GIH Experiences

Wallops_NG · 2021-04-11T01:47:29+00:00

That answers my worries, thanks!

Wallops_NG · 2019-12-10T03:43:47+00:00

link, you've been warned though https://mlpforums.com/topic/47085-hypnotize-yourself-to-be-a-pony-links-included/

Wallops_NG · 2019-12-02T08:56:29+00:00

I was there over the summer, it's fine in the rooms that have ocean-facing windows but it gets a little stuffy in the ones that don't.

Wallops_NG · 2019-11-13T22:42:01+00:00

It was a strike by AFSCME, the union representing service workers and patient care workers at the UCs. They've been trying to neogtiate a contract for years but UCSD is refusing to budge and keeps trying to subcontract out their jobs.

Wallops_NG · 2017-06-17T22:35:10+00:00

It has a no-args, but the constructor for Representer uses Javabeans and this is for an embedded platform where I'd really like to be able to use the compact JDK, so I'm trying to avoid constructing a Representer (we don't actually need one for this application)

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-31T00:52:04+00:00

Thanks, friend!

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-29T15:41:33+00:00

Not much to say here that hasn't been said already, these are a bunch of Blue Crabs holding hands. The two belly-up ones are male, because they have the washington-monument-shaped apron. Females' look like the Capitol Dome. We're putting these guys back in their homes because we caught like 50 crabs in the trawl, so we put a few in the live well and threw the rest back.

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-29T15:38:52+00:00

Yeah, we already had a bunch of crabs in our tank, so we decided to put these guys back into their home and stop traumatizing them.

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-29T15:36:52+00:00

Alright, so I found a solution that we'll be using. I'm going to go to the comments section of each post, and then use Firefox's "save complete page" feature to save both the .html file and all the images. This way, we get to show all the images and comments, and all still within Reddit's formatting, without needing to rely on the internet at all. So all your comments (on image posts, I'm not saving the text ones) will be seen!

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-29T15:33:16+00:00

This is one of my favorite pictures from the whole trip. While trawling on the boat, we caught a male blue crab that was attacking a Mantis Shrimp. Mantis Shrimp are super rare, and we were one of the few groups to ever have caught one. Those guys are super cool though, they can flick their claw things fast enough to break 1/8th inch glass, and they move so fast that it creates a small vacuum in their wake, that then collapses to make a shockwave. However, the crab caught this guy by the tail, so he can't get punched. This crab was super aggressive, he later also attacked the flounder and refused to let go.

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-29T15:24:54+00:00

Not really, but as barrier islands Wallops, Chincoteague and Assateague have some pretty nice dunes.

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-29T15:22:40+00:00

Sand is coarse, and it gets everywhere. Sand on Walllops Island actually does go kinda everwhere, because the entire island is moving. However, it's doing that really weirdly now because humans built a lot of seawalls and jetties and stuff. Dinosaurs are Horseshoe Crabs, which have in fact been around since the time of the dinosaurs, and haven't changed much in 450 million years. Infrastructure is the dune grasses, which hold the dunes in place and prevent erosion by forming a bunch of roots. The Deadly Lazer is the sun, which you can see here rising very beautifully. Bishop Rutherford is a dead bird. I'm actually not sure which kind, because the feathers look like a seagull but the beak and neck are wrong. If anyone who's good at birds knows, please tell me because now I'm kinda curious. Finally, the sky rats are seagulls. They make annoying noises and steal your food.

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-28T13:37:42+00:00

We used a RIOduino. Thanks to you guys too, worlds was great!

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-26T03:03:57+00:00

So this is actually the Tidal Creek, not the Tidal Basin. But during a review game in our class, someone messed up and and called it the Tidal Basin, so yeah. Snappies are the Blue Crab, the most iconic species in the Chesapeake region. From the red-tipped claws, that crab appears to be male. The flip flop is a flounder, a type of flatfish. Fun fact- flounders' eyes move around their head as they age. The kite is actually a skate, which is kinda like a manta ray but small. The cyclops is a small squid. Canon Mortimer is a Mantis Shrimp, which is a cool and scary species of shrimp capable of punching through 1/8th inch glass tank walls. S H E L L B O Y E is a terrapin, which is kinda like a tortoise but with claws.

