#astrobiology is so cool

[elisartstuff]

Astrobiology

Uh

Yea. My therapy replacement (I am so cooked)

Second one defies all logic cause it does, I fucked up the galaxy and I'm PISSED

Anyways

[writeouswriter]

Already made similar post but I want to create scientist OCs so badly, but don't want to look deeply into different branches of science to figure out which one they should specialize in because I've been in a wikipedia rabbit hole of sciences, some of which I didn't even know existed, for days now and yet I have absorbed none of the information nor come closer to a conclusion, Carlos, give me strength, you're all just gonna be last name the scientist, you're specializing in the science of science, I swear, aahhh

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[payingjayz]

tree and his cosmic entity bf

theyre ship name is astrobiology oh my god thats so cool (thank you tumblr user @ leepotp)

[moth-p]

Tpot 12 ramble because if I dont infodump to anyone I will unironically fucking explode

Spoilers obviously.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT OKAY. SO

1. Since in my tpot 11 ramble I discussed Three on point nr.3 i think its only fair that I talk about One first.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT?

Okay so they went in a completly different direction with one that I thought they would. I thought that she was gonna be a co-host, but honestly? I like the direction they took her character in. We didn't really have a true "villan" in bfdi like. Ever? I think? I mean yeah there are characters that are sadistic, antagonistic, live in your walls and make bad decisions but I don't think we ever had a real villan. A threat. Because you CANNOT. CANNOT tell me that One doesn't have sinister intentions. She's unnerving, and if I learned one thing from the Shrek franchise its that you dont fucking make deals with people that are clearly evil (im talking to you Fanny, Ice cube and possibly anyone else who made a deal) also, she knows a lot more that I think she has the right to. I mean, yeah. She's the stalking type, i get it but she came out of the fucking moon at the END END of tpot 9. (I think?) So thee fact that she knows so much about the contestants is kinda scary. I think the obvious motive for her is uh.. Three. I AM STILL STANDING BY MY POINT THAT THE HAND FROM TPOT 11 IS THREE. I KNOW EVERYONE AGREES ON THIS BUT. I SWEAR.

Also one is very silly. So uhh. Yeah

Point 2, the teams. I will be very honest I did not expect a team swap so soon but then again Just not had exactly three people so I don't think it would be very fair (No teardrop what are you doing here no no no you are not a part of this discussion shoo shoo /aff)

I thought I would dissect them one by one.

Point 2.1 - Death Pact yet Again (DPYA)

Ill be honest? Probably the best team. I like every single character on here.

Gaty is literally top 5 of my favs

Astrobiology is on a team together (yet) again, were winning. I love them both separately too, esp Black Hole after the recent-kinda-still-ongoing-arc. Tree's sass is something I need.

Pin! One of the "Top 4" of the original season. I love her, she was the first character I humanized, and she is actually acting like herself because early Tpot did her dirty as hell.

Marker is silly as always,

And Fanny. Need I say more? Besides, she's the only one we have actually witness make the deal with one. She's getting a lot of screen time lately and I am NOT complaining.

Oh and also Robot Flower I guess. If my tpot 13 predictions are correct, Basketballs deal with one will help her go back to normal. Good. I miss her actual self. (And Flower, I love you. Honest to god I love you. But you did really act like a bitch in the first season huh. Still top 5)

Point 2.2 - Team 2/Two

ERASER. I am so sorry you got separated from your boyfriend 💔💔💔 Probably my favorite from the team, his "rivalry" with Bottle might be interesting.... if she doesn't get voted out next. (I think she will) I think his dynamic with Snowball might be interesting since they are already friends. I think. Right?

Book and Taggy! To be honest JnJ are feeding my heart wholesome yuri and I am very happy. Books dynamic with Ice Cube will be fun to explore because uh... yeah. Also Taggy is developing which is great. Before tpot 10 I thought of them as more of a Naily 2.0, so I'm very glad that JnJ did something with them. Thank goodness they didnt get eliminated, I was kinda worried.

