years ago when cable TV was a thing I'd be looking through the menu and see "...The next generation" and think "sweet, Star Trek TNG is on" but nope, it was just Degrassi: TNG.
Canadian TV gets a free pass from me for having a vampire homicide detective series.
Before even the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, I think, never mind the Angel spinoff.
Also a show called Cold Squad, years before Cold Case.
...basically before they started repackaging British reality TV like a liquidation store, it seemed to me like a surprising amount of American TV was just "hey this series worked well on those Canadians; let's make it slicker for more money and we can probably make bank".
(They probably didn't do that with DeGrassi because it was less aggressively Canadian. Forever Knight was very much set in Toronto, and I'm pretty sure no American procedural would even be put into production if there was a chance a lead would ever say "outside of Estevan, Saskatchewan" in the script.)
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
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What's with Saskatchewan and the fun-to-say names?
Fun fact: you can tell the age of a waxwing by the number of waxy tips. They don't have any the year that they hatch, and after their first winter, they'll get a couple, but to get a full collection like in the picture, the waxwing has to go through a second winter. It has to do with annual molting patterns.
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I would have 100% guessed that a "waxwing" was an insect based on Metzger's post.
I would have 100% guessed that a "waxwing" was an insect based on Metzger's post.
Birds are weird.
There's actually three species of waxwing! The one in @Mayabird 's post is a cedar waxwing, which are common pretty much everywhere in North America, generally.*
There's also the bohemian waxwing, which I actually have never seen! I don't think. It is possible I have and confused them for a cedar. IANAO.
I really need to rewatch that movie now that I'm not a kid.
You should! It's great! And I don't mean in an ironic way, or because it's one of my personal favourites despite being quite flawed (because it IS one of my personal favourites and it is NOT quite flawed), it's just a good movie. Nobody won any Oscars (I don't think?) but it's worth a rewatch every few years because it's so much fun.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
Galaxy Quest is hands down the best Star Trek movie. It's genuinely great. It's basically my husband's favorite movie, we watch it like once a month probably and it's hilarious every time.
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ShadowenSnores in the morningLoserdomRegistered Userregular
The new research was spurred by the discovery in 2016 of the first bacterium that had naturally evolved to eat plastic, at a waste dump in Japan. Scientists have now revealed the detailed structure of the crucial enzyme produced by the bug.
The international team then tweaked the enzyme to see how it had evolved, but tests showed they had inadvertently made the molecule even better at breaking down the PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic used for soft drink bottles. “What actually turned out was we improved the enzyme, which was a bit of a shock,” said Prof John McGeehan, at the University of Portsmouth, UK, who led the research. “It’s great and a real finding.”
Shadowen on
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
Is this when the plastic eating bug gets loose, developes a super low energy distribution method and turns modern society in to goo?
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
Is this when the plastic eating bug gets loose, developes a super low energy distribution method and turns modern society in to goo?
Given it was discovered in a garbage dump, it's already loose.
But in this case they just took some of the weak enzyme it produces and made the enzyme stronger. They didn't make the bacteria itself produce a stronger enzyme.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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So... Is it salt water safe?
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
Pff we make mutants all the time. Not always on purpose, either.
Usually they don't do anything. Usually.
Hey guys remember when we almost destroyed all plant life on earth with a GMO klebsiella strain that could survive off alcohol? (fakedit: turns out this was fake science pushed by the green party and cracked made a funny clickbait article on it) (http://online.sfsu.edu/rone/GEessays/Klebsiellaplanticola.html)
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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Wait, you dropped your book. Hmm, "To Serve Man", how kind of you.
S'all good
It's never too late!
Nah other people here covered my gripes pretty well as to why they are both based on enormous piles of unfounded assumptions.
don't hate
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
And also equations
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
and also Canada I guess
drake from degrassi
And De Grassi or whatever
no, the original series i think predates save by the bell. it however is canadian.
Before even the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, I think, never mind the Angel spinoff.
Also a show called Cold Squad, years before Cold Case.
...basically before they started repackaging British reality TV like a liquidation store, it seemed to me like a surprising amount of American TV was just "hey this series worked well on those Canadians; let's make it slicker for more money and we can probably make bank".
(They probably didn't do that with DeGrassi because it was less aggressively Canadian. Forever Knight was very much set in Toronto, and I'm pretty sure no American procedural would even be put into production if there was a chance a lead would ever say "outside of Estevan, Saskatchewan" in the script.)
Like Saskatoon.
Their feathers are so silky!
Fun fact: you can tell the age of a waxwing by the number of waxy tips. They don't have any the year that they hatch, and after their first winter, they'll get a couple, but to get a full collection like in the picture, the waxwing has to go through a second winter. It has to do with annual molting patterns.
Birds are weird.
so we’re still waiting for ither civilizations to call us on our cell phones
It's already happened. There's even a documentary about it!
There's actually three species of waxwing! The one in @Mayabird 's post is a cedar waxwing, which are common pretty much everywhere in North America, generally.*
There's also the bohemian waxwing, which I actually have never seen! I don't think. It is possible I have and confused them for a cedar. IANAO.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bohemian_Waxwing/overview
They're pretty similar, and the cedar waxwing is one of my favorite birds.
(Most birds are my favorite birds.)
Edit: *DEPENDING ON THE TIME OF YEAR
You should! It's great! And I don't mean in an ironic way, or because it's one of my personal favourites despite being quite flawed (because it IS one of my personal favourites and it is NOT quite flawed), it's just a good movie. Nobody won any Oscars (I don't think?) but it's worth a rewatch every few years because it's so much fun.
OH BIBBLING CHRIST
...enzyme that eats plastic bottles
*phew*
I, for one, am not really looking forward to living in The Andromeda Strain.
Usually they don't do anything. Usually.
It occurs to me if we could make plastic out of, say, trees instead of oil, it would have made a good carbon sink.
If it sank.
Given it was discovered in a garbage dump, it's already loose.
But in this case they just took some of the weak enzyme it produces and made the enzyme stronger. They didn't make the bacteria itself produce a stronger enzyme.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
Hey guys remember when we almost destroyed all plant life on earth with a GMO klebsiella strain that could survive off alcohol? (fakedit: turns out this was fake science pushed by the green party and cracked made a funny clickbait article on it) (http://online.sfsu.edu/rone/GEessays/Klebsiellaplanticola.html)