#oceanwater

[proceduralpassion]

send me a made-up fic title and i'll tell you what i would write to go with it.....

"The Glass on Grandma's Table"

This is such a unique title 😭

OK, so walk with me here... Dante Torres seems to have a very close relationship with his mother and I'd be willing to bet he was/is close to his grandmother as well if she's still alive. So I can just imagine him and Kev bonding as partners, getting to know each other and Torres just telling all the stories of him as a little kid and how he used to get in trouble, doing all sorts of mischievous things around the house like drawing on the walls, skateboarding in the house, and yes breaking the glass on abuela's table lol.

I've been loving their friendship/partnership, so I can just imagine them bonding and talking about their childhoods

[soulofherkarmaart]

just simple vintage ocean postcard

[jujuru-blog]

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[arttreeglobal]

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[nizaberry]

It's Tidus and Nori's Birthdays~!

[waterislife8]

[suguwu]

i'm so obsessed with this man.

minors and ageless blogs dni. you will be blocked.

f!reader, reader wears a skirt, reader is referred to as "my dear," established relationship, oral (f! receiving).

you look up at the rustle of cloth.

neuvillette puts down the paper he's been reading and sighs. you tilt your head, unused to such a blatant display from him, but he says nothing. instead, he reaches back and undoes the ribbon that barely keeps his hair at bay, his long, pale fingers loosening it easily.

"do you want me to braid it?" you ask.

he glances up at you and shakes his head. his hair flows with it, an elegant ripple of ivory. "not right now," he says. "thank you, though."

"mhm."

you watch curiously as he gathers his hair up into one strong hand, and a frisson of heat curls through you at the shift of his muscles beneath his billowy shirt, the thin material leaving little to the imagination. you can see each flex of his bicep, the way the lean muscle ripples.

you realize that he's putting his hair into a high ponytail, the colors intermingling like ocean foam, blue and white swirling together.

you must make a noise, because he glances at you once more, another paper in hand, a perfect eyebrow arched.

"are you alright, my dear?"

"yeah," you say, a little bit breathless. "i'm fine."

his brow furrows. "you don't sound fine."

your cheeks heat. "ah. you—um, you normally only put your hair up like that when you're going down on me."

neuvillette goes still. "i see," he says, and the tips of his ears are going faintly pink, until they match the roses he brought you just the other day, the color of the pearly dawn. it rises to his cheeks, too, a sweet flush.

he very carefully puts the paper down.

you fidget in your seat as he gets to his feet. it only takes a few short strides for him to get to the fainting couch. when he holds out a hand, you take it, ever curious.

"i didn't mean to distract you," you say as he guides you to stand up.

"you are always a distraction," he tells you bluntly. "you test my discipline daily."

"neuvillette—"

he catches you in a honeyed kiss, one that sends heat into a slow simmer beneath your skin. it's slow and sweet with a hint of filth at the edge, in the way his tongue slips between your lips and slides against yours.

you press into the kiss, craving more. his lips are cool against yours, but they heat with your movements. when he pulls away from you, they're kiss-swollen.

he dips in for another kiss before you can say anything. it's as slow as the first, a quiet type of worship that you can almost taste on your tongue.

when you part again, a cobweb-thin strand of spit connects the two of you before it snaps. heat settles low in your stomach.

"neuvillette—" you say.

"i will not leave you wanting," he says, and then he slides to the floor in front of you.

it's a heady sight, the chief justice on his knees for you. he gazes up at you with those sharp, keen eyes, his pupils dilated until there's only a thin rim of violet-blue surrounding them. his hair spills down his shoulders as he dips to press a kiss against your clothed cunt.

you can feel it even through your skirts and panties. it should scorch you, you think, but it's cool instead, oceanwater sliding against your skin, a soft, overwhelming touch.

he gathers your skirts up in one hand, crumpling the delicate lace as he pushes it high over your hips. he presses another kiss against the front of your panties. he dips lower to lave his tongue against the damp gusset and you bite down on a sharp inhale.

he keeps at it, until your wetness is indistinguishable from the damp of his saliva, and only then does he peel your panties off and discard them to the side.

you wind a hand into his ponytail as he coaxes your leg over his broad shoulder, opening you to him in a way that makes fire scorch across your cheeks. he takes advantage, leaning in and pressing a kiss against your cunt, his tongue flicking out and brushing over your clit.

a shuddering breath leaves you and he dips down to lick along the length of you. he uses just enough pressure that his tongue spreads the petals of your pussy. when you moan, he traces his tongue over your clit.

the pleasure surges in you, a strike of flint against kindling, the sparks of it building into embers. your fingers tighten in his hair.

he makes a soft noise, a low, sweet groan, and sinks his tongue into you, spearing deep inside. he presses in closer with it, his nose bumping against your clit, and you try to close your legs around his head, barely kept at bay with one strong hand against your thigh.

he's methodical with it, spearing in and out with the thick muscle of his tongue, all while supporting your unsteady form. his nose nudges your clit over and over, until you're bucking your hips against him, sparks skittering along your nerves.

he backs away when your hole clenches around him, pulling back just far enough to take your clit into his mouth. he suckles at it softly, and then harder, until you're gasping with it, fisting at his ponytail and curving over him like a bow.

