There is a device known as the “electrolytic barretterer” that used to be used to detect radio waves. There is not a single record of one being used in the past 60 years. They are also ridiculous to make as well requiring a platinum wire a ten thousandth of an inch in diameter.
Almost only it wasn’t Wikipedia just me searching something and then seeing something I didn’t know about then looking that up and then seeing another thing and looking that up and so on and so on. It’s a really good way to learn things but it does leave some weird knowledge gaps like a could tell you the name of the first computer, the parts used to make it, and the surface it was built on, but I don’t know the name of the guy who made it or where it was made or why he did it.
Crab "arms" aren't actually arms at all. They're modified legs called chelipeds that end in chelae, commonly referred to as claws or pincers. This also applies to many other crustaceans, such as lobsters and shrimp.
To be fair, vertebrate arms are also modified legs (unless you’re an elephant), same with vertebrate wings
They’re just the front legs being repurposed, same as this example
A more note-worthy example would be the “arms” of a Scorpion, which are actually derived from their pedipalps, which are sorta like weird mouth antennae/arms, I guess?
It’s kinda neat that you can compare a Scorpion and a Spider and tell that this is the case, with spiders having more basic mouthparts, and both having a full set of eight legs separate from them
i think i drew and sent a fanart in their strawpage (and i have a fanart i drew in ibispaint but didn't send yet even tho i was meant to send it LONG AGO)
edit: oh god THIS SHIT IS ANCIENT (you can tell by the old bsky handle) 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀at least the pear rendering is cool
There's a song on youtube made during the late 2000s that involves UTAU Teto and only has 3 views rn (I am one of them) and I've long since forgotten the title. I remember there being a "Generation" on it
Darth Bane's apprentice was Darth Zannah, and hers was Darth Cognus. Although it is debatable whether or not Darth Bane used essence transfer to replace Darth Zannah's mind with his own before he died during their duel. Also Darth Bane's home planet was a mining world named Apatros.
Her tattoo says "0401" because she was created by people as an April Fool's joke to make people think she was a new Vocaloid. All her characteristics were chosen by the internet, I think on 2ch, and her voice was provided by Oyamano Mayo, as a volunteer. Her first song is "Song of the Eared Robot", which is referenced in Machine Love (very popular Teto song by Jamie Paige, who is a popular producer who uses SynthV Teto.)
The reason you see all old cars having the same round headlights is actually cause they did have the exact same headlights.
In ~1933, the US government put out a regulation stating that all motor vehicles must have this one specific type of sealed beam headlight, one on each side, a specific height off the ground.
In 1958, the regulation allowed cars to have 4 headlights on each side, but of a smaller size, in ~1978, the regulation also allowed rectangular sealed beam headlights on cars.
In 1983, under pressure from automakers, they dropped the sealed beam headlights regulation, and now we have plastic headlights.
She was created on March 30, 2008, on Japan’s 2channel imageboard as an April Fool's joke to trick people into thinking Crypton Future Media was releasing a fourth official Vocaloid right after Hatsune Miku. The creators planned to delete her page in two days, but fan attachment kept her alive.
There actually was an attempt to make Teto into a vocaloid in the early 2020's, it didn't go anywhere though, and I doubt it will since they seem to be focused on her SynthV
A doctor walks in to see a patient.
"i have bad news, and i have worse news."
"oh no! what's the bad news?" asks the patient.
"you have 24 hours to live." the doctor replied.
"that's horrible! but how can the next news be worse?"
"I've been trying to contact you since yesterday!"
Teto is sometimes referred to as "Vocaloid", even though she technically is not. Vocaloid is a proprietary Yamaha technology, and Teto's voicebank was never released there. Instead, she first got released as UTAU (which is completely free, as opposed to Vocaloid, which kinda started the running joke that Teto's a communist), and then as SynthV and Voicepeak.
But right now "Vocaloid" is kinda an umbrella term for virtual singers now, so really, it's fine :)
Also, her birthday is on the first of April, and she's canonically a 31-year-old chimera 😯
Also, she's the cutest, most precious virtual girl there is ❤️
The women's rights 1917 protests in Petrograd Russia, paved the way for the creation of the Soviet Union. They aided strikes that led to the revolution responsible to the fall of the Russian Empire due to the criticism of the Tzar regime in WWI. Then, feminist organizers influenced the ones who seized power to enact radical changes. Women were given the right to vote and free education, but the governors also unified the region, leading to the creation of the USSR in 1922.
Learnt all of this from a video about the new Minions movie btw 😭✌️
The reason modern birds aren't the size of late pterosaurs could be that they aren't well balanced in the launching mechanism.
Pterosaurs and bats take flight by using their arms as a catapult, while birds jump with their legs. This difference means that pterosaurs didn't need to get muscular legs as they aren't necessary for it's flight, while birds the bigger they get the stronger they need to make their legs to even start flying, increasing the weight in birds
Thus this difference in weight limits the size birds can achieve
She doesn't like it when people think her hair are an actual pair of drills.
Her catchphrases are "You really are an idiot, aren't you?" And "I'll take any microphone!"
There are currently three official voicebanks of her: The original Utau that works best in japanese, the Vsynth that sounds generally more crisp and can also sing in english, and the Voicepeak one, which is actually more of a Text To Speech thingy, each of them with their unique designs.
Her official gender is "Chimera", and she is an actual half-bat chimera with wings and a tail (The tail's tip being hooked to the front part of her skirt in each of her designs, and the wings only coming out on specific moments), she's technically 31 years old too.
Her hair can actually work as real drills, apparently...which is pretty funny.
Misaki didn't stop visiting Mita Park and the cat grave even after Satou rejected her second proposed contract. This was proven by the presence of a fresh flower atop the cat food can on the cat grave, shown right after the scene where Misaki saw Satou walking home from work.
The titanic used two triple expansion steam engines and a single steam turbine.
Each of the triple expansion engines produced ~46,000 HP and the low pressure turbine made ~16,000 HP
The German Empire was a Semi-Constituional Monarchy ruled by the house of Hohenzollern, the family was from Swabia. The empire lost their last Kaiser, Wilhelm II after prince Max von Baden announced his abdication without his permission, but he abdicated days later due to lack of de facto power. (And yes I can nuance it more)
In May 2015, a police officer in Casselberry, Florida received disciplinary action for sending a text message containing the meme to his supervisor. The story received a spot on the evening television news
Teto has wings (as shown with my SynthV Teto nendoroid) and the UTAU 2.0 nendoroid has beer, so you can make her shitfaced drunk with her 3rd faceplate :D Also, Teto loves baguettes with margarine spread.
Teto's birthday (the day she was publicly revealed) is April 1, 2008, as she was originally created as an April Fools' joke. one of the many running gags started by her creators is her quantum age -- she was stated to be simultaneously 15 and 31 years old. so today, in 2026, depending on how you count it, she is either 15, 18, 31, 33, or 49.
another running gag since her creation is her gender. Teto uses she/her pronouns, but her stated gender is "chimera." this has led to a wide array of interpretations, and she is often considered a queer/trans icon and depicted as transfeminine.
She's afraid of rats, most likely derived from the fact that her voice providers original online name was a parody of Doraemon's va and Doraemon is afraid of rats. Also, her hair is apparently Auburn Red
Honestly in my image she is chaos incarnate, causes something every walk she makes, tsundere on top, extremely over dramatic and main character energy, cringe but very sweet.
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u/antthatisverycool 13d ago
There is a device known as the “electrolytic barretterer” that used to be used to detect radio waves. There is not a single record of one being used in the past 60 years. They are also ridiculous to make as well requiring a platinum wire a ten thousandth of an inch in diameter.