Just A FYI, The Original Blog Post Where NPLB Comes From Was Posted Oct. 19th, 2007. I Thought I Missed

Just a FYI, the original blog post where NPLB comes from was posted Oct. 19th, 2007. I thought I missed the anniversary but no, we still have over a week to go.

@loyalwolf6153 get yought

are y’all safe or screwed

whatever. American Sunday

Rebageling again because I found this sketch I did a while back! This is a species of meter-long barracuda-like macropredator which lives in the Europan ocean in the Astra Planeta canon.

Because I included the lithopanspermia hypothesis in this setting, the Europan biosphere is descended from a handful of hardy microbial organisms which originated on Earth in the Carboniferous and were transplanted via impact ejecta.

This particular species and its branch of life are descended from rotifers, tiny animals which suck in food using water vortices! The Europan "rotifish" group have adapted their central trunk cuticle to be a hollow “fuselage” with ciliated coronae lining the interior surface in order to push water through the channels and over the gill surface... and provide propulsion. They are living jet engines.

It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.

Ok so I'm taking a genetics class right now and in lab we've been given fruit flies with different mutations that we need to breed over the course of the semester.

Now, first thing I learned: fruit flies don't eat fruit. They eat yeast. They eat the yeast on fermenting fruit. They can not actually eat fruit. Their name is a lie.

Secondly, one of the two mutant lines I was given to cross are flies with the apterous mutation, aka they're wingless. I feel so bad for them, they can't do the one thing they're named for, they cant fly.

And then I realized. My fruit flies are in truth insects that eat yeast and can't fly.

Anyways, I've been calling them my yeast crawls and I am their god now.

actually no I'm moving this from tags to text bc it's important. we should be focusing on high-power engine signatures rather than radio signals, because it seems extremely likely to me that advanced spacefaring civilizations would be using a form of communication we don't understand yet -or at least don't know how to detect. but interestingly enough, there are HUNDREDS OF STARS that have either appeared or gone missing in the last century, which seems suspiciously unstarlike. maybe those are fusion drive bursts. maybe that's what we need to be focusing on instead.