#thermophiles

[carbohs-region]

Extremobacter, the Thermophile Pokémon!

Type: Fire/Poison

In the earliest days of Earth, Extremobacter’s ancestors lived in extremely hot and inhospitable environments. Despite places like this beginning to give way to more temperate and safe habitats, Extremobacter is still able to call acid pools and hydrothermal vents its home.

[planetwisdompoet]

Seeing is really, believing! #seeingisbelieving #poems #poets #archaea #extremophiles #thermophiles #methanogens #gases #organisms #climate #climatechange #planetwisdompoet https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm1qtOgt3Iv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[gewooninspiratie]

Confluence by Ahmer Inam Via Flickr: Abstract View of Black Pool Geyser, Yellowstone National Park. Third prize winner at the second annual Ansel Adams Gallery photo competition: anseladamsgallery.smugmug.com/Other/posting/15076588_MWj7... Also selected for the curated fine art photography auction by The Light Factory lightfactory.org/

[marrunatashy]

[emilybeemartin]

Do you have a topic you can give a speech about with no research? Would you like to share the speech?

*Asks are sent for fun, no pressure to answer

Ohohoho my friend. I am an interpretive park ranger with a master's degree in environmental programming. Yesterday I spent two hours standing in front of Old Faithful blocking a row of benches because our three resident bull bison decided to bed down twenty feet from the boardwalk during an eruption window. You should have seen me. I was a pocket-program machine. I talked about geysers. I talked about bison. I talked about resurgent domes. I talked about siliceous sinter and travertine. I talked about archaeological sites. Ravens. Bears. Elk. Wildfire. Thermophiles. Federal versus state legal protections at park boundaries. I didn't break stride even when politely but firmly repeating every four minutes that folks, we're keeping the first two rows of benches empty to give these big guys enough space, okay? Thanks, folks, 'preciate it. I registered 312 contacts on my clicker, and that's probably low-balling how many people were listening in the big crowds. If I may be so humble, I interpreted the shit out of that resource with only a quick rush on my bicycle after a staticky radio call asking for assistance to prepare.

On an off day, though, if anybody ever wants to hear my thesis on the significance of Legolas, son of a lesser king amongst literal heroes of elvish history, stepping up to represent his race in the Fellowship, I will happily go on about that as well.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Love

for your next poem/story

-phile: lover; one having an affinity for or a strong attraction to -philia: friendly feeling toward; tendency toward; abnormal appetite or liking for -philous: loving; having an affinity for

Ammophilous - living or growing in the sand or in dry sandy places

Anemophilous - pollinated by wind

Anthophilous - feeding upon or living among flowers

Astrophile - one fond of star lore

Bibliophile - a lover of books; a book collector

Chrysophilite - a lover of gold

Cynophilist - one that is favorably disposed toward dogs

Dendrophilous - tree-loving

Entomophilous - normally pollinated by insects

Geophilous - living or growing in or on the ground

Heliophilous - attracted by or adapted to sunlight

Lithophilous - growing or living in stony places

Logophile - a lover of words

Neophilia - love of or enthusiasm for what is new or novel

Oenophile - a lover or connoisseur of wine

Ombrophilous - capable of withstanding or thriving in the presence of much rain

Ornithophilous - having a fondness for birds; bird-loving

Palaeophile - one fond of or informed about what is ancient; antiquary

Petrophilous - attached to or living on rock

Philomath - a lover of learning; scholar

Phytophilous - fond of plants

Psychrophilic - thriving at a relatively low temperature

Rheophilic - preferring or living in flowing water

Sarcophilous - fond of flesh

Sciophilous - thriving in shade

Thermophilic - of, relating to, or being an organism living at a high temperature

Toxophilite - a person fond of or expert at archery

Turophile - a connoisseur of cheese

Xerophilous - thriving in or tolerant or characteristic of a xeric (i.e., characterized by, relating to, or requiring only a small amount of moisture) environment

Xylophilous - attracted to wood

More: Word Lists

[bignaz8]

Fly Geyser in Nevada was formed accidentally in 1964 when a geothermal energy company drilled a well. The well was capped, but the seal failed, and the resulting pressure created the current geyser.

