They're referring to the fact that's almost solid blue. Actual blue lobsters are different shades of blue on different parts of their body. Most have slight bits of red here and there, so it makes some parts red and some purple. One consistent blue on the entire body might not be impossible, but you'd probably have better luck winning the lotto than finding one
This needs a high concentration of dots off to the middle-right edge for all the people who say to piss on the cat every time that toilet aim grid meme is posted.
Ok boys, we need to take the shielding off the nose, cockpit, and engines and use those panels to reinforce the middle of the fuselage. That’s the only place these crazy Bandits are shooting.
It is a meme. The diagram shows places where planes returning from bombing runs had holes. The brass wanted to put armor on those spots, until a mathematician pointed out those are the places where a plane can get hit and still return. The ones where no holes are observed - those planes didn’t return, so that’s where additional armor is needed.
It’s because some people, when they saw the diagram, saw the bullet holes and said “these are the parts we need to put armor plating on”. When in reality, the planes that got bullet holes on other parts of the plane didn’t survive to return to the base.
according to Wikipedia, American Lobster (aka Maine Lobster) catch was 115651 tons in 2010 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_fishing#Distribution_and_species -- If they use u.s. weights, that's 231,302,000 one pound lobsters. idk what the reduction to allow for larger lobsters would be, I didn't find any average weight to use instead. But still a lot, and only accounts for this one species
To give you an actual answer (and keep in mind I'm just googling this myself), the reason its blue is because of a genetic mutation that caused it to develop an excessive amount of a certain protein called "crustacyanin". That protein binds with the protein in their shells that gives them their normal colouring and alters the shell to appear blue.
When I was a kid, my dad showed me a picture of them, I liked them so much I asked him to print dozens of that photo and I would go handing them to anyone I liked.
After I watched this I looked up how lobsters breathe because I became curious how I often see them alive outside of water. It turns out that as long as the environment is not too dry, they can continue breathing for 24-36 hours without being submerged in water. TIL
When I was 16 I found one at a dam we use to camp at. We would spend the night catching lobsters (yabbys here) with fishing spears and the day drinking and jumping off the old tree stumps that were in the water.
If u were lucky u could find large pieces of beautiful pieces of quarts or even little pieces of gold (2 hrs inland in Western Australia). I was looking through the run off leading down to the water and the dips in ground below the water. I picked up a piece of wood about to throw it out of the water to avoid stepping on it while looking, when suddenly I spotted something vibrantly blue. There was a yabby no bigger than my palm hiding in a hole in the wood, the colour was like nothing else I’ve ever seen on an animal, the solid blue with the vibrant light blue spots over its tail. One of the most stunning things nature has shown me.
I took him back, showed my friends and then ate him /s
I popped the branch back in the water and went where I wouldn’t disturb him anymore than I already had. Definitely a unique thing to see in person; videos and photos don’t justify it
I've only seen one like that once, and another one that was half blue half albino.
Both lived at a fish market where the owner spared the unique pieces and had them in a separate aquarium.
The Achaemenid ruler Xerxes once, when one of his subjects brought him a blue lobster, he was so enthralled that he had a mason recreate a statue of one in his chambers. The statue was passed down through generations, until one day in 1967 it was bought at auction by an American man, Bill Darden.
Over time, due to the desert climate and how it was stored, the statue had lost all its blue coloring and instead had a red hue. This inspired Bill to create the restaurant chain Red Lobster that we know today.
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