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Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by joezydeco »

selectodude wrote: post #19
changoplatanero wrote: post #17

What’s the precision of individual cicadas being able to follow their regular timeline? Like if 10,000 cicadas in one area are in a 13 year cycle how many will accidentally wake up before then?

I can’t give you any hard numbers but enough of the 2024 brood was definitely noisy last summer in Chicago.

Northern Illinois actually has annual cicadas, so we get the noise every year to some degree. I'm inclined to believe these are 17 year critters that have fallen out of sync over the centuries so you get a continuous stream now.

The major brood here, XIII, has a sub-brood that shows up 4 years ahead of time. 2020 was very noisy.

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by jboggan »

When I was a kid in south Georgia there was a year where two other cicada broods lined up. The sustained volume in and around the woods was measured at well over 85dB and peaking much higher locally, to the extent that if the woods were a workplace OSHA would require a hearing protection plan to be implemented. It sounded like there was a racetrack just over the hill, but in every direction.

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Post by r3trohack3r »

The concept of the cicada lifecycle fills me with awe and wonder.

Could you imagine spending a majority of your life below ground. All you know is soil. You are pretty slow and clumsy burrowing around in the below ground world.

Then, you go through this metamorphosis. Not only do you reach an entirely different plane of existence (going from the below ground world to the above ground world) - but you enter that new world with wings free to travel in 3 dimensions at high speeds. You have sun, weather, mammals, cars, birds, buildings, trees... All things you are experiencing for the first time. And you get two weeks to pack it all in during a frantic mating frenzy.

Imagine if this experience happened to you.

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Post by dkarl »

senkora wrote: post #23

In Japan, they have a different species of cicada, and cicadas reliably emerge every single summer. As a result, the sound of cicadas is a popular shorthand for summertime in Japanese media: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/cicadas-in-japan/

Cicadas like that exist in different places around the world, including in the southern United States. They're a kind of regional mascot in Provence.

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by Karellen »

dylan604 wrote: post #18
giarc wrote: post #7

I hate news pages that are just a video. I prefer to just casually read news instead of having to watch a whole video on the topic. I find Apple News shows me a ton of these type of articles (looking at you MSNBC) and I wish I could toggle some option to never see pages like that again.

I mean, MSNBC is a cable news channel, so taking clips of its feed and reusing them as news posts is only logical. It's not like they have an army of writers creating news articles. They find things for their hosts to blab about in front of a camera. If you don't like that style, remove it from your feed. Apple News provides tools to remove/hide specific sources from your feed. Complaining about MSNBC providing video…

Most news anchors don't just wing it though, except in the rare case of live breaking news. The vast majority of the time they read a prepared script off a teleprompter, which is written by - you guessed it - writers. Sometimes the anchors are also the writers, and sometimes they don't always stick 100% to the script, but whoever wrote it and whether it was followed aside, there is a script. I don't see why news channels couldn't publish it alongside the video - it would be useful for hearing-impaired audience at least.

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by wegfawefgawefg »

giarc wrote: post #7

I hate news pages that are just a video. I prefer to just casually read news instead of having to watch a whole video on the topic. I find Apple News shows me a ton of these type of articles (looking at you MSNBC) and I wish I could toggle some option to never see pages like that again.

An alternative solution, stop reading the news alltogethor. Replace it with something either more relaxing or more enriching.

IDK what news you read but every news site i know reads like it was written by dums for dums. You owe yourself better.

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by tapeloop »

dkarl wrote: post #25
senkora wrote: post #23

In Japan, they have a different species of cicada, and cicadas reliably emerge every single summer. As a result, the sound of cicadas is a popular shorthand for summertime in Japanese media: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/cicadas-in-japan/

Cicadas like that exist in different places around the world, including in the southern United States. They're a kind of regional mascot in Provence.

yeah I went to Tennessee on holiday in 2017 (from Scotland) and thought I'd managed to time it perfectly for a brood emerging, but one of the locals said it was a yearly occurrence. It was still fantastic to hear that constant background noise

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by nescioquid »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #24

The concept of the cicada lifecycle fills me with awe and wonder. Could you imagine spending a majority of your life below ground. All you know is soil. You are pretty slow and clumsy burrowing around in the below ground world. Then, you go through this metamorphosis. Not only do you reach an entirely different plane of existence (going from the below ground world to the above ground world) - but you enter that new w…

You remind me a little of Stendhal and the mayflies towards the end of The Red and the Black:

“In the same way, death, life and eternity, are very simple things for anyone who has organs sufficiently vast to conceive them. An ephemeral fly is born at nine o’clock in the morning in the long summer days, to die at five o’clock in the evening. How is it to understand the word ‘night’?”

It is quite the contrast, though, to the cicada-epiphany you were imagining.

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by dylan604 »

Karellen wrote: post #26
dylan604 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, MSNBC is a cable news channel, so taking clips of its feed and reusing them as news posts is only logical. It's not like they have an army of writers creating news articles. They find things for their hosts to blab about in front of a camera. If you don't like that style, remove it from your feed. Apple News provides tools to remove/hide specific sources from your feed. Complaining about MSNBC providing video…

Most news anchors don't just wing it though, except in the rare case of live breaking news. The vast majority of the time they read a prepared script off a teleprompter, which is written by - you guessed it - writers. Sometimes the anchors are also the writers, and sometimes they don't always stick 100% to the script, but whoever wrote it and whether it was followed aside, there is a script. I don't see why news chan…

scripts and news articles are not the formatted the same. you wishing something was so just because it was convenient to you does not mean it is magically simple to do. posting news articles is not the wheel house of an MSNBC. they are an organization centered around delivering a video news feed. when all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail
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