On Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 2:43:58 AM UTC-5, I Envy JTEM wrote:
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/classic-comic-book-advertisement-sea-monkeys-20190925-wingsdomain-art-and-photography.jpg
You know it's true. And so doesn't somebody else.
Plus Domeshields.
And trout.
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https://jtem.tumblr.com/post/673664049844731904
Nah, the best evidence against coastal-littoral imprisonment are the various mermaid fallacies spouted like this one:
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comment at Quorum on AAT
Marc Verhaegen12:35pm
As a youth I discovered that by “squinting” while swimming under salt or chlorinated water my eyes wouldn’t burn, and …I could see!
Further research revealed that glands along the rim of eye openings excrete meibum, an oily substance that experts postulate as being the bodies means of preventing evaporation of the eye’s tear film, and preventing tears from spilling onto the cheek,
by trapping them between the oiled edge & the eyeball, and making the closed lids airtight.
This is not the only feature of the trait.
The process of blinking releases meibum, and from there acquiring the ability to flex our eyebrow muscles downward while flexing our cheek muscles upward enables us a controlled squint that produces a small/fine eye opening that we can maintain for long
periods.
The squint forces meibum into the reduced eye opening, where it serves as a clear barrier against the otherwise stinging effect of salty sea-water.
It’s generally known that oil sticks to surfaces, and that is why the layer of meibum does not wash away for the duration of hold in 1 breath under water.
Modern humans are genetically hard wired with “bio-goggles” that some of us have learned to activate, and this is another piece of evidence in support of the Aquatic Ape/Waterside Hypothesis"
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The author (unnamed and uncredited by MV at AAT.io) doesn't seem to have ever opened their eyes underwater. In reality, the eyes do NOT sting from sodium chloride while submerged in water, but only from after emergence into the atmosphere and direct
exposure to the oxygen in air on the surface layer of the corneas/eyeballs where immediate evaporation causes both dehydration and initial crystalization of the salts. As Mario has pointed out, dehydration and cheystalization of Sea otter fur is
destructive, it must remain wet to maintain the insulating underfur.
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