i got mine here! They have some sale going on and i ended up buying it right away(*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑
um i clicked on the paGe and the next thing below it was called a ding dong squishy toy…
I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS THING GLOWS IN THE DARK. I LEGIT WOKE UP MY ROOMMATE, BURST INTO HER ROOM SQUEALING, BECAUSE THIS DAMN THING GLOWS IN THE DARK. IT IS THE CUTEST FUCKING THING I EVER SAW. Also if you look really close it has a SMILE that goes :3 It also has a cute little butt. You guys don’t understand, I bought 4 of these fuckers. They are perfect and everyone needs one!!!!
ohmygod they have them for Samsung cases too, not just iPhone. I NEED ONE RIGHT NOW but I’m broke UGH
It’s @gabbah‘s excitable flower girl, Lily! She has an adorable personality so I was compelled to draw her – plus gabbah is just a plain nifty dude whose art I enjoy a lot.
This also marks the first drawing I’ve ever streamed on Picarto, so I’m happy it turned out as well as it did.
Espresso this is way too good! I love how fluffy she looks, you really knocked the ball out of the park making her super cute, thank you lots! ;w;
Trade disputes. boom! shwing shwing. meesa meesa! I’m padme. Are you an angel? Pod racing. I call for a vote of no confidence. Roger roger. Now this is pod racing! Medal ceremony.
Episode II
My, you’ve grown! slugs through the window. romantic getaway. I hate sand. I slaughtered them all. Count Dooku. Arena battle. Chase through the desert. Yoda throwing rocks. Creepy robot hand wedding.
Episode III
This is not the Jedi way. Do it! We can’t lose the Wookie system. I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi. Let me tell you about Darth Plagues the Wise. Unlimited power! Darth Vader. You were the chosen one! Noooooooo!
Rogue One
Lots of different planets. Space Jerusalem. Fighting through a city. Boom! Rain planet. Almost assassination. Tearful goodbye from dad. Time to become Rogue One. Fighting through a beach. Space filing systems. Space email. Boom!
Episode IV
Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope. This R2 unit is busted. You knew my father? These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. 12 parsecs. This ain’t no moon. Death Star. Aren’t you a little short to be a stormstrooper? Use the force, Luke. Medal ceremony.
Episode V
It’ll keep you warm. Giant robot camels. Go to the Degobah system. Luminous beings are we. Lando. Dark side cave. They’re my friends, I have to rescue them. Carbonite. I am your father. Noooooooo!
Episode VI
Jabba the Hutt. Let us go, or die. Battle over a giant sandmouth. Yoda dies. Another Death Star. Ewoks. It’s a trap! Chase through the forest. Awkward elevator ride. I am a Jedi knight, like my father before me! Afterparty in the woods, everybody comes back as a ghost.
Episode VII
Daring pilot. Orphaned desert child with magic powers. Find me this droid. Wise old mentor. Fallen Jedi knight. Evil empire. Big explody sphere. Use the force, Rey. Haven’t we done this before?
Episode VIII
Daring escape. Boom. Continuing to escape, daringly. The Jedi have to end. Let go of the past, kill it if you have to (including lingering plot threads from the previous movie). Casino planet. Obvious sleazy traitor. Mirror cave. Throne room. Surprising dismemberment. Unsurprising sleazy betrayal. A bit more escaping. Battering ram cannon. Ghost fight. One last bit of escaping.
Being able to identify microbes in real-time aboard the International
Space Station, without having to send them back to Earth for
identification first, would be totally amazing for the world of
microbiology and space exploration.
The Genes
in Space 3 team turned that possibility into a reality this year,
when it completed the first-ever sample-to-sequence process entirely aboard the
space station.
The ability to identify microbes in space could aid in the
ability to diagnose and treat astronauts in real time, as well as assisting in
the identification of life on other planets. It could also benefit other
experiments aboard the space station.
HELPFUL
SCIENCE HINT: Identifying microbes involves isolating the
DNA of samples, and then amplifying – or making lots and lots (and LOTS)
of copies – of that DNA that can then be
sequenced, or identified.
As part of regular
monitoring, petri plates were touched to various surfaces of the space station.
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson transferred cells
from growing bacterial colonies on those plates into miniature test tubes,
something that had never been done before in space (first OMG moment!).
Once the cells were successfully collected, it was time to
isolate the DNA and prepare it for sequencing, enabling the identification of
the unknown organisms – another first for space microbiology.
Enter Hurricane Harvey. *thunder booms*
“We started hearing the reports of Hurricane Harvey the
week in between Peggy performing the first part of collecting the sample and
gearing up for the actual sequencing,” said Sarah Wallace, the project’s
primary investigator.
With a hurricane wreaking havoc outside, Wallace and Whitson set out to
make history.
The data were downlinked to the team in Houston for
analysis and identification.
“Once we actually got the data on the ground we were able
to turn it around and start analyzing it,” said Aaron Burton, the project’s
co-investigator. “You get all these squiggle plots and you have to turn that
into As, Gs, Cs and Ts.”
Those As, Gs, Cs and Ts are more than just a nerdy alphabet – they are
Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine and Thymine – the four bases that make up each
strand of DNA and can tell you what organism the strand of DNA came from.
“Right away, we saw one microorganism pop up, and then a
second one, and they were things that we find all the time on the space
station,” said Wallace. “The validation of these results would be when we got
the sample back to test on Earth.”
Soon after, the samples returned to Earth aboard the Soyuz
spacecraft, along with Whitson.
With the samples now in the team’s JSC lab, tests were
completed in ground labs to confirm the findings from the space station. They
ran the tests again and again, and then once more, to confirm accuracy. Each
time, the results were exactly the same on the ground as in orbit. (second OMG moment!)
“We did it. Everything worked perfectly,” said Sarah Stahl,
microbiologist.
This capability could change future space exploration.
“As a microbiologist,” said Wallace, “My goal is really so
that when we go and we move beyond ISS and we’re headed towards Mars or the
moon or wherever we are headed to, we have a process that the crew can have
that great understanding of the environment, based on molecular technology.”
I used to work for a call center and I was doing a political survey and I called this number that was randomly generated for me and the way our system worked was voice-activated so when the other person said hello you’d get connected to them, so I just launch right into my “Harvard University and NPR blah blah blah” thing and then there’s this long pause and I think the person’s hung up even though I didn’t hear a click
And then I hear “you shouldn’t be able to call this number.”
So I apologize and go into the preset spiel about because we aren’t selling anything, etc. etc. and the answer I get is
“No, I know that. What I mean is that it should be impossible for you to call this number, and I need to know how you got it.”
I explain that it’s randomly generated and I’m very sorry for bothering him, and go to hang up. And before I can click terminate, I hear:
“Ma’am, this is a matter of national security.”
I accidentally called the director of the FBI.
My job got investigated because a computer randomly spit out a number to the Pentagon.
Ok, I need to know WHEN this happened and if this lady was talking to Robert Mueller.
@whimsicalethnographies spring-heading-into-summer, 2008. (Like probably May? I left that job in August and this was one of the last full long-running surveys I did for them.) So yes, right in the middle of Mueller’s term.
not to be a downer but your twenties are super hard and super lonely and tv lied and it’s not glamorous at all and if you are having a hard time it’s ok and it’s normal and you’ll be ok
Hot cocoa haven 