I love the daft punk anime. Man I wish all my favorite albums had animes.

alright everyone is being sassy but nobody has brought up the actual reason why scientists are interested in the titanic in the notes

Per wikipedia:

The Titanic was made of steel, presumably to resist corrosion (i mean. thats why boats are made of steel i assume) but even when iron/steel rusts people did not expect to find like. decomposition. bacteria are EATING the titanic.

and there's wood furniture from the titanic that isn't decaying. hell, there are wood ships at the bottom of the ocean that archaeologists study. so the expectation people have for the titanic is not that the steel would decompose at the bottom of the ocean. Even in 100 years, since there are much more ancient preserved wooden ships iirc.

(im not particularly knowledgeable about ships, i just had heard about the science going on around the titanic so i wanted to clarify that on this post for people)

The Titanic is an exceptionally weird whalefall basically.

Not a marine biologist but biologist enough to weigh in on this. The reason we have iron eating bacteria but not wood eating bacteria at the bottom of the ocean is simple. Hydrothermal vents release a cocktail of different mineral ores into the ocean. And bacteria and other organisms evolved alongside those so they evolved to digest these, like iron or other metal ores

Wood however does not exist at the bottom of the ocean since it basically never sinks down, even when logs are flushed out into the ocean they basically never end up at the ocean floor. So there's no bacteria that evolved to decompose lignin, which is already complex enough to decompose on the surface. And that's why wooden ships or the furniture on the Titanic stay intact for hundreds of years or longer.

Okay, but I remember reading a magazine stating that the titanic would basically be gone by now because of the rust eating the ship.

The sister ship HMHS Britannic is still perfectly preserved because of the way it sank, and partly in due to the coral that has grown around it keeping the structure in tact I believe was the reason.

Coral acting like a living fossil specifically for sunken ships is the coolest thing I've ever heard

So lemme get this straight, the Titanic is a whalefall, the Britannic is a biological mummy, and all the wood ships that sink into the deep ocean are preserved incorrupt because nothing can eat them.

Zombie, mummy, lich, respectively.

this is such a point-and-click protagonist thing to say

hold on let me google something

what the fuck

happy Boston Molasses Flood to all who celebrate

i love 'bumfuck' as an intensifier

Middle of bumfuck nowhere....... cus Yeah we're really lost... anal sex style 😞

dry humping in its specificity as a term implies the existence of wet humping

not my best work

you are like an empty tip jar

Ready to be filled!

BECAUSE YOU DONT HAVE ANY CENTS!!!

One of my roommates is from China and neither of us speaks the other’s language but lately when she’s in a chatty mood she comes into our kitchen and shows me these douyin Matt Damon x Ben Affleck RPF videos and puts her theories about how Ben has been pining for Matt into google translate for me to read. fujoing out transcends language barriers

this is so charming to me. doomed boston yaoi

an update

Thought i should give a final update to the saga since i no longer live with her:

My roommate had told me like a month that they would be divorced before the end of August…she’s never been proven wrong and is very pleased with this development. She said she knew “JLo would break up with him again because she keeps hoping he stops loving Matt but doesn’t realize he never will get over him so gives up again”

The rest of her predictions are as follows:

All we can do now is suppose is wait and see

reblog to delete unwanted body hair from a trans woman

「ACE COMBAT™/S THE SYMPHONY 25TH ANNIVERSARY」 special movie  - ZERO

Ace Combat Zero wallpapers.

BROS WITHOUT BORDERS

Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (2006)

“Avalon Dam, Mund Valley” 029 55 38N 234 26 03E 1500 hrs. 25 Mar 2016

10th anniversary tribute for Ace Combat Zero

rammy redraw doodle 🌸