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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • It’s effectively your brain doing automatic white balance, it sees everything being tinted cyan so it just sorta subtracts cyan from the area, which results in white being reddish

    you can do this physically (by tiring out the colour-sensing cells in your eyes) if you stare at a colour for about 30 seconds then quickly look at a white surface, you should see the inverse of the first colour.








  • well almost, we don’t know what they sounded like but we can make pretty decent educated guesses at what they probably sounded like in general.

    For example parasaurolophus very definitely seems to have a resonating structure, like a trombone strapped to their face, so it’d be weird if they didn’t make some sort of trumpeting sounds.

    Another big one is that dinosaurs generally didn’t have anything like a voicebox or whatever the thing is that birds use to make their calls, so we can be quite confident that most dinosaurs didn’t make any bird-like noises, and they wouldn’t have been able to do stuff like roar either.

    Which leaves us with t.rex probably just having sounded somewhat like an alligator.









  • this is why i respect web spinning spiders and jumping spiders (despite the name).

    web spinners just spin their webs and sit there, they’re in their lane and flourishing.

    jumping spiders are smart enough to recognize that we are gods compared to them, and that we probably won’t appreciate them making sudden fast movements.