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this is from an Australian youtube channel where they go to hat tower and drop things
Water doesn’t compress very much, so once it hit it’s terminal velocity, it was basically a solid ball, not a liquid. This is why you can use water to cut things if you have a high enough pressurized jet of it.
The reverse POV of “if you’re too high, hitting the water is like hitting concrete”
Well that's not in one piece anymore
"the education system traumatizes students it deems stupid" and "the education system traumatizes students it deems gifted" are two concepts that can and should coexist.
I think I've got a compromise
[Image ID: Tumblr post from che-nya reading: "the education system traumatized students /End ID]
I like when fic length/book length/movie length is its own punchline
characters: Ah, I'm so glad that's all over now :). But luckily that's done and dealt with and we can all resume our normal lives now :)
fic length: Chapter 9 out of 48
My very first tiger drawing and my latest
Your skill level is unquestionable but listen.
I love him.
me also. as well.
This is the COOLEST thing I’ve seen in AGES. You both completely made my entire week.
if you're calling a recipe a "one pot" recipe, I better not find in there that you want me to remove something from the pot and put it aside. you think I'm letting that slide on a technicality? know your audience
i think the best genre of image is "creatures trapped in starbucks cups with receipts reading [cup of water (no water, no ice, creature)]"
then & now ♡
Me, plunking Stinky Bastard Man’s carrier on the counter: hi he’s here for shots and a nail trim and he’ll need to be sedated
Nurse: Are you sure? We can try-
Me: he needs to be sedated
Nurse: Well, it’ll take longer-
Me: he needs to be sedated, he will try to rip your face off
Nurse: Well we’ll try without first and we’ll let you know if we need to sedate
Me, watching her carry him away: you will need to sedate him
Nurse, coming back 10 minutes later clutching her hand: so, we will need to sedate him
Me:
A man with 3 caution stickers on his med file
Since this post blew up and people have asked for this villain’s record, here are some of Stinky Bastard Man’s more heinous crimes:
Screamed so loudly with such unbridled fury the one time he wasn’t sedated at the vet that he caused a little girl in the waiting room to burst into tears
Ripped an escape hole in the patio screen door in a single night
Snuck into the garage overnight where he managed to pull down his massive food bag from the top shelves, ripped it open and ate so much he couldn’t/wouldn’t move when we found him in the morning
Learned how to open the laundry cabinet to sleep on the clean towels
Learned how to open doors, thus allowing the dog to follow in after who then eats from the trash
Bats off anything on our windowsills that gets in the way of his sitting. Current succulent casualty count: 4
Thankfully cannot open the bedroom door due to rusty mechanisms, but managed to slip in one night when it wasn’t fully closed. Jumped down from my windowsill squarely onto my stomach, leaving me to bolt awake screaming from the blow and convinced I was under attack
Tricked me into loving him forever anyway
Ripped an escape hole
in the patio screen door
in a single night
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
oh my god he’s THIS Stinky Bastard Man!!!!
the stinky bastard man, the stinky bastard myth, the stinky bastard legend
Velvet Worms: these cute little creatures are actually voracious predators that capture their prey with a projectile slime known as the "silly string of death"
Onychophorans, also known as velvet worms, look almost like a cross between a caterpillar, a millipede, and a worm, but they actually belong to their own unique phylum.
Above: a velvet worm of the genus Eoperipatus
The velvet worm's fleshy antennae, chubby little feet, and gleeful expression might make it seem kind of cute, at least at first glance, but these creatures are ferocious predators that prey on terrestrial arthropods like crickets, cockroaches, and spiders. In order to immobilize their prey, they shower their victim with a remarkably strong and quick-drying adhesive.
Above: another Eoperipatus species
As this article explains:
The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it administers death by Silly String.
In the leaf litter of tropical and temperate forests around the world, velvet worms stalk the night on dozens of stubby legs. The pocket-size predator—whose species range from less than half an inch to eight inches long—can barely see, so it bumbles around, hoping to literally bump into an edible bug such as a cricket or a woodlouse. When it finds one, the velvet worm uses nozzles on either side of its face to shoot jets of sticky slime at its victim.
Above: genus Peripatoides and genus Eoperipatus
Velvet worm slime is ejected as a liquid, but it rapidly hardens into a gel as it soars through the air, forming fibers that are as strong as nylon. The substance then solidifies into glassy adhesive fibers as soon as it hits the target, trapping the victim in an inescapable net.
The slime can hit its target from up to 1.5 feet away.
Above: close-up of a velvet worm spraying its slime
The slow-moving velvet worm then approaches its prey, pierces the victim's exoskeleton with a pair of blade-like jaws, uses its saliva to dissolve the insect's innards, and then quickly devours its meal.
Above: the velvet worm's horrifying face as it prepares to feed
Velvet worm slime is quick-setting, strong, dissolves in water, and can also be reconstituted into new fibers. The mechanisms that produce these properties were unknown until just 16 years ago, when an Australian scientist discovered that the slime contains "chaotic proteins:"
The proteins are loaded with amino acids that repel one another, and they’re short of the water-repelling ones that help other proteins to establish a solid core. Rather than folding, they adopt open and random structures that are extensively coated with water molecules. Their watery sheaths prevent the protein molecules from interacting with one another. They can only do so when the water disappears. And that’s exactly what happens when the slime hits its target.