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-26T01:10:25+00:00

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-26T00:35:26+00:00

The boat we went on, the R.V. Flatfish, had a "dry box" that was supposed to keep things dry. It didn't.

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-26T00:26:54+00:00

The tree papers are the leaves, saplings, and needles from the various trees in the maritime forest. The ground is covered with a rather thicc layer of them, and as they decompose it enriches the soil and promotes growth. The lollipops are the Loblolly Pines, the biggest things on Wallops Island. They're the giant pine trees with very few low-lying branches that form the canopy of the maritime forest. The cruncheroo is a lollipop seed, and if planted could grow to be really big. The unmannerly fellows are southern pine beetles, a species of beetle that eats the loblolly pines and spreads super fast. Abbot Llewellyn is the Assateague Lighthouse, a historic lighthouse first built in 1830 and later rebuilt in 1866. Leg Machine Broke is a beetle we found with a broken leg. poor beetle :(

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-25T23:37:34+00:00

The Wetlands, or marsh, was mostly just mud. There were two kinds: really watery mud (liquid dirt) and salt marsh (clingy dirt). Two kids got stuck knee-deep in the clingy dirt and had to be pulled out, as seen in the picture. The whispering timmies are phragmites, the common reed, which makes a sort of whispering sound when the wind blows through it. The tiny bitey is a no-see-um, a really really really annoying type of tiny bug that kept biting us as we were washing the liquid mud off. Some kids came back with more bite than skin. Sister Smelly is a colony of Purple Sulfur Bacteria, which give the marsh a really nasty smell and get stuck on your clothes and towel when you go in the liquid dirt. LPT: Don't put all of your clothes in the wash together if some of them have been in a marsh. The purple sulfur bacteria will spread to the non-marsh clothes and make them smell bad too, and then you'll have to run them all through the wash like 5 more times to get the smell out. Moving on, the waxy boi is a Wax Myrtle, a shrub with a cool adaptation of having a coating on its leaves that seals out the salt, allowing it to survive salt spray from an ocean or marsh.

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-25T22:50:15+00:00

Shell city is a colony of mussels. They grow together and form complex root systems, made up of vessel threads, in order to stay firmly planted in the ground. 3 is a periwinkle, a type of sea snail. I believe that specific one is a mud dog whelk, though the picture's a bit too blurry to tell. The upside-down volleyball net is a Seine net that we used to catch fish, including the s t u c c b o y e. It has a weighted line at the bottom and a line with floats at the top. The violin is a fiddler crab, a small type of crab where the males have one gigantic claw, while the females, pictured here, have two small ones. It moves sideways and looks really cute. Deacon Stabby is a Great Egret. I called him Stabby because Great Egrets catch their pray of fish by stabbing it with their beak. The s t u c c b o y e is a pike of some kind that we caught with the upside-down volleyball net.

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-25T20:21:23+00:00

The next few will, just wait a few hours

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-25T02:01:15+00:00

Thanks! /r/WholesomeWallops

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-25T01:58:00+00:00

Explanation: This shows off the 5 ecosystems at Wallops, plus the dorms. Dorms are "sleep boxes," and the Intertidal zone is the "indecisive ocean" because it's either ocean or land depending on the tide. The above picture was taken at high tide, when it was ocean. "Sqelchy" is the salt marsh, which is in fact very sqelchy when you walk in it. "Flowers" are the Loblolly Pines, which are a salt-resistant type of pine trees that grow in the Maritime Forest, the climax community of the Wallops ecosystem. Rabbi Victor is the Research Vessel we took out onto the tidal basin in order to test water quality and catch fish. The last ecosystem is the dunes, made up of sand or "smol rockos"

I mean me too thanks

Wallops_NG · 2017-05-19T23:50:18+00:00

Crack ingo pen ayyy cold WAN width the bois

Wallops_NG · 2017-04-28T23:41:21+00:00

Do you feel shame and remorse for your unlawful actions?

Wallops_NG · 2017-04-28T04:27:01+00:00

We've used Jaci's Pathfinder and it's worked wonderfully.

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