I love Allyson. that is all.
except not really. I shopped in a Wal-Mart today. I feel all icky. Spent over $100 too.
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Dec 22, 2011 7:23:38 pm PST #12732 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Allyson - Dec 22, 2011 7:23:53 pm PST #12733 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
PZ Myers once gave a talk in which he said (paraphrasing) that if we can't manage to communicate with a squid, how can we expect to communicate with some aliens on another planet out there?
The whole talk was about what sort of things survived over the half dozen extinction events the earth had, what sort of shapes seemed conducive to survival. The mighty mollusk is one of those things, I guess.
Allyson - Dec 22, 2011 7:24:46 pm PST #12734 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
except not really.
Wait. About loving me or about that being all? I need more nouns!
msbelle - Dec 22, 2011 7:25:36 pm PST #12735 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
about that being all.
OF COURSE I LOVE YOU. OUR LOVE IS SO PURE!
Zenkitty - Dec 22, 2011 7:30:46 pm PST #12736 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
How does the squid even see the bacteria before they start to glow, to gather them up? Did the pocket evolve specifically for that purpose? I just -- there are so many questions.
Ginger - Dec 22, 2011 7:39:21 pm PST #12737 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
How do they KNOW?
Texting.
Zenkitty - Dec 22, 2011 7:41:46 pm PST #12738 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Bacteria have 4G?
billytea - Dec 22, 2011 7:44:02 pm PST #12739 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The other amazing thing is that billytea's spidey sense did not alert him to this discussion.
What makes you think it didn't?
The part I find most remarkable is that they release the bacteria when they're done. There are many deep sea creatures (including squid) that have formed a more permanent symbiotic relationship with bioluminescent bacteria. (There's one squid which has adapted the ink-squirting trick - when threatened, it'll shoot a cloud of glowing bacteria at the threat and flee during the confusion.)
I can't figure out why squid haven't yet taken over the world, because they damn well could. Maybe they figure it isn't worth the effort.
There's a program I watched a few years ago, The Future is Wild, which contained highly speculative suggestions on the future courses evolution might take in the absence of humans. 200 million years in the future, you had a fight for dominance on land between two creatures, one a predatory behemoth and the other a small, intelligent tree-dweller. And they're both squid.
Burrell - Dec 22, 2011 7:44:10 pm PST #12740 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
OMG this just in: I am home alone! With a glass of wine relaxing after my stretch class. That is like a Christmas miracle right there.
Of course, should perhaps call DH and remind him that the kids' bedtime was an hour ago, but it's not like I'm really worried about it.
Allyson - Dec 22, 2011 7:49:47 pm PST #12741 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
The part I find most remarkable is that they release the bacteria when they're done.
IIRC, the bacteria go bananas with the making of more bacteria, and dying off, creating a toxic environment for the squid if they are not released. It's beneficial for the bacteria in that it makes MOAR bacteria happen. I think. I wrote it all down in a notebook at the time. I need to email Bassler to fact-check me on the essay for Sidelines, because my biology understanding is so much weaker than my physics understanding, and my physics understanding is pretty much, "Entropy. It makes a fucking mess."