Insects are covered in waxy, water-repellent shells, but the velvet worm’s slime contains fat and detergent molecules that break past this defence. These chemicals, and the sheer force with which the slime is shot, means that it spreads all over the victim. The insect’s struggles seal its fate by drawing the slime into threads. Spread over a large surface area, the water in the slime quickly evaporates, unsheathing the proteins and leaving them to mingle for the first time. They form tight chemical bonds with one another and the once-liquid slime hardens.
Above: Eoperipatus feeding on an unknown arthropod and Peripatoides suteri feeding on a huntsman spider
Velvet worms are some of the oldest terrestrial animals on Earth, dating back to nearly 540 million years ago, when most of the world's creatures were still confined to the oceans. They're older than dinosaurs, trees, sharks, and even horseshoe crabs.
Surprisingly, their morphology has changed very little in the last 400 million years or so -- their fossilized ancestors look remarkably similar to the velvet worms that are still roaming the earth today.
Above: assorted velvet worms
The world's smallest species of velvet worm is Ooperipatellus nanus, with a length of just 5mm (0.2 inches); the largest is Mongeperipatus solorzanoi, which can grow to a length of 22cm (8.7 inches). Velvet worms can have between 13 and 43 pairs of feet, depending on the species
Above: the tiny feet of a velvet worm
The term Onychophora literally means "claw-bearer," which is a reference to the hooked claw at the tip of each foot. Together, these claws allow the worm to travel across uneven terrain, but they can also retract as it moves onto smoother surfaces. When the claws are retracted, the worm simply walks on the stubby little pads of its feet.
Above: Epiperipatus barbadensis
Sources & More Info:
Phys.org: Velvet Worm Slime
National Mag Lab: Cracking the Chemical Code of the "Silly String of Death"
National Geographic: Scientists Uncover Secret of the Velvet Worm's Quick-Setting Slime
Scientific American: Velvet Worm Slime Reveals its Sticky Secrets
Journal of the American Chemical Society: Peculiar Phosphonate Modifications of Velvet Worm Slime Revealed
Onychophoran Website: Onychophora
ZooKeys: An Updated World Checklist of Velvet Worms
iNaturalist: Velvet Worms
Harvard Magazine: Creepy Crawlies and Sticky Murder Weapons at Harvard
me and the homies having good dental hygiene with the nine inch nails tooth brush
i wanna brush you like an enamel
I like the idea of bucky having slightly delayed reactions (healing isn’t linear, memory recovery etc) so while one day out of nowhere he shoves steve into a wall bc “that’s for your little swan dive into the arctic” one of the first time he laughs is because ‘captain america broke into the Smithsonian to steal his uniform back. almost kind of romantic’ to which steve shoots back, ‘and you’re the sap who remembered me by my face and not the shield’ (nat and sam eavesdrop from a distance because they’re still not sure if they’re together or not)
sam and nat walking in on bucky throwing knives at steve: should we be concerned
bucky: this dummy jumped on a grenade
steve: 80 years ago and it wasn’t even live! plus we used to joke about it all the time, I’m not sure why you’re so mad now
bucky, pausing: I don’t remember jokin….you lying asshole *charges*
sam: k so we’ll meet you guys outside
hey marvel it’s literally never to late to go for the imposter steve rogers thing and reveal he was actually a skrull / hydra the whole time. literally NEVER too late
‘no not without you!’ and steve realizing if he didn’t save himself, bucky would die with him VS ‘im not going to fight you’ and the pieces of bucky barnes bubbling up under the surface realizing if he didn’t save himself (overcome the programming and choose his humanity), steve would die for him
steve goes back to the past. looks around. thinks for a second. and goes "lmao why am i here was i under the influence"
and immediately returns to the future
(bucky bodyslams him when he gets back, i'm sure. and steve knows he deserves it)
to this day I still think a secret empire hybrid plot would have been so easy to pull off (and compelling)
-when steve got to vormir to return the stone, the red skull traps him in the soul stone to enact revenge (one of its powers literally traps souls in an “idyllic pocket universe”)
-the red skull returns. cut off one head…..
-cap!sam gets his solo protects, but it’s quickly noticeable to both him and bucky that hydras numbers are growing much faster (and stronger) than they should be
-they hunt down their leads to a mostly abandoned base where they find old steve. it’s very clearly a trap & as agents descend he says “hail hydra” upon which his face morphs into another’s (or some shit like that idk I’m not a writer)
-leaves room for sam!cap to take down the red skull, and bucky a mission to save steve (sam tries to offer the shield back later but steve says it hasn’t felt right in his hands for years / sam looks better w it anyways)
-bucky and steve have finally get to come home (to each other)
one of my favorite lil moments between matt and foggy will always be this
bc
1. matthew murdock WHAT possessed u to say that? is this common between them. when foggy gets emotional does he just lay one on matt? could matt hear foggy’s heartbeat and thought to himself ‘oh boy he’s getting ready to land a smacker’? or is that just a freudian slip? matt just turns overt displays of affection between them into romantic situations bc its the longest relationship he’s ever been in? does matt WANT foggy to give him a little smooch? hmm? HMM?
2. “I’m feeling a little something” I bet you are honey boo bear I bet u are
3. karen having a “are they gonna kiss? Are they a couple and I missed that???” moment