Cool photos, but this makes me not want to drink tap water
Wait a moment and think about how you are made of meat. https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
This sort of reflection can yield existential crisis!
Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater
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#52I wish there were a way to "productize" this, or automate it at least. I'm imagining some sort of aquarium-like tank you stock with ocean water that is able to maintain the microscopic life, allow them to flourish. Meanwhile, some sort of slow or periodic pump draws aquarium water into an attached, miniature "photography studio" where an appropriate camera+lens feeds a constant live stream to a display or to the web…
We do this in the salt water aquarium hobby. It is not easy and requires a lot of equipment to keep the food chain flowing.
1. You have to grow a phytoplankton culture (the base of the food chain) https://melevsreef.com/articles/10-step-phytoplankton-cultur...
2. Then you have to map out to the zooplankton culture chain you want to grow. Usually in the aquarium trade the target are foods that larval fish will eat etc. There are only a few types commercially available. So you would never see the diversity you are seeing in the article.
Conclusion, you can only do it with fresh sea water from the ocean. I would recommend taking a sample from 0 to 10ft on a reef during a full moon or where there is a lot of light. You will see much variety!
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#53Robert Hooke’s “Micrographia” had a really profound effect on the history of science. Here is the book— check out the letter to the king. I think people’s minds were blown and were ready to accept some new realities. https://www.milestone-books.de/pages/books/003613/robert-hoo...
That letter is really something. I tend to think of grandiose flattery towards royalty as something that belongs in the ancient world. The puns on "small" and "least" at the end were also unexpectedly funny. I wonder how much people took this kind of flattery seriously, or if it was done with eyes rolled and tongue in cheek.
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#54These 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.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does that mean blind jews can use this as precedent to eat whatever they like?
Within reason, it's nothing, or `betal bshishim` which is equated to one sixtieth. It's void, as a concept, in Hebrew tradition. It helps if you think about it in terms of historical hardships of the Hebrews. It means if you're hungry and your neighbor cooks for you and there's a tiny bit of non-kosher fat in the soup or something like that, or if you're starving, Yahweh will forgive you because it's such a small amo…
This general approach is true within all Jewish traditions. For example, if you get sick on Shabbat you're allowed to drive to the hospital (and doctors are allowed to help you), or if you're ill during Rosh Hashana you don't have to fast. It's a very nice aspect of Judaism: "follow the rules, yes, but don't be stupid about it."
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#56I wonder that the commercial model is for endeavours such as this? I guess you collect royalties from people who want to publish the photos, but although you get a one-off wow factor I don't see there being a big market for these kinds of photos. Is it a hobby/pursuit or can you actually make a living doing this kind of thing? P.S. It's a fascinating thing and I love it!
People collect things of all sorts. Taxidermy animals posed doing human things. Preserved butterflies in a frame. Things with bones of animals and people. Artwork made from human hair. Photos of snowflakes. Photos of fish. Photos of people, the horror.
Why would photos of something like this strike you as any different. Why shouldn't the artist making prints not be able to make money from the effort, experience, and skill of producing those prints in manner that are worthy of a print? It's like asking anybody can write code, why should someone be able to make money doing that. Hell, computers write code themselves now. What makes you special you feel you need compensation for it?
Also, it could just start out as a hobby. Got anything you do on the side that started out as a curious nature, became a serious interest, then got good enough other people were interested in what you did?
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#57Do you think copepods know humans exist?
What about us knowing higher creatures exist, and we inhabit a droplet in their oceans?
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#58Do you think copepods know humans exist? What about us knowing higher creatures exist, and we inhabit a droplet in their oceans?
Put down the bong dude.
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#59Just 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.
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#60My wife and I get into the ocean pretty often -- sometimes, every day. But when I leave my swimming attire hanging in the bathroom for more than a couple of days (I try not to do that, but sometimes forget), it starts to smell really fishy. My wife asks why it smells so bad after 2 days, but not immediately after getting out of the ocean. I tell her The ocean is a soup of life, and when you get out there are millions of living critters in the fabric -- it's all alive. After 2 days... not so much