#2500m

[oneiroy]

finally back at my puter... after ~450km on my bike. my legs

[kf4rws-actual]

I ordered the radio on the right, a Yaesu FT-897, as a gift for myself for passing my General Class exam. I've wanted this radio since it was released in 2002 but as a Technician Class I wouldn't have been able to use but two frequency bands, not to mention it was out of my price range. I got it off of ebay and learned that it's a Japanese version and hard wired to not operate on all U.S. frequencies, even after MARS modding it. I already have the two radios on the left and the handheld (HT) for the 2 meter and 70cm bands so it's not a total loss and the radio still has performance abilities (power consumption wise) that far exceeds modern rigs.

[realhumanbaby]

It happened again, on a 4 hour bus ride from Oaxaca to San Jose, he asked for some water so I filled his bottle from mine. Except, as soon as we spoke, a door silently cracked open, a sliver of light. It took me a few minutes to notice, but by then the 50mg diphenhydramine had kicked in and I slipped into a dream. Every time I closed my eyes another scene played out. Kung Fu Panda 4 with Latin American dubs. A women boards carrying two buckets of fresh queso. His hands crane open a novella. The bus breaks down. His hands rub his face. Face obscured but his hands remain in view. Without warning we are dropped on the side of the road, a tiny mountain town, 2500m altitude, sparse oxygen. He is staring at me, shoulders square, thinking of something to say. I thought, there is a way for a gaze to be pleading but not demanding. I found the light too blinding to look back for more than a second at a time. After some stalled silence, a driver ushers him into a tuk tuk. Sobered, breathing heavily, I dragged my luggage up to the nearest restaurant, where I ordered a coffee and a bowl of rice, and at the end of the meal I am handed this message. For several hours I believed it meant that I would run into him again, somewhere on the mountain, until I realised it meant the opposite. To be a stranger one must remain a stranger.

[sleepyfins]

🐙🐟🐙/🐟🐙🐟/🐙🐟🐙

Sea Toad Gifs are mine from here and here!

Sea Toads are a family of deep sea anglerfish that also go by the name Coffinfish. They have a red body and a white lure as they live 2500m deep!

It walks on its large feet like fins to save energy, grows up to 30cm long and males have larger nostrils than females. They aren't picky eaters and are extremely energy efficient so they eat very little.

[proton-wobbler]

Warbler Showdown Finale: Bracket 4

Fan-tailed Warbler (Basileuterus lachrymosus)

IUCN Rating: Least Concern

Range: north Mexico to northwest Nicaragua

Habitat: submontane and lower montane evergreen and semi-deciduous forests. They favor rocky and rugged areas and places with undisturbed understory.

Subspecies: None/3* (IOC recognizes 3 subspecies)

Tacarcuna Warbler (Basileuterus tacarcunae)

IUCN Rating: (not ranked)

Range: found in Eastern Panama, in the Darién, and northwestern Colombia (Chocó)

Habitat: lower montane humid forests, as well as along forest edges and well-developed second growth, between 850-1200m

Subspecies: None* (used to be a subspecies of Three-striped Warbler)

Rufous-capped Warbler (Basileuterus rufifrons)

IUCN Rating: Least Concern

Range: most of the range is in Mexico, extending south into Guatemala and sometimes appearing into Texas or Arizona

Habitat: dry-scrub, brushy ravines, open woodland, and early second growth or forest edges. Found from lowlands to 2500m

Subspecies: 5

Image Sources: Fan-tailed (Anon); Tacarcuna (Jonathan Slifkin); Rufous (Adam Jackson)

[philoursmars]

Avec Christine, on a fêté nos 40 ans d'amitié en faisant un voyage de 15 jours en Sicile.

Montée vers l'Etna. Altitude 2500m. Le monstre crache calmement ses fumerolles 800 mètres plus haut...

