Meet the water anole, a small lizard native to the tropics of Central America. While studying these anoles, researchers discovered that they could flee underwater and remain submerged for 16 minutes or more at a time. Curious to see how the lizard manages this feat, they filmed them underwater, discovering that the anole seems to exhale a small bubble that sticks on its face and then re-inhale it.
How exactly this built-in “scuba gear” works is still under investigation, but here’s my guess. Fresh oxygen can diffuse from water into a bubble; some insects use this to breathe underwater. The natural, random motion of molecules tends to cause chemicals to move from areas of high concentration to those of low concentration. But this molecular diffusion is extremely slow. That tiny bubble you see isn’t around long enough for any significant molecular diffusion of fresh oxygen. But what if the surface of the bubble is actually much larger?
Notice the silvery shininess we see on the anole. That’s because most of the lizard isn’t actually wet. The anole is superhydrophobic, so its skin has trapped a thin layer of air that appears to extend over a large part of its body. I think perhaps the anole has fresh oxygen diffusing into the air layer across most of its skin, and the large bubble it inhales and exhales serves as a sort of pump to help draw that fresh oxygen through the air layer and into its body. That could help explain how the anole can stay submerged for so long.
As researchers continue to investigate this little aquanaut, it will be interesting to discover just what its secrets are! (Image and video credit: L. Swierk; via Gizmodo)
First it was Desmond at the nightclub. Now it’s this Nemis kid up in Canada getting photographed with a naked drag queen. Read that again - THERE WAS A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOSHOOT OF A YOUNG CHILD NEXT TO A NAKED GROWN MAN IN A SEXUAL CONTEXT. These kids are being groomed, and people aren’t even being subtle about it any more. This is child abuse.
So what are we actively doing to try to get this changed? Who do we call? What petitions do we sign to get responsible adults involved in these kids’ lives. If any of my mutuals have information or resources, please share them here.
Anyone?
The media doesn’t seem to gave a problem with it, or they’re too scared of being labeled problematic, so grass roots is all we got
Someone needs to get their dander up to build a show of force.
Maybe an Anti-Pedo militia.
I’d join.
We need to get this crap trending somehow. Turn it into another DaddyOfFive situation.
That’s an idea. Do we know how the people who fought against DaddyOfFive got their message out effectively?
Somebody get PhillyD on the phone
PhillyD wouldn’t touch it because problematic
Yes, he would. He’s touched worse.
I’d find the homes. Confirm it’s the right target. Call cps. Give them their fair shot at fixing this legal. If they fuck it up, discuss next steps.
I wouldn’t know how to start. But if you do? Go for it.
(And for the record, I’m bisexual, I support drag queens…and I would straight up murder anyone who tried to hurt a child in my presence. You dickheads who are trying to turn this into an anti-LGBT “burn duh evul gays” thing can fuck right off.)
I can agree to that. For me it’s about the kids.
Right. So what’s the first step here? Finding out where the parents live?
Find the kids. Then try to handle it legal. I’ll start when I get back home.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LOCATE THESE CHILDREN.
That’s a bad idea. What we need to do is like stated above, we need to get this in front of someone with a wide enough audience to blow it up. Does anyone have pull with with someone like Philip Defranco? Attempting to locate these children and, what would be essentially doxxing them, would put them at even greater risk and further jeopardize their safety. I know the people here have good intentions, but you can’t guarantee that of everyone involved. Let’s not track these kids down and open them up to other predators and further exploitation.
Awareness. We need eyes and ears. We need someone HUGE and unable to be easily ignored talking about this and raising a voice.
Philip Defranco actually has a subreddit where people can submit stories for him to cover.
Getting people to post about it there is a far better option than trying to locate the kids yourself. There’s more that could go wrong in that situation than what could go right. You could end up getting the wrong address and having the police/FBI/Swat sent to an innocent’s person house and cause a lot of unnecessary grief at best and potentially have someone die at worst. And yes, people have died as recent as last year from the SWAT team getting sent to their house.
And if the information of any of the kids is publically released, it could put them at risk of someone who actually may be willing to go as far as to rape or sexually assault one of them or deranged homophobes who think that spray painting, egging, etc. someone’s house is acceptable.
You’d be better off just trying to contact the FBI or a national child protective services line and seeing if you can get either of them to investigate.
