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How many clams are needed? Where do you get them?
by Jkvngt 6y ago
How many clams are needed? Where do you get them?
- krallja 6y agoFrom the article: 24 at a time, for a duty cycle of 3 months. > We have three measuring devices in the company and eight clams in each. In total, we “employ” 200 individuals during the year. This other article[1] says they get them from a lake, and are returned to the same lake after three months. They are marked so the scientists won’t pick up the same clam twice. 1: https://www.boredpanda.com/clams-measure-water-quality-poland-fat-kathy/ https://www.boredpanda.com/clams-measure-water-quality-polan...
- smiley1437 6y ago3 teams of 8 clams (mussels) If the water quality is normal, the clams open and close randomly. If all 8 clams close, something is off with the water and prompts more investigation. They get the clams from a nearby lake, and somewhat comfortingly, they retire them back to the lake when they've done a tour of duty. They're even marked so they don't reuse the same clams! Nice to hear that they don't just euthanize them even if they are just clams. Guess I'm getting soft in my old age
- brnt 6y agoIt's not a sign of softness that you take a (minimal) effort to save a lifeform (that was useful to you). It's basic humanity, for lack of a better term (animality?).
- frongpik 6y agoThey gotta feed those clams with something valuable in return to their service to really restore the balance.
- jrumbut 6y agoI'd love to see what that leads to on an evolutionary timescale. Water departments of the future just go from clam bed to clam bed delivering treats and collecting water quality reports.
- endymi0n 6y agohttps://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentnerteich https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
- bourgoin 6y agoMaybe "animal husbandry" is the term you're looking for?
- brnt 6y agoThat's something else I think.
- bawana 6y agoInteresting it is that our civilization is becoming more sensitive to smaller perturbations the larger it gets and the better information flow it achieves