This striking geothermal feature is known for its vibrant colors. Thermophilic algae thrive in the hot, moist environment, giving the geyser its vivid green and red hues.

The geyser sits on a mound about 25 to 30 feet tall with multiple conic openings. Dissolved minerals like calcium carbonate and silica have built up around the geyser, forming its unique structure and travertine pools.

[mutant-distraction]

source: National Geographic Nature Ocean Whales

"This is the 'Morning Glory Pool' located in the Yellowstone park, Montana. This photo is not photoshopped or Al generated. This is a real picture and t's just this beautiful. The Morning Glory Pool in Yellowstone is a hot spring renowned for its vibrant colors. The striking blues, greens, and yellows are the result of thermophilic bacteria thriving in the pool's hot waters. Though the pool's hues were once more intense, they have changed due to human interaction. Nonetheless, it remains a must-see for its natural beauty and unique geothermal activity."

[nshtn]

[ UV Albert Wesker Uroboros & PG67 HCs ]

These take after the knowledge that PG67 contains hastily-added leech genes. This is full of medical jargon related to virology and genetics. It's hard sci-fi styled!

the neurology is probably capable of being refuted easily, unfortunately- a lot of sert rabbithole research can't be cited because it's... lacking in couth towards how they talk about neurodivergence...

tags: medical:genetic;neurology (hardly);virology;needles (PG67-A/W), cannibalism mention, childhood trauma, body horror, mental decay

Such a far cry from his beginnings... he's truly taken after the man he hates the most.

Unfortunately for Wesker, adding Uroboros in intensely massive quantities to an existing Progenitor-67 infection is a poor choice that makes him spend much of his fight with Chris alternating between pouncing him like a rabid animal and curling like the death throes of a dying spider.

And unfortunately for Chris, Wesker doesn't die when he's left at the volcano to stew in a puddle of himself. Even with the awakened lack of thermophilic qualities as a result of G, there is enough local flora and fauna to keep him alive, albeit in a subdued state.

Physiological:

Uroboros, combined on the initial foundation of Progenitor 67, takes after Progenitor 67's metabolic inefficiency and drives that far higher than it was ever meant to go in an attempt to sow compatibility.

Due to this, Wesker needs a truly ridiculous amount of calories (~6,000 - ~9,000 kcal/d) to remain fully intelligent.

A lesser amount will generally retain him, though he will experience a plethora of negative symptoms related to starvation (~3,500 - ~5,500 kcal/d).

Wesker cannot digest iron bound to salt or any organic chelates except heme (or hemeprotein) as a result of initial Progenitor 67 infection.

Progenitor 67 epigenetically alters his enterocytes. The genes involved with this are the upregulation of HCP1 and the downregulation of DMT1 and, less intensely, Dcytb, and is a result of both Progenitors' own natural leaning and, primarily, the hasty introduction of leech genes when microinjection became available.

This ultimately means that, as time drags on, he begins to find his palate shifts from a lot of power smoothies to meat.

But there is something crucial here: 67% or more of heme iron is lost when you cook meat. That means...

He slowly slips into preferring his meat blue or raw, otherwise he won't be able to properly supplement his need for heme iron.

With the addition of Uroboros, which dethrones and replaces Progenitor, this change persists and couples roughly with his modified caloric needs.

Uroboros; a monster that eats itself continually without end. It physically presents a sign of Wesker's malingering, creeping need to consume biomass.

Patches of necrotizing, hardening skin and flesh form across his arms and legs in uneven patterns.

Scaly, itchy lesions creep along his cheekbones and the sides of his neck like a corrupted skin flush. They make him look draconic and feral.

These are a weaker, useless vestigial presentation of the hardening of skin he undergoes when he's being flash-fried by high temperatures.

One of the scars of Wesker's infection and subsequent mutative transformation are hypermelanotic deposits.

They start strongest at his fingertips and weaken at the base of his shoulders.

They are also strongest in the center of his chest where his macronuclei is present and taper off approaching his shoulders and abdomen.

