im haunted by the fact that there is no logical reason that a physicist and a biologist should ever have to share the same lab space
like hermann just needs an office with space for chalkboards. there has to be a free office somewhere in the shatterdome. why is he in a lab with someone working with dangerous specimens. why isn’t that lab at least BSL-3. since it’s clearly not BSL-3, are the samples de-toxified and preserved? is that why they can just kick them around like dirty socks even tho kaiju blue is established to be highly toxic? there is no way newt got sequencing data from samples soaked in formaldehyde. how is newt able to do literally any work other than just anatomy studies. did newt do the majority of his experiments before they were in the hong kong lab? does he have collaborators? why did no one react to the news that kaiju are genetically identical despite that being absolutely insane as a statement? has anyone done a comparative transcriptome study of the different kaiju to explain this? i am getting carried away.
i am forced to conclude that hermann originally had his own lab space but got lonely without a team and/or worried newt would hurt himself and decided to suck it up and do a BSL training so he could yell at newt all day
when u get make a mutual and then ur mutual has an in group of mutuals and over time u one by one they follow u and u follow them back and vice versa slowly earning the trust of the italian mob one mafioso at a time until finally ur being kissed on the lips at gatherings
this image just appeared in my subconscious and I felt compelled to put it into the world
Anonymous asked:
i never realised how weird ferns are
dont make me bring out the sex triangle
this is a scientific depiction of a fern orgy. this is actually a very famous scientific depiction of a fern orgy. it’s describing the relationship between 3 (and eventually many more) different species of ferns in the Asplenium genus, called “the Asplenium triangle”, all of which live to a number of different degrees and areas in the Appalachian mountains. what it’s describing is what’s called the Appalachian spleenwort complex, or Asplenium hybrid complex. this was first developed in the 1970s and was a huge ass big deal in the fern community, and there’s been a ton of other fern complexes and triangles developed just like it.
to understand the Cursed Mountain Orgy Triangle, we need to throw out the assumption that species can’t fuck other species and have babies. that’s true for some organisms, but in the grand scheme of things it’s definitely not a hard rule; if something is closely related enough to another thing, it can fuck it and have babies. these babies, however, might be sterile (think about breeding a horse and a donkey to get a mule; mules are sterile and can’t have offspring).
so. let’s break this down.
okay. so. the edges of the triangle are Asplenium rhizophyllum, Asplenium platyneuron, and Asplenium montanum. these are three separate species that can fuck and make offspring, but the offspring is sterile. Asplenium rhizophyllum and Asplenium montanum are theorized to produce a sterile hybrid, but the offspring has never been formally collected. Asplenium montanum and Asplenium platyneuron can fuck, and the sterile hybrids have been collected before but don’t seem to be very common. Finally, Asplenium rhizophyllum and Asplenium platyneuron can fuck, which produces a very common sterile hybrid called Asplenium x ebenoides, or Scott’s spleenwort. and that was it and everyone was happy with their orgy choices and lived in the woods the end
….except its not the end. because ferns fuck a lot. and genetic mutations pop up. and sometimes, a mutation comes along and instead of producing a sterile hybrid, the genome of the offspring doubles and creates another, fertile mutant of the two parents. so the triangle actually looks like this:
the Asplenium rhizophyllum x platyneuron cross doubles to make Asplenium tutwilerae, the Asplenium rhizophyllum x montanum cross doubles to make Asplenium innatifidum, and the Asplenium montanum x platyneuron cross doubles to make Asplenium bradleyi. and THEN everyone was happy with their orgy choices and lived in the woods the end
just kidding, this isnt depicted on the original triangle diagram but we now know that bc the mutants are fertile they can go hog wild
im not going to write out all these hybrids. u can find them in chart form on the entire wikipedia article dedicated to asplenium crosses. also some of these plants can cross with other ferns outside the initial orgy zone and make new orgies. im not putting those in because i would die.
edit: it’s not a x2 genome mutation that makes the process of allotetraploidy, its a x4 mutation, which really doesnt make it much better
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I don't think Ianthe and Gideon actually had anything sexual or romantic going on in-between HtN and NtN, but I do think Harrow would have preferred them having weird corpse sex over the friendship bracelets
gideon the ninth is SO FUNNY bc Gideon probably seems so cool and mysterious, walking around with a "vow of silence", face painted like a skull, tall and imposing, when in reality whenever she opens her mouth it's like
Perchance the reason we enjoy star wars is that it is a crumbling mess and we are colonizing polyps, looking for open texture upon which to build reefs of transformative works.
“Points at the burning trash fire that is the SW universe at all times” It’s free real estate!
if a hot evil villain tried to seduce me to the dark side i would simply say fuck yes
rip to all of you but im gonna get it
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help I’ve fallen and am perfectly capable of getting up but refuse to
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Eye of the Beholder
I've never found myself pretty so I made a quick comic that might help others with the same feelings
Can I offer you a nice mole in these trying times?
you sound like a starship's central computer that has little grasp on what humans find enjoyable
that’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me
oh to be a fictional scientist surrounded by many unnecessary & technically pointless beakers of colourful liquids
I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.
An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered
I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”
Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft
In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. Apparently in Japan treating ghosts rudely is basically considered the stupidest thing you could possibly do. For months after the tsunami, taxi drivers would pick up a passenger only to have them give an address in one of the devastated areas. The cab driver often looked up halfway to the destination to find their fare had disappeared. Not wanting to be impolite to the person (even if they were dead) they’d drive to the address, open the door to let them out, then drive away.
^That is the most Japanese thing I’ve ever heard
*buys the bloodborne artbook only to read it like a fashion magazine*