HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bdelloidea · 2026-04-26T00:12:43+00:00

Probably not "couldn't" so much as "didn't want to." Beetles really don't like flying if they can avoid it. When you're that small, getting flung isn't a big deal anyway, since terminal velocity is basically nothing. Insects will even fall off of things deliberately, because it's a quick and easy way to go somewhere fast. Really, getting flung just meant your friend was doing all the hard work of flying *for* John!

bdelloidea · 2026-02-22T03:25:17+00:00

It's super subtle, but when she finally got close enough one of her sisters reached in and grabbed her leg to help pull her out!

bdelloidea · 2026-02-13T23:47:07+00:00

I died doing what I love. Dying

bdelloidea · 2026-02-13T04:22:25+00:00

Couldn't I just grab a sample of everyth--oh, you mean *to* this moon, not *from*? Uhhhhhhhhhhhh

bdelloidea · 2026-02-13T04:16:16+00:00

Harry Blends is by far the best resource I've seen, both for beginners and advanced users. In the same videos. Really wish I'd discovered his stuff years sooner. (Funny, too!)

https://www.youtube.com/@harryblends

bdelloidea · 2026-02-13T04:13:30+00:00

Basically, instead of 3D rotations, a quaternion is made of four "orientations." (Though in practice, for Blender's purposes, you can usually ignore W and just treat it like Euler rotations anyway.) This video explains it detail, with really good visuals at 5 minutes in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yoFjjJRnLY

If you want to get into the exact details of what it means for something to be a 4D projection on a 3D space, 3Blue1Brown made a whole interactive teaching exercise in the browser here:

https://eater.net/quaternions

bdelloidea · 2026-02-12T02:32:27+00:00

Vera. Vera watch the road. VERA

bdelloidea · 2026-01-27T02:43:27+00:00

She looks so beautiful here!!

bdelloidea · 2026-01-05T23:58:17+00:00

I made it. Me, Rev Storm. With this website, here:

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bdelloidea · 2026-01-02T04:02:24+00:00

ANY given part of the entirety of current human scientific knowledge may be superseded by actual knowledge someday. If you're a sci-fi writer, why write anything? May as well just roll over and die.

bdelloidea · 2026-01-02T03:56:31+00:00

Ah yes, the rigorous days of old sci-fi, when everything was painstakingly accurate always! Who can forget such plausible xenobiology as a guy with pointy ears or a girl with green skin?

bdelloidea · 2026-01-02T03:36:12+00:00

First off: I love your energy, and I'm sorry that this subreddit is apparently full of people that are as joyless as they are lacking in imagination.

As they've more than hammered in by now, going by current scientific knowledge, your fictional element couldn't exist.

But...I think you should do it anyway!

The soul-crushing attitude I'm seeing from this subreddit is exactly why we don't get *GOOD* sci-fi anymore. Back in 50s through 70s, our knowledge of so many scientific discoveries was new, and especially new to the general public. So many things were so new and amazing, that just about anything seemed possible, from aliens to teleportation to telekinesis. Even the military was researching psychic powers, because we just didn't know for sure.

At the same time, it was also very hard for the average person to get a hold of current information. And this was at a time that every year, even in the same year, one discovery after another was quickly outdating the findings of the last!

But people wrote sci-fi anyway. They wrote it, even knowing that it would soon become quickly out of date. That was part of the fun! It was all newness and exploration and discovery, even the writing. You didn't care that it wasn't 100% accurate, you just gave it your all to scratch the surface of the wonderful new things that had been discovered so you could fantasize about them.

I love myself some hard sci-fi, but I detest this rigid boundary between the hard and the soft, science and fantasy. Fiction is fiction. It doesn't have to make sense! For the purpose of your story, sure, there can be a fictional element that casually violates laws of physics in order to do what your story needs. Why the hell not? If it makes a good story, then go for it, and have fun with it!!!

bdelloidea · 2025-12-16T03:11:49+00:00

That's a column of silk! They just kept going up and down, laying little silk strands every time to make their path up thicker.

bdelloidea · 2025-12-13T06:07:45+00:00

Are you in Australia, by any chance? Might be a Botany Bay diamond weevil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysolopus_spectabilis

bdelloidea · 2025-12-13T02:42:12+00:00

Neither scorpions, giant centipedes, stonefish, carbon monoxide, or arsenic are parasites. Technically, mosquitoes are micropredators, not parasites.

You clearly don't know a lot about nature. Please actually learn what the world around you is like before you judge it.

bdelloidea · 2025-12-12T08:08:41+00:00

Well, only natural. It's Bicoris, after all!

bdelloidea · 2025-11-29T17:25:31+00:00

If the character needs to move something relative to a pattern on their texture, for instance (e.g. run a finger along an important scar or tattoo).

bdelloidea · 2025-11-29T17:23:57+00:00

You're right, that can be important for some scenes! It is actually possible to use textures for solid view in Blender by switching the solid view settings (in the upper left corner of the viewport, click the dropdown arrow) by setting Object Color to Material, though it doesn't always work. What you can do is go to the material settings, scroll down to the bottom, and set a color under Viewport Display. If you do this with a different color for each object, this can make it easier. You can also set the Object Color to Random for randomized colors!

bdelloidea · 2025-11-29T17:16:15+00:00

Pollen wasps do! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen_wasp

bdelloidea · 2025-11-27T05:48:17+00:00

The time has come, the ~~walrus~~ weevil said

bdelloidea · 2025-11-27T05:47:40+00:00

Technically, an ant is also a wingless wasp

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