Across the Indian Ocean: A remarkable example of trans-oceanic dispersal of the Australian trapdoor spider from Africa to Australia millions of years after Gondwana separated. journals.plos.org/plosoneโ€ฆ
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Benthic plastic litter is a main source of pollutants in oceans, but how it dispersed remained largely unknown until now. Litter dispersion in the deep sea may initially be governed by gravity flows, after which turbidity currents efficiently transfer plastic litter to the deeper ocean floor. geosociety.org/GSA/News/pโ€ฆ
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TIL that it's not pure water, but the salts and other ions found in natural water, that make it such a good conductor. However, the superconductivity of the ocean is so great that it is possible for an electric current to disperse across a human body within it, lessening the danger of electrocution. usgs.gov/special-topic/waโ€ฆ
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Saturday eve there was a proposal shoot on Strands beach. Sunday night the display and pounds of floral foam was dispersed across the beach and into the ocean. I cleaned up the yards of packing tape and moved wood to trash, that plastic floral foam will still be around long after the marriage. reddit.com/gallery/ibjrsm
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If you would disperse 1 drop of water in the entire ocean, how much area would the molecules cover?

Assume the ocean is completely still and level, what size of an area would a single drop of water cover if it were 1 molecule thick, or would it even have multiple layers?

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Mission idea: Oil spill dispersant/ spotting for oil on the ocean
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"Chart containing the coasts of California, New Albion, and Russian discoveries to the north : with the peninsula of Kamchatka, in Asia, opposite thereto : and islands, dispersed over the Pacific Ocean" - 1753
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If someone runs an electric current into the ocean, how far would it travel before it's totally dispersed?

Some folks will electrocute ponds as an easy (and illegal) way to get fish. If you did this to a massive body of water, such as the ocean, how far would the current travel?

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Chronological dispersal of Austronesian people across the Pacific Ocean
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Water my beliefs? Everything we are experiencing is the crest of the wave we are at the only point of the ocean that moves against the air, even creating the wind. When the wave crashes it slides back into the ocean, Team Wave dispersed back into Team Ocean Depths eventually recycled to the surface.

Recirculated back to the surface constructing out of water a new TeamWave, maybe even in a new ocean or river system. Experiencing the surface for what seems like the first time. Is every individual their own wave or is everything that is of this same reality currently that wave. Keeping its momentum energy until the end shedding individual water molecules throughout the journey. Weโ€™ll never find out these answers but weโ€™ll keep thinking about it! Make sure to tune in next week for another episode ofโ€ฆAs The Bong Smoulders

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Escape to Mars after weโ€™ve trashed the Earth? We are leaving to our descendants a heavy legacy in terms of radioactive waste, heavy metals dispersed all over the planet, and greenhouse gasesโ€”mainly CO2โ€”accumulated in the atmosphere and absorbed in the oceans. energyskeptic.com/2018/maโ€ฆ
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A job for a deathworlder [Chapter 14]

[Chapter 1] ; [Previous Chapter] ; [Wiki]

Wondering what happened at the marriage of Moar's son? Find out here

Again sorry for the late upload, but I hope you enjoy anyway.

Chapter 14

-[โ€œPreparations of the research area are completed, Maโ€™am.โ€]-

-[โ€œThe securing of cargo is completed, Maโ€™amโ€]-

-[โ€œVulnerable crewmembers have gathered in medical and are all present and accounted for, Maโ€™am. We are ready to proceed.โ€]-

-[โ€œThe living spaces are cleared for deceleration, Maโ€™amโ€]-

One after another, the hopefully near final updates of the process of Shidaโ€™s team came in over the comm-lines.

โ€œUnderstood,โ€ Shida answered while her eyes glided over the different numbers and values on the screen before her eyes. โ€œFinish up the last tasks and head back to the bridge afterwards. Iโ€™ll trust you to coordinate yourselves on that.โ€

-[โ€œCopy that Maโ€™amโ€]-

Turning to her right, where Clith was currently handling the messages coming in from all kinds of other teams on board, Shida asked,

โ€œEverythingโ€™s cleared on our end. How are things over all?โ€

The raxus expertly coordinated around the incoming information, controlling the terminal with quick, precise movements of all four of his wing-like arms. His head moved seemingly erratically, as his stiff eyes kept shifting focus between different areas of the screen.