"neuvillette," you pant, tightening your grip on his hair. "neuvillette, please."

he hums; the vibrations sink into you, melt under your skin to stoke the embers into flames. he gazes up at you over the curve of your belly and sucks hard.

you cry out sharply. the flames roar into a forest fire, scorching down your nerves as you cum against his mouth, your grip on his hair fierce. he drinks you down, keeping you steady against his broad shoulder with a careful hand, and only pulling back when you tug at his ponytail.

he ducks out from between your legs and guides you back against the chaise when you wobble. his lips are shining with your slick; even his cheeks are wet with it.

you glance away.

he pulls you back to face him. when he leans in for a kiss, you don't shy away; you can taste yourself sharp on his tongue.

he kisses you softly, again and again, a little series of quiet, humble prayers at your altar. when he finally pulls away, you pull him onto the chaise with you. you should clean up, but you're still jelly-legged, and neuvillette follows your lead.

he curls up around you as best he can on the chaise. you turn into him and tuck your face into the crook of his neck, still riding the wave of your pleasure as it dies back down to embers.

"i really didn't mean to distract you," you say quietly.

he hums. "i know."

"but i'm glad that i did."

he breathes out a little laugh.

"yes, my dear," he says. "i'm sure that you are."

[synapticconstruction]

Oceanwater Soup 🌊🍲

[avatar-of-the-blank]

the Vast tastes like… Minty gum? but I don’t like mint gum… - Vast avatar

I WAS TRYING TO IMAGINE A FLAVOR THAT RESEMBLED THE TASTE OR AIR FLOODING YOUR MOUTH AS YOU TRY TO SCREAM WHILE FALLING FROM A GREAT, GREAT HEIGHT. 3AM ICE WATER AND MINTY GUM CAME TO MIND

IF YOU WANT YOU CAN IMAGINE YOURSELF AS OCEANWATER! MAYBE WITH PRIMORDIAL PARTICLES IN IT, IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THE FLAVOR OF THOSE!!

[proceduralpassion]

Burgwater, Ruzwater, Oceanwater...

I'm really winning tonight!

[whispersinthedawn]

Fluttering fireflies 2

“You never said creature wrangling was part of your job description,” the minor god next to Triton announced.

A minor god that Apollo had somehow failed to notice until that very moment, but who Apollo couldn’t take his eyes off once he’d seen him.

The golden ichor beading at his lip, the hair pulled back in a small ponytail at the base of his neck, bare muscular chest liberally coated in black and blue monster blood, and a tail double the length of the god’s torso sparkling iridescently with scales the colour of the inside of an abalone shell – it was like the god was designed to attract attention. And since they were gods capable of shapeshifting, he might as well have been.

“It’s not part of my job description,” Triton announced like the pompous prince he was. “As my guard for this trip, however, it is yours.”

The minor god laughed in incredulity even as he grabbed the arm of a squid, impervious to the sharp suckers on the appendage, and tossed it away in a twist of muscles that made Apollo’s mouth dry out.

He surreptitiously parted his mouth and allowed some of the oceanwater in. Never mind the salt – he desperately needed some hydration, however deceptive.

“You sure are popular,” the unknown god remarked.

Triton brushed the conch shell hanging at his waist with mock humility. “Well, I am the prince of the seas. I carry messages of global importance that could pit the ocean at war if they were to fall into the wrong hands. People are always after me.”

The minor god ignored the blades of the seaweed furtively attempting to encircle him and placed a brave, brave hand on Triton’s shoulder. “You should get a bodyguard,” he advised. “Or a PR team that is better at making friends than you.”

If Apollo could, he would have held his breath. Had this god – minor, unimportant, with no backing but his own wits – not only dared to touch Triton, but also tease him in a manner reserved to family?

“At least I warrant a PR team,” Triton said sardonically, folding his arms. “You haven’t even figured out your own domain.”

The completely brazen god pouted. “But that’s what I have you for, isn’t it? To help me figure out what I’m good at!”

