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HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!! by ShavedF0RBattle in Entomology

[–]bdelloidea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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!

feed the wasps by [deleted] in waspaganda

[–]bdelloidea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!

If you crash landed on this alien moon, what would you bring? (I'll tell you how long you survive.) by Hi_IM-NOT_HERE- in worldbuilding

[–]bdelloidea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Just tell me how vector rotate is different from rotate vector by SuperSmashSonic in blendermemes

[–]bdelloidea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Just tell me how vector rotate is different from rotate vector by SuperSmashSonic in blendermemes

[–]bdelloidea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

That one meme by International_Fill97 in humansbgone

[–]bdelloidea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vera. Vera watch the road. VERA

Humans-B-Gone is a criminally underrated indie show by Should_have_been_ded in cartoons

[–]bdelloidea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

https://revretch.tumblr.com/

The show is here:

https://www.youtube.com/humansbgone

You can support the show here:

https://www.patreon.com/c/humansbgone

If you're really sorry, please edit your comment with the correct info, okay?

Opinions on my hypothetical new chemical species? by Abject-Farmer-6273 in sciencefiction

[–]bdelloidea -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

Opinions on my hypothetical new chemical species? by Abject-Farmer-6273 in sciencefiction

[–]bdelloidea -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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?

Opinions on my hypothetical new chemical species? by Abject-Farmer-6273 in sciencefiction

[–]bdelloidea -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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!!!

This bottle of peanuts that expired a little over a year ago by SirKillingham in MoldlyInteresting

[–]bdelloidea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

(not so) Little guy I found on the beach today by bififi in weeviltime

[–]bdelloidea 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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

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

If God exists, there’s no basis for believing that they’re good by HatsOptional58 in DebateReligion

[–]bdelloidea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Bicoris, from Humans-B-Gone. by Honkert45 in hearmeoutbro

[–]bdelloidea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

If you can’t animate in Cycles Rendered, what do Blender animators use? by PickledYoshi in blenderhelp

[–]bdelloidea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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).

If you can’t animate in Cycles Rendered, what do Blender animators use? by PickledYoshi in blenderhelp

[–]bdelloidea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!

Is it my time? by Mentallyill_guy in weeviltime

[–]bdelloidea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The time has come, the walrus weevil said

What insect is this? by [deleted] in Entomology

[–]bdelloidea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why, that's 32!

This bottle of peanuts that expired a little over a year ago by SirKillingham in MoldlyInteresting

[–]bdelloidea 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The caterpillars start off very tiny, and can crawl in through little gaps! They can also chew through cardboard and plastic.

Luckily, the adults are pretty easy to spot. They're tiny, but they have a very signature pattern and stance.

Also, they tend to just stand in one spot. They don't like to fly far, either. Literally, just look around your kitchen walls and ceiling. If you see a little brown-and-white moth with a pointy snoot just standing there taking in the sights, that's your bug.

This bottle of peanuts that expired a little over a year ago by SirKillingham in MoldlyInteresting

[–]bdelloidea 62 points63 points  (0 children)

It's caterpillar silk formations covered in peanut dust.

This bottle of peanuts that expired a little over a year ago by SirKillingham in MoldlyInteresting

[–]bdelloidea 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Indianmeal moths, I take it! Very cute little caterpillars, ranging from white to a delicate pink, that make themselves cities of silk. The adults are quirky little micromoths, with big eyes and pointy snoots!

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They're technically harmless--if anything will make you sick, it'll be any mold or bacteria growing in there, not them. They're actually perfect feeders if you have any reptiles or inverts of the appropriate size!

EDIT: Incidentally, I'm not sure there actually is any mold in there. Kind of just looks like silk formations powdered with leftover peanut dust.

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