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[marshmallow-the-vampire-slayer]

btvs rewatch ✞ 6x09 Smashed

[humanoidhistory]

Astronaut Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space, enjoys the view from the Shuttle Endeavour, September 1992. Note her necklace her necklace floating in the microgravity.

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[danisnotofire]

look at these boots and tell me you dont immediately want to go adventuring in them holy shit i love these shoes so much

[creamteasandjammydodgers]

#makes me want to be on a beat up spaceship with ragtag crew who make their living by doing things of questionable legality

[julian-bashir-protection-squad]

I get you

[spacewatching]

Commander Eileen Collins consults a checklist while seated at the flight deck Commander’s station in the Shuttle Columbia during STS-93.

[alphynix]

Unsolved Paleo Mysteries Month #21 – Ancient Aquatic Aliens

Found only in the Carboniferous-aged Bear Gulch Limestone (~318 mya) in Montana, USA, Typhloesus wellsi is such a confusing animal that it’s been nicknamed “the alien goldfish”.

It was one of the first body fossils found containing conodont elements, leading to it initially being identified in the 1970s as the then-unknown conodont animal – until actual conodont animals were discovered a few years later, looking nothing like it. The elements were reassessed as actually being Typhloesus’ gut contents, indicating it was actually a conodont-eating predator or scavenger.

Reaching sizes of almost 10cm long (4″), it was vaguely fish-shaped with a pair of ventral fin folds and a stiffened vertical tail paddle. No obvious sensory structures are preserved, but there are impressions of a large gut cavity in the front half of its body, along with a pair of strange unidentified organs known as “ferrodiscus” that contained a high concentration of iron deposits.

And despite being known from over 50 specimens, we still don’t know where to classify it. At all. It lacks evidence of features like gill openings or a notochord that could associate it with chordates. Its gut appears to be a blind sack with no anus, a condition usually seen only in cnidarians and flatworms, and finned active swimmers are known in other invertebrate groups like molluscs and arrow worms, but Typhloesus doesn’t resemble anything like those either.

With the similarly mysterious Tullimonstrum recently getting a lot of attention and a possible identification as a lamprey-relative, perhaps somebody will eventually have another look at this strange little creature, too.

ctvnews.ca

First on the Martian menu: spuds

After experimenting in Peru's dry, desert soil, scientists have successfully grown a potato in a simulator mimicking the harsh conditions found on Mars.

Franklin Briceno

[tinsnip]

:DDDD

[nerdfishgirl]

There’s also some potato plants growing in simulated mars dirt at Kennedy Space Center. But we don’t have the money to simulate Martian conditions.