Yeah, nice makeup, right?
~"He was always so happy,
more so dressing up."

Perhaps you've heard..?

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According to the just-unembargoed research paper “A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus,” the much-debated possibility of a terrestrial “shadow biosphere” (that is, “a second genesis for life on this planet”) has allegedly been confirmed by scientists studying the microbes of California’s arsenic-rich Mono Lake.

From Cosmic Log:
[/indent]In the paper published today, the researchers report that some of the bacteria could survive on arsenic and incorporate it into their cellular biochemistry. Instead of the usual phosphate-rich DNA, they observed arsenate-rich DNA. Heightened levels of arsenic also showed up in the cell’s proteins and fats. The scientists used mass spectroscopy, radioactive labeling and X-ray fluorescence to confirm that the arsenic was really being used in the biomolecules rather than merely contaminating the cells.[/indent]

Life as we know it
is always surprising us
& probably will.

Even life as we don't know it. I think humans typically sell short the other little critters and microbes while overinflating our own importance. I never met a tree I didn't like.

Given the content of Jet's post above, if I now look at the Periodic Table I'll predict that pretty soon some smart human will stumble upon critters who thrive in Antimony and Bismuth environments in other parts of our Universe.

I don't like a lot of trees. They're really stand-off-ish. So long as they leave me be, I let them alone.

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Here's a post I hope to one day re-contribute into my TFP Aquarium idea thread. So much so, I'll post it here first so you know what it might look like then, in the future.

(... continued ... from elsewhere)

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The Hippocampus Denise Seahorse is no bigger than most human fingernails
at about 16 millimeters from the its snout to the tip of its tail. It’s so small
that experts had previously believed it to be the young of the next smallest
seahorse species, the Hippocampus bargibanti. It’s hard to even discern most
Hippocampus denise seahorses from the coral they live in off the coast of Indonesia.


[webecoist.]

I'll sleep a bit better tonight knowing I made this thread one longer.

//Forced to think, damnit,
about types of energy
& how they collide.//

Don't worry, the earth and moon are not actually colliding during the upcoming total eclipse of the moon on Dec. 20 & 21, 2010.

In case you are interested to learn more about this specific subject, this is a very nicely designed site: Shadow & Substance Home Page

That settles it. I am now on the record in believing we sorely need a "Stars in Space" topic, even if it only just pictures, links, and our three selves.

I'll 3rd that.

...though I am under the impression that "the authorities" have looked askance at pictures only threads. I don't believe that's change my habits, but it crosses my mind when I do it...sort of like a partial eclipse of the mind.

Here is a link that may immensely benefit all us "older" timers...

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Google's Teach Parents Tech

one more for the cause...

23893

Another, as well,
for the "Stars in Space" topic,
this microverse waits.

Finish this sentence:

Technically speaking......

I'm not sure how prevalent it is with older folks, but I think it's probably not unusual that my mom who will be 87 next week has no idea what anything "online" is about and has never even touched a keyboard..other than maybe a typewriter. My dad also passed away a few years ago and never had a hands-on computer experience.

...is one of my faults.

... I have no idea how anything at all relates to being "technical", other than discussions in automotives, computers, or clocks.

Everything else is "in actuality".

In actuality, I like automotive subject matter a lot so sometimes that leads me to overly technically speaking about it.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld...6f9yo1_500.jpg
(Do you believe? Do you believe - does this count as a 'space post' {coast to coast}? I want to believe.)


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-- (to note: I make it a habit of rarely uttering the hackneyed terms of 'technical', 'irony', and/or 'you know what I mean?', because, to state it like what I ate for lunch today , {"Franks"} it is an unillustrated but known fact that 96.7% of the Western population uses the above in-sentence phrases in precisely the opposite {channeling Lex Luthor: WRONG!} manner. Just to put it out there.)

Actuality
is served by technicality
& one's perspective.

**post space**

Ashes to ashes -
further, fucking dust to dust!
Dreams aren't even air.