โ€œNothing to report, Maโ€™am. All areas are cleared; We are ready to go,โ€ he answered professionally, his tone all business now.

โ€œAlright, then letโ€™s get this beauty docked,โ€ Shida responded, and with two quick moves of her arm, she summoned up two new interfaces on the terminal.

One was a communications-window. In real time, the dock of the G.C.S. was sending them their position and parameters, constantly keeping them updated on the exact numbers and values they would need to allow for a problem-free docking.

The other interface was the actual, manual control of the gravitational spin. Of course, it was still inhibited by the shipโ€™s safety system, that would not allow any dangerous changes, but over all, she was in control now.

The docks of the G.C.S. were basically stations of their own and so massive, that the ships co

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The ocean may be huge but boats disperse water and raise sea levels.
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Desalination breakthrough could lead to cheaper water filtration - scientists report an increase in efficiency in desalination membranes tested by 30%-40%, meaning they can clean more water while using less energy, that could lead to increased access to clean water and lower water bills. news.utexas.edu/2020/12/3โ€ฆ
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Neat graphic showing how water is dispersed on Pluto and Charon. Pluto is 1/3 water ice, which is 3-times the amount of water in all of Earth's oceans combined!
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Solar-powered desalination unit shows great promise: "combination of low cost, high efficiency, and lack of fouling for this desalination technology shows it has the potential to help solve the world's freshwater shortage" techxplore.com/news/2021-โ€ฆ
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Fuck it, hereโ€™s the entire Quran

This might take a while cause posts can only be 40,000 characters, comments can only be 10,000 characters, and the Quran is 800,000 characters, but Iโ€™ll finish it eventually

(starting here then finishing in comments)

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  1. THE OPENING (al-Fatihah) 1. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. 2. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. 3. The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 4. Master of the Day of Judgment. 5. It is You we worship, and upon You we call for help. 6. Guide us to the straight path. 7. The path of those You have blessed, not of those against whom there is anger, nor of those who are misguided. 2. THE HEIFER (al-Baqarah) In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful 1. Alif, Lam, Meem. 2. This is the Book in which there is no doubt, a guide for the righteous. 3. Those who believe in the unseen, and perform the prayers, and give from what We have provided for them. 4. And those who believe in what was revealed to you, and in what was revealed before you, and are certain of the Hereafter. 5. These are upon guidance from their Lord. These are the successful. 6. As for those who disbelieveโ€”it is the same for them, whether you have warned them, or have not warned themโ€”they do not believe. 7. Allah has set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing, and over their vision is a veil. They will have a severe torment. 8. Among the people are those who say, โ€œWe believe in Allah and in the Last Day,โ€ but they are not believers. 9. They seek to deceive Allah and those who believe, but they deceive none but themselves, though they are not aware. 10. In their hearts is sickness, and Allah has increased their sickness. They will have a painful punishment because of their denial. 11. And when it is said to them, โ€œDo not make trouble on earth,โ€ they say, โ€œWe are only reformers.โ€ 12. In fact, they are the troublemakers, but they are not aware. 13. And when it is said to them, โ€œBelieve as the people have believed,โ€ they say, โ€œShall we believe as the fools have believed?โ€ In fact, it is they who are the fools, but they do not know. 14. And when they come across those who believe, they say, โ€œWe believeโ€; but when they are alone with their devils, they say, โ€œWe are with you; we were only ridiculing.โ€ 15. It is Allah who ridicules them, and leaves them bewildered in their transgression. 16. Those are they who have bartered error for guidance; but their trade does not profit them, and they are not guided. 17. Their likeness is that of a person who kindl
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The #SHIB conspiracy theory

Greetings to the SHIBarmy. My fellow SHIBers. Today I present to you my thoughts on the most outstanding move in the history of crypto currency and possibly the greatest instance of wealth distribution in the human history. If you are a crypto traditionalist and didnโ€™t give two SHIBs about the meme coin ecosystem then please hold onto your socks because theyโ€™ll be knocked right off after reading this.

