, to random
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New #paleoart at #Patreon! Here's an image that I'm sure won't cause any upset at all among tyrannosaur fans: giant azhdarchid pterosaurs drive T. rex away from a juvenile Triceratops carcass. High-res version, WIPs and discussion here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103222863 #sciart #dinosaurs

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians @markwitton I agree; this art is really compelling, however one feels about the "who would win in a fight" issue.

futurebird, to random
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A dictator for one day. But you can do a lot in a day. And dictators can change definitions. The first? Redefine 'dictator'
Redefine 'day'

Redefine 'vassals' and 'torture' (we already did that last one I think)

llewelly,
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@futurebird
it's more traditional to hold a new election for Emergency Dictator every 90 days and mysteriously keep winning said elections ... Even Napoleon did that a few times before deciding to become dictator for life.

18+ gay_ornithischians, to random
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the awkwardness of first contact

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians
I would have thought more like the opposite of a turtle, with the hind flippers providing most of the propulsion, as they're much larger, and the foreflippers steering.

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians
whales are somewhat similar; they steer with their foreflippers and the flukes provide propulsion.

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians
hard to say. Emu is about the largest animal I can think of with similar ratio of apparent size to leg thickness. So I would say Emu size is about the largest reasonable size. (Adult emu are between 18 to 60 kg). I used emu mostly because I didn't want to compare them to four-legged animals.

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians yes, I think.

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians
make up a totally new word. Re-using an existing word like "lure" or "drone" or "friend" just creates a false sense of familiarity which is ultimately confusing.

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians
if it were up to me: klis-cha , a word with no pre-existing meaning.

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians no.

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians
I think large morphological changes are metamorphisis by definition, but I don't think that's necessarily a problem.

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