/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Any moar?

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>>3889776
Cheater.

>>3889768
Christmas eve.

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Wait until Xmas eve for fresh content. I already have my pic ready.

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># zip : bin > DOWN
Well shit.

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Let's all post on /bun/ while /jp/ is down!

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why so down

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>>3889780,2
Let's not.

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>>3889780,2
Their traffic will finally raise from 1 to a steady 5

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moot doesn't even tell us if the servers are down for maintenance or ddos.

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Moot usually posts when he's going to do maintenance. So I would like to think it's a DDoS and anontalk is doing it. Or /b/.

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Ah...I just woke up, and now I can't even feed my 4chan addiction? Dammit.

Well, I guess I could finally finish some VNs I've been procrastinating...

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If it's a ddos, I guess moot doesn't want to give them any attention by ignoring.

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Browsing /e/ while /jp/ is down.

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Let me try to entertain you a bit while /jp/ is down.

When the mating season comes, as many crickets do, the male mole cricket starts stridulating to attract a female. However, he doesn't just do that in the open, begging to be found and eaten by some bird. He instead builds a burrow with two large openings, designed to amplify the sound and cries safely in his underground lair. Females fly in this species and seek out the males in their basements.

Evolution gave this species a knack for building acoustically proper structures that don't dim out the male's song.

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While I haven't been able to find the particular species of insect mentioned, it was apparently made popular with a mention in an Alfred Hitchcock film. The insect in question, a flatid planthopper, gathers en masse to roughly form the shape of a flower. The individual planthoppers have differing patterns on their backs, and arrange themselves accordingly to disguise themselves better. If disturbed, the swarm flies around in disorder, only to settle down in another branch as the same flower.

The flower they imitate, to my current knowledge, does not exist in nature.

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Females of beetle genus Duliticola are apparently neotenic, staying in larval form for all their lives while males mature into tiny adult insects, a bit more than one tenth the size of the female. The female is known for its peculiar appearance (Can't post images here, just Google Duliticola) with plates on her back that makes her look similar to a trilobite. Some species also feature a light-emitting organ, perhaps to attract males, as with fireflies.

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I love you, bug anon.

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>>3889780,11
>Females fly in this species and seek out the males in their basements.

Hmmmmmmm

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Go grab the Witch Hunt's patch while it's hot.

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>>3889780,16
Go fuck yourself.

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>>3889780,15
I'm sure it's just a coincidence. :3c

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Mentioning this one again since I like it a lot.

Essentially mobile guillotines, trap-jaw ants have mandibles that snap with one of the record speeds of the animal kingdom, about 60m/s, faster than some mantis shrimps. The ants use those jaws to not only kill their prey and cut it in sizeable chunks, but also to catapult themselves to escape a threat, or throw out intruders from their nests.

The mandibles can be closed slower if the ant deems it necessary, such as during care of larvae.

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Damn, I wish I could post pictures to help you in your bug love endeavor.

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It seems even cooperation with virii (or was the plural viruses? ) is possible when it comes to insects. Rosy apple aphids usually are wingless critters, only when infected with a DNA virus do they gain the ability to fly. While the virus severely cripples the aphid's reproductive ability, flight is equally vital for the aphid's (and the virus') dispersal, and the infected aphids produce a number of non-infected offspring to colonize other plants.

Certain wasps also literally have a virus encoded in their genome. Normally, if a wasp egg is placed in a caterpillar, the caterpillar's immune system will recognize and destroy the egg. However, the wasp injects her virus into the caterpillar, which effectively disables its immune response and allows the wasp larva to develop in peace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydnavirus (wasps)
http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2009/05/27/how-the-aphid-got-its-wings/ (rosy apple aphid)

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Beetles of genus Cyphochilus are a white brighter than than paper and milk teeth, thanks to the light-reflecting properties of its five micrometer thick scales, apparently made out of randomly arranged filaments that scatter light. We may soon see commercial applications of a similar arrangement of synthetic material.

Speaking of commercial applications, scientists in Japan have inserted genes of the spider Nephila clavata into silkworm. The result is a stronger, softer and more durable silk incorporating 10% spider webbing protein. A manufacturer in Japan has plans to release spider silk socks by 2010.

Incidentally, from what I can tell, Hatsune of Atlach-Nacha has features of a golden orbweaver too.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=brilliant-whiteness-of-st (Cyphochilus)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila_clavata (Golden orbweaver socks)

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When is the bug-expert anon going to become a tripfriend?

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Bug anon, I came across a goldish transparent shelled ladybug before when I was a kid. Do you have the scientific name for this type of ladybird?

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>>3889780,23
He should call himself Wriggle Nightbug.

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>>3889780,24
Transparent shell? I'm no expert, but reminds me of tortoise beetles. Perhaps the golden tortoise beetle, Charidotella sexpunctata? By the way, those are also very interesting beetles, thanks for reminding me of them. The reeason I'll paste from Wikipedia.

>They can change color, looking initially like tiny jewels, or golden ladybugs, but can alter the reflectivity of the cuticle so the outer layers become clear, revealing a ladybug type of red coloring with black spots. This color change is accomplished by microscopic valves controlling the moisture levels under the shell.

>>3889780,23
Never, I rather dislike the idea.

At any rate, here's a website with extremely good images of various insects and their identification, for many. I'm still trying to track down the name of that white bug with odd helicopter-wing filaments.

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Arthropods/index.html

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>>3889780,26
>golden tortoise beetle
Thanks, bro. I wish I still lived somewhere with lots of greenery so that I could catch a sight of them again. Now, to check out the other varieties that have transparent shells too.

What a beautiful glass like insect.

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Why is /jp/ so good when .zip is down?

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I'll finish up with some taxonomic mess.

>Iyaiyai Evenhuis, 1994 (fossil chaoborid fly) Evenhuis originally proposed "I" as the genus name (allowed by the ICZN rules), but a chaoborid worker told him he didn't want ever to have to write in a paper that "I have small male genitalia", so Evenhuis changed it to a more Mexican sounding genus name.

There's also the sauropodomorph dinosaur Pantydraco, snail genus Turbo, water beetle Ytu brutus, moth La cucaracha, scarab beetle Cyclocephala nodanotherwon (apparently whomever was classifying them got fed up with scarabs. ) and many others.

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/jp/, what Touhou game should someone start with?

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>>3889780,30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGegCta6F1o&NR=1

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Thread needs more abuse of the sage function

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>>3889780,32

I hope you are aware that sage does not work in the Ghost Board...

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I think I found a onahole that won't send me to jail. Doesn't have 7 or 11 on the box.

http://www.wanta.net/en/shop/prod_default.asp?ProdID=1935&CatID=5&DepID=1

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>>3889780,33
It does work as intended in ghost mode.

Also bugs creep me out. Specially spiders.

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Oh god /jp/ is back.

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bump

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>>3889924
OMNOMNOM-tan
:3

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>>3889768

Ana does not seemed amused by those Ding-Dongs.

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http://karizzle-krist.deviantart.com/art/Kitten-Apocalypse-146388699

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This Christmas will be full of Love Plus ones.

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I'm prepared to do one on Christmas Eve.

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9 GET XD

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>>3889999

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>>3889999
xD

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>>3889999

⑨

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>>3889999

BAKA BAKA!

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>>3889999

>9999

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I can't wait to spend Christmas with Mio.

;_;