A disclaimer on my part: I HODL some SHIB as 15 percent of my current portfolio and anything beyond this point in this article is pure speculation based on observation of various crypto investors. This is not an investment advice I would encourage you to DYOR before FOMOing hard and investing all your dollahs in a good boi currency.

Ok letโ€™s get serious. Below are some of the highlights of the official SHIBA INU coin whitepaper (or the WOOFPAPER as the creators i.e.; Ryoshi call it):

Page 3:

โ€œ2021 opened our eyes to how little control the average person has in the face of these overarching, generational structures when GameStop and AMC stock value exploded seemingly overnight. WallStreetBets tested the waters of what it would look like to disperse control to consumers and inexperienced investors alike.โ€

This highlights that the idea behind SHIB was no joke or lulz but a very serious issue of uneven wealth distribution plaguing the humanity since the advent of currency systems. The idea behind its formation runs deeper than its other meme counterparts.

Page 4:

โ€œWe believe through the power of collective decentralization we can build something stronger than a centralized team ever could create.

A community-run token is nothing without the united individuals who give it purpose.โ€

This points at the primary goal of SHIB further strengthening the fact that decentralization and giving power to community to run the token instead of creators is at its core. To further hit it home there is no primary seed funding. They started from absolute zero and all the devs are volunteers. No one holds an initial offering even people involved in development need to buy from the market like the rest of us. They want to set its direction based on what people wish regardless of who they are.

These two facts alone would have peaked the interest of investors and non-investors alike. Why a meme coin is backed by such refined ideology? Isnโ€™t its sole purpose is shits and giggles? Well keep reading you are about to be blown out of the water on this one. So far these

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Why I still can't trust Darwin's Theory!

In 7 points, here are my reasons why I'm not convinced with evolution, you are free to accept it or disagree.

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(1) The Wrong Assumptions

Kangaroo, a problematic life example against evolution, the complexity is not knowing its origin, but how to identify the kangaroo from its fossils alone?

Couldn't find a better view, to be honest!

The kangaroo fossils doesn't have much difference from a dinosaur, and you will never find out the kangaroo's sack or its special breastfeeding organ without observational evidence on living kangaroos, so how did evolutionists know that apes without sack didn't exist? ....... They only guessed it from the fossils?!

Another contender is the giant Coelacanth, the 400M years old fish that was rumored 100 years ago as extinct and alleged as a link between water and land beings, turned out to be alive in the depths of the Indian Ocean, a fish from the dinosaurs age is still alive on the earth:

Don't get deceived by the camera distance, this one can exceed 2 meters in length!

Why it didn't evolve from its fossils? ...... Evolutionists classify these cases under the term "Living Fossil", Darwin was smart enough that he predicted the theory to be exploited later, so he coined a temporary term to keep the theory safe from criticism.

However, the dispute is not how evolutionists escape from these special cases that contradict evolution, it's the issue how did Darwin conclude the common ancestor idea if he already knew there are races which will never evolve or leave descendants? ..... With his primitive intel in 19th century?

A tough example is the Platypus, a living being that is amphibian, reptile-like, duck beak, otters foot, snake fang, beaver's tail, lays eggs, but breastfeeds its children without mammary glands:

It's cute, ........... But the venom is not!

The problem is not only for classifying this strange animal, but it's near impossible to define its true origins or who are its real ancestors!

The platy

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[magic/rpg] If I used a spell to disperse water in the middle of the ocean, what would happen?

I hope this is the appropriate subreddit! My bf is making an original tabletop rpg, and usually turns to me for "sciency" questions. But I didn't know how to answer this!

The original question was what would happen in a water plane, where there is only water, but I figured it would work the same as if I was in the middle of an ocean (as in right in the ocean, under water and all).

