Reblog if you’re bored and want random anons.
“This illustration shows a cross-section of a small portion of an Escherichia coli cell. The cell wall, with two concentric membranes studded with transmembrane proteins, is shown in green. A large flagellar motor crosses the entire wall, turning the flagellum that extends upwards from the surface. The cytoplasmic area is colored blue and purple. The large purple molecules are ribosomes and the small, L-shaped maroon molecules are tRNA, and the white strands are mRNA. Enzymes are shown in blue. The nucleoid region is shown in yellow and orange, with the long DNA circle shown in yellow, wrapped around HU protein (bacterial nucleosomes). In the center of the nucleoid region shown here, you might find a replication fork, with DNA polymerase (in red-orange) replicating new DNA.”
© David S. Goodsell 1999.
what even is this and why do i feel the urge to reblog it
This is from on of Rhett and Link’s videos. It has chuck testa in it.
What Bayesian reasoning overlooks, of course, is the inconvenient fact that there are some one trillion galaxies in the known universe and some 50 billion planets estimated to exist in the Milky Way alone and some 500,000,000 predicted to exist in a habitable zone. Spiegel and Turner point out that basing our expectations of life existing on other planets, for no better reason that it exists here, is really only proof that were are more than capable of deceiving ourselves into thinking that things are much more likely than they really are. They argue that other unknown factors exist that could have contributed to us being here that we don’t yet understand. So, they conclude that, deriving numbers from an equation such as that put forth by Drake, only serves to underscore our belief in the existence of other alien life forms, rather than the actual chances of it being so.
I love all the people I follow but that is only ~50 and I would like for that number to increase since sometimes my dash moves more slowly than I’d like.I’ve seen some of these types of posts, and always wondered how many people respond to them. So, if you post/enjoy/want to discuss the…
I’m new to Tumblr, but… You’ll find that I adore most of these things. Wheel of Time, Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who… yeah. just all of it. ALL TEH THINGS!
That tragic moment when you go to watch The Lord of the Rings and the DVD is missing from inside the case.
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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