The wikipedia article Polydactyly in stem-tetrapods has some explanations on how we ended up with 5 fingers and toes.
The gist of it is that tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrate animals) evolved from a fish similar to a lobe-finned fish that had 5 sets of bones in each of its fins that evolved into fingers and toes. Some tetrapods have subsequently lost digits but the basal state was five.
There's a book, Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin that's full of this kind of stuff. Highly recommend.
It's just a name, like the Forbidden Month or the Month of No Return, all the months have names like that in the Season of Terror.
You Can't Stump the Trump (Volume 4).
It was all fun and games and centipedes and 420 sniper headshot dubstep memes. And then shit got real.
The words of the prophets are written on the facebook walls....
The bigger ducklings are almost 2 months old and the smaller ones are a couple weeks younger.
From the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency website
Hawaiʻi has the largest single integrated Outdoor Siren Warning System for Public Safety in the world. The all-hazard siren system can be used for a variety of both natural and human-caused events; including tsunamis, hurricanes, dam breaches, flooding, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, terrorist threats, hazardous material incidents, and more.
They test them here every month too. Shameful they didn't sound them when needed the most.
But they've really begun leaning pretty heavily into the "we make stoner food" shtick
Snoop's Munchie Meal lol.
Yeah probably true. I only thought to look it up because I knew active and passive sonar was a thing.
lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats
And how precise is the telekinesis?
Also what range. Could you remotely rear naked choke anyone in the world, or just apply a leg press of a couple hundred pounds to their brain stem or some shit? Punch world leaders in the nuts at will? Crash planes by fucking with flight controls? Deorbit satellites? Divert asteroids into earth's path?
Also, could you double jump or straight fly with it?
Manipulate roulette balls for quick money or meddle in sporting events you bet on (just telekinetically stuffing basketball shots and putt attempts and shit would be hilarious). Seems like telekinesis would be amazing.
machining
No idea about your algorithm problems but have you seen the Cutting Edge Engineering Australia channel? It's so good.
That's not The Columbia River Gorge then I think. It's like, the Columbia River, in a gorge. The Columbia River Gorge is between Portland and Kennewick area specifically. Not that it really matters.
The geology out there is pretty amazing. Giant fucking lava flows covered everything millions of years ago and then there were cataclysmic ice age floods that carved out the gorges and whatnot. The Columbia river carried something like 13 times the volume of the Amazon River at times during the floods.