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Singularity - Chapter 42 [Hard Sci Fi, Fantasy, LitRPG]

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Arnel had a vivid dream. In the dream, he was being dragged out of a wreckage of twisted metal. He knew this was a dream because, in the skies above, he saw two moons, and the sky was filled with only twenty-three stars.

The two moons were old companions that Arnel knew very well. Fear and Dread. Phobos, and Deimos.

โ€œWe are alive, buddy,โ€ Thomas whispered, pulling Arnel out of the wreckage of the transport. Not that far away, the Pilum โ€” an eighty-meter tall rod of superalloy โ€” was embedded into the ground, silver armor glittering in the starlight. The ground around it was disturbed in such a way to resemble a crown of molten and glassed dirt, like a frozen splash of water. โ€œWe are alive.โ€

Arnel knew this was a dream because even though there were lakes and cloud forests around him, this was still Mars. And even though he knew this was a dream, he could not wake from it.

Why did he think of Mars? It was an old dream that now seemed so far away that it was simply unreachable. And yet, it came to him again, like a phantom in the night, settling on his consciousness as if to soothe him โ€” as if to remind him of something.

Certainly, there was a time when Arnel desired to be a Colonist. He had spent much of his time educating himself on the academic knowledge required to become one โ€” biology, various disciplines of physics, even philosophy to make himself a more attractive candidate. He never really asked himself why he wanted to leave his homeworld, he just knew that he did. Maybe, in his subconscious, he felt that Mars was the only way to escape from AGMI.

And now, in the sky above, surrounding those two moons, were the twenty-three lights of enlightened civilizations โ€” the twenty-three perpetual stars of Artificial Intelligence. They followed him here, even to this place, three hundred and fifty million kilometers away from the cradle that gave them birth. It was as if they wanted him to know that even if he went to the Andromeda Galaxy, two and a half million lightyears away, they would still find him โ€” their light would still reach him and their shackles would still bind him.

There was no escape. There was no freedom. Even i

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More than 99% of the release activity in the atmosphere was due to highly volatile radionuclides such as I, Te, Cs, Xe, Kr. ... Most releases were dispersed over the Pacific Ocean whereas about 20% was dispersed over the Japan main highland causing areas of significant deposit. sciencedirect.com/scienceโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ‹ Ocean keeper brand new token with Moon Shot potential launching soon! do not miss this one 1000x

๐ŸŒŠ Ocean Keeper

New coin about to launch with real moon shot potential, even in these hard market tines a moon shot is a possibility if a token can get it right!

Ocean keeper is a brand new charity meme token that is about to be launched on the Binance Smart Chain! This tokens main focus if you did not guess by the name is to protect our oceans!!

They have a passionate core team and want to make this token work! I have spoken to them and they will not let anything get in there way of making this token successful!

๐ŸŒŠ Ocean keeper mission statement

Overfishing, poaching and environmental waste has destroyed our marine populations and polluted our seas. Our oceans and its inhabitants are dying from illegal fishing, plastic pollution and the effects of climate change. The overfishing of our oceans could result in the complete collapse of the worldโ€™s fish stocks. it is predicted that if the rate of fishing continues that by 2048 the worldโ€™s oceans could be virtually emptied of sea-life.

When one fish specie is removed from an ecosystem it can lead to an ecosystem collapse. Protein demand shifts to other parts of the ocean or land placing pressure on other food systems

Our mission is directed towards environmentally conscious investors, this removes intermediaries between individuals and the causes they wish to support.

Our goal is to ensure we educate you, bring awareness and protect the future of our ocean life.

๐ŸŒŠ Tokenomics

๐Ÿ”น3% reflected to holders

๐Ÿ”น3% burn

๐Ÿ”น4% donated to charity

Now this 10% fee model has seemed to be very popular with other coins I have never seen it with such an aggressive allocation towards charity, I think that this could be a game changer if enough people who support the cause can get behind the token.

๐ŸŒŠ Why invest in ocean keeper!

