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Summer Flounder
Aug. 7th, 2016 11:01 pm
If your eyes migrated around your head, you’d rest a lot too.
Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.
Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.
“We grow visible. Attend the cloaking system.”
“It consumes much power, Commander. With no enemy to concern us.”
Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.
I’d never actually seen a packrat before. Very few zoos have rats*, and those that do tend to have them in nocturnal exhibits. So you often either get a photo of a sleeping ball of fur, or you get a dark blurry photo of an awake rat. These guys were a bit more cooperative and stood right in the light for me.
*Eell, OK, all zoos have rats. Very few of them are intentionally on exhibit.
Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.
Box Turtle
Aug. 5th, 2016 11:00 pm
This box turtle is in the “light flyweight” class.
Actually, all box turtles are in the “light flyweight” class.
Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.
Oh for crying out loud. Would you people stop touching the bees? I mean, really.
Get consent first.
Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.
This aenenome was about the size of a dime*.
* US *or* Canadian. They’re pretty much the same size in both countries**.
** Can you believe that only two countries have a dime coin? Turns out that the first people to suggest a decimal-based were Thomas Jefferson***, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton***, and David Rittenhouse in 1783. That’s right, the country that invented decimal money is one of the last in the world to adopt metric measurement.
*** Dude can rap like you wouldn’t believe.
Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.
Long Tailed Salamander
Aug. 4th, 2016 10:24 pm
This salamander is wondering why narrators are always talking about how this building or that can “be seen from space”.
“If we can see can see OGLE-2014-BLG-0124Lb, 76,422,100,000,000,000 miles* away, seeing something from orbit is nothing to brag about.
Even factoring in relative sizes, at half the mass of Jupiter, assuming similar density, OGLE-2014-BLG-0124Lb would have a diameter of 68,957.812 miles.
So, from a low earth orbit of 200 miles up, you should be able to see things that are 0.0000000001805 miles wide. That’s 0.00001143 inches … smaller than a human hair.”
Salamanders think they understand satellite imagery, but they really don’t.
* Converted to Western measurement for American readers. Salamanders still work in aṅgulas.
Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.
