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Known as the Jarkov Mammoth, this specimen was found in Siberia. The 23 tonne block of mud and ice was lifted to an ice cave where the mammoth inside was recovered and studied.

I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

Look up voyagers 1 Reprogramming Very Cool!

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

Finally got around to seeing Avatar: The Way Of Water and it inspired me to revisit a previous old take on "what if the Na'vi weren't humanoid and had an anatomy more closely resembling the rest of Pandora's vertebrate-analogs?"

The Omatikaya would be more feline in build as they live in the jungle, with all six limbs capable of grasping to help them in climbing treetops. Their long thin tails are flexible and used for balance, and while their first pair of limbs are most often used as "hands", the back four can also grasp and use tools but are less skilled at it than the first pair.

The Metkayina are an aquatic subspecies, and thus have plenty of aquatic adaptations: their eyes are more high-set on their heads, their hairlike tendrils are shorter, and they have a more streamlined, somewhat otter-like build with shorter but stronger limbs and broad and powerful finned tails. Their neck-nostrils are located higher up on their backs to breathe at the surface easier, and their digits are, like some water bird feet, lobed rather than webbed, allowing them better swimming while still maintaining dexterity and the ability to grasp.

Recombinants are mixed with human DNA, and thus display a few more human-like traits, such as a rounder skull shape, more human-like eyes, five-fingered hands with a single thumb as opposed to the zygodactyl digits of the pure Na'vi, and plantigrade hind feet. They're clearly more Na'vi than human, but just slightly humanlike enough as to seem uncanny and "wrong" to pure Na'vi, and while capable of walking and running on four limbs or six, prefer instead to stand and walk on just their two hind feet while leaving their middle limbs hanging awkwardly to the sides: an effect of body dysmorphia of their human minds struggling to come to terms with an alien body.

my mom was trying to chew through some really tough steak and she turned to me and said “just call me The Gnawer.” she would do numbers here