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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
takingbackshannon

I DON’T WANT TO HATE THE CHANGELINGS BUT THEY KEEP DOING FUCKING SHITTY THINGS AND BEING SHITTY PEOPLE TO PEOPLE WHO WERE JUST CURIOUS AND THEN CAUGHT IN THIS MESS OF THEIRS

LIKE SERIOUSLY SISKO AND THEM WERE TRYING TO BE NICE AND YOU’RE BEING A BUNCH OF FUCKING PUSHY ASSHOLES AND TRYING TO KILL EVERYONE

uggggh

to be fair, almost everyone else is untrusting of them but mostly because of their fucking dominion and the threat it fucking poses

star trek ds9 3x26 changelings UGH dominion
themanfromnantucket scinerds
scinerds

The is a tardigrade, aka water bear. And this little thing can survive the most extreme conditions — boiling heat, freezing temperatures, even the vacuum of space. But what’s so special about this little guy?

Well this microorganism can survive from just above absolute zero, to well above the heat of boiling water. Pressures greater than the deepest point of the ocean by 600%. They can live without food or water for 10 years.

The European Space Agency even sent some tardigrade up to space, under an experiment called TARDIS — tardigrades in space. Where the results were stunning. Many of them survived the solar radiation, vacuum conditions, freezing temperature, dehydration and other extreme conditions. And.. It didn’t even affect their reproductive behaviors.

So what? It can live in extreme conditions, why does that matter?

Well the tardigrade have showed us that where life can exist, it will exist. Which makes us realize, maybe life doesn’t need to exist under all the conditions we once believed. If tardigrades can exist under these conditions, what about extraterrestrials?

Knowing about the tardigrade, there are so many more possibilities of finding extraterrestrial life. Now its up to time, and the work of our diligent scientists to show us where it exists — I know its hiding out there somewhere!

these guys are freaky and awesome tardigrade water bear science biology xenobiology
celtic-romulan

I just had this weird flash of a plot bunny in which a character of mine was helping Garak rebuild Cardassia Prime after the Dominion War, and they took a break for dinner at some local cafe where a band was playing some songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival. My OC knew the lyrics better than the band, and the lead singer invited her up on stage to sing along, while Garak just sat there shaking his head thinking what the hell has the future generation of his people come to. 

(Seriously, some of my craziest or most brilliant writings come from ideas that fall on my head five minutes before I write them, and most of them involve Garak one way or another.)

Garak writing fanfics it just popped in there CCR