scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple
the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!
Whale Shark Gliding Through Bioluminiscent Algae _ Mike Nulty
illustration from Christina Rossetti's poem : 'Goblin Market' by Hilda Hechle, 1914
Fairies looking through Gothic Arch, c. 1864 by John Anster Fitzgerald (English, c. 1819–1906)
All that silence. #pascalcampion
For neos22 who wanted to see my interpretation of the Leviathan
Also people act like autistic people would have been, like, left in the woods to die or something as kids for most of history, but as i said i'm researching islamic saints and in both islam and christianity there's an awful lot of just, like, "Yeah that guy decided to go live in a cave by himself and wore one (1) article of clothing and sometimes he would walk around and scream randomly, it meant he was closer to god than everybody else"
photos of the the sơn doòng cave in vietnam. at 200 metres high, 150 metres wide and five kilometres long, it is the biggest cave in the world – so large, it has its own river, jungle and even climate. it also contains the world’s tallest stalagmite, which stands over 80 metres tall (consider that it was formed one drop of mineral saturated water at a time).
despite its immense underground size, the cave is practically invisible from the outside, seen only from the mist wafting from surface cracks. with a huge temperature difference between the cooler air inside the cave and warmer outside air, son doong is home to moving clouds of mist, which can be illuminated by natural light up to four kilometres away. (source x, x)Â
s/o to this skeleton babe from 1936