[beloved-menagerie]

2500m up a mountain how are we all doing the view up here is great ✌

-- Juan

[kfkr1ze]

[002–A23] AUGUST SKY

Summary — ✈︎ The day before the summer festival, Akuta and Muneuji hear a sound coming from the egg. When they realize it was morse code, they decode the message. It says…

Characters— ✈︎ Akuta, Muneuji, Ushio, Nanaki, Kiroku

ーーAt dusk, the day before the festivalーー

(Egg tapping)

Akuta: Well?

There's something tapping inside right? Can you hear it?

Location: Otomari Chuuzaemon Inn in Shodoshima

Akuta: This sound… It’s kinda like the one you hear in those war movies, right? Umm, the one that goes ton ton tsu tsu… [1]

Muneuji: Are you talking about morse code?

Akuta: Yes, that thing!！

Muneuji: Let me try to decode it.

Akuta: EH?! You know how to?! 

Muneuji: My father taught me how. I have a small interest in amateur radio. I’m decent at tap code encrypted messages.

Akuta: That’s so damn cool!! What are you waiting around for!? What kinda crazy message is coming from the aliens!?

Muneuji: ………

“MAKE, A, WISH” …That’s what it said.

Akuta: Wooow… I knew it…

Location: Bus Stop in Shodoshima

Akuta: … Zzz… Snore snore……

Muneuji: Isotake. Wake up.

Akuta: ……Unm…… Huh!?

Fuck, I fell asleep! Right at the bus stop too! Ughh my body hurts! You shoulda woke me up sooner!

Muneuji: Please forgive me, I was caught up in decoding the messages. 

ーーThen, I’ll get straight to the point and tell you. The plan I agreed on with the egg.

Akuta: Yes, Captain Kaguya!

Muneuji: I told the egg that our ultimate goal was to make the summer festival a success. It gave me a reply.

It said, if we make a simple rocket and launch it with the egg attached, it will “consume” all the rain clouds.

Akuta: Consume… Wait, like it’s gonna eat all the clouds!?

Muneuji: I’m not too sure how literally that is supposed to be taken just yet, but that is exactly what the egg has promised to do. Please look at this.

Akuta: This is… A map of Shodoshima! Right?

Muneuji: According to the egg, the rain clouds in Shodoshima are at an altitude of about 2500-3000m.

Last year, I personally broke the previous record held for the longest distance a student could launch a plastic bottle rocket, which was around 1110m.

Akuta: With just a plastic bottle?! That’s so cool, Muneuji! I mean, Captain!

Muneuji: However, that is around 1400m shorter than the minimum height of 2500m. So, the egg requested that Hoshigayouyama, the mountain with the highest peak in Shodoshima, be used as the launch point. That would be right here.

Akuta: Would that be high enough!?

Muneuji: Hoshigayouyama has an altitude of 817m.

Akuta: So that means that…!? Um??

Muneuji: Even if we shot the rocket at the peak, it’s still 583m short. When you consider things like wind speeds and gravity, it’s even worse.

Akuta: Hmhm…… 

Muneuji: So? 

ーーWill you give up, Leader?

Akuta: !

Muneuji: Your decision?

Akuta: …Tell me what materials we need to make the plastic bottle rocket! I’ll gather them! About the rest… I’ll get to it when we come to it!

Muneuji: Understood!

Location: Beach in Shodoshima

Akuta: Muneuji〜! I borrowed a cart from some guy in the neighborhood!

Muneuji: Thank you. Let’s take the rocket to the top of the mountain now.

Akuta: I just saw Kari-sen’s[2] car heading to the venue, but Nanaki and Ushio both looked like their world was collapsing… We need to hurry up and launch this thing!

So, how’s the assembly going!?

Muneuji: Acquiring fuel rods was proving to be extremely difficult, but the egg suggested that we can use these as a substitute. 

Akuta: What are those?

Muneuji: They’re pieces of the egg. It gave me permission to do so, so I took some of the shell that was cracking off where the legs are. 

