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Spoiler Tsofph Season 9(Final judgement)

Sonic: Didn't I give you more than enough chances?

Exeller: What chance? Chance to die?!

Sonic: No, a chance to keep your honour. An opportunity to go away with your honour for Queen Aleena.

Exeller: What........?

Sonic: Just what has made you like this, my friend? Why did you do such things that put you in this kind of danger and wretchedness?

Exeller: It's wealth, power, and my kind!

Sonic: Are they more important than yourself? Are they more important than your life and your honour? Have you ever thought about how your existence would stay in this dimension?

Exeller: If your group win, I will vanish. If I win, I will be honoured for my kind! That's wealth and power! Those without power don't know! I won't lose!

Sonic: That's why I'm helping you release your clenched hand. For once, open that clenched fist you think has wealth and power in it. You'll only find the blood and tears of innocent lives.......

Exeller: .........................

Sonic: If you don't stop, Manic, Sonia and Alice will be changed with everything.

Exeller: .........................!

Sonic: Queen Aleena and Uncle Chuck sacrificed their life to protect me from Artorius.

Exeller: .........................

Sonic: I believe you also like them at least in that way. Artorius too, he still loves me deep inside his heart. You too. I believe there is at least one thing that's similar between you and them.

Exeller: .........................

Sonic: Be free from your regret heart........

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the best thing that came out of ‘dead and buried’ for me was the fact that colin needed social media training for his role and at one point he was like: “so wait, you can just like… post things?” honestly, i love him.

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Novel ceramic material uses lattice disorder to enhance electrocaloric cooling

Electrocaloric (EC) cooling works by using electricity to generate a cooling effect, which is more efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly compared to traditional vapor-compression-based cooling methods. A research team led by associate Prof. Yin Lihua from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a new route based on lattice disorder effect to improve the electrocaloric effect in BaTiO3-based systems. Their research is published in Applied Physics Letters. In their new study, Yin and his team focused on improving the EC effect in BaTiO3 (barium titanate), which is commonly used in EC cooling systems. They designed materials with a special kind of disorder in their structure, which helps enhance the cooling effect.

Read more.

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Digital twin confirms nanotubes can detect cracks in aircraft wing mid-flight

Skoltech researchers have created a digital twin of a polymer composite material with a 2D sensor and successfully used it for structural integrity testing. The new technology can be used to manufacture various large structures, such as aircraft wings, wind turbine blades, and bridge spans, which are currently made of polymer composites. The layer of carbon nanotubes that the team inserted between the fiber-reinforced layers of the composite is so thin that adding a 2D sensor does not affect the thickness or overall design of an aircraft skin or other part. Defects in aircraft parts can be detected based on the changes in the electrical conductivity of the layer, and measurements can even be made during flight. This approach, called electrical impedance tomography, is a more efficient and less expensive alternative to fiber-optic sensors.

Read more.

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Chemical Safety: Crystalline Silica

A common material that requires specific safety precautions against many industries is crystalline silica. Silica can crystalize in several forms, including quartz (the most common), cristobalite, and tridymite. It is found in soil, sand, some stones, and concrete; in metal foundries in particular, cristobalite can form in clay molds. The main hazard of crystalline silica is a respiratory hazard, often requiring the use of respiratory PPE. Silicosis is a preventable occupational lung disease that can present in a variety of forms, including chronic or acute.

Sources/Further Reading: (Image source - CDC) (University of Stanford) (Yale University) (University of Washington)

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So this happened, right?

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El-Melloi Adventures volume 8 summary

As before, all of the work writing these was done by Comun (@kaibutsushidousha) on Beast’s Lair. I am simply gathering it all in one place. Each chapter has a link to Comun’s original post.

Volume list: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 8: Fem's Casa (Part 3)

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Epilogue

Afterword

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December 21st, 2023

Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan; found throughout North America and Europe, as well as the Near East, North Africa, South America and northern and eastern Asia.

Habitat: Most commonly found on flowers, as well as plant and animal-based materials; common indoors, in houses, flour mills, warehouses and attics, as well as under siding, and in bat roosts and bird nests.

Diet: Larvae feed on natural fibres, such as keratin and chitin, including dead animals and insects, animal hair, feathers, natural fibres like silk, wool, leather and cotton, carpet fibres, linens, napkins, curtains and other household items, as well as stored food. Adults feed on the pollen and nectar from flowering plants.