The unique advantage of Ocean Keeper Token is that it offers a combining feature of investing with charitable causes. Ocean Keeper believes that investment and charity can be merged into one. Ocean Keeper secures the individuals financial freedom while benefiting the world, specifically the ocean and the marine life.

Ocean Keeper employs a limited token supply of 1 trillion tokens. On top of this there will be 50% burn of liquidity pool after phase one, with continued burns after that. This simply means the allocated tokens will be dispersed towards the charitable causes whilst maintaining a strong floor price on the market. Ocean Keeper protocol of definitively deflatio

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I found the planet that Luke Skywalker has been hiding on. 90% ocean with dispersed islands. i.reddituploads.com/a6ee8โ€ฆ
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Goodbye, black sky

Part one: Goodbye.

Whatโ€™s the worst thing that can happen to a species? Extinction? A slow societal decline into barbarism? Genetic degeneration? How about all the above?

What would be the harshest fate one race could inflict on another? Enslavement? Death? To burn their worlds and strand them amongst the stars, or to take the sky away from them?

That was the question on everyoneโ€™s mind that day, a cold December in the year 2860. The day the sky was taken from us.

Let me start at the beginning. My name is not important. You can call me Z if you like. I will start with a history lesson, for context. Honestly, Iโ€™m not sure who Iโ€™m writing this for. Records of these events are public for everyone. Everyone thatโ€™s left. I just feel like I need to write them down myself, to help me cope.

Seven centuries ago, humanity was making its first steps into outer space. Small steps at first. A few little ships, a few space stations, a whole bunch of satellites. Keeping it mostly close to home. Then came more and more interest as launches got cheaper and potential profits came closer to reality rather than a sci-fi pipedream. Our first successful asteroid mining operation was the turning point. Weโ€™d managed to pin a small, primitive, self-contained mining robot to an asteroid passing between the Earth and Moon. The little robot would extract iron and nickel, package it, and send it on a trajectory to one of the newest orbital stations weโ€™d set up just for this purpose. There, another robot would catch the package, bring it onboard and from there we would process it into material for a second mining robot. The constant thrust of the package launches gradually pushed the asteroid into a stable Earth orbit and we soon had a second very tiny, temporary moon.

That was the point where our space industry took off from. From there we grew ever outward, to the asteroid belt, to the Kuiper Belt, to comets and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Resource shortages on our mother planet soon became a thing of the past. We settled the Moon and Mars because we could, as if to fulfill a childhood dream. Conflicts died down for a time as people who didnโ€™t get along with one another could just leave and set up their own colonies, out on the moons of Jupiter and the other gas giants, or even closer in, nearer the Sun, to take advantage of its light.

But, disagreeable beings that we are, humans couldnโ€™t share even a whole solar system in peace. War with Earth was impossible, with it

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Landsharks cut through prairies, topple forests, and only leave devastation in their wake - Lore & History of the Bulette

Read the post and see the Bulette land across the editions on Dump Stat

The Bulette is another creature created from the strange pack of rubber toy figurines that was the inspiration for the owlbear and the rust monster. Itโ€™s a thoroughly enjoyable yet terrifying creature in Dungeons & Dragons lore. Whether itโ€™s an oddly french looking name - itโ€™s pronounced boo-lay, not bullet - or the fact that it is an armor-plated, vague dinosaur-looking creature that feels like something from a bad kids show, the Bulette is a creature you think you should be laughing at when it appears. Itโ€™s not until you realize that its armor makes the Bulette nearly impenetrable and that it can, and will, eat you, your friends, family, horse, and treasure without a second thought. Hard to laugh when this creature is standing on top of you, its razor-sharp teeth inches from your face.

If youโ€™ve ever had to face one of these creatures, you have Tim Kask to thank for creating this creature at the last minute for a tight deadline.

