#science and explosions

[cedric-pilot]

I just had a genius idea! Instead of a propellor on the front of my flying machine, what if it was on top!

It would have to be larger, and I’d need another one in the back to counteract the spin… but it could work!

#science and explosions #cedric pilot #I shall call it… the spiny-mobile!

[alphynix]

The tuzoiids were an enigmatic group of Cambrian invertebrates known mostly just from their spiny bivalved carapaces. Although hundreds of fossils of these arthropods were discovered over the last century or so, only vague fragments of the rest of their bodies have been found even in sites usually known for preserving soft tissue impressions.

…Until late 2022, when several new specimens from the Canadian Burgess Shale deposits (~508 million years ago) were described showing tuzoiid anatomy in exceptional detail, finally giving us an idea of what they looked like and where they fit into the early arthropod evolutionary tree.

Tuzoiids like Tuzoia burgessensis here would have grown up to about 23cm long (~9"). They had large eyes on short stalks, a pair of simple antennae, a horizontal fluke-like tail fan, and twelve pairs of appendages along their body – with the front two pairs at the head end being significantly spinier, and most (or all) of these limbs also bearing paddle-like exopods.

The large carapace enclosed most of the body, and was ornamented with protective spines and a net-like surface pattern that probably increased the strength of the relatively thin chitinous structure.

Together all these anatomical features now indicate that tuzoiids were early mandibulates (part of the lineage including modern myriapods, crustaceans, and insects), and were probably very closely related to the hymenocarines.

Tuzoiids seem to have been active swimmers that probably cruised around just above the seafloor, with their stout legs suggesting they could also walk around if they flexed their valves open. The arrangement of their spiny front limbs wasn't suited to grabbing at fast-swimming prey, but instead may have been used to capture slower seafloor animals or to scavenge from carcasses.

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#science illustration #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #tuzoia #tuzoiidae #hymenocarina #mandibulata #arthropod #invertebrate #cambrian explosion #art #MYSTERY TACO

[biologist4ever]

Colored petals and explosive blooms (Echinopsis cacti)

#photography #nature #explore #adorable #spring #flowers #floral #flores #original photographers #original photography #awesome #art #photooftheday #artoftheday #naturephotography #nature lovers #fireworks #gifs #funny #science #Echinopsis cacti #brilliant flowers #cactus #cacti #wildflowers #plant #blooming #petals #explosive blooms #bursting fireworks

[donutdrawsthings]

FANTASTIC NEWS! the most cambrian arthropod of all time has been discovered a few days ago. It's called Balhuticaris Voltae

source: https://youtu.be/TCwYC3YWyZI

#7dos #7 days of science #cambrian #cambrian period #cambrian explosion #SUCH A CREATURE #THE MOST ANIMAL OF ALL TIME #I'M IN LOVE #donutdrawsthings #arthropods #arthropod #paleoart #paleozoic #paleoblr #fossil #fossil art #balhuticaris #balhuticaris voltae

[gifmovie]

#gif #gifmovie #mixed soup #cosmos #science #universe #explosion #destruction

[dearladynightmare]

Entrapdak Positivity Month Day 5: Destruction

Comiiiiiic:3

Not only failure, but also lab accidents are a vital part of scientific endeavor.

The most important part of it, is to have a reliable lab partner at your side who is ready to extinguish you at any time.♥️🧯

Btw… I love how done she looks here…. #thisisfine

#lab partners #hordak #entrapta #spop #entrapdak #she ra entrapta #she ra 2018 #she ra netflix #lab accident #she ra fanart #fanart #she ra and the princess of power fanart #luvd #science #explosions

[oviraptoridae]

deep in the frigid ammonia oceans somewhere else, proteins are self-assembling into a rapidly diversifying ecosystem of lifeforms. (id in alt)

#speculative biology #cambrian explosion #[cambrian explosion 2. the sequel] #aliens #xenobiology #traditional art #ink drawing #illustration #scientific illustration #science fiction #scifi art #artists on tumblr #my art #pardon all the tags... i battled with my scanner for 45 minutes to get this i deserve it okay #lotsa. icosahedral symmetry going on #i think im clever #OUGH okay time to rest my hand. good night

[sysig]

Okay but TSP/Portal crossover AU is such a cool concept, how have I never thought about that before?? I'd like to request Narra and GLaD hanging out watching their respective little guys go through tests like 'can you believe them they're so dumb <3'

Day 30 - They're absolute hellions

Bonus:

Noooo, my bucket!!

