Wandering Adventure Party

@mkj @sundogplanets god knows the Western Canon is stodgy and Eurocentric and male-centric and all that, but like, Greek legends and the Bible and such give you the 101 versions that science fiction writers are adapting/riffing on/inspired by. what i'm trying to say is, even the most basic bitch humanities education could have helped these people

@sundogplanets it's incredibly embarrassing and pathetic that a lot of the techie sorts with access to power now are people who…like I say, there's no such thing as reading too much science fiction, but there IS such a thing as reading too LITTLE stuff that ISN'T science fiction.

@ai6yr @faraiwe @oneguynick 1) oh shit for real? i didn't know, that sucks 2) @ryan does Owncast streams!

@ShaulaEvans OH BOY. Saving this to come back to once I've had tea.

@atomicpoet I'm not "convinced it can't be done"; I'm genuinely *unsure* if federation, *as it currently works*, is the best way to publish and consume video online given the high cost of storage, the inefficiency of duplicating it across servers, and the fact that for many creators videos are much less ephemeral than short text posts and therefore migration and archiving (where fedi currently falls short) are even more important concerns.

I agree we need to break free from YouTube, Instagram, etc., but I do not think ActivityPub is necessarily the only way it can be done.

And l think people should not hurry to jump to the next shiny new platform without putting in their due diligence on who runs it, how the project is governed, and how they plan on not repeating the worst mistakes of the last platform.

@atomicpoet @loops I am not a dev, so I am not working on something else. I'm not even sure if decentralized video *can* be done effectively with ActivityPub. I am just sure as hell not supporting Loops or Pixelfed.

Oh my god, it's full of stars

edit: a scientist just estimated their density at ~360 per m², and on a bacterial mat (which I think I missed) 40 per m²

Side note: like Argentines, Uruguayans also seem keenly interested in what foreigners think of mate. 🧉

Chat is also irresistibly charmed by being referred to as "radioescuchas" (radio listeners) by the scientists. They also say "pibalvos", "pibalbis"…I do not know if it is slang or an in-joke I missed.

edit: someone in chat kindly explained that it is a portmanteau of "pibe" (kid) and "bivalvo" (bivalve)

New #UruguaySub200 #DeepWaterUruguay divestream just started! Today, the Montevideo submarine canyon. https://youtu.be/rwmk4-72LaU

Expedition website (en Español): https://uruguaysub200.udelar.edu.uy/
Schmidt Ocean page (in English): https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/visualizing-the-deep-off-uruguay/

Every single inch of the shipwreck is carpeted in sea creatures. One of the scientists and an ROV operator, both familiar with shipwrecks, remarked that they were surprised by the vivid colours and rich variety. The destroyer is now "the creator of life," quipped head scientist Alvar Carranza.

The fish called "hake" in English has such a lovely Spanish name: la merluza.

In chat:
- "In my head the 'Titanic' song is playing"
- "The same thing is happening to me hahaha"

Someone else says their 82-year-old grandfather is very excited to see this because he once visited the ship on a school trip.

OMG. Right now the ROV is visiting a naufragio (shipwreck)! The destroyer _ROU Uruguay_, originally a US Navy ship from WWII, was intentionally sunk in 1995 when it reached end of life.

Livestream & more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEoF066PDQ

#UruguaySub200 #DeepWaterUruguay

Oh my goodness. At the very end of the stream, just as they were about to start hauling the ROV up, this beautiful squid appeared and put on a show for the camera. How perfectly magical and serendipitous.

Video starts here: https://youtu.be/xjtyz-u9FK4?t=27808

edit: squid not octopus, thanks @MugsysRapSheet

I did not want to learn that Uruguay, like parts of Canada, also has milk in bags by the ROV coming across a milk bag at the bottom of the ocean

They came across a chemosynthetic clam (edit: cf. family Vesicomyidae, thanks clamman) and chat lost its shit: "Habemus almeja!" "Almeja por Fabri!" (I think Fabrizio, the scientist whose birthday it is, was hoping for a clam?)

However to the dismay and confusion of both chat and scientists, it seemed to break into pieces as they were lowering it into one of the bio-boxes with the scoop.

It's an emotional rollercoaster down here.

(Chat, seemingly trying to find the silver lining, is getting hype about sediment: "ARENITA PARA LETI" ["sand for Leticia", the sedimentologist]. It's funny because it is nothing but sediment as far as the eye can see)

(cc @dantheclamman)

Side note: I can't hear the very common Spanish word "entonces" without thinking of Toonces, the Driving Cat from SNL: https://youtu.be/5fvsItXYgzk

smh a menstrual cup at the bottom of the sea, truly no place on earth is safe from pollution /s

Some of the creatures encountered so far today in a very short time span:

- the very relatable-looking "lizard-fish", as chat declared
- someone called this squishy pink lump "albondiga" (meatball)
- a wonderfully vivid camarón
- chat dubbed this "tortafrita" (the Uruguayan version of the fried flatbread called sopaipilla).

once again, the current divestream is at https://youtu.be/xjtyz-u9FK4

oh shit guys we hit the edge of the map gotta turn back

oh shiiiiit today we're over 3000 km below sea level on the ABYSSAL PLAIN. The three words she really wants to hear: "Possible chemosynthetic environment." https://youtu.be/xjtyz-u9FK4

#UruguaySub200 #DeepWaterUruguay