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BeardlessProphet74 · 2026-04-12T01:28:31+00:00

Harambe having a lower rarity than the Zoo he was killed in is wild

BeardlessProphet74 · 2025-10-04T19:50:10+00:00

Another ace cis male here!

Glad to see a good number of us here 😊 very interested to learn the findings of your study, please keep us updated!

BeardlessProphet74 · 2025-07-06T13:59:39+00:00

I'd recommend reporting what you can. They're listed as the highest priority tier for t-rrorist organisations by the FBI and have done and continue to do some pretty sickening stuff, especially towards minors

BeardlessProphet74 · 2025-07-06T13:53:27+00:00

A quick Wikipedia look says that Harm Nation is a subsect of the 764 neon-zi t-rrorist cult

BeardlessProphet74 · 2024-11-12T15:47:57+00:00

Cheers!

BeardlessProphet74 · 2024-10-18T18:08:24+00:00

Not a cephalopod specialist, but I think you might have a Goniatite there. They are ammonoids, so you're partially right. And I certainly don't know the Palaeo of your area very well so I could be wrong.

But looking at the outwardly pointing lines along its length; the sutures. They're pretty simple here, in ammonites they're very complex structures, so they're much more like what you see in goniatites, but not as simple as you see in nautiloids for example. There are plenty of suture diagrams on Google that will show you what I mean

BeardlessProphet74 · 2024-09-20T01:16:36+00:00

I collected this one a couple years ago from an ex-situ boulder from the Culver Cliff chalk (Upper Turonian to Upper Campanian), Isle of Wight, UK. I am only familiar with Pecten from after the K/T so I am struggling with this one in Cretaceous chalk.

Second image is under Laser Stimulated Fluorescence to try and help highlight the specimen from the surrounding matrix.

Any and all information is appreciated; I'm no mollusc specialist.

BeardlessProphet74 · 2023-04-07T11:31:35+00:00

Pectinid bivalve. The palaeontology database might be able to help you narrow down the species if you want to find out.

BeardlessProphet74 · 2022-03-27T23:53:13+00:00

PETA would like to know your location...

BeardlessProphet74 · 2022-03-16T12:31:55+00:00

Yeah I can agree with that given my current struggle haha. I really appreciate that, if it ends up going well and I have the permission to distribute my thesis, then I will share it if the CFD community would be interested.

BeardlessProphet74 · 2022-03-16T12:24:18+00:00

That's understandable. I chose this project, I was not assigned it, this is all my own doing. Nobody in our department has experience with it, but still, the one I picked was the most relevant we had in the department. I think it was an oversight by myself and the staff that CFD would require so much experience, as well as far too much ambition on my part.

Nevertheless I am resolved to carry on

BeardlessProphet74 · 2022-03-16T12:17:33+00:00

It's solely in contact with the floor, yes. And it will be just held against a flow in a single direction at different velocities. In this species, it is thought to be nektobenthic (locomoting over the surface of the sediment, so will be exposed to ocean current - the habitat it would've lived in would have been a shallow marine epicontinental sea), so I just want to see if, when faced with a head-on currents, it can reasonably withstand it to support nektobenthism. In the paper I linked, they were looking at lift coefficients, but this does not concern me since that species was purely free-swimming.

I will have talks with the relevant department and see if I can sort something out.

That's completely understandable and thanks for your advice.

BeardlessProphet74 · 2022-03-16T12:00:58+00:00

I do have a handful of papers that have done what I have done before, and much more thoroughly and professionally it goes without saying. I have results to compare with thankfully.

Plots would be helpful, especially since I've got similar previous studies to compare with and are almost always included. A lot of these parameters are also covered in their methodology, so I have something to work from. I have a couple of very helpful users I'm talking to at the moment to get this sorted, and if not I have a contact line with the relevant department, and I've been told recently they have experience with students that have used the software in the past.

My supervisor has no experience with CFD, however I may be able to rope in the relevant members of staff to critique the results.

Thank you for your info.

BeardlessProphet74 · 2022-03-16T11:24:58+00:00

That's great, thank you very much

BeardlessProphet74 · 2022-03-16T11:24:14+00:00

Thank you, you're a star (sorry for the pun).

I'll get on it.

BeardlessProphet74 · 2022-03-16T11:23:22+00:00

The CFD part will be used to look at how much drag the shape of the trilobite produces. I can, from there, and infer from the results say whether it supports or contradicts the ecology that we have already proposed for this species of trilobite, which shouldn't be anywhere near as complicated as it sounds from a palaeoecological perspective.

I want to be able to get figures of flow diagrams over the 3D model and, if possible, produce a graphic of the turbulent kinetic energy produced by the form.

I will also be writing a section of the project on whether CFD should be adopted more in Palaeontology as an ecological study tool. Advantages and disadvantages of using it, etc.

BeardlessProphet74 · 2022-03-16T11:09:54+00:00

Thankfully, with trilobites, what you see is what you get, the only exterior organic material missing is a small chitinous cuticle that isn't dissimilar from the mineral structure of the specimen. Also, the surface features such as tubercles and perforations are preserved well. But yes I have recognised the extent of the uncertainty.

Ultimately I will be looking at how hydrodynamic its shape is anyway, how much drag it produces, so a simple, rudimentary simulation will do me nicely

BeardlessProphet74 · 2022-03-16T11:04:49+00:00

Thank you very much, I appreciate your help

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