Bubs

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

No, this is Patrick

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like we're making a major breakthrough here...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

As a little note, the eye tracking would be a huge selling point for social games like VRChat. Very few headsets support it so far.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would have to go with landmines. If that isn't enough of a deterrent, and claymores or even some bouncing betties.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here's the article: https://www.science.org/content/article/ants-stilts

And here's what I think is the official scientific paper (says free with login): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16809544/

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (8 children)

From an article I found online:

A team led by Matthias Wittlinger, a biologist at the University of Ulm, Germany, made modifications to desert ants [...]. After setting up an ant home outside the lab, the researchers let 25 ants take a 10-meter trip from their nest, then collected them. For one group, the team glued tiny stilts to the insects' legs. For another, they clipped the legs down to stumps. And for a control group they left the legs alone. Then the researchers gave each ant a piece of food and set it free. With morsels of food in their jaws, the ants immediately headed home. If desert ants do indeed use an internal pedometer, then the modifications should mess up their calculations.

Not only did the stilted and stumpy ants not make it home, but they also misjudged their distances exactly as the researchers predicted. The ants on stilts went about 5 meters too far before stopping to search for the nest, whereas the stumpy ants stopped about 5 meters too short [...] (Control ants got back home just fine.) After the modified ants were returned to the nest, they were able to go out and get back home just as accurately as normal ants, which should be the case if they're keeping track of the number of steps.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's the Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank of course!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bogos binted?

[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 months ago (7 children)

"Welcome to Applebee's! Would you like apples or bees?"

"Bees?"

"HE PICKED THE BEES!" chefs angrily shake jars of bees

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

He says what everyone's thinking!

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Moses Supposes (www.youtube.com)
 

This one was somewhat accidental. I was initially playing around with settings to get to know Stable Diffusion. I ended generating the first version of this image and really liked it. I then img2img SD upscaled it. Next I used several steps of inpaint to remove the extra faces and crowns that were on the sphere. Finally, I opened it in an image editor to clean up the various small artifacts introduced by the upscale and cleaned up some areas.

The model and prompt I used can be found here: https://civitai.com/posts/500346

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A coming-of-age story in the twenty-sixth century set 31 years before the events of Halo 4, Forward Unto Dawn follows Thomas Lasky, a cadet at a military training academy who is unsure of his future within the military but feels pressured to follow in the footsteps of his mother and brother. The academy is attacked by the Covenant, a religious alliance of aliens. Lasky and his surviving squad mates are rescued by the Master Chief and must escape the planet.

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I am Mother (2019 720p) (www.youtube.com)
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Starring Clara Rugaard, Luke Hawker, Rose Byrne, and Hilary Swank, the film follows Daughter, a girl in a post-apocalyptic bunker, being raised by Mother, a robot aiding the repopulation of Earth.

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Clara Robot (lemmings.world)
 
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