Description: While they are pretty in their adult form, varied carpet beetles are serious pests inside homes, universities and museums. Their caterpillar-like larvae have been known to decimate biological collections belonging to museums and universities, and due to their extremely varied diet, they're known to wind up fairly frequently inside houses.

The varied carpet beetle was the first insect studied for its circannual cycle, with environmental conditions controlling larval development, which may last up to two years. Temperature seems to be the most limiting factor to larval development, but relative humidity and food availability may also play important roles.

Images by Jean-Raphaël Guillaumin (adult) and André Karwath (larva)

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Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Portable Scans

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Cave of the Crystals or Giant Crystal Cave is a cave connected to the Naica Mine at a depth of 300 metres (980 ft), in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico... (Wikipedia)

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Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook issued by the National Hurricane Center in Miami, FL, USA

2024-11-21, 13:00 EST

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.

$$ Forecaster Hagen

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OH THIS ONE GETS TO ME

THE EXPRESSION ON LAVA LAMP’S FACE IN THAT BOTTOM PANEL

HE HAS NEVER LOOKED SO SCARED BEFORE

Also GOSH what this moment must be like to him. After all he’s been through and all he’s suffered, finally pulling his Sakura out of her Time Freeze only for the universe to shatter AND THEN his PARENTS jumping in out of nowhere to fix it. And it’s been HOW LONG since he’s seen them? He was a child, so young when he realised he would never see them again, and then taking on all the burdens of reality onto himself - AND THEN HERE THEY ARE AGAIN ALL THESE YEARS LATER AND HIS DAD IS HUGGING HIM FROM BEHIND AS HE TRIES TO SAVE EVERYONE AT ONCE. 

WHAT A MOMENT. 

Daddyaoran is talking about that one moment from Lava Lamp’s flashback in… uh let's see... Chapitre 192. It's the last time they saw each other, when Lava Lamp is being told about going to the Clow Kingdom for the first time.

There’s also a fun echo of that moment earlier, in Chapitre 189, when Lava Lamp first meets Yuuko. And in that scene when Lava Lamp says this exact phrase again Yuuko mentions that it reminds her of Daddyaoran - which is nice and cute and touching and ALSO comes around full circle HERE, when Daddyaoran is right here repeating Lava Lamp's own words to him after all this time. It's honestly beautiful.

I'm very intrigued by the look Sakura Sakura Sakura Sakura shoots him afterwards though.

AHHHHHHH This page confused me greatly until I realised that top panel IS TWO PANELS SQUISHED TOGETHER.

IT IS NOT A PICTURE OF LAVA LAMP HOLDING SAKURA - and therefore NOT a flashback like the previous page. IT IS LAVA LAMP ON THE RIGHT, AND SUPER SAKURA ON THE LEFT BEING HELD BY SAKURA SAKURA SAKURA SAKURA. RIGHT NOW, IN THE PRESENT.

LAVA LAMP IS REPLYING TO DADDYAORAN BY SAYING THAT HE WILL NOT LET SAKURA DIE, NO MATTER WHAT.

NEEDLESSLY VISUALLY CONFUSING FOR ME AND ME ONLY OH MY GOODNESS.

But all that aside let’s add in some similar moments that I went digging through the manga looking for to try figure this all out

Lava Lamp saying he won’t let Sakura die when he’s first making a wish with Yuuko

Lava Lamp saying he won’t let Sakura die when talking with Nadeshiko

Lava Lamp thinking about how he wasn’t going to let Sakura die when telling his backstory to Fai and Kurogane

Or, my big favourite, Our original clone Syaoran saying he won’t let Sakura die at the beginning of the manga. Which I can't link directly so I'm just going to add here:

YOU CAN SEE THE POTENTIAL FOR CONFUSION IF YOU WERE MISLEAD INTO THIS MIGHT BE A FLASHBACK RIGHT?

But throwing aside, if a certain crack theory ends up being right, it's that last example that ends up being the best. Because that would mean that Daddyaoran is quoting Lava Lamp to Lava Lamp, and then Lava Lamp quotes Daddyaoran to Daddyaoran.

But that's just a crack theory for now so let's move on and say nothing at all about that.

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I fw Kyoko x Homura a lot

I think she's one of the few she trusts more even after all of these loops, considering she's the first she reveals all of her worries about Mitakihara and she also forms some kind of alliance with her during the main series.

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“THEY’RE NOT FLOATIES! THEY’RE A FASHION CHOICE!!!”

-Roger Craig Smith keeps on delivering 🤣