Apparently, there were commercials in the 60s and 70s for the Ty-D-Bol (Tidy Bowl) toilet cleaner brand that has a little man floating about cleaning the toilet in a little boat.

From my interpretation, this is him and his family sitting in the bowl and someone coming to take a shit, hence the “full moon.”

I had to Google it.

Love all these updating block lists that bluesky has. It’s great.

Agreed. Personally, I think we should strap him to an SLS rocket and shoot him at the surface of the moon. It would be worth a billion dollars.

He’s not even from the US and camen here illegally.

Seems to be easier focusing with the calcite as well as durability in the scratchy sand environment.

Additionally, more derived/later species had aspherical lenses to compensate for the spherical aberration and dual layer organic→calcite lenses to allow for more of a refractive gradient to counteract the double imaging of calcite alone.

Modern arthropods probably done use it on land because of an inability to accumulate it in an efficient manner. Water arthropods like crustaceans probably done because it’s metabolically expensive to do these things when chitin alone can make for useful eyes.

Evolution is more of a “good enough” kinda situation.

From my searching, it would seem that trilobites used calcite to reinforce their hard parts as well. Crustaceans have amorphous calcium carbonate reinforced exoskeletons through mineralization, but no calcite land arthropods do not seem to have this mineralization tho.

I’m no expert. Just like using Google Scholar to answer questions I find interesting.

Chitin.

Well, that’s how you make a good curse.

Probably something like Total War.

This gave me a chuckle.

I think it’s a funny AF name. If not for the little Bobby Tables of it all. Somewhere, some news aggregator accidentally purged everything.

Remind me not to visit your place.

Oops. Not dragon. Is hydra.

Make it punishable by death for the C-Suite and Dissolution for the Corporate Entity.

And then start with Shell, BP, and Exxon and work your way down the list.

Lol. I know. I just know half of people don’t read the article or click through. So I was just giving your comment the video context. 😅

Dashcam video of bridge collapse.

One must tend the flames of the fires they set, lest they burn out of their own accord.

It belongs in a museum!

Incentive to train them wrong on purpose intensifies.

Now keep going until you are both bankrupt you labor exploiting, lead paint peddling, one armed bandits.