Plants, depending on the year, are really hard to identify even with a trained eye. If an AI algorithm is training on, say, only the blooming season versions of a plant, then it will do a poor job of identifying the plant in the Fall. Same for human submissions, usually they are photographed when they are in bloom.

I teach an environmental science course and we have a lab where I have students use iNaturalist for plant identification but the Fall semester students are always at a disadvantage, we have to crack open the dying plants for identification.

I love it, there’s always a plausible in-universe explanation for anything if a trekkie thinks hard enough.

Yea wtf sorry this happened to you mate, and fuck you mod

I love Wilfred (the FX version), I watch it at the start of every summer.

What…doth… life?

Wow haven’t thought about that show in a decade, time for a rewatch!

Sorry to hear you didn’t like it! As a sci-fi and alt history nerd I’ve rewatched it a couple times with delight. Since you didn’t get past episode 2 I can’t speak to how much (or little) character development there was. That said, my favorite characters definitely grow on me, season 1 to end of season 3 takes place over 40 years so there’s a lot of passage of time for characters to mature.

This is the more accurate comparison. Yes, Trump’s government is like nazi Germany in many respects but the pronatalist movement is straight out the Putin playbook.

I think the non-official canon is Bikini Bottom is near Bikini Atoll, the site of nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific Ocean. Radiation created anthropomorphic sea creatures like SpongeBob. I like your idea of Mermaid man/ Barnacle action figures… maybe irradiated ones at that.

I took an atmospheric science class in college and the professor described the field as “fast geology”, I like your description though that geology is the study of slow fluids!

A rug really would tie that room together

Biggest stock surge since October 2008 too, reeks of market shorting. Wish I was rich and morally bankrupt enough to profit off this.

I just watched Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure yesterday and though the soundtrack is not original, the soundtrack made the movie.

In these trying times I am still chuckling hours after seeing this, thanks for the meme.

Aww this is so sweet! Being the favorite uncle is quite the honorific. I have a 2 year old of my own and with daily parenting I try to be conscious whenever we have family and friends over that a baby is a bit foreign to them and they don’t know always know how to interact with him/ react to him.

Best advice is let the little one lead the way with things and encourage them always with what they are doing (as long as it isn’t dangerous!).

What an exciting study. The TL;DR:

GEOlogy is the study of the earth and how it changes over time. At a high level the Earth is sustained by the geodynamo - electromagnetic fluid movement in the core and mantle that sustains mantle convection and plate tectonics. The Moon doesn’t have any of that, so geological processes on the Moon is of intense study. In this paper they found pretty good evidence of contractional tectonics - the surface wrinkling from the Moon shrinking and changes in orbit - effecting all sides of the Moon in the form of scarps which induce moonquakes. This has implications for mapping the surface for future exploratory missions and long-term habitation (don’t want to have a colony in a seismically unstable place).

Meanwhile the US only increased capacity in pumped hydroelectric by 2.1 Gw between 2010-2022 for a whopping 22 Gw total capacity. Hydroelectric generally hovers about 28% of total renewable energy electricity generation.

The biggest problem (in the US) has been a lack of investment in new pumped hydroelectric projects not connected to improving existing dam infrastructure. Permitting huge new projects is unattractive but smaller ones in geographically/geologically favorable places like with most of the new sites being planned in California and Arizona will grow in the next 10 years.

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I completely understand. On a personal level I worked for years on lobbying to get a carbon fee and dividend system passed at state and federal levels because I felt that taxing companies for their carbon emissions was a smart and tangible way of dealing with the problem. As I’ve grown cynical with CF&D never catching on politically, I sniffed out different technocratic solutions. I agree the companies researching and implementing CCS are the same oil companies that got us into this mess so how much can we take from their advocacy with CCS as being a good thing? As a professional geologist I have a love-hate relationship with O&G industry but they are so powerful I don’t know how to work against them but instead with them (I don’t work for an oil company, I work in publicly funded CCS research)

Not exactly dry ice, it is supercritically pressured carbon dioxide so it has the density of a liquid but defuses like a gas. CO2 plumes are stable at depths where injection occurs because they are maintained in a pressure and temperature environment where the CO2 stays in a liquid stage, so it will never rise to the surface like a conventional lighter-than-air gas. In-situ mineral carbonation can also occur where the CO2 is injected into silicate rock formations to promote carbonate mineral formation, locking the CO2 for thousands (millions maybe) years.