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Despite the name, and the leading sentence ("I am on a mission to scan all the ray-finned fishes in the world.") they do not actually intend to scan all the fis

Despite the name, and the leading sentence ("I am on a mission to scan all the ray-finned fishes in the world.") they do not actually intend to scan all the fishes. They settle for merely scanning a single individual from every known ray-finned species. I guess we can leave the real project to Bowerick Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged after he has finished insulting everyone in alphabetical order. Joking aside it sounds like the way they go about the project is that they load multiple specimens in the CT scanner at a time by forming a "burrito" using the fishes and cheese cloth. Quite smart. Their procedure description is full of practical advice such as "sometimes eels fit best wrapped around the whole burrito." and "You must ensure absolutely no liquids will leak out of your canister", and "Do not force fish into the cylinder, you will break fins and/or deform the animal." Sadly they don't have a Mola tecta scan yet. :)

lagniappe 3y ago
"You're a jerk, a complete kneebiter." - Arthur Dent
- masto 3y ago
  It was actually Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged who decided to insult everyone in the universe, individually, personally, and in alphabetical order, and who briefly showed up while Arthur Dent was stranded in a cave on prehistoric Earth to call him a jerk.
  - schoen 3y ago
    It's impressive that all of the universe's languages have a canonical alphabetization that Wowbagger could follow. (It would already be impressive to have a canonical alphabetization for all of Earth's languages, and those are all spoken using human vocal anatomy!) Although I guess Wowbagger could have had an unlimited amount of time to do descriptive linguistics work as a lead-up to actually beginning his insult project.
    - andrewflnr 3y ago
      As I recall, Wowbagger specifically does not care about rigor in such details. He's not even that careful about duplicates.
schoen 3y ago
> Despite the name, and the leading sentence ("I am on a mission to scan all the ray-finned fishes in the world.") they do not actually intend to scan all the fishes. They settle for merely scanning a single individual from every known ray-finned species. Maybe that's a distinction available between "scan all the fish" and "scan all the fishes" (!). (Where "fish" = "individuals" and "fishes" = "species".)

lagniappe 3y ago

"You're a jerk, a complete kneebiter." - Arthur Dent

masto 3y ago
It was actually Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged who decided to insult everyone in the universe, individually, personally, and in alphabetical order, and who briefly showed up while Arthur Dent was stranded in a cave on prehistoric Earth to call him a jerk.
- schoen 3y ago
  It's impressive that all of the universe's languages have a canonical alphabetization that Wowbagger could follow. (It would already be impressive to have a canonical alphabetization for all of Earth's languages, and those are all spoken using human vocal anatomy!) Although I guess Wowbagger could have had an unlimited amount of time to do descriptive linguistics work as a lead-up to actually beginning his insult project.
  - andrewflnr 3y ago
    As I recall, Wowbagger specifically does not care about rigor in such details. He's not even that careful about duplicates.

schoen 3y ago

> Despite the name, and the leading sentence ("I am on a mission to scan all the ray-finned fishes in the world.") they do not actually intend to scan all the fishes. They settle for merely scanning a single individual from every known ray-finned species. Maybe that's a distinction available between "scan all the fish" and "scan all the fishes" (!). (Where "fish" = "individuals" and "fishes" = "species".)