Lack of Life

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or

Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.

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She wants to learn photography. Do it stupid. Take a million photos. Don't think about why they're not good. Enjoy the process of taking photos.

Pick out tge ones you like the most and figure out why you like them. Is it because the subject is centered? Is it because you caught them doing something cool? Is it because the light made cool shadows?

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when your STR stat goes from three to NINETEEN in an instant and you can grow to human size to finally hug your friends

bonus Thimble Fan Club President reaction:

Fjord entered the campaign with powers he didn't understand but a desire to learn about them, connected to an entity that was never clear about its intentions and was quick to resort to threats and control to direct Fjord in the way that it wanted him to. Uk'otoa never had any issues with compelling Fjord to do what he wanted, whether that was continuing to swallow blades so that they could be integrated into the Sword of Fathoms and compelling him to bind himself to a Cloven Crystal so that he could then bring it to a seal, stealing Fjord's agency was something Uk'otoa would often readily do if it was of benefit to him. Melora on the other hand not only presents her as a comforting presence to him, she's also very clear about what she can and can't give him and what she wants in return, and most importantly, she gives him a choice. She hears out what Fjord wants and lays out the obligations she has for him in return for what he asks, and he gets the choice to say yes, to give in to her and accept her patronage. Something he never got from Uk'otoa, whose service he simply woke to find himself in one day and whose terms he never got to negotiate for himself.

This also feels like a nadir point in Fjord's relationship with power as well. Because he stayed in Uk'otoa service as long as he did because he liked the powers it granted him and the ability to act he got from that. Even when being lead by Uk'otoa's desires those powers gave him a sense of control that he so often lacked so he clung to them. He clung so hard that, by his own admission after the theft of the Mistake, he forgot the things he could do that weren't granted to him by Uk'otoa. And he so relied on his powers to feel useful that Uk'otoa first temporarily taking them away from him terrified him and so when it happened a second time he resorted to extreme measures to try and get them back, making the choice to throw the Sword of Fathoms in magma only after Uk'otoa would not yield. He spends the time after breaking his pact both finding other ways to be useful to the group (using magic items in innovative ways, accepting Beau's offer to give him combat training that uses only his body) and stepping aside because he has nothing to add (in Gelidon's lair and the manor heist). He admits to Caleb while the Star Razor is being reforged that he's reached a point where he's not so much frustrated as curious how things will go, and that he wants to figure out how he can use the capabilities he has to help and not hinder. He very much still wants power and the capabilities it grants, he admits as much to Melora, and indeed seeks her out hoping its something she can grant him, but he seems to have developed a broader understanding of what that means. Power can mean magic, but it can also mean being clever and charming and wielding that can be just as important as wielding a sword or a spell.

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.