His face has some of the same tinting where he was burned and developed heat-resistant scales.

Uroboros enhances the strength of many of his bones - worse closer to the surface of his body - by fortifying them with calcium and double-thickening them.

As a feature of the beginning stages of Uroboros' starvation, it will begin to leach calcium out of bones and the deposits it creates when time to intellect loss is ticking down.

When resources are low, the bones will be stripped for the calcium they uniformly contain, causing him to experience an effect similar to calcium gout / pseudoarthritis, malaise, and brittling.

This leaching undoes itself and becomes re-fortifying under the duress of stress hormones like cholecystokinin and epinephrine.

To note, epigenetic changes brought on by Progenitor physiologically are stacked upon inappropriately and randomly by Uroboros like re-patchwork, which leads to a general instability and accidental incorporation of Progenitor's physical defense mechanisms.

This is what ultimately enables him to survive the events of RE5.

Neurological:

Progenitor infection spiraling into his temporal lobes, brain stem, and, minorly, his frontal lobes as years progress are the cause of his irritation and aggression in RE5.

It does this because it has no antimutagenic properties unlike the more developed t-Virus, slowly mutating out of control into a dysfunctional beast as Wesker experiences more and more stress and trauma.

A bit like G in this regard...

His SERT is disrupted by its' presence in the midbrain raphe nuclei along the brain stem.

This causes elevated extracellular serotonin levels initially, followed by receptor downregulation and eventual serotonin deficiency.

The lack of available serotonin leads him to experience, at first, heightened periods of aggression. Later, this becomes mania and even delirium if he forfeits sleep or a PG/67 shot, because...

As time ticks on, his dopamine begins to become dysregulated as well.

This imbalance contributes to mood swings, aggression, and impaired decision-making.

It also leads to a loss of the ability to feel pleasure or joy in things, making him manic and paranoid, taking risks uncharacteristically to feel something, anything.

As Progenitor 67 degrades brain function, particularly areas involved in impulse control and aggression, Wesker experiences the uncontrollable urge to consume.

This leads him to cannibalize interns and people he calculates won't be missed, as well as people who piss him off enough. During this time it does change - and become true - that a misplaced boop! or headpat! might get you killed.

His ego begins to vacillate and strengthen itself in an effort to maintain itself despite his decline. If he can just finish Uroboros, everything will be okay again, he can fix himself...

His brain practically relies on his PG67-A/W dose before he gains Uroboros.

A rapid decline in cognitive and emotional stability when he’s off the dose is present.

It's not unlike sundowning...

You would not want to see his MRIs during this time. They look awful - his brain has lesions and there are parts that are grossly overgrown; there are tiny black specks where Progenitor has gnawed holes in the fabric of him. If he hadn't roped it in, he would probably end up eventually going completely feral from his brain swelling up against the sides of his skull; he'd just become another victim of Cannibal Disease and turn, simply painfully slowly.

Uroboros is not supposed to crawl into the brain. It's supposed to leave it unaffected - but Progenitor having already curdled and spread unchecked into it gives it an opening for opportunistic infection.

It attempts to knit the holes and tamp down overgrown regions, but in doing this, it feeds from a sort of 'genetic template' that restores Wesker's ability to feel and feel greatly. This includes the reactivation (and reanimation) of the greatly disordered regions of his brain responsible for empathy, sleep regulation, attachment, and guilt.

It also cannot perfectly recreate lost tissue or resurrect memories from dead, liquefied tissue, so he retains some of his symptoms, like mood swings.

Rage becomes consuming, hunger becomes voracious, and guilt becomes haunting; he is plagued with an unfortunate (to him) tendency to consider others.

He finds it a prying weakness, but he can no longer tamp it down into nonexistence as he did; he is, essentially, thermally reduced to his Arklay days in behavior. He’s still intelligent and cunning, but he must now wrestle with intense emotional responses that don’t align with his goals at all...

Guilt and empathy are so foreign to him they are nearly out-of-body; he views them clinically and tries to rationalize them away, but his inability becomes the stake that impales him and imparts a malingering sense of conflict.

