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Which is weird, because we have some VERY dramatic pictures of the plague. Most of them in black and white, thankfully.

For lent-related purposes, I presume? Same as beavers.

Or both!

Well, this local mushroom is either the Taste Scrumptiouspuff, which is amazing is stews, roasts and stirfry… or the murderkilldeathshroom. Would you say this fringe is curved with a swirl, or swirled with a curve?

Yeah, but the bugs at least aren’t opportunistic.

Ostrich tastes basically like super lean beef. Ostriches are absolutely not herbivores though, they eat bugs and small rodents too.

what is this, a battery for ants?

Chemist here: yep.

Chemistry is just simplified biology.

Eh, for organic, maybe. For inorganic not really. And all the crystal stuff is just physics we appropriated. And the rest of materials science is rightfully ours as well and one day we shall take it back from the engineers.

Exactly. Same in organic chemistry: very few things in the experiment will actually hurt you, but a lot of things on you will ruin the experiment.

Sure, but those are still “big glass jars full of electricity”

Yes, except you need to buy each bit in a big glass jar.

Edit: only half joking, they used big Leiden Jars, which were basically giant glass batteries. There was no such thing as people with power at home, unless you were crazy rich

I mean, it would be some 25 years until the radio was invented. And Hertz’ machine required a 30kV spark on a 2.5m meter long antenna with 2 solid 30cm zinc spheres, and his transmission range was something like “barely down the hall”.

Not the most practical method.

But they’re covered in nuts

Sprites are a lightning phenomenon in the mesosphere of earth. They’re red because of nitrogen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)

1m90ish is 7cm taller than the average Dutch male.

Look at its sad little long snoot.

Yeah, nothing about the blatant hallucinations to even basic questions, the dashes are the major problem

LOTS of competitive sports as we have them now came from the military. Shooting, fencing, riding, etc were all basically dominated by military and winning contests was seen as a great historical way of showing your country’s military prowess.

There are also used to be WAY more olympic shooting sports, including moving targets, animal-shaped moving targets, etc etc. Hell, one of the biggest horse-riding championships here in the Netherlands is called “Military” (the english word, because dutch people love stealing words from other languages).

Wait, the Slow Loris and shrew are venomous???