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Reminds me of the dead butterflies: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/ http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

by folli 8y ago

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labster 8y ago
https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8432/28947786492_80056225f3_b.jpg https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8432/28947786492_80056225f3_... Not you too, Camelia! Liz, what have you done to our mascot!
- shp0ngle 8y ago
  Perl 6 is not exactly alive, is it.
  - lizmat 8y ago
    I'm not sure what you mean with "not exactly alive", but with a monthly compiler release with 30+ different committers (https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/docs/announce/2018.06.md https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/docs/announce/2...) and a weekly blog post (https://p6weekly.wordpress.com https://p6weekly.wordpress.com), it seems pretty much alive to me.
taneq 8y ago
Yes! After reading this you can't stop seeing dead butterflies everywhere. At least the one in The Very Hungry Caterpillar is so weirdly shaped that it's just weird, not dead.
kqr 8y ago
Huh, I could have sworn seeing real, live butterflies with their wings stretched forward. Of course not when it is resting, but perhaps when it is just about to take off? Or when it is defensive/threatened?
- nerdponx 8y ago
  I always forget to make note of this when I see a butterfly. I think what happens is that they tend to hold their wings up, which gives the impression that they are pointing forward even when they are not. Then again, I'm not an entomologist. https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/8e0hj3/blue_morpho_butterfly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/8e0hj3/... https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/5xj1pn/narcissistic_butterfly_is/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/5xj1pn/...
- logfromblammo 8y ago
  Possibly thermal regulation? A too-cold butterfly that wants to warm up in the sun would want to increase exposed surface area. A warm-enough butterfly would fold up those wings, as normal. A too-hot butterfly would slowly flap, preferably in the shade. I still can't internalize how butterflies can actually fly with those wings. It just seems like there would have to be so much twisting, curling, and flapping that they would either just flop around wildly in the air or rip their own wings off. But that's probably because I'm mentally trying to scale it up to Arthur-sized flight. Aerodynamics are a lot different when your whole craft is only a few grams. With the huge possibility that I'm wrong, I think a butterfly about to take off would want to extend its wingtips as vertical as possible, and lift off with a strong down-stroke, then twist parallel to the air stream and re-extend before twisting back to flap down again. Defensive is a strong possibility for butterflies with false eye spots on their wings, or zebra-stripe-like, outline-breaking herd camouflage.
jwilk 8y ago
Archived copy, which works with JS disabled: https://archive.is/sViKB https://archive.is/sViKB

Reminds me of the dead butterflies: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/ http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

by folli 8y ago

Reminds me of the dead butterflies: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/ http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

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labster 8y ago

https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8432/28947786492_80056225f3_b.jpg https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8432/28947786492_80056225f3_... Not you too, Camelia! Liz, what have you done to our mascot!

shp0ngle 8y ago
Perl 6 is not exactly alive, is it.
- lizmat 8y ago
  I'm not sure what you mean with "not exactly alive", but with a monthly compiler release with 30+ different committers (https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/docs/announce/2018.06.md https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/docs/announce/2...) and a weekly blog post (https://p6weekly.wordpress.com https://p6weekly.wordpress.com), it seems pretty much alive to me.

taneq 8y ago

Yes! After reading this you can't stop seeing dead butterflies everywhere. At least the one in The Very Hungry Caterpillar is so weirdly shaped that it's just weird, not dead.

kqr 8y ago

Huh, I could have sworn seeing real, live butterflies with their wings stretched forward. Of course not when it is resting, but perhaps when it is just about to take off? Or when it is defensive/threatened?

nerdponx 8y ago
I always forget to make note of this when I see a butterfly. I think what happens is that they tend to hold their wings up, which gives the impression that they are pointing forward even when they are not. Then again, I'm not an entomologist. https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/8e0hj3/blue_morpho_butterfly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/8e0hj3/... https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/5xj1pn/narcissistic_butterfly_is/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/5xj1pn/...
logfromblammo 8y ago
Possibly thermal regulation? A too-cold butterfly that wants to warm up in the sun would want to increase exposed surface area. A warm-enough butterfly would fold up those wings, as normal. A too-hot butterfly would slowly flap, preferably in the shade. I still can't internalize how butterflies can actually fly with those wings. It just seems like there would have to be so much twisting, curling, and flapping that they would either just flop around wildly in the air or rip their own wings off. But that's probably because I'm mentally trying to scale it up to Arthur-sized flight. Aerodynamics are a lot different when your whole craft is only a few grams. With the huge possibility that I'm wrong, I think a butterfly about to take off would want to extend its wingtips as vertical as possible, and lift off with a strong down-stroke, then twist parallel to the air stream and re-extend before twisting back to flap down again. Defensive is a strong possibility for butterflies with false eye spots on their wings, or zebra-stripe-like, outline-breaking herd camouflage.

jwilk 8y ago

Archived copy, which works with JS disabled: https://archive.is/sViKB https://archive.is/sViKB