#My art #Requestober #Portal #The Stanley Parable #TSP #GLaDOS #The Narrator #Stanley #Chell #They're just all so antagonist towards others lol #I think Stanley is a terrible influence paired with just about anyone but honestly I think Chell would adopt him haha #She is also a chaos gremlin and enjoys taunting and flouting the ''rules'' - deservedly lol #It's hard to imagine GLaDOS or the Narrator just accepting that they've been dropped into a crossover haha #They're both so fixated on their respective protagonist that someone else is just strange! Odd!! Unwanted!! #And at least GLaD and Chell are at the homefield advantage - the boys are in a whole new environment! #The Narrator would freak the heck out lol - but if they got past the initial without everything combusting- #Well actually I can imagine GLaDOS getting fed up with Narra hogging the PA just to say what Stanley is/should be doing lol #''He is clearly ignoring you why do you bother'' ''It's my job! My duty!'' *explosion* Pfft #I do like the idea of GLaDOS referring to other people's test subjects by other lesser names #Something along the lines of I'm the only one who gets to call mine a test subject because I'm doing Real science haha #All these dynamics! How the two protags would react to each other and their respective voices reaction to each other and each's inverse #Too many to think about right now lol gimme a sleep or two on it haha #Although Portal/TSP crossovers have been around since they both existed concurrently ♪ Still they're fun to think about! #It is fun to imagine Stanley following behind Chell through the portals until he gets distracted #It becomes a bucket quest real fast lol - They poke around Rattman's bunker and Chell gets sad and Stanley ''helps'' with a distraction #Trimming GLaDOS down and doing a halfbody for Narra and then chibis for the rest - it's all about the right math right? Right lol #Only one more! Ahh!

[krystal-prisms]

#i need you to understand how desperately i want to become a bog body #my bs #poll #polls #tumblr polls #death #death tw #death mention #dead body mention #gore tw #gore mention #explosion #explosion mention #whale fall #mummy #mummification #science #decomposition mention #space #deep sea #sea #ocean #bog body

[inbabylontheywept]

Burning Bridges

“I am Kalrose, commander of the Second Armada of the Akaviri. We are on our way to a peacekeeping operation in the Pegasus cluster. Humanity is not our enemy, but it will be if you continue to detain us in your piss puddle agrarian star system. Step away from the FTL launcher and no one will die. Remain in front and we will plow through your craft. Either way you will not stop us.”

The human freighter acting as a makeshift gate in front of the launcher did not move. If anything, it centered itself more, in order to better face the Akaviri flagship head on.

Then it broadcasted back.

“Your ‘peacekeeping mission’ in the Pegasus cluster is a genocide. We will not stand back and let you commit this atrocity. We may not have the men or the ships to destroy your fleet, but we don’t need to destroy your fleet in order to keep you from reaching the battlefield. Our piss puddle’s name is ‘Zion.’ In time, you will call it ‘Home.’”

Kalrose barely had time to ponder the nature of that threat when the launcher fired up. The EM readings on his ship went mad, and in that brief fraction of a second, he realized he’d miscalculated. Gravely.

He didn’t know how many thousands of safety protocols had been bypassed, but the amount of power flowing to the gravitational core in the center of the launcher was easily nine times larger than the maximum rating. A micro singularity formed within the space lens, and cladding ripped itself off the hull before spiraling at near light speeds around the artificial black hole.

Kalrose had always imagined such a catastrophe as something like a fireball, reds and oranges, lots of shrapnel and clanging. Upon seeing it in person, he realized how foolish that was.

Red glows were for pokers left in hot coals. This was, for one brief moment, a star fueled on steel. It was never going to be orange.

It could only be white.

The accretion disk condensed further, the energy of the reactions happening near it somehow fueling the gravitational anomaly at the center. His comm system moved into a death scream as the material’s blackbody radiation moved past the x-ray spectrum, pure friction converting the material to energy more efficiently than even a fusion reactor could manage. The heat generated finally caused a full structural collapse, the spine of the station melting enough to wrap the whole barrel of the launcher around the spiraling singularity, twirling it in loops like thread around a spool. The reaction was accelerating now, even without electricity being able to fuel the gravitational collapse, the radiation pressure alone managing to hold the system in a highly fragile state of tensegrity. He recognized the feedback loop that was happening, radiation fueling gravity, gravity fueling radiation, on and on until-

There was no air for noise in space, but he could almost imagine the roar that the expanding cloud of ionized metal should have made as it blew past. There it was. The end of the loop. It had run out of matter to feed on, so without a balance to the compressive force it expanded outwards.