Snowball. Big guy. My man. I was hugely neutral about him before TPOT but god he kinda stole my heart. His relationship with grassy is so cute, and I'm begging for some interactions between him and Ice cube.

Grass boi. Thank you for not being annoying as f-ck anymore. I think youre cool. (Though he is the one I would care the least about if he god eliminated.)

Icyyyy... glad you got your legs back girl.... uhh...

Same as with Fanny. remember kids! Don't make possibly soul binding contracts with unnerving strangers!

Point 2.3 - 🎶🎶/BAGGED

Pen. I'm gonna say the same thing but I am so. So sorry that you got separated from your boyfriend 💔💔💔. His rivalry with Need- NEEDLE, I SAID NEEDLE was cool and I like how he got more competitive. (I voted for him Btw. If he gets eliminated I WILL. Cry. Vote 4 pen propaganda

TV, this one is kinda short because uh.. I dont uhh. Really. Care? I think he has a lot of potential but I dont really remeber him doing anything huge sooo

Needy! Oh. Oh no. *gets slapped into outer space* I like her. The thing with Pen was cool and I just generally enjoy her. Shes the gaslight gatekeep girlboss of the group and honestly? I hope she gets a bigger role.

Tennisball. How many times will I have to do this bit. I am so so so so so so sorry you got separated from your girlfriend 💔💔💔💔 you malewife. Its like actually the first time he and GB weren't on a team together and I think it could be interesting to see him try to kinda. Cope with that. (And also with being a leader, my boy was not made for this kinda stuff)

Basketball! .. dont make deals children.

Also, she is being set up to be an important character (obviously). With the robot flower stuff, her thing with one and rivalry with gb that i think the writers forgot about (or did it get resolved. Idk) she has had a shit ton of screen time and will play a major role in the one stuff.

And Bottle! I uhh. Yeah! Your thing with Eraser is interesting I guess! ... (She will get eliminated)

And finally (but not really)

Point 2.4 - CloudYAY

This is the last time I do this. Gb. I am. So, so so so so sorry that you got separated from your malewife boyfriend 💔💔💔

But seriously I love GB. Your team cant handle your girlboss levels. I seriously hope they will listen to you because if it turns into the 8ball situation again I will do something. (Seriously, why do people hate GB as a leader that much? She is bossy as hell, yeah, but like. Shes a pretty good leader imo)

WINNER! My non-binary pal. My sassy gender neutral gay i mean gay i mean guy. I really hope they do something big with your character again. The clock thing was pretty fun and I hope to get to know them more. Besides, Loser is like. Free. He's probably still being a celebrity like usual. I hope we get to expand even more on their past together. (I voted for them btw)

Barf bag, my dear. Jnj, please do something with her. (Ooh, but Moth, tpot 9 this tpot 9 that she played a big role in tpot 9) DONT CARE. GIVE ME MORE CONTENT OF HER.

Donut. .. so. I really like donut. His friendship with Barf bag is cool, his connection to four back in bfb was cool and i generally like him as a character. That being said.. i dont have high hopes for him. Don't get me wrong, I DONT want him eliminated, but... i dont know. Its a hunch, okay? I dont feel good about this.

Yellow face. You racist motherfucker. You took Icy's legs, donut's arms (possibly creating two traps for one, con fucking gratulations) and you also live inside my fucking walls. Despite what I said i think hes hella entertaining even if his morals are uh.. far from great.

And finally, Pillow. If i had a second guess to who would be getting eliminated, I would say its her. She has had a shit ton of haters recently and uhh.. i can see WHY.. I would love to explore her relationships within the new team. But if she gets eliminated then eh,, whatever.

. Whew, finally we got trough that, huh?

3. . No. NOT AGAIN WE ARE NOT DISCUSSING THREE AGAIN N-

So. In my Tpot 11 ramble i therorised that Three was locked away in Fours for possibly doing something terrible, and while that theory still stands...

Why did they close the door?

