Found this and thought y'all would appreciate it 😂 I call it “The Flight of the Scallops” If anyone knows where this is from please add a link because this is awesome .

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of many things in this world, i still can’t believe scallops are real

It’s so weird to thinking of scallops swimming, but they totally do. It’s accomplished by clapping their shells together forcefully, which propels a jet of water out of the back on either side of the hinge - do it enough times in quick succession, and you’ve got forward momentum! 

This looks like a whole bunch of scallops trying to run away from the potential predator (the diver). I have no idea if this is a normal response since I’ve never dove in places where they lived. Normally, they’ll use swimming as a way to get away from potential predators that are harassing them a little too much for comfort. 

enough people liked the Merle sample of this so i decided to complete a full version of it with all 4 McElroys

original background track is Casin by glue70, audio is from The Adventure Zone, audio editing is by me

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here he is

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who was the fool who was tasked with naming the galaxy and the only adjective they could think of was ‘mmmmmmmmmmmmilky…’

scientist: (gazing up at space)  scientist: ……….. it sure is a milky boy 

NO

YOU DONT UNDERSTAND

ASTRONOMERS ARE THE SHITTIEST EVER AT NAMING THINGS I KID YOU NOT.

When it came time to name the two theoretical particle types that might be dark matter THEY INTENTIONALLY CHOSE THE NAMES SO THAT THE ACRONYMS WOULD SPELL “WIMPS” AND “MACHOS” I SHIT YOU NOT

THEY ARE FUCKING TERRIBLE AT NAMING ANYTHING

I just listened to a talk by Neil deGrasse Tyson himself LAST NIGHT and he went on about this more than once.

“I’m walking down the street and I’m like ‘ooh pretty rock…’ and some Geologist is like ‘actually, that’s anorthosite feldspar’ and I’m like ‘Nevermind, I don’t want it anymore.’ Any biologists in the audience? [some clapping] Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. The most important molecule in the human body, what did you name it? It has NINE SYLLABLES and it’s so long that even YOU GUYS abbreviate it as ‘DNA’!

But astrophysicists and astronomers? No, man, we call it like we see it. Star made of neutrons? NEUTRON STAR. Small white star? WHITE DWARF. You know that big red spot on Jupiter? Know what we called it? JUPITER’S RED SPOT.”

okay i’m glad you mentioned the biologist nonsense bc their naming methods are the bane of my existence

I see your astrophysicists-are-shit-at-names and raise you Marine-Biologists-Are-Fucking-Maniacs.

See this beautiful creature?

It’s a carnivorous deep-sea sponge that lives off of Easter Island and never sees the light of day, as it’s about 9000 feet down. Those delicate-looking orbs are covered in millions of tiny hooked spines, which latch onto anything unfortunate enough to bump into it, and hold it in place as it is digested alive by the sponge’s skin.  Amazing, beautiful and profoundly creepy.  They could have given it so many cool names.  Could have drawn on mythology (I think Scylla would have been an appropriate reference), the region it was found in, the textured skin, PHAGOCYTOSIS, anything!  

You wanna know what they called it?

PING-PONG TREE SPONGE.

Good job, marine biologists.

reblog flying ass giant pants guys for a fortune of good luck and good cash 

this is a cursed post that is capable of delivering good deeds

it’s the babadook’s chill cousin; the jeandeine

[discovered]

[immediately mocked by scientists]

me as a discovery

How can you not include the video?

@lordcephalopod

THEY’RE ROASTING HIM

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It’s been a while since we checked in on how the Renaissance is doing with its ocean mysteries, so here is a marine biology update circa 1550.

Seals come in two forms:

Buff

& Triangular

Walruses are horrifying

But whales are worse

Fish can have human faces

but not always where you’d expect

As for the rest

… it’s probably better left alone.

[All images except chest face fish from Historiae animalium liber IV : De piscium & aquatilium animantium natura. Chest face fish from The noble lyfe & natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles & fisshes yt be moste knowen]

Can you imagine thinking animals actually looked like this? Like I know there’s stylization here, but if I was an uneducated peasant in 1550 who saw these I might be religious too.

If I was a fictional character, how would the fandom misinterpret me?

Okay, THIS is a brilliant question. 

omg do this, this is a great meme

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know I mentioned this a bit recently, but asks of this form are always super awesome!

The average age of all people in the world is probably something like 30, which is also not too far from being peak fighting ability age. The average fighting ability of all humans currently in the world is probably a good deal lower than the fighting ability of an average 30-year-old. If you were trying to calculate the fighting ability of an average person, it is not clear to me whether the correct way to do it would be to take the average value of all demographic factors and then estimate the fighting ability of the resulting “average human” or to take something more closely approximating the average of the fighting abilities of all the humans so yeah I guess I don’t know whether I could beat an average person in a fight it’s hard to say

Most humans are either dead, not yet existent, or Boltzmann brains. You’ve got this.

hmmmmm...

so assuming the future goes well, I’m baaaasically in the 100th percentile here

the bass dropped at the same time help

At first I’m like huh, okay…

BUT THEN HELL ERUPTS

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK OH GOD

Complete and utter chaos.

holy shit

I feel like somewhere in the world Skrillex is smiling and nodding at this post like”ah yes. This was worth all my careful planning.”

@argumate

typecast as the bad music trashlord, woe is me etc.

What is going on here

The Shining, But Cold

Hey guys, I did a very amateur edit on Zootopia’s famous song by Shakira, “Try Everything”, mixing it with its japanese orchestral version. Enjoy!

this makes Zootopia 5 more times epic omg what kind of witchcraft-

Please listen to this.

Reblog to listen later

Yaaaasss it’s beautiful ^-^

Everything is better with orchestral support!!!

OMG this is so epic

AWESOMEEE

Guys I would never have imagined you‘d like it that much QwQ

Y’all make me happy!