0 0...

Things are going to get Bad around here if we don't keep posting!

You know that I will,
in support of our function,
since words are just words.

...hey, did you send out
those engraved invitations?
The soup's getting cold.

if it's Gazpacho, cold is OK with me. Or any of these cold soups would be quite tasty in my mouth:

Cold borscht – based on beets.
Cucumber soup - based on cucumbers, known in various cuisines.
Dashi soup (Japanese) - fish stock soup, with seasonal vegetables.
Gazpacho – (Spanish) pureed tomato and vegetable soup.
Okroshka – (Russian) kvass- or kefir-based vegetable and ham soup.
Sour cherry soup – A cream-based Hungarian soup.
Salmorejo - (Spanish) Tomato soup with garlic and bread crumbs.
Tarator – A Bulgarian cold soup made from yogurt and cucumbers.
Vichyssoise – (French-American) creamy potato and leek soup, served with chives.
Sayur Asem - An Indonesian soup that tastes sour and spicy.
Naengmyeon - (Korean) buckwheat noodles in a tangy iced beef broth, raw julienned vegetables, a slice of a Korean pear, and often a boiled egg and/or cold beef

A long list of soups,
satisfying quite a few
of my fantasies.

2+3-9=0-4

Sometimes I like to put "nonsense" terms into a search engine to see what comes up.

So I just found out that "sexy soup" brings up this tee shirt:

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...as well as a photo of eight hefty Asian guys all in a hot tub, a few other sexy pics, and my favorite, that cute girl from Harry Potter in a bathtub.

In case you need to know.

Knowing such nonsense
is what we've come doomed to do,
more elaborately.

(2/3)x9+0=6

"At three in the morning I looked at my clock and thought, 'Good god! What on earth have I been doing for four hours?!' I looked at my screen. 'Plot summaries of Power Rangers episodes.' Damn."

—Anonymous Wikipedia addict

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We can't repel information of that magnitude!

on a personal note:
I'm a good example of this; unless I have he mentality of get in, get out with the knowledge I initially came in for, it is very easy for one to suscept into "link-jumping" or "topic-turning" for hours on end when you just follow a stray blue underline on Wikipedia. In fact, I've had a "crush" with the tvtropes.org website on-and-off for nearly a year now, but only now, have I realized how big and diverse it has gotten in the mean. It's huge, and nearly everything is interconnected to anything. And it's also quite hilarious and nerdy. What comedy isn't though?

Dude, (and I don't say that often) and they even have an archetype and/or name for this sort of occurrence: the Archive Binge.

I'd rather know than not know, even if it's nonsense, painful, difficult.

There comes a limit
somewhere outside the hardware
resembling a wall.

I might just add some more RAM. I'm found of bubble-memory.

Finnish this sentence:

"She was a good cook, ....."

...plus she had beautiful, large breasts.

...and the shortest way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Though her breasts were quite intriguing.

A knife thru the Solar Plexus is pretty short too....

---------- Post added at 12:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:09 PM ----------

how come I can never get 2 posts in a row, she said, whilst stirring the stew....

Patience is...

---------- Post added at 01:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:37 AM ----------

... all I'm good for now.

(I like this old tasting apple better; it's bittersweet to realize my help wasn't wanted, but now I don't really run into the accursed problem of subter-imposed red-edit lines anymore. Joy.)

......a virtue, Moses said.
Sure he did, said the peasant, but he didn't have his balls caught in a rabbit trap!

She was a pleasant peasant
& she had lovely smile.
Just to spite myself I loved her
although only for a while.

It was probably posted somewhere on TFP that I haven't found yet, but while we're here let me ask.

Have any of you played with Google Body yet?

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...35-300-603.jpghttp://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...dy-browser.png

Booble? Is that what you were looking for?

I haven't tinkered with Google Body - did not know of its existence - how do I get there?

Thats a very good reason to try google body, right there...


Sorry to break the mood, but this clip is more important.
Pass it along...