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contents: reblogs of cool sci-fi art and funny goofs as well as original content of some are sometimes

[evevevevevevevev]

THE RESCUE OF GILLIAN GABLE!! Massart senior film. It's the best thing I've made so far. Please watch it. thank u

(scopophobia warning)

[tvguts]

the phrase "a shiny quarter to anyone who can explain this" popped into my head today but i couldn't remember what it was from. after 30 minutes of frantic googling i'm happy to report that it is from Invader Zim production art where johnen and the other artists were bullying eachother via notes on character design revision sheets

[skulandcrossbones]

whats YOUR deadly sin

pride

greed

lust

envy

gluttony

wrath

sloth

Remaining time: 1 day 15 hours

no nuance just pick one

[kosmicpowers]

England isn't a real country, stupid. England is a lie to sell you more Doctor Who

[inkjie]

soliloquy by an immortal cave painter.

pencil, ink, and ochre on paper

[pocketss]

distressing things to say to your friends

[monstrous-ideas]

Its been five years of it’s august and the flow of time still haunts me

[pmamtraveller]

Daniel Arthur

[pmamtraveller]

Moby Dick by artist Gerard DuBois

[rockabillywife]

Looking at reviews for a book on bird migration ?

[vedurnan]

New research indicates 2 cups of black tea a day can increase human lifespan by up to ten million years

[hexbugswallower]

Ants have the most badass lives of anything in the animal kingdom, life as an ant is like warhammer

[hexbugswallower]

Wake up in enormous underground cyberpunk metropolis

Venture outside with your ant buddies to forage scraps from an incomprehensible civilization of alien gods (each one several times larger than the city you've spent most of your life inside) for the glory of your GodMomEmpress

Get attacked by a platoon of soldiers from a rival megacity, they're an offshoot of your species except like twice as big (basically orks) and like 10% of them are genetically modified supersoldiers with wings

Luckily, you've been engineered from birth to spit acid so you and your antfriends successfully defeat the rival ants and their winged miniboss

Die from getting stuck on a jolly rancher

[humanoidhistory]

2001: A Space Odyssey poster from Hungary, 1979.

[pmamtraveller]

The Eclipse of the Sun in Venice, July 6, 1842, by Ippolito Caffi (1842)

[phantastische-illustrationen]

Artwork for 'The Forge of Mars' by Bruce Balfour, 2002 (Jean-Pierre Targete)

[femmchantress]

I don’t care if Monday’s yuck

Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck

Thursday maybe eat a duck

It’s Friday, Flat as Fuck

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[rubacmk]

I really had to draw some ukrainian matchstick mascots