It’s hard to believe, but when you pour NaHCO3… In other words, baking soda, the egg transforms into a crystal-like shape that resembles hydrogen fuel. Thus, it will generate an explosive energy that rivals that of a hydrogen engine.

Akuta: S-Seriously!?

Muneuji: In addition to these, when the rocket reaches its highest point, the egg can use the rocket as a springboard to jump and gain some more altitude.

I thought the process was similar to the way multistage rockets were used to launch satellites into space, so I discussed that with the egg as well.

Akuta: Alright! Good job, Captain!

Location: Hoshigayouyama in Shodoshima

Muneuji: Hah… Hah… The rain is falling down now…

Akuta: Gh… It’s fine, we just gotta… grab the cart and… climb the mountain〜

Muneuji: Uwah!!

Akuta: Are you okay!!? You should… rest for a bit, Captain!! I’ll… definitely get this… to the top…! Hah… Hah…

Muneuji: Will it really be fine to launch it like this…? We still don’t know if it’s high enough… I mean, we don’t even know how well the fragments from egg do as a fuel source…

Akuta: … Hah… hah… We got no choice but to believe in it.

Right now, I’m just thinking… about what to do… after we launch it…! But y’know, before you get a happy ending, you always gotta try everything you can possibly do… until you can’t do anything else!

Muneuji: …Isotake.

Akuta: ! Are you done resting now?

Muneuji: Let’s go, to the top…!

Location: Hoshigayouyama’s Summit in Shodoshima

Akuta: “10 seconds left until launch off～!”

Location: Tomioka Hachiman Shrine in Shodoshima

Akuta: “10!”

“9!”

“8…”

“I know I’m in the middle of a countdown right now, but I wanted to say a few things! ーーI’m sorry, Sensei. 7.”

“If this ends up being a bust, I still don’t think it was pointless. I can just use that as a springboard for what I can do next.”

“To spend my time making good memories… or whatever you said. I don’t think that’s the case. Ah, 6.”

“I think there’s an overwhelming, unseen, almost fate-like power out there that can make any failure seem worth it. I feel like I’m the only one who can see it, but I think it’s the most amazing thing in the worldーー”

Kiroku: ………

Akuta: “I want there to be people out there who look at what I’m passionate about, see every single thing I’m obsessed with, and say “Ah, this guy is the best”…!”

“When there are people like that who praise me, especially when there’s a lotta them tooーー That’s when I can start saying that this summer was “for me” right!!!!”

Ushio: ………

Nanaki: Akuta… This guy isn’t saying the right things at all…

Location: Hoshigayouyama’s Summit in Shodoshima

Akuta: Well, time to get back to the countdownーー

Muneuji: We’re already at 1! It’s one!

Akuta: It’s at 1! Ignition!

Muneuji: Lift off!

Kaede: (The rain is just getting heavier… Will we be able to get the device there in time? If only we didn’t give up so quickly and did this sooner…)

Ugh, are you kidding?! The moment I needed it most, literally every traffic light I hit turns red.

(? Everyone outside is looking up and pointing at something… Huh? There’s something flying in the skyーー)

Tourist A: Ehh, what is that!? Did you see that just now!?

Tourist B: It looks like the thing that shot up took everything in the sky andーー

Elderly Man A: ……Eh……?

Everyone: EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH～～～!?

Akuta: “WOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!! THAT WAS SO FUCKING COOL!! LIKE WASN’T SERIOUSLY AWESOMEEE～～!?

Nanaki: Wait no, you’re not the one that’s supposed to be surprised!

Kiroku: …………

Ushio: What the hell, is this real? Should this even be possible?

That Idiotake does whatever he wants how he wants it. He just gets riled up all by himself.

He should really take us into consideration, since we’re the ones that have to clean up after him in the endーー But, well…

I do think thatーー This sunset is really pretty, though.