I think Three uhh.. lets say.. isnt feeling the best in terms of sanity right now. I mean, the whole vibe of their cage is creepy as hell. Maybe they went insane enough to develop the need to stay there? I dont know

They could have just closed it because they are afraid of four, but the whole vibe off the scene suggests otherwise (but then i am a deltarune fan and we all know about the ending of chapter 1 being a fakeout?? Whatever. sooooo)

4. Four is acting kinda strange. Is it just me? His voice sounds different and they got a very unnerving vibe from them, kinda like one does. Also why do they need the couch? I am kinda concerned.

Okay thats it its almost one am i have enough bye

[ashstfu]

"im double majoring in human biology and astrophysics now" that's SO cool omg, so like I assume the intersection is abt keeping ppl alive on space journeys? or investigating possible extraterrestrial life? or is it the origins of life?

oh hi this doesn’t work like that. when i say i’m double majoring in something it means that im focusing on two separate areas of study and it does not always have to be closely related. in biology i study genetics, ecology, evolution etc and in the astrophysics major, i delve into celestial mechanics, cosmology, observational astronomy, and planetary science! now that we’re talking about intersection, astrobiology investigates the potential for life beyond earth! it combines principles from both bio and astrophysics... it deals w exoplanets, extremophiles, and the conditions necessary for life elsewhere in the universe! its cool + my double major can def serve as a stepping stone towards astrobiology or related fields in the future ...

[chowmoon2]

I like to think Final Bosses of Kirby personally name their attacks

So whatever I see Fecto Elfilis/Chaos Elfilis attack names which are always based on astrobiology and general space stuff,I’m like “okay,you are not cool for naming your attacks based on complex space stuff,it just make it look silly” in the most affectionate way possible

Elfilis is such a space nerd <3

[calculatesguilt]

40 between perceptor and rodimus

Prompt.

40. things you interrupted me to say

Perceptor had been going on and on and on about something or other of the implications of the life they found in some sort of nebula they passed through. Rodimus tried to pay attention. He really did! But as soon as Perceptor pulled out the word Astrobiological he felt his attention check out.

Instead, he focuses on the way Percy's hands move as he speaks, the way his lips move as he enunciates each, increasingly jargonistic, word. He narrows his eyes, wondering what it would be if given the opportunity to... no, no, that's silly.

Perceptor is, well, he can't imagine he sees him as anything other than his captain.. He's fucked up one too many times, and he wonders why he's even here still. On the Lost Light. After... He can't imagine Overlord was encouraging. Nor the addition of Megatron to their crew. Though, Percy never seemed too bothered by the latter.

"Do you follow?" Perceptor's question draws him out of his thoughts.

Rodimus waves his hand dismissively from where he's sat backwards on Percy's chair. "Yeah, yeah, astrobiological diversity in organic life."

Perceptor smiles, only just, and Rodimus feels ill at the sight. Primus this is getting out of hand.

Percy goes back to rambling, turning to the monitor and quickly typing something out to pull up images taken from the probe he sent out. The passion in his voice, the excitement, it's a stark contrast to the Wrecker he had come to know years back when he ended up tagging along after being stranded.

And it's... it's good to see. It's good to know that he brought that out in him.

He wants to kiss him. The thought is so jarring—

"What?" Perceptor says.

Oh kill him now, did he really say that out loud? "What?"

They stare at each other, a beat of silence.

"Can we uh... pretend I didn't say that?"

"No."

"Alright. Cool. I'm just going to leave."

"Rodimus—"

"Nope. I'm going." Before he could scramble off in utterly mortified shame, Perceptor grabs his arm.

"Captain." There is a gentle firmness in the scientist's voice, as he lets go when he's certain Rodimus won't flee the scene.

Rodims fidgets, only to notice Perceptor is fidgeting with his own hands. There is a nervous glint in his eyes he hadn't noticed before. An almost... shyness.

"Rodimus... I... ah... well, I would not be opposed."

"Really?" Rodimus is surprised, to say the very least. Perceptor is very handsome, there's no denying that, and charming in his own weird way, but he's also married to his work. He set it in his mind that the scientist would be completely untouchable.

This is... well it's a turn and he has no idea what to do now.