> โ€œThe bullette (boo-lay), as it was first called, was the first monster I invented. Why is the more interesting part of the story. I had decided to add a feature to DRAGON that would mean a new monster every issue; problem was, I had to launch an issue early because an ad didnโ€™t come in. I wrote it up very late at night; the nickname โ€œlandsharkโ€ was a reference to a character that the original Not Ready for Primetime Players had done on Saturday Night Live. I went to Dave Sutherland for an emergency drawing (drawings could be submitted to the printers after the copy was set) and he did a dandy job on almost no notice.โ€ > >Forums on Dragonsfoot.org

 

OD&D - Bulette

>Number Appearing: 1 (90%) -2 (10%) > >Armor Class: -2 > >Move: 14โ€ > >Hit Dice: 6-11 (8-sided) > >% in Lair: 5% > >Magic Resistance: None > >Damage/Attack: 4-48/mouth, 3-18/feet > >Treasure: None

The Bulette makes its debut in Dragon #1 (June 1975), becoming the first monster the magazine ever published. Itโ€™s pronounced boo-lay, and if anyone has a problem with that, Tim Kask is more than happy to explain why you are wrong. Created by Tim Kask, the Bulette is an odd creature that is nicknamed the Landshark, even if it looks nothing like a shark. Instead, it appears as the horrifying combination of the snapping tu

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Stories Told by the Echoing Conches: A Discussion of Possible Lore and Theories

Hey guys, I've made a comprehensive analysis (somewhat) of all the Echoing Conches chapters from the Echoing Tales Event. I haven't really seen something like this being posted here ever since all the conches were made available for searching. Why did I make this? Because I was having a blast with this update and I'm pretty sure most of you are as well. Having said that, some players would just skip the lore part and only care for the rewards. But guess what - the interesting things you can dig up from these conches are even worth more than some of the most polished chests you can find in the area. Though it should be noted that I excluded Chapter VI in this discussion since most of them are from recent recorded casual conversations (except for Albedo's).

I have made a video about this if you want to watch that instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utk6uly6BSU

So let's start with Chapter 1: Songs of a Distant Home, where all of the echoing conches can be found within Twinning Isle.

Chapter 1 tells us the story of the people who inhabited the Twinning Isle for generations. The chapter unfolded in a chronological manner but it had such a sad tone to it.

The first grandma said that they got shipwrecked 10 years ago and probably were among the first settlers of Twinning Isle. She then gave her grandchild a gift which means the heirloom was now handed down to the third generation starting from the first conch grandma.

The third-generation child became a mother and in turn passed down the heirloom to her own daughter, who is now the fourth generation.

The fourth-generation child became a grandmother herself and has gifted her grandchild the same heirloom, jumping to the 6th generation.

The 6th generation child seemed to be speaking to her playmates about what her grandmother gave her, hinting that the area now has a group of several young children as the whole settlement grew larger.

In the final conch, the 6th generation child has now become a mother as well. She can be heard speaking about the inevitable need to transfer to a higher settlement. The daughter then came and told her that she had no choice but to leave their prized heirloom inside the chest on the central part of Twinning Isle, the same one which we opened for 40 primos, a purple berserker goblet, 20k mora, and 4 mystic ores

Apart from the heirloom story which spun a total of seven generations in Twinning Isle, there was a surro

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Nightmarish ultraviolet photos of ocean swimmer's skin show how the corexit dispersant chemical, originally used to hide the BP oil from the Gulf spill, are now making it quickly get absorbed into human skin (as well as preventing bacterial decomposition) motherjones.com/blue-marbโ€ฆ
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BP CEO isn't just off message - he's way off message: "The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume." tpmmuckraker.talkingpointโ€ฆ
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Dispersion of ocean waves creating swell
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How Wild Rift changed my life

Many years ago, I played League of Legends. I wouldn't say I was a kid back then, but it was the second online game I had ever played. I used to have a childhood friend, the only person I could call a friend. It was simple back then. Games were played for fun, nothing too serious. My father was a much nicer man back then. My childhood friend and my father was my only family, and going outside wasn't really our thing. Games were what kept us together. And, League of Legends was the game that kept my childhood friend and I together, for better or for worse. Of course, we never played every day. It was a small hobby to pass the time occasionally.