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Notes — ✈︎

Morse code goes ・ー・ー yk yk. Except I literally have no idea how to say them in English?? I know in Japanese, the short ones are ton and the long ones are tsu so I kept it like that 

“Kari-sen” -> Karigane-Sensei (Sakujiro)

[leleaulait]

L'impact des randos en montagne sur mon mental (et mon physique aussi évidemment) est assez dingo, depuis que suis petite mes grands parents nous amène randonnée partout donc je suis très très habitué au dénivelé et au 8h de marche a 2500m d'altitude, et à chaque fois quand j'atteins enfin le point le plus haut de la rando j'ai une satisfaction extrême, ça en devient addictif tout les été chez moi.

[unofficial-sean]

Bluntnose Sixgill Shark Fact Sheet!

It’s about time I made one of these, considering all the time I’ve put into researching them. I still have. . . 30 more papers to read out of 64, so I will update this post as I learn more.

> The taxonomic name of the bluntnose sixgill shark is Hexanchus griseus. It is under the family Hexanchidae, which are known as the “cow sharks.”

> Sixgills are globally distributed on continental slopes, shelves, and sea mounts, except for the Arctic and Southern oceans.

> Sixgills are ovoviviparous, which means their young develop in egg sacks within the mother’s uterus. They give birth to up to 108 pups and are polyandrous, which means one litter was multiple contributing fathers.

> Sixgill pups start out with a total length of 68-73cm, and can grow up to 5m!

> Sixgills occupy deep waters during the day and shallower waters at night, migrating up and down the sea floor slopes at dusk and dawn.

> A group of sixgills is called a shoal. The largest recorded gathering of sixgills was a shoal of 21 sharks.

> Sixgills share a genus with two other species, the Atlantic sixgill shark (Hexanchus vitulus) and the bigeye sixgill shark (Hexanchus nakamurai)

> Hexanchid teeth have been found as far back as the Eocene epoch, about 33.5 to 56 million years ago.

> Sixgills growing up in Puget Sound have friends! They can often be found in pairs with same-sex conspecifics.

> Sixgills are generalist scavengers that spend most of their time above the sea floor (epibenthic).

> These sharks occupy depths up to 2500m.

> Sixgills give birth about once every two years.

> Sixgills are docile sharks, and have never harmed a human.

> Males have “scrolls” which sheath the claspers, making sexing at a glance more difficult than with other sharks species.

> We have yet to develop a method of determining the age of these sharks due to poor skeletal calcification. We don’t know how old they are or how long they live.

> Sixgills have comb-like teeth on the lower-jaw which allow them to saw and shear off chunks of flesh from bodies.

> A sixgill shark was responsible for biting a submarine fiber optic cable on a certain clip recorded by a commercial ROV in 2003!

> A sixgill shark once gave a ride to a crab on her fin! Her name is Crusty.

[samantha-dan564]

リンクは貼らないけど

YoutubeでKTX-イウムのN700Sの加速比較動画みたいなのがあった。こんなもん比較したところで用途が違うんだから正直意味なんてない（機械は用途に最適化されかつ汎用性に優れているものこそが高性能というのが俺の評価基準）んだけど、コメント欄を見てちょっと感慨深い気持ちになった

それは「N700Sは加速が早いだけでなく乗り心地がいい」みたいなコメント。いや俺が子供の頃って東海道新幹線ってーのは東北新幹線に比べてレールは50Nだし曲線半径はR=2500mだしで乗り心地が悪い新幹線っていうのが定評だったんだよね

で、実際今の東海道新幹線に乗るとたしかに乗り心地はいいんだよね。東北新幹線並みとは言わないけど十分現代の新幹線の水準に達してる。あの路盤を285km/hで走ってだぜ！？

東海道新幹線の保線とN700Sの比類なき軽量化技術と空力設計の的確さが、東海道新幹線の評価をがらりと変えたんだよね。なんか感慨深いものがあるよ

あと、N700系は運転特性がほんと素直。あんなに運転しやすい電車あんまりないんじゃないかな？　特にATC30拾ってからの精密停車はシロートの俺でも容易にできるレベルの素直な特性（実車じゃなくて運転所の訓練シミュレータでの感想だけど）でびっくりしたよ

