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It was made by a single industrial design student as a project.

It’s mainly intended to provide a larger scale demonstration of how bees pollinate because actual bees are tiny and you can’t see what’s going on when they do it. It’s primarily an educational tool.

But aside that, if you ever wonder why scientists work on all these little patch solutions for large, systemic problems, its because the people doing science research are not the people deciding how national and international policy is made.

Every time a scientist talks about how they’re working on something like de-extinction projects or artificial albedo creation there’s the inevitable sneering about how “we should just not let the animals go extinct in the first place” or “we should cut back on carbon emissions” as if those were not decisions being made by governments and oligarchs.

An industrial design student’s authority in his society stops at “make a cute robot”.

“I know this is horrible,” del Toro continues. “You sound like a complete lunatic, but I saw a UFO. I didn’t want to see a UFO. It was horribly designed. I was with a friend. We bought a six-pack. We didn’t consume it, and there was a place called Cerro del Cuatro, “Mountain of the Four,” on the periphery of Guadalajara. We said, ‘Let’s go to the highway.’ We sit down to watch the stars and have the beer and talk. We were the only guys by the freeway. And we saw a light on the horizon going super-fast, not linear. And I said, ‘Honk and flash the lights.’ And we started honking.”

The UFO, says del Toro, “Went from 1,000 meters away [to much closer] in less than a second — and it was so crappy. It was a flying saucer, so clichéd, with lights [blinking]. It’s so sad: I wish I could reveal they’re not what you think they are. They are what you think they are. And the fear we felt was so primal. I have never been that scared in my life. We jumped in the car, drove really fast. It was following us, and then I looked back and it was gone.”

Two stills from Miss Congeniality.

The host is asking Miss Rhode Island questions.

The host says, “Describe your perfect date.”

Miss Rhode Island responds with, “That’s a tough one. I’d have to say April 25th. Because it’s not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.”