safety first (x)
Got to love those Mirror Universe stories :)
Estimates of sponge longevity vary quite a bit, but are often in the thousands of years. One study in the journal Aging Research Reviews notes a deep-sea sponge from the species Monorhaphis chuni lived to be 11,000 years old.
Ming, a quahog clam, died at the age of 507 when researchers tried to dredge the bivalve up from Icelandic waters. The quahog’s life-span is usually about 225 years…
TIL that chalk is actually tiny protists called foraminifera mixed with the corpses of sea algae. 😮 📷: PLOS Biology http://ift.tt/29SIFm8
Bears playing with a balloon.
Was bummed out this morning, but then i saw this. Now i can’t stop smiling.
Road Rage Behaviors
Full size infographic - http://infographicjournal.com/road-rage-behaviors/
Star Trek - “Vulcan’s Vengeance”
Some Vulcans, including Spock’s dad, steal some of that red matter to blow up Romulus because they’re not used to suppressing the kind of emotions that arise from your whole planet getting black holed.
RATING: 47%
(Where to place: Between Star Trek and Into Darkness.)