I remember the first match I had won against players with my friend. Every tap of the keyboard, every button. They kept ringing. Would the feeling of defeat or victory rise in my heart again? This was what it felt to be alive to me at that time.

I would laugh every time we won. I would laugh every time we lost. I would laugh every time I made a mistake.

But, one day, everything changed.

My childhood friend became one of my worse enemies. The competitiveness from online games(not just League of Legends) drove Them crazy, and Their behaviour affected me emotionally. To escape this abuse, I sat and played a few matches on my own. This solved my problems for a moment.

But, it went on almost every day, every week, every month and every year. As soon as we started to play Wild Rift together to reignite our friendship once again, it became the day our friendship was over. And, at that time, I was full of regrets.

Since three years ago, my father had never been the same. League of Legends was the way I cope with the stress.

I would go outside, stare at the skies, the trees, watching as the leaves fall one by one as they form a small pile together, my mind straying aimlessly into the expanse. In my mind, I walked the shore on the beach. Watched as tragedy hits, breaking down these beautiful ships, laying waste to the ocean. Then the skies would grow dark, no signs of civilisation except for the road, my intimate friend. Not a single car passed by.

I always wished I'd met the tragedy in my dreams. Perhaps then I would be set free on the beach in my next life. I could traverse the shoreline alone for all eternity and sit by the waves, listening.

I'd sometimes watch as the clouds float across the sky, thin wisps of clouds that donโ€™t hint at rain or shade, floating miles above the ground, dancing listlessly acros

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If the north pole is nothing but floating ice, why does it not disperse across the oceans instead staying clumped together at the north pole?
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Sink

It started with blood on the bathroom floor.

I had just showered and shaved. This was a big deal for me. I lived alone and after a year without a job I had let myself go.

What was the point? I had always thought. Iโ€™ve nowhere to go, no-one to see. Most days would be spent on the sofa watching garbage tv.

This was the morning when all that would change. I donโ€™t know what had flipped my switch but I woke up feeling focused and determined.

Starting today, I would begin to look for work, I would exercise and in the evenings I would read. Maybe even sell the tv. Stupid thing.

Every day would begin with me shaving and showering. The daily shaving was probably a bit excessive as it takes two weeks for me to grow the wispiest of beards.

But that wasnโ€™t the point. Pride, self-discipline โ€“ they would be my watch words from now on.

Seeing the blood deflated me.

There were three thick puddles of it. I was such a Klutz that I had cut myself really badly while shaving. With a safety razor.

I wiped condensation from the mirror and looked for the fresh gash โ€“ only my skin was unmarked. Well, this was weird.

I must have bled from elsewhere. I took off the towel that I had wrapped myself in after the shower and with a lot of twisting in the mirror I checked myself all over. Nothing.

I wasnโ€™t the prettiest sight in the world, never had been, but there were no cuts in sight.

I took a deep breath. This made no sense, but I knew that things could go one of two ways. I could let it get me down โ€“ a path which led back to the sofa and daytime tv โ€“ or I could get on with things.

I had a plan. A life to sort out.

I decided to clean up the blood then go for a two-mile walk. A drawback was that I did not have a mop. So, I would go to the mart and buy one. I would also use it to clean the kitchen floor. The first steps of deep cleaning my apartment.

Liking my new life choices very much I headed out to the shop.

I was soaked wet by the time I got back home. Stiflingly hot weather punctuated by downpours seem to have become the norm for summers now.

I was hesitant as I went inside.

After every rainstorm recently, the apartment is filled with a rank smell. It leaves me feeling nauseous.

I have complained to my landlord and the local council, but they both ignored me. The stink seems to come from the plugholes in my bathroom and kitchen so I have always figured itโ€™s the drains.

Surely that was the councilโ€™s responsibility?

