How Pulsar Timing Arrays Work

Best Explanation so far for how a Pulsar Timing Array Works, and it makes it look more analogous to an Interferometer which is sweet as.

Hippo Poo Vital for Health of East Africa's Rivers

Hippo poo vital for ecosystem balance

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There was a piece of News recently about how hippo feces acted as a vital carrier of Nutrients for rivers in East Africa. The large (and adorable) land fauna would eat copious amount of grass and just chill out with the herd in communal hippo pools where they would excrete the grass they had eaten.

The hippo feces contains a large amount of Silicon extracted from the grass that is vital to the health of tiny bacteria called diatoms that live further downstream all the way to Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa. This tiny bacteria forms the foundational basis of the diet and food chain of the Mara River in Africa and other rivers that flow into Lake Victoria.

The diatom bacteria are also responsible for carbon sequestration in the environment, that is the act of removing CO2 from the environment. CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Something that if we have too much of in the atmosphere... we die.

I shit you not

Hippo Poo makes the Mara River go round

Without a thriving bacterial community the environmental balance  in the area would be disastrously upset. Fish all along the food chain can't get their nutrition and a dangerous type of life-suffocating bacteria called cyanobacteria will grow to excess causing the emergence of environmental dead zones. That sounds scary.

In the light of recent catastrophes in nearby Mozambique it paints a bleak picture of the future.

The hippo population has suffered a decrease in the last decade and the numbers are projected to further drop but the actions we carry out on now will decide the fate of the hippos and the Mara River. There is still time to stop the key from turning. Once it turns there is no turning back.

DIatoms in a Psychedelic Universe. We are all connected

It makes me think about this little image here. Credits to Annis Pratt who led me to it.

And the line from the Fourth Hindu Veda:

Whatever I dig from you, O Earth
May your mantle grow back again quickly
O Earth, Purifier, may we never injure you

Sincerely,
SonOfTerra92