Most steam-punk phrase I've heard in a good while.
Arachnophobia (even the mild variety) is not universal. I know some people who think spiders are cute. It takes all kinds, I guess.
It would be hard for a spider of medically significant size to suck down their exoskeleton like that.
I do believe there also is a song about them. It goes something like this: Anywhere you go, you always take your spider, your spider with you... ;)
They're not insectlike, but in some weird uncanny valley between insect and mammal.
And they can JUMP onto you.
Nope nope nope.
They will play 'catch the laser dot' with you like a cat does or even do little mating dances when you prop a mirror in front of them.
YouTube has many videos of such activities
Have a bit of fun with them next time you see one and your next encounter will not be so unpleasant!
-ex arachnaphobist
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F
Not knowing what spiders are "jumping spiders", I felt like those attributes are what makes many people freak out about spiders in the first place. Looked at some images and yeah, those look way worse than the spiders I have in my house, probably because of those freaky eyes and the thing having fur.
Semi-manual verse counts from a random digital copy I have convenient, before 'e' only:
(2 thy, 2 thine) elder
(2 thy, 0 thine) elect
(19 thy, 3 thine) estimation (most in the same chapter!)
("thy ewe" is correct due to pronunciation)
(1 thy, 0 thine) exceeding
(1 thy, 1 thine) excellency
(1 thy, 1 thine) expectation
(2 thy, 110 thine) eye
(it also has errors before other vowels and 'h', though the 'u' one is debatable)
For "enemy" it is always the correct "thine".
I have an ex who became a vet (kind of a surprise in that when we were dating she was an artist) and she has a house call practice with a lot of her work being euthanasia. I don’t know how she can manage that emotionally, but I’d like to believe she’s not a psycho even if she was the one who ended the relationship.
https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2019/09/04/veterina...
I have a vet friend that I talk to a lot. One thing that struck me was how many clients will bring in a dog with a serious, obvious malady (the one I remember was a dog with maggots in its anus, sorry for the visual) and will be like, “are you sure he’s in pain? He hasn’t been crying all day”. And it will be evident that this has been happening for weeks.
Doing all the work. Microbes get no respect.
But also, can we attach these to natural methane producers? (Eg decomposing stuff or cows)
I think you're unfairly dismissing the massive amount of nanotech R&D and energy it takes to develop and operate the bazillion-unit cooperative mobile megafortress those bacteria are happily renting.
I'd guess waterfall then.
Why would they not be?
If you want to increase their number you need to give them a better environment.
Maybe not in the mainstream?! But for many years people have had jobs specifically trying to get microbes to do useful work for us. [0]
Look up key terms like "directed evolution" in microbial research - which to me sounds like a fancy phrase for "breeding". But when breeding cycles can be measured in minutes across millions of units for something so small we can't see it... it kind of is a different thing so I guess it's fair to differentiate it.
Well, you know, there's brewing and bread. I like beer. I like sauerkraut. I like bread.
Insulin is handy. So is human growth hormone.
Some symbiosis
Float away from the methane and die, or if lucky attach to a predator that lives in the methane that will harvest you for consumption but not before you reproduce
It's not about being nice. It's about reproductive success, by any means.
I don't of anyone in history that had chicken eggs growing on their skin.
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/221/8/jeb177568/...
> “This is really the beauty of the symbiosis between the two: The bacteria get that perfect Goldilocks zone with everything they need,” Dubilier said. “Even if 80% of the population are eaten (by the spiders), it’s worth it for the 20% to keep surviving and reproducing.”
Sure, but there's a more conventional term for this kind of symbiosis. Usually it would be called "farming". Humans have the same kind of symbiotic relationship with pigs, or wheat.
"The Abyss" is about a deep sea crew that encounters ... aliens...?
And yes, in general, I recommend The Abyss. It's definitely not the same as Project Hail Mary, but it does have similarities.
But deep in Titan's ocean? Not so much.
I really don't think I would put eggs all over my body to graze for breakfast, but that's an interesting image.
Yeah, something weird has happened to these quotes because nobody would intentionally put "use" in brackets like that.
bookofjoe•7mo ago
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2501422122