JR東海はよほどの技術オタクがいたんだろうか。東海道新幹線を30年でものすごくシステマティックに完成させたなって感がある

[weeping-wandrian]

y’all why did i think i could accomplish anything at 2500m. i am a Sea Level Girlie and proud of it

[mik-mania]

this is just me wondering outloud, cus i gotta do some refresher research in any case. how narced do you think the passengers were by the time they got that deep?

if i recall correctly, narcosis can happen even in a simulated setting. im sure the pilot had enough experience to navigate being that narced, but idk the history of the other passengers. i can only imagine that they were narced out of their gourds at ~2500 meters/~8200 feet.

at the risk of spreading misinfo (cus again. id have to do some research), its quite possible that the passengers didnt even know where the fuck they were at that point or that anything was even wrong cus they would be so nitrogen-drunk at that depth.

every 10m you decend is like having another martini, so at ~2500m, that would be like having had 250 martinis...

i want to give the company the benefit of the doubt and say its possible they had some sort of special air filtration/mix to keep narcosis at a minimum, buuuuut....

(also dont take any of this as factual. im hazy on the specifics and dont recall if narcosis is different for submarines vs. diving, this is all speculation at best)

[stumbleimg]

Clouds creeping over the 2500m / 7500ft high ridge of Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania [1024x683] OC

[narcomedusae]

Daily Jellyfish #2 - Bathykorus bouilloni

Bathykorus bouilloni (Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Narcomedusae; Aeginidae) AKA the 'Darth Vader Jellyfish'.

© 2005 Kevin Raskoff

Has four primary noncontractile stinging tentacles set on it's bell. When foraging for prey (i.e. krill and gelatinous animals), the four primary tentacles will usually be held above the bell in the direction of the movement - a foraging technique called 'stealth predation'.

They also have four shorter secondary tentacles, which are set lower down. Each of these lower four secondary tentacles have a statocyst on either side.

B. bouilloni usually ranges to around 2cm in width. It's coloration is transparent and pale blue.

© 2015 Aino Hosia

B. bouilloni is currently the only species in the monotypic genus Bathykorus.

Typically it can be found at a depth range of about 800-2500m - a mid-ground between the Mesopelagic (Twilight) and Bathypelagic (Midnight) zones. Found in the Arctic Ocean, most notably around Greenland and the north of Canada.

© 2015 Aino Hosia

Unlike other jellyfish, B. bouilloni do not have a polyp or medusae stage in their life cycle. Additionally, they are unique in that they commence some of their development inside the body of another adult jellyfish, rather than open water. To achieve maturation, they parasitically feed off of their host jellyfish.

They do not stay in the same jellyfish for the entire process, and will sometimes even feed off a species of jellyfish that isn't it's own.

© 2015 Aino Hosia

Masterlist! // Truly a funky little dude. They run in my thoughts rent free. Their life cycle is so cool - definitely deserving of their own genus!

[proton-wobbler]

Warbler Showdown Finale: Bracket 3

Buff-rumped Warbler (Myiothlypis fulvicauda)

IUCN Rating: Least Concern

Range: extensive for this genus- from Nicaragua in Central America down to northern Bolivia and western Brazil.

Habitat: heavily associated with water; typically found along rivers and streams in the foothills and lowland forest swamps. Found up to 1500m, but typically below 1000m.

Subspecies: 6

Russet-crowned Warbler (Myiothlypis coronata)

IUCN Rating: Least Concern

Range: the Andes, from northwest Venezuela down to mid-Bolivia.

Habitat: humid montane forest, cloud forests, and forest borders, as well as well-developed second growth with a dense understory. Occurs at 1300-2500m in elevation, occasionally up to 3100m.

Subspecies: 8

Images Sources: Russet-crowned (Andres Vasquez Noboa); Buff-rumped (Andres Vasquez Noboa)