Stand with Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan -- with democracy and civilization against tyranny and barbarism
posted by Infidel753 at 2:42 PM
Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
God doesn't exist
Evolution happened
Global warming is real
Homosexuality is normal
Aging is a curable disease
The election was not stolen
Everything "spiritual" is a lie
Free speech is for everybody
Humans do not have "souls"
Men can't become women
Fetuses are not persons
Words are not violence
Taiwan is a nation
Pluto is a planet
6 Comments:
It's startling to think that parts of nature are so ... Lovecraftian.
Speaking of large isopods, I dare you to watch the eco-horror film "The Bay". Never has a green aesop been so horrifying.
I'll keep an eye out for that one.
Ha ha, that song was quite clever! Interestingly enough, while they may look monstrous, a lot of deep sea lifeforms are actually quite puny, presumably because the scarcity of food at such depths makes large bodies impractical. I remember once seeing a slideshow on deep sea creatures, which included a couple of pictures of some suitably frightening-looking fish. The first comprised a close-up of the fish in question, which looked like a deep sea version of Jaws, while the following slide showed it curled around the tip of someone's little finger - that's how tiny it was!
It's good to see the deeper parts of the ocean getting more attention now than I gather they once did. I find this region of Earth one of the most fascinating, simply because it's so alien.
Ahab: You've piqued my curiosity about this Bay film you mentioned. Just looking at what TV Tropes had to say about it (and without revealing any of the spoilers) was enough to give me the willies!
Zosimus: Good point, and that's true of some land animals as well -- things like insects and spiders would look quite terrifying if they were bigger. But some deep-sea life forms are large -- those tube worms get up to around two meters long.
I like the fact that a colossal squid is real. It could feed the entire neighborhood of Boston's North End on calamari for weeks. A happy thought.
On the other hand, the giant isopod terrifies me.
However, are they edible? I could change my mind.
Shaw: Gaaack, barf. Why do people want to eat giant bugs? To me it's literally the stuff of nightmares. I'd rather not eat anything that looks like it ought to be trying to eat me.
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