Reminds me of a calendar of nudibranch photos I saw at a dive shop. Due to a typo they were called “colorful sea sluts”.

There used to be at least some fireflies every year where I lived in Brooklyn when I was a kid but now there aren’t.

That’s a long exposure, but there really can be that many of them. I was out on a moonless night in upstate New York. An amazing number of stars was visible (I could even see the Milky Way), I was surrounded by fireflies and glowworms, and there were no other sources of light once I turned my flashlight off. It was so dark that I couldn’t see my own feet, just lights in all directions.

As if human legs aren’t the weird ones - they evolved from feet into hands and then into weird hands that we walk around on and call feet.

I see a dimetrodon.

You could jump to conclusions, or you could ask whether or not there is evidence that scientists’ work in their own field is affected by irrelevant unscientific beliefs that they hold. In my experience, people are very good at compartmentalizing their beliefs.

I don’t think they stomped loudly (except when they ran) but I don’t see how they would be able to move through the undergrowth without snapping a lot of branches. (Or how they could move through dense forest at all.)

I have a hard time imagining a stealthy t-rex. He’s going to be making some noise even if he tiptoes.

C++ style text streams are bad and a dead-end design and '\n'.

I was thinking more of the Orz. They’re inspired by the original cosmic horror, but they like campers as long as campers want to party with them.

That is funny. You think you see Orz but Orz are not light reflections. Maybe you think Orz are many bubbles too. It is such a joke. Orz are not many bubbles like campers. Orz are just Orz. I am Orz. I am one with many fingers. My fingers reach through into heavy space and you see Orz bubbles but it is really fingers. Maybe you do not even smell? That is sad. Smelling pretty colors is the best game.

Far from the scariest squid.

That one’s simply named the big fin squid. Probably the human mind cannot comprehend its true name.

Get thee behind me, anything beyond extended ASCII.

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The programmer’s answer?

We don’t support that use case.

I like the inclusion of the graduate student’s stubble. Very realistic. The frequency with which I shaved was inversely proportional to the rate of progress on my research.

I used to live in an apartment they sometimes showed up in and if I went to take a shower and one of them was in the tub, I would leave. The bathroom was occupied.

I’m picturing it jump up rapids like a salmon.

Floating upstream - what a coconut!

Coconuts have evolved to spread from island to island by floating, but it’s still weird that one happened to float to the other side of the world in historic times. I would have guessed that either the currents could never take a coconut there or that the currents would have taken a coconut there long ago.

(When I visit Florida, I see coconuts float by sometimes. Some have been in the water a long time - they’re covered in barnacles. However, if they’re still floating does that mean they might still be viable?)

66 million

Am I so old? It was 65 million back when I was a kid.