...and he must take a good, hard, long look at his goals and how far they've diverted from their initial precedence.

... what is he now? What use does he serve in this world - to what master does he heel, clearly dethroned from his position? These questions and more are things he asks himself now.

Is he doomed to roam aimlessly without purpose until he perishes?

[rachiebeee]

some Leo headcanons I have

Leo doesn't know what day his birthday is. He knows its in July, but he hasn't done anything on it since he was 8 and he used to act like it was/wasn't on certain days based on how well they went (he thinks its the 7th, but he hates the number 7 so he ignores it).

Leo has stolen and crashed a police car. He will do it again.

Leo's mother and Aunt Rosa both had dreams from Gaea that told them Leo was going to kill Esperanza, but Esperanza took it as an "he'll do it on accident bc he doesn't know how to control his powers" and Rosa took it as "It's a sign from God and this child was sent by the devil".

He's asexual biromantic, but in love with the idea of being in love.

He learns a form of script-based magic - the same thing that is etched on each stone used for the Hecate cabin. Jo is his teacher, but when he visits camp all of the Hecate cabin are happy to help him too. He views it as a code instead of magic, and only ever uses it in the things he builds because he forgets it can be useful on its own.

He's a Fall out Boy stan. Loves all types of rock too, but FOB was his gateway into it.

Every time he went to a new school if they had a music program he could join for free he would. Originally he'd just choose a new instrument every school, but on his third try he learnt drums and decided to stick with it.

HIs eyes look like yooperlite while it's glowing, but more like burning coals while he's using his powers.

On that note, Leo's body temperature can be way hotter than the normal person's. On a normal day where he's fine in everyway, he's hot but not hot enough for people to think he's feverish. When he's excited his temperature rapidly increases, as it does with stress. When he forgoes sleeping his body forgets to regulate his temperature, which leads to him either going very cold or very hot.

He can't really get fevers at all really. It's also very hard for a lot of illnesses to effect him because half the time he burns it up before he even knows its there. When he does get sick it's really bad though, because his immune system is actually pretty weak.

Related to that, he is the only known person who can currently be a theoretical host to a thermophile virus. Not that he would, but it is a thought that has crossed his mind.

He has a hobby of making little robots. He makes Piper a bronze eagle one as a present and he slowly starts to make them for his friends

Annabeth gets a cat because he thinks she has cat vibes and an owl would be basic. Percy gets an otter because Leo did not want to think about making a robot fish that works well out of water. Frank gets a chameleon as a joke, but he makes it so it can turn into a small dragon too. Hazel gets a snake, again for the vibes. Nico gets a lizard. Just like, a nondescript lizard. He makes Reyna a bronze dog to "complete the metal set", but it's based of a Molossus of Epirus instead of a hound. Jo and Emmie get matching gryphons, and Georgina's little robot is a llama. Leo makes himself a wolf in honour of Jason.

On the topic of making things, Leo also gets really into all forms of metalsmithing. Which includes making jewellery, which leads to him getting a lot of piercings. Piper does too, because they went to go get the piercings together. He loves giving people little friendship bracelets, and charms, and ornaments. He makes people themed cutlery sets.

His love language is gift giving, if it's not obvious.

He stays in contact with Apollo, but in order to not upset Zeus they frame it as 'music lessons'. As the inventor of the Valdezinator (and its best player), it's a pretty good excused. Leo does make new instruments occasionally when they feel like they're pushing the 'lesson' excuse.

They fr just gossip during them though, and then give each other a scuffed form of therapy. They go from talks about petty drama to unanswerable philosophical discussions to jokes that make no sense.

[swaps55]

Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, September 2023

The striking colors of Grand Prismatic spring come from thermophile bacteria that thrive on the heat around the edges of the pool. The colors are so vivid, they are often reflected in the steam.

[microbes-in-hats]

Thermus aquaticus

Thermus aquaticus is a thermophilic bacterium found in geysers around the world. It is the source of an enzyme called Taq polymerase, which is commonly used in polymerase chain reaction (PCR). PCR is a process by which a small sample of DNA can be exponentially amplified, generating millions to billions of copies.

