A UFO caught on tape!!!
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#puns
Month: January 2015
Okay but a week after Julian’s genetic status is discovered Jadzia totally dragged his ass back to the holosuite to try this again without him deliberately messing it up
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#Star Trek #DS9 #yes this
CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP
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#Flight Rising #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
misandryunicornfatbytchxxx4eva:
Violet Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster) with feather detail. Iridescence in bird feathers is due to microstructures of the feather refracting light like a prism. Fossil evidence has shown that birds have had these structures in their feathers for at least 40 million years.
fashion icon
;lfkajds;kfl
Damn, bird.
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#bird #pretty things
Believe it or not, the present is not as gloomy as you think
Please memorize the second one.
This is so important to me
I saw Scott posted this and I was really hoping to scroll down and see some plausible argument that this all stems from the elimination of lead.
Seriously though, this is good stuff to keep in mind.
About that second one, not that their point isn’t true, but the decade they selected was the 1940s. OK, so we’re not in the middle of a world war! Go us! But I’d really prefer a more typical and less cherry-picked example.
Agreed. I seem to recall that a previous time I saw someone use the 1940’s for this, someone responded with an explanation of how it’s still true even if you don’t use a world-war decade. However, I have no idea where I saw that, so take plenty of salt.
The first time I saw a calculation of how much data was on the Internet, it was five petabytes. To think, just a few years ago the entire Internet could be stored inside Data’s brain, with room to spare. We’ve come so far.
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#proud citizen of The Future #reply via reblog #Data’s storage capacity is 100 petabytes #what does it say about me that that is my first association with the word ‘petabyte’
I love it when you go to Youtube, and you read a comment, and it’s something totally benign like, “I love her red ballet shoes!” but the comment has 189 replies, and the very last one is way the fuck off on fucking Jupiter like, “The Battle of Stalingrad lasted for five months you stupid liberal hippie atheist tree-hugging bastard suck my dick everyone knows Mickey Mouse was a stupid piece of shit go back to Alaska.”
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #I don’t think I’ve ever actually encountered this #though I did once look up a clip of the moon landing on Youtube #and by the looks of it the moon-hoaxer argument in the comments had been going on for *several years*
A tardigrade (waterbear) hatching.
Tardigrades reproduce sexually and females lay eggs. She’ll actually shed her skin first and then lay her eggs inside of it. The babies then hatch from their eggs and then have to crawl out of the skin husk. Fun fact: tardigrades are born with the same number of cells as their adult counterparts – their cells just get bigger as they age.
If you’re looking for another microscopy blog to follow, check out lfkulture! They’ve got lots of cool stuff!
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#tardigrade #biology
The amazing David Orr and I worked together on this comic (check out his site for more great paleo design). As the owner of two feisty parrots, I feel like feathered raptors are just as exciting as those scaly ones we grew up with.
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#comic #Jurassic Park #dinosaur
Reblog if your tumblr url is the same one you started with.
This is a serious thing. Im curious how many people over the course of year(s) kept the same tumblr handle. A ton of the people I follow have changed their over time.
As far as I know Im one of the few who havent. Few being relative as there are millions of tumblr users. But yeah.
Social experiment.
If you HAVE changed your URL Click Here
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#reblog if #I’ve considered removing the hyphen so I wouldn’t have to deal with Tumblr’s hyphenated tag issues #but I don’t want to break links #and I certainly wouldn’t change the name completely
What you see above isn’t in fact leather made from animals- it’s made out of pineapples.
””It was one of those coincidences of life,” said Carmen Hijosa, founder of Piñatex, a new sustainable textile made from pineapple leaf fibres. Hijosa was speaking of her trip to the Philippines that led to a career change, which involved going back to university to get a PhD from London’s Royal College of Art, starting her own business, Ananas Anam, and patenting her own textile.
A small coincidence, and a big change.
Hijosa had been working in the leather industry for over 15 years in Ireland, when she was invited to consult on the exportation of leather in the Philippines. When Hijosa arrived, she was exposed to the poor quality of the materials, the working conditions and the toxic impact of leather on the environment. Hijosa advised, rather than try and export leather, why don’t you work with what you got, and what the Philippines has is an abundance of natural fibres.
She began to explore different fibres and came upon the pineapple leaf. “I realized they are very strong and flexible,” she says. “I wanted to see if I could make them into a non-woven mesh textile [like leather] and to do that I had to do full research and development that only a degree could provide.”
“Piñatex is a byproduct of the food industry,” explained Hijosa. “Once the pineapples are harvested the plants are left to rot.” Instead of letting that happen, pineapple farmers gather the leaves, extract the fibres and degum them in closed tanks. Once they have been degummed, the fibres become soft and breathable and can be put through a mechanical process that turns them into a non-woven mesh material that ends up feeling much like felt.
The entire process does not use any extra water, pesticides or fertilizer beyond what is used to cultivate the pineapples. By comparison, to produce 1kg of cotton – enough for one t-shirt and a pair of jeans – it takes up to 20,000 litres of water.”
This demonstrates that not only is the leather industry cruel, but it is also unnecessary. This product will hopefully be one of the future; one that manufactures waste to create something fashionable and hopefully successfully overtakes and thus eradicates the current industry.
Hope to see this on the markets soon!
OH MY FUCKING GOD
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#neat
Brinens and Things 