Perceptor nods, then quickly adds, "Ah but... preferably not when I am in the middle of talking... Perhaps we should... talk about this more? Later. When you are free and I am not busy with these biomarkers."

"Yeah! Yeah. Yeah sounds good to me. Can this... also just stay between us? I hate rumors going around the crew about me."

"Yes, Captain. Now... where was I? Ah, right! Biomarkers..."

[pattern-recognition]

i clicked on an art blog because it looked cool but like 2 pages in op had an illustration of Laika the soviet space dog that said « she didn’t die she was murdered, end animal testing now » or some shit. like girl what are you even saying. what a fucking bizarre hill to die on; like it’s Laika, the dog so revered for her contribution to astrobiology that the soviets built monuments to her for decades. the anti communism in it all is just palpable

[homeostasister]

for the science ask game: 🌏 📚 and 🔭!

🌏—fun fact from my area of study: there’s a type of white blood cell—a neutrophil—which (among other cool, but perhaps less iconic defense strategies) can release its own DNA, mixed with antibacterial proteins, outside of the cell to trap and destroy pathogens. The traps are named neutrophil extracellular traps, which are appropriately abbreviated NETs. (Here’s a review I found on NETosis, if you’re interested to learn more: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7590568/)

📚—something I want to understand better: I wish I could get into cell signalling and gene regulation. Whenever I take the time to study a signalling pathway, it’s always super interesting to see how all the different components work together, but then I just forget everything almost immediately.

🔭—what sparked my interest in science/my field: as far as I can remember I’ve always been interested in science, and I would credit my mom for that. When I was little she encouraged my curiosity and directed it towards science; she taught me about the scientific method, and I got very into the idea of discovering new things through observation and experimentation, which I think created sort of a positive feedback loop of my interest and her support—we read books about nature and about the process of science, we learned about famous scientists and their discoveries, we went to museums and zoos and aquariums and lectures about whatever I was interested in at the time. I think “being a scientist” has been part of my identity for as long as I’ve had one. I went through phases of interest in many different fields—astronomy, paleontology (yeah, I was a “dinosaurs and space!!” kid), ecology, astrobiology, and chemistry are some that I remember—and ended up settling on immunology. I got really interested in molecular biology from my 9th grade biology class—I had learned vaguely about cells and genetics before then, but for the first time I felt like I was really glimpsing the fundamental mechanisms of life, the individual interactions between proteins and other molecules that build upon one another and connect to give rise to the immense complexity of a living organism—a complexity which, until then, I had just sort of taken for granted. I was kind of amazed by all this, and I still am. My specific interest in immunology came from reading the manga Cells at Work. I knew little to nothing about how the immune system worked at that point, and I was confused about a lot of things in the story—so I would literally just start googling things like “how do memory b cells remember antigens” to try and figure out what the real-life processes were that were being portrayed. A lot of what I found went over my head, but I kept just looking up questions about how different parts of the immune system worked and slowly slipping into the vast and tangled rabbit warren that is immunology. A big part of why I’m still interested in the immune system is because it’s so complicated. I don’t feel like I could ever learn everything I want to know about how it works, and everything I do learn just brings up new questions to scroll through chains of half-understood PubMed articles trying to figure out. There’s so much I don’t know, and there’s so much we still have to figure out, and I would love to be part of that research.

[elisartstuff]

You'd never believe who spent almost 2 hours redrawing a frame instead of doing something like schoolwork. except I legit did not know how to make bh interesting. eli stick to a DESIGN.

Anyways yeah I just wanted to redraw my tumblr banner so I could have smth of my own instead of like. a screenshot. explodes epicly I need to hyperfixate on smth that ISNT them

[gearsexual]

marine biologists and astrobiologists rlly just holding hands and having fun together. its so cool... astrobiology is my special interest and i just watched a documentary on deep ocean discoveries by falkor (too) and bawled my eyes out over how beautiful and wonderful anad amazing it all is

[treeships]

coughs. hi still here

Always holding Ven-Ghan’s hand on main its my single braincell at time. I like to think about shared interests/hobbies (if.. yknow you could say he’s someone to have hobbies. maybe more just.. tasks he finds comfort in and doesnt mind the process.)