Photo credit: Thomas J. Jackson, Robert F. Ramaley, and Warren G. Meinschein

[marrunatashy]

[fluttershyflores2]

(Information taken from a page, only that it is in Spanish -> link )

The blind snake has been perfectly modeled for underground life and mining activity.

It has no external ear, but its small nostrils are visible. Both its sense of smell and hearing are perfectly functional. Its mouth is wide and it has a strong jaw covered with small teeth.

It is a thermophilic species (adapted to withstand high temperatures) typical of Mediterranean ecosystems. It inhabits very varied plant formations. Holm oak groves, pine groves, Mediterranean scrub, pastures, crops. It does not shy away from the vicinity of towns and cities, where we can find it in dumps, ruined buildings and even in parks and gardens.

Spider

[just-a-cruel-white-man]

Well, successfully doing something is often a lot harder than fucking it up. Climbing a cliff is a lot harder than messing up and falling off a cliff. Balancing a pen upright is a lot harder than making said pen fall over.

The earth is semi-stable, if you let it be it'll probably keep harboring life for a while, but fuck it up enough and it's gonna go back to being any random ol' planet. The climate change debate (at its most extreme) is essentially about what the tipping point is and whether we can or have reached it.

So yeah it may be much easier to de-terraform a planet than to terraform it.

While terraforming Mars is theoretically possible, it is not within mankinds current capabilities and is unlikely to be within those capabilities anytime soon. It would be more practical to construct space stations as human habitats than try to alter a planet with less gravity than earth, no magnetic field, barely any atmosphere, and toxic dust dispersed throughout its soil.

Venus at least has the gravity required, and bands in the upper atmosphere with earth-like temperatures and pressure. As an industrial hub, the Mercurial north pole has water ice on the surface and would make an ideal location for launching a dyson swarm. I just don't get the appeal of mars...

Well Venus has so much gravity it squashed flat all the spacecraft the Soviets sent there, and all the images I've seen of its surface make it look like the least-inhabitable furnace in the known universe, a real-life Hades.

I very much applaud the drive to expand human life through the universe, but it does seem to me pretty much impossible to survive on Mars right now, and decades/centuries(?) into the future. I keep thinking we should start small and make some 5-mile-deep undersea cities for a few decades first, where people can at least be rescued when things go wrong.

[jomindraws]

And the final group of animals, last and very certainly least (at least in the sense of size), the Equidarience. Very ancient animals so far removed from other ones that it not only is its own class and phylum, but also its own superphylum as well. This group not only acts as some "archaea" would act on earth, but also primarily consumes bacteria and fungi that are thermophilic (typically in hot vents or brimstone pools like Yellowstone-esque environments)

Superphylum Equidarience

A taxa of animals possessing a toroidal nucleus and distinct nodes of function consisting of colonial unicellular cells.

(AN2 C5) Clade: Grandequidarience

A clade of animals bearing the ancestors and relatives of the phylum equidarence.

PHYLUM EQUIDARIENCE

The only extant phylum of Clade Grandequidarience occupying thermophilic niches in hydrothermal vents and volcanic hot springs.

Class Equidarience

Class of equidarience that consume thermophilic autotrophs within hot vents, sulfur-rich volcanic hot springs, and hot microhabitats such as vugs.

And with that, that concludes every class of Animal on Jom'Gol !! I will make a size comparison chart eventually of all these different classes so you can see how big they truly are (or VERY small). Once again this is not EVERY animal, but simply one representative of each Class of organisms. In the Linnaean sense, each Class has Orders, and each Order has Families, and each Family has Genera, and each Genus has Species (and each species has subspecies sometimes, etc.). I am still using these Linnaean terms even though my phylogenetic classification relies on how RELATED they are like traditional cladistics, not just shared properties.

I doubt I will be able to get every species in my lifetime or even every genus but I will damn well try ! So please stay tuned to any more creatures I will create on this lovely planet Jom'Gol !!!

Thank you to everyone who is supporting me thus far and your comments keep me wanting to continue this project !!!!