Triton rubbed one of the horns on his forehead in a gesture Apollo recognised from the mirror. That of a much-beleaguered sibling.

“You’re good at getting on people’s nerves,” Triton scolded.

“Now, now,” the new god said with arms raised in placation. “You have to admit. I am quite proficient at destruction as well.”

With only his words as warning, the god swung his tail at the weed and ripped all its blades off. Another swing of his tail, a vertical slash this time instead of the previous horizontal curve, and a rift opened up in the seabed.

An explosion of gases had Apollo looking away for a moment, but by the time he’d managed to create protective upper lids, bubbling lava had replaced the initial explosion.

Triton clapped his hands together. “I know what you can be god of! Sudden underwater volcanic eruptions!”

The other god placed his hands on his hips and raised his eyebrows sceptically. “Isn’t that Hephaestus?”

“You can share,” Triton assured.

They really couldn’t, Apollo knew. But it didn’t matter. The heart in Apollo’s chest that he kept around only for form’s sake had begun beating, keeping pulse with the swings of the other god’s tail.

Swings that swept the waters clear of anyone hoping to approach Triton.

Including Apollo.

But it didn’t matter. Because he’d already seen what he’d come there to.

When he resurfaced beside Artemis’s carriage, it was to find her eyeing him with deep approbation. “No,” she instructed firmly like he was a dog to be brought to heel.

“Yes,” Apollo insisted as he climbed inside the chariot, unrepentantly dripping all over the  fur rug.

“No.”

“You don’t even know what I’m planning,” Apollo protested.

“I don’t need to in order to recognise that look on your face.”

Apollo pouted.

Artemis pressed a hand to her forehead. “Please, just please, don’t make a stalker shrine this time. I am tired of making excuses for my idiot of a brother.”

***

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[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Planning autonomous surface missions on ocean worlds

hrough advanced autonomy testbed programs, NASA is setting the groundwork for one of its top priorities—the search for signs of life and potentially habitable bodies in our solar system and beyond. The prime destinations for such exploration are bodies containing liquid water, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Initial missions to the surfaces of these "ocean worlds" will be robotic and require a high degree of onboard autonomy due to long Earth-communication lags and blackouts, harsh surface environments, and limited battery life.

Technologies that can enable spacecraft autonomy generally fall under the umbrella of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and have been evolving rapidly in recent years. Many such technologies, including machine learning, causal reasoning, and generative AI, are being advanced at non-NASA institutions.

NASA started a program in 2018 to take advantage of these advancements to enable future icy world missions. It sponsored the development of the physical Ocean Worlds Lander Autonomy Testbed (OWLAT) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and the virtual Ocean Worlds Autonomy Testbed for Exploration, Research, and Simulation (OceanWATERS) at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California.

NASA solicited applications for its Autonomous Robotics Research for Ocean Worlds (ARROW) program in 2020, and for the Concepts for Ocean worlds Life Detection Technology (COLDTech) program in 2021.

Six research teams, based at universities and companies throughout the United States, were chosen to develop and demonstrate autonomy solutions on OWLAT and OceanWATERS. These two- to three-year projects are now complete and have addressed a wide variety of autonomy challenges faced by potential ocean world surface missions.

OWLAT

OWLAT is designed to simulate a spacecraft lander with a robotic arm for science operations on an ocean world body. Each of the OWLAT components is detailed below.

The hardware version of OWLAT is designed to physically simulate motions of a lander as operations are performed in a low-gravity environment using a six degrees-of-freedom (DOF) Stewart platform. A seven DOF robot arm is mounted on the lander to perform sampling and other science operations that interact with the environment. A camera mounted on a pan-and-tilt unit is used for perception.

The testbed also has a suite of onboard force/torque sensors to measure motion and reaction forces as the lander interacts with the environment. Control algorithms implemented on the testbed enable it to exhibit dynamics behavior as if it were a lightweight arm on a lander operating in different gravitational environments.

The team also developed a set of tools and instruments to enable the performance of science operations using the testbed. These various tools can be mounted to the end of the robot arm via a quick-connect-disconnect mechanism. The testbed workspace where sampling and other science operations are conducted incorporates an environment designed to represent the scene and surface simulant material potentially found on ocean worlds.

The software-only version of OWLAT models, visualizes, and provides telemetry from a high-fidelity dynamics simulator based on the Dynamics And Real-Time Simulation (DARTS) physics engine developed at JPL. It replicates the behavior of the physical testbed in response to commands and provides telemetry to the autonomy software.

