Goes "Ding!" When There's Stuff

The H-bomb fell the very next day.
The A-bomb fell in the very same way.
Russia went! England went! And then the USA.
The entire human race was left without a chance to pray…
But the cat came back the very next day.
Yes, the cat came back. They thought he was gone,
But the cat came back. He just wouldn’t stay away.

Why is this stuck in my head?

electricnotebook:

chroniclesofachemist:

scienceyoucanlove:

32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life—Oldest Yet

Feat may help scientists preserve seeds for the future.

Rachel Kaufman

for National Geographic News

Published February 21, 2012

The oldest plant ever to be regenerated has been grown from 32,000-year-old seeds—beating the previous recordholder by some 30,000 years. (Related: “‘Methuselah’ Tree Grew From 2,000-Year-Old Seed.”)

A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, a flowering plant native to Siberia, that had been buried by an Ice Age squirrel near the banks of the Kolyma River (map). Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the seeds were 32,000 years old.

The mature and immature seeds, which had been entirely encased in ice, were unearthed from 124 feet (38 meters) below the permafrost, surrounded by layers that included mammoth, bison, and woolly rhinoceros bones.

The mature seeds had been damaged—perhaps by the squirrel itself, to prevent them from germinating in the burrow. But some of the immature seeds retained viable plant material.

The team extracted that tissue from the frozen seeds, placed it in vials, and successfully germinated the plants, according to a new study. The plants—identical to each other but with different flower shapes from modern S. stenophylla—grew, flowered, and, after a year, created seeds of their own.

“I can’t see any intrinsic fault in the article,” said botanist Peter Raven, President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, who was not involved in the study. “Though it’s such an extraordinary report that of course you’d want to repeat it.”

Raven is also head of National Geographic’s Committee for Research and Exploration. (The Society owns National Geographic News.)

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and the best bit is;

ITS PRETTY

SCIENCE!!!

You are wrong, you act as if you knew me, yet you know nothing about me. If my bending hadn't being restored, I wouldn't be weeping like a child. I might have lost something very dear to me, but I didn't lost myself, I would find another way to bring balance to the world, regardless of what I have lost. And it is you, Amon who is truly pathetic, you proclaim to be gifted by the Spirits, you hide like a coward under a mask and then you try to refuge yourself under a sob story"

Anonymous

Ooh, dis gunna be good~!

"I see that you are still the same prideful, childish, naive girl you used to be" he snapped back. "And I see that you are the same sick, twisted hypocrite you used to be" Korra told him in a sour tone. "You call me a hypocrite, there you are wrong, I truly felt that bending was the source of evil in the world, I still do" he explained "And you insisted that I was the stubborn one." Korra mocked "You are truly pathetic, if you hadn't gotten your bending back, you would still be weeping"

Anonymous

*high pitched squeal*

//I have returned, sorry for the delay//"I see that you have manged to get your bending back, what a pity" Amon told her, making the youngster scoff. "The true pity is the fact that you are here in the Spirit World, walking freely and doing your will, when you should be suffering for all of the pain you've caused." Korra said. "Your wit cost you your bending, Avatar. I would be a little bit more wise" he warned. "And your pride cost you your life, I would be a little more humble." she snapped

Anonymous

I tried to do a keyboard smash to show my joy at our return, but my phone auto-corrected it as “shank jangles.”

Huzzah! I eagerly await the next installment.

thefrogman:

Simon’s Cat’s Box Guide No. II by Simon Tofield [website | twitter]

rosydoctor:

sherbeeee:

god bless the art book

god bless the banana hammock

bonana hammock