Being an auto tech/car enthusiast sometimes I feel that we could find an odd shared topic over engineering. Lord knows i’d wanna rack up question after question over “alien” engineering and design. “Why does your ship have (xyz) is it similar in sense as to why (a) vehicle has (b) feature so its easier to (c)” smthn yada yada. I just like talking about how stuff is designed sometimes.

Actually before I went into the automotive trade I really wanted to follow up on astrobiology. I just like space. I’d love to hear the endless stories of hunts and explorations he would have. Space is cool 👍 shoutout sci-fi shows and movies for making younger me fixate on the stars.

On that too god i’ve been rewatching Farscape a ton lately. Sometimes I wonder what his thoughts would be on shows/movies like that. Is Farscape a realistic depiction of whats out there? Or is it more in line with Star Trek? What about Andromeda?

Anyway yeah thumbs up. Heres a ramble.

[writeouswriter]

Heya!

For any OC who needs a bit more development/ 'on screen' time:

What is your OC's pain tolerance like? What memory would your OC rather just forget? What is your OC's weapon of choice? Have they ever actually used it?

(also, if required, use this as permission to slack off for a bit. Take some rest, do something fun, and remember you're cared about)

Heya! You're always a joy to see in my notes, such a positive force in this community, lovely, lovely, thank you for the ask!

I'm gonna do these for Anthony, full name Dr. Anthony Kasperek, an OC I've had for over a year but never really talked about, but the basics are: he's a scientist in the field of astro*incoherent mumbling* uh something or other, tentatively astrobiology, but maybe astrophysics or something else entirely depending which way the story goes or if I at all figure out what I'm talking about, point is, space science of some sort, okay, and he's one of a number of scientists invited to this somewhat shady facility to study what may be a possibly earth-shattering extraterrestrial artefact. He's stubborn, paranoid, jumpy, and a bit of an insomniac (because which of my ocs aren't at this point), but has a passion for space and the stars and unlocking the mysteries of the universe like nothing else. He's also very very good at his job, but has a manic edge that tends to scare people away, himself included sometimes. Anyway, onto questions:

What is your OC's pain tolerance like?

I'm oscillating between the idea of it being really low or really high due to the fact he's used to having to deal with things like massive migraines, needles and too much stimuli, but I don't know if that would make him more or less susceptible to the pain it causes. Because on the one hand, the familiarity could make him more numb to it, but on the other hand, it could also make him even more wary, elevating the issue in part psychosomatically. It certainly still causes him stress, so I'm inclined to think the amount he's been relegated to has actually lowered his pain tolerance over the years, making the sensations all the more unbearable/worse each time because he knows it's coming but still is never prepared because in an ideal world, he wouldn't have to deal with it again at all, and he wants to believe he's done with it, believe the pain will never come back, so it's a source of fear and shock every time it does.

2. What memory would your OC rather just forget?

Oh, for Anthony, I'm sure there are too many, especially the way his brain works, solidifying the worst of them, while throwing the rest into chaos when he's trying to focus and suddenly can't remember that vital piece of information in his head that was just there, it was just there, and also especially with his reputation as the “eccentric” scientist, which he’d rather have left behind. There's definitely the... incident that led him to be let go from his job at NASA, which he doesn’t like to talk about, (and also doesn’t understand how it hasn’t barred him from working on such a sensitive project, because what’s up with that? Why did they choose him? Why did they choose him?), and there’s the time in college when he had to spend a semester in the psych ward, but even then he had the stars to comfort him, (he somehow talked them into letting him have those little plastic glowing ones on the ceiling).

3. What is your OC's weapon of choice? Have they ever actually used it?

Is it trite if I say his intellect/his mind? Though sometimes in that case, the weapon occasionally turns on himself. Actually, I'll go with something even more trite and say his genuine love for the universe and everything in it is his greatest weapon (and probably a secret tool that will help us later.jpeg). Barring that, I think he'd think daggers are pretty cool, but I doubt that will come up in the story, I'm sure he might whack someone with his telescope if in a pinch, but ough the calibration, but when cornered, his weapon of choice would probably be his fists or his nails, or throwing whatever random objects happen to be in the vicinity, perhaps if given the opportunity, he might find a way to give someone a little zap with the building's electricity. He may or may not have used those last few methods before...

