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Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

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ModRetro sells consoles made out of recycled drone parts.

This may give you a few negative reactions. If you're closer to the "What's the big deal about this?" side of things, I want to walk you through this.

Mod Retro is run by Palmer Luckey. You might know him first as the guy who sold oculus to Facebook/Meta. This is a red flag to me, but might not be to you, and I think we can reasonably just disagree with that, but I want you to stay with me here.

Palmer Luckey got rich selling out to what is essentially a surveillance propaganda factory, and while that alone just kind of sucks, and you might think "I'm broke. I'd take that deal", in 2017 he went on to open a defense contract business called Anduril (https://www.anduril.com/):

Anduril has contracts with the U.S. Military (https://tinyurl.com/4wh294vk) (and the Department of Homeland Security (https://tinyurl.com/5s2unffy). He makes weapons and surveillance equipment for ICE, DHS, U.S. Military, and U.S. Air force.

These contracts subsidize his production with American tax dollars and create weapons that have killed people in the states and abroad, and once the weapons and equipment are recovered and decommissioned Anduril sells the broken parts as loot boxes like a death trophy: (https://tinyurl.com/49kbc7yj)

as well as recycles them into console parts (https://tinyurl.com/ykfmm8xn) all while laundering their image with anime girls and old video game characters from the 90s.

Argonaut Games recently acquired Croc and Buck Bumble and have partnered with ModRetro to publish new copies of their N64 cartridges.

See also Throwback with Extreme G, Phoboslab with Xibalba64, and bitmap bureau with Xeno Crisis.

Palmer Luckey got rich selling to Facebook/Meta, invested that into the military to get richer profiting off of killing people here and abroad, recovers his equipment and turns around and sell it again to launder his image and his parts via old video game mascots and anime girls to then profit off of murder again. This is not hyperbole. This is simply what he does.