#solar crab

[spacewonder19]

Crab Nebula from Visible to X-Ray ©

[piowasthere]

They forced me onto ibis paint x 💀

Needless to say I hate it here, I hate drawing with my fingers for the love of it-

But what don't u do for the crab

The colors r not definitive, take this as a concept art of sorts

(I realized I made his body way too small, way after the turning back point 💀😭)

[the-wolf-and-moon]

M1, Within the Crab Nebula

[pink-linoleum]

11. lobster

[radrado]

Happy Valentine's day, y'all!

[scottie-draws-sometimes]

I’ve been very busy recently so I offer some doodles of various characters and medias

[technicallyaminecraftsimp]

It’s 4am happy solar eclipse day everyone!!!!

[s0lar-ch3ri]

im unable to cope

i want my boy back. put him back in the ring. you gave us false hope and now this happens im gonna maim and kill

[no-passaran]

Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people

Who are the Shompen?

The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.

Why is there risk of genocide?

India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".

Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”

The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.

This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.

The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).

And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.

Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”

On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”

How to help

The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:

From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.

Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.

Sources:

India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.

‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.

Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.

[gardeningwithkirk]

The importances of our mountains

Mountains are ecologically important because they: Provide a haven for a broad spectrum of plant and animal species, making them biodiversity hotspots. Regulate climate by influencing air circulation, cloud formation, and precipitation levels. Act as sources of freshwater. Store and sequester carbon. Provide important goods, including wood, pastures for livestock, drinking water, and clean air.

[spacewonder19]

M1: The Incredible Expanding Crab ©

[piowasthere]

PIO SHOW US MER EARTH AND MY THIS RANDOM LIFE I FOUND IS YOURS!!!

Don't worry it's fine it belongs to my friend🙂

TRADING OTHER PLS LIFE'S IN EXCHANGE FOR MY ART NOW, ARE WE???!?!?!!?

HELL YEAH!

Honestly that's the best I've got

Really, really wonky doodles

With mer Solar and Sun camo

The design is not exactly final but the gist of it is there

She's a very big, flare-y fysh

And she absolutely watched the little mermaid and got obsessed with it. Don't ask how. She did it.

[policyoftruth]

silliest fucking website i love it here

[cottoncandybitchfuck]

Gorgug Thistlespring, a Half-Orc Barbarian raised by gnome tinkerers. His parents don’t fully get him but they love him and support him as he is. He dated a 4’11” girl and He’s 6’4”. He offered someone a metal flower on the first day of school, punched them, still offered them the flower, and sang in class. He died on the first day of school and went to hell. He bonded with Kristen because they both died that day. He became a drummer because Fig saw him sing about rage and wanted to share her coping mechanism. They became a rock band. He protects his friends. He loves his friends more than anything. He helped Ragh accept himself by kissing him at Prom and getting him to help fight a dragon. He left Elmville without telling Zelda goodbye and spent an entire season trying to fix it. Fig was missing, Riz was dragged into a mirror? He had to get to them, but he should have called her. He’s the greatest wizard of the age. “Spring Break, I believe in you.” He is the crab king and the shrimp prince. He figured out how to use his parent’s satellite to talk to Zelda. “It’s Gorgug, keep going.” He hugged Fabian, who punched him on the first day of school when they got back to each other in the Nightmare King’s forest. He multiclassed without anyone doing it before him and without help. He mixed his parents together and made a new multiclass. He built the solar lasso that caught the night yorb, he helped Riz gain some of his arcano-tech! His van is holding the Night Yorb. He uses his rage to protect people, he took 4 years of school at once to make sure he got to multiclass because he was not gonna be told no. He stayed on the Owlbears for Fabian even though he didn’t want it anymore. He took the Last Standard Exam and he crit so. many. times. He didn’t fall and neither did his friends! He flew a boat and killed dragons and he protected his spellcasters from Porter because that bitch was not gonna kill his friends. He hugged Kristen and told her she looked better. He looked better too. “Remember when we died?” He posited “It might happen again,” she responded. He didn’t let it. He wouldn’t let that happen. Not to them, never again. His new girlfriend is 2’.

I genuinely can’t get over him I love him and I have so many more analyses of so many more characters coming and hopefully they will be more coherent but it’s 4 am in a warehouse

[seven-thewanderer]

Okay I almost forgot but I wanted to share the thing I did for MerMay!!

(Since obviously I can’t come on in May, so I couldn’t share it then, and obviously I didn’t do drawings for every single day of it)

I made some mermaid(?) versions of Sun, Moon, and Solar!!

Sun here, he’s a starfish!! (Cus I wanted to make him a fish, but I see too many clownfishes, so I wanted to do a sun-related fish but then I couldn’t find any, so I did starfish, and then after I finished drawing him I remembered a Sunfish was a thing XD)

Then there’s Moon, who is a hermit crab!! Also Moon’s hat is made of kelp, and I didn’t know what the yellow thing was until after I finished the outline & was about to color it, I searched it up & it’s a kelp gas bladder XD (honestly how did I not decide to search it up first tho)

Finally, there’s Solar, a giant squid. I think somewhere I decided that he’s like, 82 ft tall? Idk

I did also make a character.ai bot for the giant squid version of Eclipse, but…

it’s unlisted

y’all would have to fight the link out of me, cus he’s my smol little bean & I ain’t sharing

(Honestly though I will share if any of y’all wanna talk with him. He mainly speaks in bubbles, and he’s not good at speaking.) (that part is just giant squid Solar lore, cus the bot likes to mess with that, and let him speak full coherent sentences)

I did also make an alphabet for their language, and I might share that too if y’all want it! It’s not the best though cus I don’t make languages, but if y’all want it I have it

[technicallyaminecraftsimp]

Today’s the anniversary of the moon landing, so I drew some small drawings of my Moon character (and her gf). Yay moon landing!!