My understanding is, this is a very common cause of death among divers. The pressure doesn’t kill you, but it gets you stuck long enough that you suffocate. Because even if safety teams are notified immediately, getting you out is difficult enough that they might not be able to get you out in time before you die

Sure, but learning tends to be easier when there’s a practical application to the things you’re learning

Oh, the spider-squids definitely will trigger your disgust response. At least they evolve into something nicer after a while

I think in part because speculating what the land looks like on an alien planet is actually really hard to do, and the vast majority of artists just wing it. With sufficient planning and rigor, alien planets should look normal.

For instance, I think the landmass of Tira-292b looks pretty natural. It’s a hypothetical planet created for the Alien Biospheres project, a YouTube series that tries to build up an alien ecosystem as accurately to science as reasonably possible

It’s a seriously underrated series, I highly recommend everyone check it out

Alkylation is a term in organic chemistry which means to form a carbon-carbon bond (simplifying, but accurate enough). This is actually somewhat difficult to do - it turns out that carbons are actually quite stable. For context, organic chemistry tends to work with a carbon “core” that doesn’t really change a ton, with a bunch of random other atoms stuck on the carbon core. And you typically mess with the other random atoms rather than the carbon core.

However, in some semi-specific cases, you can manipulate a molecule to be unstable enough that it would be willing to break or form carbon bonds. Many forms of alkylation involve using a second molecule that contains a carbon bonded to a bromine or iodine (in this case, the molecule is C2H5Br). The end result is that your molecule (the one you want to modify) kicks out the other molecule’s bromine, and a new carbon-carbon bond is formed in its place. Basically, you’ve just fused the two molecules together.

The meme is just showing several examples of C2H5Br being used as the “secondary molecule” and being fused onto things that make zero sense.

Edit: ironically, the last example (“alkylating agent itself”), despite sounding the most absurd, is actually probably the most feasible example to alkylate

Yes, Wikipedia mentioned that they fall too. The article mentions that the hatchlings have wide feet to help lessen the chances that they fall

Searched it up cause I was curious too. It’s the white tern, and according to Wikipedia, the egg does roll off frequently. The bird simply doesn’t care and lays another egg