The autonomy software module interacts with the testbed through a Robot Operating System (ROS)-based interface to issue commands and receive telemetry. This interface is defined to be identical to the OceanWATERS interface. Commands received from the autonomy module are processed through the dispatcher/scheduler/controller module and used to command either the physical hardware version of the testbed or the dynamics simulation (software version) of the testbed.

Sensor information from the operation of either the software-only or physical testbed is reported back to the autonomy module using a defined telemetry interface. A safety and performance monitoring and evaluation software module ensures that the testbed is kept within its operating bounds. Any commands causing out of bounds behavior and anomalies are reported as faults to the autonomy software module.

OceanWATERS

At the time of the OceanWATERS project's inception, Jupiter's moon Europa was planetary science's first choice in searching for life. Based on ROS, OceanWATERS is a software tool that provides a visual and physical simulation of a robotic lander on the surface of Europa.

OceanWATERS realistically simulates Europa's celestial sphere and sunlight, both direct and indirect. Because we don't yet have detailed information about the surface of Europa, users can select from terrain models with a variety of surface and material properties. One of these models is a digital replication of a portion of the Atacama Desert in Chile, an area considered a potential Earth-analog for some extraterrestrial surfaces.

JPL's Europa Lander Study of 2016, a guiding document for the development of OceanWATERS, describes a planetary lander whose purpose is collecting subsurface regolith/ice samples, analyzing them with onboard science instruments, and transmitting results of the analysis to Earth.

The simulated lander in OceanWATERS has an antenna mast that pans and tilts; attached to it are stereo cameras and spotlights. It has a 6 degree-of-freedom arm with two interchangeable end effectors—a grinder designed for digging trenches, and a scoop for collecting ground material. The lander is powered by a simulated non-rechargeable battery pack. Power consumption, the battery's state, and its remaining life are regularly predicted with the Generic Software Architecture for Prognostics (GSAP) tool.

To simulate degraded or broken subsystems, a variety of faults (e.g., a frozen arm joint or overheating battery) can be "injected" into the simulation by the user; some faults can also occur "naturally" as the simulation progresses, e.g., if components become over-stressed. All the operations and telemetry (data measurements) of the lander are accessible via an interface that external autonomy software modules can use to command the lander and understand its state. (OceanWATERS and OWLAT share a unified autonomy interface based on ROS.)

The OceanWATERS package includes one basic autonomy module, a facility for executing plans (autonomy specifications) written in the PLan EXecution Interchange Language, or PLEXIL. PLEXIL and GSAP are both open-source software packages developed at Ames and available on GitHub, as is OceanWATERS.

Mission operations that can be simulated by OceanWATERS include visually surveying the landing site, poking at the ground to determine its hardness, digging a trench, and scooping ground material that can be discarded or deposited in a sample collection bin. Communication with Earth, sample analysis, and other operations of a real lander mission, are not presently modeled in OceanWATERS except for their estimated power consumption.

Because of Earth's distance from the ocean worlds and the resulting communication lag, a planetary lander should be programmed with at least enough information to begin its mission. But there will be situation-specific challenges that will require onboard intelligence, such as deciding exactly where and how to collect samples, dealing with unexpected issues and hardware faults, and prioritizing operations based on remaining power.

Results

All six of the research teams used OceanWATERS to develop ocean world lander autonomy technology and three of those teams also used OWLAT. The products of these efforts were published in technical papers, and resulted in the development of software that may be used or adapted for actual ocean world lander missions in the future.

TOP IMAGE: Artist's concept image of a spacecraft lander with a robot arm on the surface of Europa. Credits: NASA/JPL – Caltech

CENTRE IMAGE The software and hardware components of the Ocean Worlds Lander Autonomy Testbed and the relationships between them. Credit: NASA/JPL – Caltech

LOWER IMAGE: The Ocean Worlds Lander Autonomy Testbed. A scoop is mounted to the end of the testbed robot arm. Credit: NASA/JPL – Caltech

BOTTOM IMAGE: Screenshot of OceanWATERS. Credit: NASA/JPL – Caltech

[shootforthestars-28]

#oceanwater 🤍🌊

[glomlings]

5 separate phone wallpapers of cute and adorable little Glomlings. Enjoy these cute little chibi creatures showing you their art.

download and use as wall paper for your phone✨

[nizaberry]

[angelic-omega]

{Angelic Omega} He/They/It/She

22 Mated Omega (no pups/kits)

Genderfluid/FTM

~Miscefelis White Cat with Pink Beans and one blue eye~

~Miscecanis Dalmatian~

Scent: Vanilla, Rose, Oceanwater, Jasmine seed oil and hints of Eucalyptus, Lemon, and Lavender

Colors: Pastels, White, Tans, and Gold