Absolutely spectacular. The diversity of marine life is nothing short of astounding. More deep sea missions!
Oh, you had not even see the best parts.
Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater
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#162These pics remind me of an indy game way back on the PS3 called Flow[0]. It was designed as a low stress, low impact, and a fairly calming game. You were a small underwater creature that swam around collecting things to become a bigger creature. You used the 3-axis feature of the controller instead of the d-pad and joysticks. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(video_game)
On the topic of calm games... there's one on my mind that I played years ago on PC but I forgot the name.
It's a very simple but gorgeous 2d top-down "strategy" game. It has calming music and a soft colour pallet.
You control these flying boids/bird things by ordering them to conquer other "planets". The goal of the game is to conquer all planets on the map, with progressively more difficult stages.
Each planet you own periodically spawns more "boids". Every planet has a number which describes the amount of boids on the planet.
The only actions given by the player are orders to move boids from one planet to another. If the destination planet is an enemy planet, the boids will attack. If the destination planet is friendly, the boids will combine in forces. If an enemy planet's boid number drops down to 0, it then becomes a friendly planet.
Planets have trees that sprout, and the boids are like leaves that sprout from the trees.
I think once you beat the game you unlock a dark mode.
Does this game ring a bell to anyone? I now want to play it really badly again :)
Re: Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater
#163These pics remind me of an indy game way back on the PS3 called Flow[0]. It was designed as a low stress, low impact, and a fairly calming game. You were a small underwater creature that swam around collecting things to become a bigger creature. You used the 3-axis feature of the controller instead of the d-pad and joysticks. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(video_game)
On the topic of calm games... there's one on my mind that I played years ago on PC but I forgot the name. It's a very simple but gorgeous 2d top-down "strategy" game. It has calming music and a soft colour pallet. You control these flying boids/bird things by ordering them to conquer other "planets". The goal of the game is to conquer all planets on the map, with progressively more difficult stages. Each planet you o…
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the topic of calm games... there's one on my mind that I played years ago on PC but I forgot the name. It's a very simple but gorgeous 2d top-down "strategy" game. It has calming music and a soft colour pallet. You control these flying boids/bird things by ordering them to conquer other "planets". The goal of the game is to conquer all planets on the map, with progressively more difficult stages. Each planet you o…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eufloria ?
Wow!! yes!! that is it, thank you so much <3
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#165Just imagine, you could have been born as one of quadrillion of these guys, but instead you are a human, that’s more than lottery luck we all got, if you can read this.
Imagine being one a trillion cells in a human body, born into slavery serving an unknowable entity called the Mind that may as well be called God .
Slavery? I take extreme pains to keep them warm, happy, feed and hydrated at any time. My cells live better than me.
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#166Maybe I missed this in the article. How many single drops of water have life in them? Like what’s the hit rate?
Ocean water is lively. A single drop has something like ten million viruses.
https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2011/013097/decade-long-study-reve...
But in the article the photographer said he'd come up empty on some of the dives. So it's fairly spread out.
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#167Beautiful and interesting stuff! I have never heard of copepods before, but have now and will have to do some more reading. > Walter once got a call from an Orthodox Jewish organization wanting to know if there were pieces of non-kosher creatures floating in the New York City tap water. The answer was yes. Not to pick on them, but I found this illuminating on how religions present such a myopic view of life and what…
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. This post is about as congenial as religious flamebait gets, but it's still that. Admittedly the upvotes such a post gets are a bigger problem than the post itself, but there's not much we can do about those. (This post was upvoted to the top of the thread when I saw it. I've marked it off topic now.) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is an interesting case
IMAO This is a trap to force the scientist to introduce religion in their work. Researchers should not spend their time studying religious concepts to validate religious questions. Is bad for them. In the best outcome, the scientist will lose valuable time and their prestige will be linked and borrowed for a religious agenda. At the worse case if the answer is not the same as in the religious books it will spawn more and more questions and the scientist will soon find themself tangled in an hydra of philosophical minutia, and fighting against a closed group in the undesirable role of outer enemy that must be critizised, cancelled or menaced with the goal to reinforce the sense of community.
This people should be redirected directly to ask any religious doubts to a religious figure. Period. Don't let them abuse of your time.
Zoologists are not trained into the subtle details of the concept of kosher. This is the work for a Rabbi. If the Rabbi needs a biology book to study the question, the researcher could kindly suggest several sources so he can start learning.
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#168When I was a kid, my school took us the boston science museum and I wandered off to the microscope exhibit. The museum collected and displayed a bunch of things from Boston Bay, and looking in- as a kid learning about computers- it seemed like some of the "animacules" behaved in complex ways- like a computer program with sensor input and mechanical actuators. Some would spiral endlessly while others would zip forward…
Did you write up any details about your microscope build? Or could you provide a good launching point for that?
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#169Cool photos, but this makes me not want to drink tap water
In most of NY city, there are Copepods in the water.
Since Jewish law prohibits drinking insects that are large enough to be seen without a microscope, there has been quite a discussion if that makes the water undrinkable.
As a result, many religious Jewish New Yorkers will only drink filtered water. So, no copepod protein, but maybe cleaner water?
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#170Copepod females do not need to mate to reproduce.
So one of the most abundant life forms on the planet has a trick to keep their edge. One wonders why they need it.