Blistering Barnacles: An A-Z of The Rants, Rambles and Rages of Captain Haddock: Celebrating 80 years of Hergé’s beloved comic character from Tintin: ... Illustrated Mystery Adventure Series

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The best thing about Herge’s creation, believes Farr, is that he’s not a superhero. “He can’t actually do anything more than we can, so he has credibility.” Is that it? Farr pauses. “The other thing I have learned is that people who like Tintin tend, on the whole, to be nice people.” a b "Cirripedia". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute . Retrieved 22 August 2021.

Like many English words and phrases, the description of something reliable as “copper-bottomed” has a maritime origin. Bromham, Lindell (2020-10-01). "Comparability in evolutionary biology: The case of Darwin's barnacles". Linguistic Typology. 24 (3): 427–463. doi: 10.1515/lingty-2020-2056. hdl: 1885/274303. ISSN 1613-415X. S2CID 222319487. Originally compiled by Jesper Jühne, and expanded by Irene Mar. Contributions from Gustav Gullberg, Olivia Bloch, Matthew Vernon, Ishaan, Som, Neal Austin Bhandarkar, Bryan Woolfolk, Rinya Singh, Ed Shoemaker, Captain Chester (and brother), Georgia, cooldude123, zaveri_tintin, Joe Gooden, Sheldon Serrao, Christopher Damon, X, rishabh, Nicholas Walker, Michael Grover, Manoj Balraj, Sunday (sundaymarch1056), Vincent Thieu, Ivan Hanigan, Lukas (Zonater) Rizvi, David Arnson, Robert L Stewart, Nathan Everett, Tolkuna Salieva, Claudia Pramiasti, and Gopal Balasubramanian. Chan, Benny K. K.; Dreyer, Niklas; Gale, Andy S.; Glenner, Henrik; etal. (2021). "The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (3): 789–846. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160. The bare plinth in Etterbeek’s Place de Theux after the bust of Tintin author Hergé was removed. Photograph: Lisa O'Carroll/The Guardian

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I must admit that I am never wrong, but the microphone is an invention that is of no interest to me.” Competitors may include other barnacles, and disputed evidence indicates balanoid barnacles competitively displaced chthalamoid barnacles. Balanoids gained their advantage over the chthalamoids in the Oligocene, when they evolved tubular skeletons, which provide better anchorage to the substrate, and allow them to grow faster, undercutting, crushing, and smothering chthalamoids. [29] Ironically, the new edition of the book was published in the same year – 1966 – that the modern Loch Lomond distillery became operational in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire. As far as Hergé was concerned, however, ‘Loch Lomond’ remained wholly made-up.

Firstly, I decided to do a bit of Googling and took a peek at the Wikipedia article (but shush don’t tell anyone!) The comic books were originally written in Belgian patois between 1929–1976 but the first story translated into English was ‘King Ottakar’s Sceptre’ which appeared in Eagle magazine in 1951. Seven years later, Michael Turner and Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper began translating the series of 24 comic books for the publishers Methuen. I wanted to know more about them and decided to follow up some of the material cited in the Wikipedia article.

Ruppert, Edward E.; Fox, Richard, S.; Barnes, Robert D. (2004). Invertebrate Zoology (7thed.). Cengage Learning. p.683. ISBN 978-81-315-0104-7. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)

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Once metamorphosis is over and they have reached their adult form, barnacles continue to grow by adding new material to their heavily calcified plates. These plates are not moulted; however, like all ecdysozoans, the barnacle itself will still moult its cuticle. [18] Sexual reproduction [ edit ]

Lacalli, Thurston C. (September 2009). "Serial EM analysis of a copepod larval nervous system: Naupliar eye, optic circuitry, and prospects for full CNS reconstruction". Arthropod Structure & Development. 38 (5): 361–375. doi: 10.1016/j.asd.2009.04.002. PMID 19376268. Barnacles have a life expectancy of between 8 and 20 years. Their main predators are the whelk and of course the pressure washer!Yong, Ed (2013-01-15). "Poorly-Endowed Barnacles Overthrow 150-Year-Old Belief". National Geographic . Retrieved 2021-12-21. Farr, who first met Hergé when he was a young Reuters reporter in the 1970s, is also busy translating Tintin for the digital age in a new app. “You can zoom in on individual frames,” he says. “It’s wonderful. Tintin is alive!” Low fuel costs have meant ship designers have not focused too closely on how to prevent biofouling, he says. The emphasis on climate change and controlling greenhouse gas emissions is changing that. So too is the understanding that biofouling ecosystems transported across the seas themselves pose a threat. One group of stalked barnacles have adapted to a rafting lifestyle, where they are drifting around close to the water's surface. They will colonize every floating object, such as driftwood, and like some non-stalked barnacles, also attach themselves to marine animals. The species most specialized for this lifestyle is Dosima fascicularis, which secretes a gas-filled cement that makes it float at the surface. [28]