Better late than never!
This week’s entry: Hot Jupiters
http://www.space.com/32011-extremely-hot-and-fast-planets-seem-to-defy-logic.html
https://astrobites.org/2015/03/04/hot-jupiters-are-very-bad-neighbors/
Amphibian August #17 – Plagiosaurus
Plagiosaurus lived during the Late Triassic of Germany (~205-201 mya), and was one of the last members of the plagiosaurids. Part of the same lineage of temnospondyls as the metoposaurids, this group took their body shapes to even more of an extreme – wide and flat, with stubby limbs and mouths that opened upwards like toilet seats.
Very similar to its close relative Gerrothorax (who was featured on this blog a few months ago), Plagiosaurus reached a size of about 1m long (3′3″). It was a fully aquatic bottom-dwelling ambush predator, waiting for smaller animals to swim close to its mouth and then sucking them in.
These animals are often depicted with external gills as adults, and I’ve done the same here, but some sources interpret them as having internal gills like the dvinosaurs.
La belle et la bête, 1946, Jean Cocteau
Fantastisch.
When the DM has this whole thing planned and the players just skip right past
James Tiberius “sunk all his points into improvised weaponry and bluff” Kirk, space bard.
Commander “charisma is a dump stat” Spock, space wizard
Lieutenant “wait, can we use supplemental materials for this?” Sulu, space duelist
Lieutenant Nyota“lockpick and detect trap are literally always useful skills guys come on” Uhura, space theif
Lieutenant Commander Montgomery “definitely going to blow the party up with that flask of Greek fire” Scott, space alchemist.
Ensign Pavel “Does not know how to tank” Chekov, Barbarian
And finally, to round out the party, Leonard “I can’t believe not a single one of you motherfuckers took a single rank in healing, I should pick rogue just to spite you,” McCoy, space cleric.
Don’t forget Ensign “I didn’t have time to write up a new background, so I remade my character who died last week” Redshirt, fighter.
Switching series, Bashir starts out as a cleric and then suddenly dual-classes to rogue, which annoys everyone.
does anyone remember the video of the news anchor that says hes filling in because the other anchor was murdered
here it is
for anyone having a bad time, here’s a casual reminder that kelas parmak trusts you and forgives you and 100% wants you to be happy
O No
Baba Yaga Break Into My Cellar
NO Warrant NO Permit
She’ll Just Down There Crunching Bones
Cardassians!
[Obligatory “Keeping Up With The…” joke. We get it]
Finally, we get back Garak, a character so good he makes Bashir better just by standing next to him.
Arguably the best episode we’ve covered since Duet.
A self hating Cardassian boy bites Garak, war orphans are discussed, and we get a Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner scene.
We talk trans-racialism and racist grandpas, among other things.
(Garak, in a costume that could have been designed by the Jack “the King” Kirby)
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