[supernovaa-remnant]

i'm proud i understood all the words you used without having to look them up lol the childhood obsession pays of.

thank you very much for the facts, i loved hearing them, especially about black holes!! in my opinion, they're one of the most interesting things in space :D i also really love wormholes and i hope we'll get to know if they actually exist one day lol

and please, tell me more about titan!! personally, my favorite moon is callisto, might be a bit basic but it's just so pretty.

anyway, enough space rambles from me, now it's your turn again :D

I’m glad you liked my space facts :D

omg black holes are sooooo cool!!!! asjlcjsjsvwlbskwvsjs they’re actually one of my favorite celestial objects (I think I’m just biased towards stars in all of their phases lol). Probably one of the reasons why interstellar is one of my favorite movies.

wormholes are also super cool to think about!! I hope that, even if it turns out they don’t exist naturally occurring in space, that’d it be possible to make an artificial wormhole. Arguably, it would be even more significant to find out they exist by finding an artificially made one vs a naturally occurring one bc that would mean someone had to have built it, but I digress. I think it’d just be cool to know if they can exist at all.

Callisto’s a really cool moon!! I love everything abt space so much! I don’t think you could find smth out there that’d I’d dislike lol.

As for Titan, there are a few really cool things about it. For one, if there’s any other life in the solar system that’s not on Earth, it’d most likely be either on Ganymede or Titan. (Which, I think the chances of alien life in our solar system are pretty low astronomically speaking, but it’s not impossible and I think that’s amazing!!)

Titan is the only known place in our solar system other than Earth to have liquid on it’s surface!! Which is so cool!!!! Because we know Mars, for example, used to have liquid oceans, but it doesn’t anymore. And, we know that all known life in the universe (aka life on Earth) started in the ocean. Titan has lakes and rivers (not so much oceans), but that’s still so cool!!However, Titan’s surface liquid is not made of water. It’s liquid methane which I think is sick. Like, stepping away from astrobiology for a moment and looking more at astrochemistry, the fact that Titan has liquid methane on it’s surface, and it rains liquid methane is so cool to me.

I just think Titan is neat, and NASA has some fun missions planned for sending rovers out to Titan to collect samples, so I highly suggest looking at that if it’s smth that would interest you :3

Quick note about Ganymede (one of Jupiter’s four major moons, which are the moons Galileo saw centuries ago through a telescope)!! There are most likely oceans on Ganymede. Not on the surface, but there nonetheless. The thing about Ganymede is that it’s all ice. However, the gravitational pull from Jupiter affects its moons in the same way that our moon affects the tides. It’s causing movement and friction inside the planets (which is why Io, another one of Jupiter’s moons, is so volcanically active—Io’s another fun moon to talk abt, but I think this post is getting long enough).

So, this gravitational means that there are most likely liquid oceans about 150 kilometers under the surface ice on Ganymede. It is possible that it could just be slush, but it’s most likely liquid. Which is so cool!!! Because life on Earth started in the oceans!!!!! And this means there could be life on Ganymede. Especially because there’s evidence that it’s a water ocean! Specifically a salt water ocean!!!! Oh! Another thing! The ocean on Ganymede would be at least 3 times larger than all of the water on Earth’s surface. Like, this would be a massive ocean. Which means if there was life, it would have the potential to get incredibly large.

Ganymede is also the only satellite/moon in the solar system to have its own magnetic field!!! Overall an incredibly interesting place in our solar system.

Anyway, I’m gonna wrap up here. Sky, there is never too much space rambling, so please ramble about space as much as you want!!!! :)

[proteuus]

Yo my astrobiology class was talking abt sponges this week! Did you know that it's believed that sponges are some of the first multicellular organisms? It's so cool :D sponge grandpa

WOAHHHH LETS GO :-D !!!!!!!!