Most of mosses in Finland do this real-time water bottle thing too (except for sphagnum and others that live in water most of time). Living on rocks in tundra is not much different from living in hot desert I guess, just longer days during growth period.

In rationalist hell there is a special teapot for people who color SEM images

Mostly correct; the issue with UV is that photons are powerful enough to induce permanent defects, so for outdoor solar cells a UV filter is usually installed, that blocks some photons, yeah, with obvious downsides. Eventually though it degrades too. So efficiency goes down to certain percentage and then practically it just keeps going unless structural damage occurs, like something falling on a panel and breaking it - quite common event at this long lifetime.

also thermal photons that do not get absorbed in state transition could be absorbed by thermal phonons and electrons of comparable energy just heating the panel up. They only go through cold silicon.

I’m not so sure my cats and dogs identify as different species tbh

but the bristles on those are almost always plastic too, even more inert and probably heavier than sponge of equivalent efficiency.

It makes me depressed thinking about more plastic waste fungi are not likely to digest anytime soon due to all the antimicrobal additives that prevent kitchen soap from molding and, well, the sponge material chosen to slow down decomposition while it is in use. It also shreds into microplastics really easily.

I thought a lot about these things, and apparently, a less elegant way to tackle this problem is decoupling power harvesting and propulsion. Like, put your best suitable power plant on a boat, then conduct power to best propulsion (probably submerged turbine or something)

…yet

Actually I’ve seen scientific papers that did just that - hydroponically kept a root alive until full colonization. I wouldn’t attempt that, I have plenty of actual living forest to mess with this extremely complicated system in a jar, knowing it is possible feels enough, pushing it further is not worth the effort. At least now.

They actually sell seedlings inoculated with mycorrhiza I think. My wife speculates, that too vigorous mushroom as they get in monotubs will totally turn from symbiotic to predatory, as is customary in this world.

Yeah, was surprised as well, but it looks correct and they grow locally a lot. I’ve seen fruiting body growing smaller than normal in my constrained growing experiments (but also larger than normal sometimes).

Nah, it’s like salt - vampire would stop to count and read all entries and scroll to the bottom.

As native Russian speaker, this is terribly rarely used in this full format (and it’s one among many), but genuine, I’ve heard it IRL.

“Тебя не ебёт, так не подмахивай”

This is highly and universally derogatory, you could expect to hear it from lowlife/criminal, which, unfortunately, is what most russians are lately, though. For russian nazi population, this implies that you are gay or a slut, depending on biological sex, and that’s close to your life worth nothing. For the rest, this is just something nazies would say to insult you.

The first part alone, though, is quite socially acceptable and overused. I guess, because it’s lost the whole lore behind it, and showing your knowledge of whence it came from kind of reveals that it’s not just an empty word, but you mean it.

I’m a bit hyperfocused on swearing, am I? Was one of my childhood’s special interests.

Honestly, “mind your beeswax” is also a rare gem, but not quite so rare.

Mighty Shai-hulud!

One surface, one edge, one gender

The nest box has limited space to minimize bees energy waste for environment conditioning. When the colony (and their… our food reserves - we trade honey I need for sugar they depend on in winter so that they do not need to fly out to poop and freeze to death) occupies all space, I slap another box on top of column of boxes that is their home. To help them start and guide their work, I attach wafers of cast wax molten from old frames to new wooden frames. They build honeycomb there from sweat of young bees, that’s whar wax is. I do not know yet how exactly that affects temperature, but I think that honeycomb construction noise is just too loud, and also with more surface area to dry honey they have easier time air conditioning.

Bees are amazing. They allow you to work together with them and their industry is full of knowledge and technology they share with us.

Well, at least in the nest box, temperature sure influences the buzzing. I’ve recently found that the pitch goes down a lot when I give them more blank wax wafers to build on. Here is my IoT sensor project, let me know if you want to join http://apiologia.zymologia.fi/

Actually I know a lab that ordered a large set of glassware from China directly from factory and erroneously received a different set of glassware. Turns out the same factory makes lab glassware and those kinky glass cocks and buttplugs to be filled with hot or cold water. What’s even funnier, the senior PI genuinely had no idea wtf that is and went ahead asking colleagues - people around the globe - what they think this stuff would mean, what weird technology is that.

Before you ask - I don’t know the name of the factory, but probably it’s easy enough to find on aliexpress, I’m into different stuff. Buying directly from manufacturer is better than buying from local reseller IMO. The best thing for a chemist in this category is probably buying lubricant components in moderate bulk and mixing them yourself so as not to worry about shelf life and be as allergen free as possible.

If the OP question is genuine - this thing is supposed to occasionally rotate around held by the neck, so the bottom has minimal footprint thus it does not hit anything. And this is the most stable and easy to manufacture shape for that.

whoa, thanks!

I’ll be unavalable… for some time

there is an eastern Europe fairytale about a knight who spent 30+ years on this shit