He was fortunate that the explosion was violent enough to atomize the particles. Even a fragment the size of a grain of sand would’ve been enough to take down his flagship. As a lone ion, it could be deflected by the same magnetic field that kept the crew safe during FTL jumps.

He stared numbly at the monitor.

One third of the Akaviri fleet, stranded in a farming system. Not even a shot fired.

He realized that the comm system’s scream had been replaced with the quiet pulse of an incoming broadcast. He accepted it without question, too lost to even be angry.

“Take your time recovering your senses. When you’re ready, just send us a message back. We’re going to need every hand we can on the harvest. There’s no one out there we can reach for help after this. It’s just...Us.”

#hfy #humanity fuck yeah #humans are space oddities #humans are space orcs #creative writing #bfg #big fucking gun #science fiction #scifi #I wrote this after the Crimean bridge was hit #ploughs to swords #black hole physics #i had a lot of fun describing the explosion

[cedric-pilot]

It’s times like this I’m glad I have a parachute…

On an unrelated note, if anyone finds a half-destroyed flying machine, please let me know

#science and explosions #cedric pilot #oneshot game #rp blog #and my sincerest apologies if it crashed anywhere near you

[alphynix]

Soft-bodied annelid worms only very rarely fossilize, so the group's origins during the Cambrian Period are still rather poorly understood. So far about thirteen different species have been found in sites of exceptional preservation, showing that even very early on in their evolution these worms had already diversified into a wide range of ecologies including bottom-feeders, carnivores, swimmers, tube-builders, and even symbiotes sharing living space with early acorn worms.

Ursactis comosa here adds a fourteenth species to the list. Found in a newly-discovered outcrop of the 508-million-year-old Burgess Shale fossil deposits in western Canada, it's known from nearly 600 specimens clustered together in several large groups, making it the current best-known and most numerous of all Cambrian annelids.

Up to about 1.5cm long (~0.6"), it was a polychaete-like worm bearing bundles of long bristles. There was a pair of large sensory palps on its head, and its body was made up of an unusually small number of segments – just 10, with larger individuals just increasing the size of their segments instead of adding on additional ones like most modern annelids.

Unlike other Cambrian annelids it also shows some evidence of basic tagmatization, differentiating some of the rear segments of its body with much longer bristles.

The large numbers of Ursactis found preserved in one place suggests these worms were exhibiting some sort of swarming behavior. Since ages from juveniles to fully-grown adults are represented together, and their anatomy indicates they were crawling detritivores, they were probably all taking advantage of a particularly nutrient-rich patch of seafloor at the time they were abruptly buried in a mudslide.

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#science i #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #ursactis #polychaete #annelid #worm #invertebrate #art #cambrian explosion #oh worm

[biologist4ever]

#photography #nature #explore #adorable #spring #flowers #floral #flores #original photographers #original photography #awesome #art #photooftheday #artoftheday #naturephotography #nature lovers #fireworks #gifs #funny #science #brilliant flowers #plant #blooming #petals #explosive blooms #bursting fireworks #stigma #pollen tubes #pistil #sepals

[beauty-funny-trippy]

Ejection-Seat Test, Project Gemini (1961-1966), NASA

#NASA #amazing #history #space #retro #vintage #science #ejection seat #project gemini #1960s #explosion #video #videos #aerospace #aesthetic #physics #test #beauty-funny-trippy

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Can Explosions Deflect Bullets?

In one of their most Mythbusters-like videos ever, the Slow Mo Guys ask: can an explosion deflect a bullet?  (Video and image credit: The Slow Mo Guys) Read the full article

#blastwave #explosion #fluiddynamics #physics #science #shockwave #supersonic

[thefugitivesaint]

Victor Togliani, ''Fantaciencia'', #40, 2012 Source

#Victor Togliani #italian artists #Fantaciencia #the great explosion #Eric Frank Russell #scifi art #science fiction art