The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.
A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:
I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!
still my favourite onion headline of all time
physicists: think they know enough to be an authority in other fields
chemists: don't think they know enough to be an authority in other fields
biologists: aren't even sure they know enough to be an authority in their own firld
mathematicians: don't understand why you seem to think they'd ever want to leave the beautiful and pure realm of numbers and have anything to do with any other field
I (physicist 27) am currently working in science communication with a ton of biologists, which means it's finally time to ask all of the biology questions I have always had. And I have to say, I'm amazed at the frequency with which they say "I don't know". Like, I had to ask a few of them "why are fevers/heatstrokes actually dangerous, what's the deal with heat there?" until I got half an answer ("maybe because proteins start denaturalizing at 40C?", which I dont entirely understand, because I dont really know what proteins are/do to keep you alive but I didnt want to press the issue)
Meanwhile, as a physicist, I find I'm surprisingly good at answering physics stuff (the only stuff I've had trouble so far is "does a lightning falling on you while you're in a car with no roof kill you?" (No idea what is needed exactly to kill someone with lightning) and "why does quantum tunneling happen?" which I felt I could not answer without a fuckton of math), and even if I dont actually know something I feel like I'm able to guess in the right direction (we then check).
Now I don't know many other physicists at the moment, so I don't have a decent sample, so now I'm struggling between "I, personally, am exceptionally good at bullshitting" and "maybe physics is in fact remarkably simple"
"you shouldn't speculate on a dead person's gender"
no one needs you to protect the inherent assumed cisness of someone who very obviously didn't fit the mold of what cis men are expected to act like, who died far too young and never got the chance to tell us how they identify as, who ended their own life the way so many trans women closeted and otherwise do due to transmisogyny.
instead of getting mad that someone said Kurt Cobain was a trans woman, instead ask yourself why being a trans woman is a fate worse than suicide in your eyes.
That's a really bad idea, OP.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander; do you want people speculating that YOU were not actually the gender you say you are when YOU die?
Respect people's privacy and dignity. Let the dead retain what they chose not to share in life.
Kurt Cobain was a cisgender man, to say otherwise is to violate the pirvacy of someone who has no means of fighting back.
1) if i died of suicide before i was able to fully come out, and the people who knew me best understood that while i might not have had the language to describe i probably would've been a trans woman if i had lived longer, then i would 100% with them posthumously calling me a trans woman.
2) people speculate on dead people's gender and sexuality all the time. there are people throughout history who, while not using the exact words we use today, would have been the equivalent of gay, lesbian, asexual, transmasc. why is it only offensive when people talk about someone possibly being a trans woman?
3) "no means of fighting back"? being a trans woman isn't an insult or an attack. if anything its a compliment and a mark of pride and honor. what does it say about you that you think someone is lesser for being labeled as a trans woman?
4) i think cybersmith disagreeing with me just proves my point even more
1: if you died of suicide, that would be a choice. I would respect the decision you made to take any private doubts or secrets with you to the grave.
2: some people do. I don't approve of that, this isn’t a double standard; I don't like it when people say that Achilles or Oscar Wilde were attracted to men, I think that is also wrong.
3: that's an opinion the drad person might not share.
4: Ad Hominem!!!
1: so if i didn't publicly state "i am a transgender woman" anywhere publicly, but i implied as much privately to my friends and expressed wanting to be a woman, you would misgender me even in death?
2: so why is cishet the default in your eyes?
3: then thats part of a larger societal issue of systemic transmisogyny. maybe instead of conforming to it, start to work on your own internal biases.
4: lmaoooooo
Why would anyone argue with HPG? He's HPG, he's already lost. Or else it's someone pretending to be the original HPG, which is so sad as to beggar belief
idk. its funny ig?
plus if other people see this post and get mad that i called Cobain a trans woman (which she is), they have to contend with the fact that they're siding with him.
Feel like its important to stop at the "I dont like it when people say [fictional character] and [potentially the most famous outspoken historical gay man] were attracted to men"
do you guys wanna see my favorite video on the internet yes you do
HES SO HAPPY HE JUST LOVES FANS SO MUCH
Putting teaboot's tags here too because this joy for life needs to be shared I think
put me in ur discord server so i can feel bad about never talking in there
Anyway, a round of applause for the mods at r/SherlockHolmes who deleted my meme:
Because it was fanfiction:
Even when everything happened in canon:
So yesss, they were basically calling Canon, fanfiction lmao
They literally just label anything related to Holmes being gay as fanfiction it’s insane lol
free use is kind of a funny kink bc it relies on the idea that everybody wants to touch you and have sex with you but what if they don't. what if you tell everybody at the party you're free use but they all ignore you and mind their own business
taking notes
Joan of Arc Listening to Her Voices, 1845, by François Rude (1784-1855)
Someone should make a disco elysium spiritual successor that takes place in a maze and follows a protagonist who has to eat all the dots in the maze whilst avoiding several ghosts
you can actually homebrew this in d&d 5e
SCROLL UP!!! THIS IS A PAINTING
