• @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve seen that guy! Kayaking down a lazy river and there’s a dude catching and cataloging turtles. Stopped to chat a bit. No idea how the hell he got to where he was. No boat, no roads near.

    Same trip I saw a couple of teens in the water around a bend. Waved at them, wait… WTF is that in the water? Whole ass horse comes busting out the river.

    SAME trip, we got to where the rednecks hang out on the weekends. It’s a little village of shacks wrapped around a long, slow bend in the river, super cool. Dozens of adults and kids playing around, and a 5’ gator standing on the shore, stiff as a statue, just staring straight ahead.

    I need to go kayaking this weekend.

  • @xor@infosec.pub
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    643 months ago

    i once saw a biologist standing over a dying seal with a clipboard taking notes…
    it was just slowly gasping for breath, covered in some decay, baking in the sun…

    when i walked by again hours later, she was still there, looking amused…

        • @shrippen@feddit.de
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          63 months ago

          Excuse me? Whimsical? I did enjoy being a disco infused communism cop with a brain the size of earth that may have been addicted to every substance.

  • @MBM@lemmings.world
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    313 months ago

    No love for the mad theorists huh? The mad philosophers, linguists, mathematicians, …

        • Wugmeister
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          73 months ago

          Yeah, 1 is a very strange number, but have you heard of 0?

          • @shneancy@lemmy.world
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            43 months ago

            what i’m mad about is that you can divide by infinity and get zero, but you can’t divide by 0 and get infinity. make up your minds maths people

            • @alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
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              53 months ago

              Oh you totally can (as long as you’re working with implied limits, which you have to if infinity is in the mix), you just have to specify if it’s a positive or negative zero.

                • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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                  33 months ago

                  i mean, implicitly it’s just whether you’re approaching zero from positive or negative direction, since we’re working with limits.

                  Like you can shave down a stick however much you want, you can never reach 0 stick by doing so.

            • Wugmeister
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              33 months ago

              I typed up a very angry paragraph about how you can’t divide by infinity either because infinity is a function within the context of algebraic math, then I realized I was wrong, which made me step back and realize how fucky it is that the only number that is weirder than 0 isn’t in fact a number

    • @c0ber@lemmy.ml
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      43 months ago

      if you want mad linguistics you may enjoy agma schwa’s cursed conlang circus

  • Troy
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    193 months ago

    So, basically, it’s mad to be outdoors collecting data and not in the lab. Got it ;)

  • Ravi
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    163 months ago

    That’s basically the tv series Eureka

      • Ravi
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        33 months ago

        I really enjoyed it and just reaatched it a year ago. Great show with a unique approach. Sad that there aren’t any current shows that are similar indeed.

  • @ladicius@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Indiana Jones, anyone? Lara Croft? They were scientists and unhinged and ran around in a lot of fields.

    • @Shareni@programming.dev
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      143 months ago

      Movie archeologist as a biologist:

      Goes in the middle of a jungle to find the rarest, critically endangered frog

      Sells it illegally for Chinese boner pills

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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      3 months ago

      Layla Hassan, anyone? Literally diving first person into the past via animus, in a shack in the woods on a dig site, studying the bones of who she’s been for the past few weeks…

  • @LordGimp@lemm.ee
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    123 months ago

    This is Tannis from borderlands lmao well the OG borderlands anyways. Tennis never needed to be a full fledged npc, let alone a siren.

    • @ilhamagh@lemmy.world
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      13 months ago

      YES! The moment she did the telepath thing in BL3 I knew things won’t be good (story-wise) + idk how they will redeem ava

      • @LordGimp@lemm.ee
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        13 months ago

        I really didn’t like her as an npc in 2 tbh. She was best when she was borderlands version of shrodingers cat. Maybe alive, maybe not, but always leaving recordings. Gearbox tried to hard to make her “the funny autistic” and ended up making her a bit character instead of part of the world you’re in.

  • @angrystego@lemmy.world
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    53 months ago

    The paleontologists in the Jurasic Park. When I saw the movie for the first time, I thought they were unrealistic and very mad. Who would go straight to a giant herbivore like Brachiosaurus or Triceratops? Surely they would be aware of the huge danger, right? Then I got to know a few zoologists and yes, this is exactly what a field zoologist would do. They would also survive, magically.

  • @wahming@monyet.cc
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    13 months ago

    Surprised nobody has mentioned Seanan Mcguire and the Incryptid series yet. Awesome books