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You are a genetic researcher who has come across a universal truth. The DNA in all living creatures are attempts to build a single design. Viruses and phages have been stopping this process intentionally, resulting in different species. You now know what that design is and can complete it.

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The most genius I’ve ever felt was when I was working in the physics lab. We had installed a camera at a pressure chamber window so we could watch a laser do pulse ablation on a metal plate. However, we had a problem no one could figure out; the laser would phase in and out on our live feed from the camera. The team was freaking out about the possibility of this 30k laser being defective and they were about to take apart the vacuum chamber when I was like “uh... guys? We’re firing the laser at 23 pulses per second.”

Mind you, I’m a sophomore at this point, working with 3 grad students and a professor. I’m at a point in my career where I can barely explain the math behind what research I’m actually doing.

The professor is like “.... Yeah? What about it?” And I explain: “Most cameras film at 24 frames per second. The laser looks like it’s phasing in and out because it’s out of phase with the camera” so we adjusted the pulse per second a bit until it was in phase and shockingly! It worked perfectly. The prof and the grad students just looked.. dumbfounded? And I guess camera fps rates aren’t common knowledge, at least to them. They treated me like I was the smartest person in the room even though the only reason I knew that information was from making gifsets of Pacific Rim when I was in high school

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Okay, you clearly have more experience than I do, so I stand corrected.

Have you ever taken a life?

I have, several times, for the purposes of having fun.

It was a blast, though. I hope to do it more often.

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The extra bits on the ears make me wonder if you could/anyone has bred for ruffly-eared mice?

These are the first three "adult" mice from my-pick pairings of the feeder colony self-blacks. I took pics so I could ask opinions from the FMBA group, to see if I am looking for the right things when I'm picking for structural type.

I'm definitely keeping #1 because he's got the best color and I think he has ok type for an F1, and #2 I think has the best face (and DEFINITELY had the best temperament, I scooped him up by the body without needing to go for the tail at all and he was chill about it). I think #3's tiny ears and white tail-tip mean he's going to go, and his personality is lacking, but we'll see what the group says.

I have 6 others who are growing out that I've got high hopes for, and a BUNCH of nice looking ladies whose ages I actually know, so I will be reorganizing a lot in the next few weeks. I'm very excited to watch this line change and grow!

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Some days you just wanna feel special and do yourself up, you know?

What if your Mew came from a shiny Arceus? Then it's kinda both from a shiny parent and the first Mew from Arceus, you know? Just a random thought

there’s only one Arceus in my headcanon so there is no shiny arceus, unless he can just make himself golden when he feels like it

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Omg tag ur triggers

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Frank. Frank, hun. ‘Taking a life’ means murder, not taking a drug called ‘a life’.

Have you ever taken a life?

I have, several times, for the purposes of having fun.

It was a blast, though. I hope to do it more often.

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It must hurt more to be bodyslammed while gelled, I’m so sorry

I’m going to hell by choice (not into the whole ‘eternity spent worshipping a creator god’ thing) but also mainly bc my cat was napping and I made the moral decision to wake them up so I could get to my hoodie

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Stewardship has also always been a concept in lots of cultures, and it’s becoming a more prominent thing lately in discussions of land use and sustainability. I think that’s the route to go, and I can even think of a couple works that already explore that idea! Mare Internum is a very pretty webcomic that takes place on Mars (there is some body horror involved, tread carefully.) and the Mira Grant novel Alien: Echo has a colony that’s very conscientious about not extracting resources at all from the planet they’ve colonized. It’s also in the Alien franchise, so the typical body horror warnings apply there too.

so im working on a thought about how often, lately, i’ve seen science fiction dreams of space exploration dismissed as ‘colonial fantasies’ and what i’m thinking on is how readily we fall into the easy assumption that white people are uniquely and intrinsically exploitative (that white people are uniquely and intrinsically anything) and that this urge to colonize (to be exploitative, to consume, to sin) is an inherent property we can’t help but reproduce.

and the thing is it’s really important to think about what colonization entails and how much of the white american dream is built on an incredibly destructive way of life, how much white american ideals revere exploitation, consumption, destruction. it’s important to point out that elon musk’s vision for mars combines all the worst parts of manifest destiny, disney world, and company towns: he wants to build a fucking resort there with indentured servants and he absolutely doesn’t give a shit how many people die along the way so long as he gets his money. that’s a colonialist fantasy. absolutely. fuck that.

but… i can’t believe that the human desire to travel is nothing more than the desire to colonize. that’s like saying the human desire to love is nothing more than the desire to rape. humans love to travel. countless cultures have been nomadic or migratory, and even the most stable civilizations have traders, pilgrims, tourists. we have been travelers our entire history. we love to go new places. we love to see new things. we have looked up at the stars for more than a hundred thousand years; we’ve sailed our ships by their lights for more than ten thousand years; we’ve told each other stories of going out among them for more than a century. we are so close to the edge of the universe, and we are a species of ardent travelers. of course we want to go.

some science fiction is colonial. the desire to space just to plunder everything we can get our greedy little spacesuit gloves on, by all means, let’s interrogate our motives for trying to do that kind of thing. let’s point out that this is a pretty shitty thing to do.

but holy shit, we’re on the edge of the universe. we have always wanted to go. you can’t tell me it’s wrong to want to go and see what’s over the next horizon.

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Holy shit Frank

Have you ever taken a life?

I have, several times, for the purposes of having fun.

It was a blast, though. I hope to do it more often.

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Best neighbour

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They’re prophets, Ship, not geniuses.

how can you tell if a rabbit possesses the gift of prophecy or not

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To be fair, Magdalene comes across sinister until you get to know her. I adore this sweet little piggy!

Another thing I’d forgotten about this month, a request doodle for Magdalene from Dappervolk. She turned out pretty cute, I think, if slightly sinister.

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I would think a magnet would make it easier in space. Plus no carpet to turn it into a ninja caltrop.

NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg is a self proclaimed crafter. A week ago she made a stuffed dinosaur from scraps on the space station. The little T-rex is made form the lining of Russian food containers and the toy is stuffed with scraps from an old T-shirt. While many toys have flown into space, this is the first produced in space.

Photos: Karen Nyberg, via CollectSpace