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unnonexistence · 3 months ago

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one of my friends is a biologist & i was really amused hearing some of her stories yesterday because they put into context just how believable newt's kaiju drift is as Shit A Biologist Would Do. like my friend has personally met both a guy who got infected with a botfly larva and didn't do anything to remove it (because he just didn't mind), and another guy who identified a tapeworm species by intentionally exposing himself to it (he had it narrowed down to 2 species and needed to know if it was the one that would infect humans) (it was)

#newton geiszler #unscientific aside #drifting with a kaiju is on a whole different level of dangerous. but still.#he's an expert on them. he knew (thought he knew) what he was doing #can also confirm from personal experience that hermann is extremely accurate as a mathematician #like theres a whole range of personalities in mathematics so that part is just 'hes believable as an eccentric academic'#but mathematicians have A Thing about chalkboards #90% of the math profs i had used chalkboards and the 10% who didnt have chalkboards used powerpoint slides #cant remember seeing anyone use dry erase boards except one poor TA who had to fill in one time and was STRUGGLING #well and profs from my non-math classes #also if you ask math people why they like math i think roughly half of them will say something about the beauty of the universe #also his exhausted sigh when pentecost says 'i need more than a prediction' lmao. buddy i have BEEN there #oh and the fact that they have him doing some computer modeling & that he wrote code for the jaegers #extremely overlapping disciplines. i had mandatory computer science courses alongside algebra and stats and all that #& you need to be able to write at least a little code to do the predictive model stuff hes doing #anyway yeah i love them. best eccentric scientists #ask to tag #parasites

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