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ysabelmystic

Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.

Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.

This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.

bethany-sensei

Flash floods are definitely gonna kill people, so here’s your regularly scheduled PSA:

Desert soil does not absorb a significant amount of water. It reaches maximum saturation very very quickly, and all the rest of the water rushes downhill. Even if you can’t tell that the ground is not perfectly flat, the water can. And it will move. Quickly. No, faster than that. Nope, still faster. If you try to cross moving floodwater, you will get swept downstream and probably die.

Do not try to wade in/cross flood water that is any deeper than the thickness of the sole of an average athletic shoe, no I am not kidding, the water will get deeper literally while you’re standing in it.

This goes for cars, too. I’ve seen entire vehicles getting swept downstream in flash floods because the driver thought they could cross the “puddle” and Found Out.

Stay safe, y’all.

boxingcleverrr

also if you're going into water intentionally (cleanup, obviously as things RECEDE), PROTECT YOUR EYES. Flood water is NASTY AS HELL and you will be getting a tetanus booster right off the bat if you end up in the ER for any reason.

mxzenith

Related to the above: After wading in the water, get somewhere with clean water and wash every inch of your body. The water being nasty means: There can be gases, oils, other harmful/irritating contaminants, there can be sewage (probably will be tbh), and then (And I'm sorry for this) animals will be dead in the water around you. Things like squirrels, birds, etc. They will be decomposing in there. You're basically wading in a soup of the nastiest shit you can imagine. So, post clean-up in the water: Shower, then GET YOUR FRICKIN' TETANUS BOOSTER.

Also, if you have a vagina, be extra careful. If you think yeast infections are nasty, they're nothing compared to contact dermatitis of the vulva, and the vulva is EXTREMELY sensitive along with the vagina. (Source: Me. I had an allergic reaction to a laundry detergent and it was the WORST experience of my life, I can't imagine how much worse it'd be in THAT kind of water.)

wiisagi-maiingan

There can also be EXPOSED LIVE POWER LINES UNDER THE WATER. You legitimately have no idea what is in flood water, what is being carried, what kind of debris is at the bottom. If you can at all avoid going into the flood water, DO NOT GO INTO THE FLOOD WATER.

ringneckedpheasant

Anonymous asked:

How is the parasaurolophus used its horn for sound resonating idea seen nowadays?

a-dinosaur-a-day answered:

100% the leading hypothesis. we’ve even modeled what the sound would be like

impossiblepackage

Sometimes if I get the exact right/wrong amount of drunk ill cry a little bit because i will never hear a parasaurolophus call.

a-dinosaur-a-day

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why would they need to be so loud? did they spend a lot of time spread apart from each other?

do you think they made contact calls, like parrots and other birds of today?

do you think they spread out foraging, calling out to each other?

"I am thinking of you. Are you thinking of me? I am lonely, but not when I can hear you. I will see you soon."

i just. fuck dude. i am once again having feelings about the parasaurolophus. i'm only crying a little bit.

a-dinosaur-a-day

I mean, thats *exactly* what we think they were doing!

Plus, lots of hadrosaurs (the group Parasaurolophus is in) lived alongside each other, and they all would have been that loud and constantly talking to each other. So they needed to be able to tell which calls were whose!

spinosnoreus-aegypticus

oh to romance a fellow hadrosaur by bellowing from a great distance, singing a song that would be totally unique, only to be complimented and returned by an equally beautiful call from across the late cretaceous marshes. I think it would be beautiful actually. I would like to see that documentary

a-dinosaur-a-day

honestly the more we are able to find out about dinosaurs and sound the clearer it is that sound was just as important to nonavian dinosaurs as it is to modern birds

the Mesozoic was loud and everyone had something to say