I decided to phone them there and

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Underrated aspects of Korra's waterbending

I was gonna give an intro but the title does it better than I could so lets just dive on in

Ice shields:

These provide an incredible defensive option that very, very few benders would be capable of breaking through

In the first episode we see her reflexive ice shield bring a fulky grown man covered in a suit, traveling at high speeds to a full and complete stop.

Her ice shield used against Unalaq, although it led to him bringing her down) was able to no sell this blast, causing them to instead disperse, this is the same scene that Unalaq was able to use water whips to slap away and destroy an AS earth avalanche from Korra

In the finale we again she her raise an ice shield/pillar to stop the strike of the Colossus( a mech capable of destroying buildings) that has extra power, and this shield manages to hold for several seconds

Speaking of the finale...

I know yall are probably tired of hearing about the Colossus feat, I sometimes am as well lol, but its legitimately crazy, however I'm going to mainly focus on the overlooked aspects

https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/11130/111305771/7454855-korracolossus.jpg

In this scene we see how far the Colossus is from the river and how far the water Korra raised would need to travel both distance and height wise. We can be sure of this by seeing how in this shot Korra is comparable to the Colossus whereas normally she would only reach up to its toe or even below, considering she's around Bolin's height

Considering this, the amount of force that Korra's waves had, being able to push the Colossus back several metres, despite the distance it needed to travel is genuinely terrifying, that along with the fact that she was also able to cover the back of the Colossus somehow and raised 3 different waves(for the colossus and cannon respectively) puts her in the tier of absolute monsters like King Bumi himself in terms of raw power.

Welp since we're talking about power lets continue with one of Korra's most over looked feats, during her fight with Eska and Desna, Korra is able to use 2 thin strips of water to completely decimate, and yes I mean decimate, click the link, go to 0:06 seconds and play on x0.25 speed the speed boats they are riding on

This is an insane feat of waterbending potency and shows that Korra would still be absolutely deadly with just a pouch of water and the bloodlust of her season 1 self to just p

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DAD JOKES ARE NOT DIRTY.

Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.

If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.

Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???

Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.

Thank you,

A Dad.

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The #SHIB conspiracy theory

Greetings to the SHIBarmy. My fellow SHIBers. Today I present to you my thoughts on the most outstanding move in the history of crypto currency and possibly the greatest instance of wealth distribution in the human history. If you are a crypto traditionalist and didnโ€™t give two SHIBs about the meme coin ecosystem then please hold onto your socks because theyโ€™ll be knocked right off after reading this.

A disclaimer on my part: I HODL some SHIB as 15 percent of my current portfolio and anything beyond this point in this article is pure speculation based on observation of various crypto investors. This is not an investment advice I would encourage you to DYOR before FOMOing hard and investing all your dollahs in a good boi currency.

Ok letโ€™s get serious. Below are some of the highlights of the official SHIBA INU coin whitepaper (or the WOOFPAPER as the creators i.e.; Ryoshi call it):

Page 3:

โ€œ2021 opened our eyes to how little control the average person has in the face of these overarching, generational structures when GameStop and AMC stock value exploded seemingly overnight. WallStreetBets tested the waters of what it would look like to disperse control to consumers and inexperienced investors alike.โ€

This highlights that the idea behind SHIB was no joke or lulz but a very serious issue of uneven wealth distribution plaguing the humanity since the advent of currency systems. The idea behind its formation runs deeper than its other meme counterparts.

Page 4:

โ€œWe believe through the power of collective decentralization we can build something stronger than a centralized team ever could create.

A community-run token is nothing without the united individuals who give it purpose.โ€

This points at the primary goal of SHIB further strengthening the fact that decentralization and giving power to community to run the token instead of creators is at its core. To further hit it home there is no primary seed funding. They started from absolute zero and all the devs are volunteers. No one holds an initial offering even people involved in development need to buy from the market like the rest of us. They want to set its direction based on what people wish regardless of who they are.

These two facts alone would have peaked the interest of investors and non-investors alike. Why a meme coin is backed by such refined ideology? Isnโ€™t its sole purpose is shits and giggles? Well keep reading you are about to be blown out of the water on this one. So far these

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