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by eeegnu 1712 days ago
I found this article[1] answered allot of the questions I was left with after reading the linked article.

> “What we normally do is put a satellite transmitter on any animal that we deploy instruments on. In this case, we didn’t, because we expected this (camera) just to be gone at sea for a couple of days,” said Lidgard in an interview Friday.

> “With hindsight, probably not a good idea,” he added with a laugh.

> The idea, he said, was to deploy the camera four or five times, each time removing it from the seal to get the data after a few days and reattaching it to continue the research.

> In this case, Lidgard said he thinks the seal was starting to go through the moulting process and was foraging for food when the camera fell from its back.

No video footage there either sadly.

[1] https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/10/08/lost-seal-mou...

2 comments

>allot

My god. This will probably considered a low value comment on here but the phrase is "a lot".

Relevant: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...
Crazy. Even on HN there are allot of spelling mistakes.
It's almost as if English is not everyone's first language.
You say this but I know way too many people who have English as their first and only language who make silly mistakes. And when you mention the correct way to say/write something _you're_ an asshole. No, I'm trying to help you!
More than our allotment.
Because it's not required for the level of discourse expected.
>Crazy. Even on HN there are allot of spelling mistakes.

Yuo messed an oportunity to misspell yur comet.

Your right in principal, bad grammar effects us all, theirs allot we can do too keep content here peek quality.
Ahh, you reminded me of a classic standup sketch on youtube, titled: "The Impotence of Proofreading" IIRC
write* due* hear*
Fwiw, while we're being pedantic, do and due are only homophones in some English dialects
It never occurred to me that they were homophones in any English dialects!
* affect :(
The GP made those mistakes on purpose. The parent was adding some more.
On the one hand, yes; on the other hand, it’s kind of fun to watch, in real time, the same sort of linguistic shift that means that the word “orange” doesn’t begin with the letter n.
Allot is a perfectly cromulent word.
on the top of the linked article, there is a video embedded that contains some snippets.