Peeters, Benoît (2012) [2002]. Hergé: Son of Tintin. Tina A. Kover (translator). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0454-7. Billions of blue blistering boiled and barbecued barnacles [The Seven Crystal Balls, p14, frame 10]! The sessile lifestyle of barnacles makes sexual reproduction difficult, as the organisms cannot leave their shells to mate. To facilitate genetic transfer between isolated individuals, barnacles have extraordinarily long penises⁠. Barnacles probably have the largest penis to body size ratio of the animal kingdom, [19] up to eight times their body length. [21] Pearson, Ryan M.; van de Merwe, Jason P.; Gagan, Michael K.; Limpus, Colin J.; Connolly, Rod M. (25 April 2019). "Distinguishing between sea turtle foraging areas using stable isotopes from commensal barnacle shells". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 6565. Bibcode: 2019NatSR...9.6565P. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-42983-4. PMC 6483986. PMID 31024029. 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!”

ii] Oliver Dunnett, ‘Identity and geopolitics in Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin,’ Social & Cultural Geography, 105 no.5 (2009): 583-598. Typical acorn barnacles develop six hard calcareous plates to surround and protect their bodies. For the rest of their lives, they are cemented to the substrate, using their feathery legs (cirri) to capture plankton.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Studios Hergé, Moulinsart. "Tintin in Brussels". Official route drawn by Moulinsart and Studios Hergé. Moulinsart and Studios Hergé . Retrieved 3 March 2014. Then there’s Tintin himself. The boy reporter, says Farr, is “an unusually blank figure. Just those two dots for eyes, that little nose.” His celebrated quiff was the result of an early car chase: Hergé enjoyed drawing it so much he made it permanent. “He appeals to everyone, boys and girls, all ages, all nationalities. He’s a blank sheet every reader can identify with. It’s a very clever device.” Almost exactly 90 years ago, an idealistic boy reporter with a distinctive quiff made his comic strip debut in Le Petit Vingtième, the children’s supplement of a Belgian daily newspaper. Tintin, accompanied by his faithful dog Snowy, was the creation of Georges Remi, who took his initials, reversed them and fashioned a pen-name based on their Francophone pronunciation: Hergé. Barnacles have no heart. They do, however, have a sinus that performs a similar function with muscles pushing blood through.

Today’s sailors still struggle with the same problem. More formally called biofouling, the unwanted build-up of sea life on the hulls of everything from pleasure boats to aircraft carriers causes drag through the water. This slows speeds and so necessitates the burning of more fuel, producing both higher costs and more carbon emissions. (The skins of sea creatures from whales to sea snakes can also become encrusted with barnacles in a similar way.) I imagine that the translators enjoyed translating Hergé’s comic books and putting their own English spin on them, just as much as thousands of children and adults alike have enjoyed them ever since.You can find the English translations of Tintin in the Junior Fiction (JF) section of the library on floor two at JF HER and the original French language versions at 741.5 HER. If you would like to find out more about translation or corpus linguistics, there are several books available in the CCCU Library or you can read the Library guide to Corpus software at https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/library/docs/Corpus-Software.pdf Maybe we can introduce some controlled roughness, or weird shapes, to increase the diversity of the flow. Or maybe we can dramatically change the ship shape and come up with some novel profiles,” he says. The Gare du Midi station in Brussels contains a huge reproduction of a panel from Tintin in America. [12] [13]Additionally, the picoroco barnacle is used in Chilean cuisine and is one of the ingredients in curanto seafood stew. Zheden, Vanessa; Kovalev, Alexander; Gorb, Stanislav N.; Klepal, Waltraud (2015-02-06). "Characterization of cement float buoyancy in the stalked barnacle Dosima fascicularis (Crustacea, Cirripedia)". Interface Focus. 5 (1): 20140060. doi: 10.1098/rsfs.2014.0060. ISSN 2042-8898. PMC 4275874. PMID 25657839. a b "What are barnacles?". Ocean Facts. National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 26 February 2021 . Retrieved 18 June 2022. The acorn barnacle’s shell is made up of six calcium plates surrounding the barnacle in a circle. Then there are four plates that act as doors and slide across the top of the barnacle to protect the barnacle from moisture loss and predators. A fertilised egg hatches into a nauplius: a one-eyed larva comprising a head and a telson, without a thorax or abdomen. This undergoes six moults, passing through five instars, before transforming into the cyprid stage. Nauplii are typically initially brooded by the parent, and released after the first moult as larvae that swim freely using setae. [14] [15] Cyprid [ edit ]

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] Most barnacles are suspension feeders; they dwell continually in their shells, which are usually constructed of six plates, [3] and reach into the water column with modified legs. These feathery appendages beat rhythmically to draw plankton and detritus into the shell for consumption. [25] Barnacles do grow the more they eat. It is not known how they enlarge their shell. Most probably they use a chemical to dissolve the inner layers whilst new layers are added to the outer shell.Concise Oxford English Dictionary (10thed.). Oxford University Press. 2002. p.260. ISBN 0-19-860572-2. Among the most common predators on barnacles are whelks. They are able to grind through the calcareous exoskeletons of barnacles and feed on the softer inside parts. Mussels also prey on barnacle larvae. [30] Another predator on barnacles is the starfish species Pisaster ochraceus. [31] [32] Like many English words and phrases, the description of something reliable as “copper-bottomed” has a maritime origin.