Get Your Ass To Mars

ajhateley:

Thirty Days of Videogaming - Day Eight (Best Videogame Soundtrack)

KATAMARI DAMACY / WE LOVE KATAMARI

I almost gave it to FFVIII at the last moment, just for Liberi Fatali, and Metal Gear Solid for The Best is Yet to Come. But this is an illustration I’ve been desperate to do for a long time. To approach this game from a darker perspective was too great a temptation. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a katamari.

Copyright A.J. Hateley

ajhateley:

Thirty Days of Videogames

Day Seven - Favourite Videogame Couple or Duo.

Little Sister and Big Daddy - Bioshock

copyright A.J. Hateley

templesmith:

Is her saber meant to be blue or purple? ( In general I mean )

(Source: thewhitestdevilyouknow)

fuckyeahspace:

NASA Finds New Form of Life

NASA astrobiologists have discovered a microorganism in California that is doing something completely novel: substituting arsenic for phosphorus in its chemical makeup.

Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur are the six basic building blocks of all known forms of life on Earth. Phosphorus is part of the chemical backbone of DNA and RNA, the structures that carry genetic instructions for life, and is considered an essential element for all living cells. Arsenic, which is chemically similar to phosphorus, is poisonous for most life on Earth. Arsenic disrupts metabolic pathways because chemically it behaves similarly to phosphate.

It’s been known for a while that some microbes can metabolise arsenic, but what this organism is doing is building parts of itself out of arsenic, something no other known life forms can do. ”If something here on Earth can do something so unexpected,” asks Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a NASA Astrobiology Research Fellow, “What else can life do that we haven’t seen yet?”

This will change the way astrobiologists look for life on other planets, including where they look (arsenic-rich atmospheres were previously considered off-limits) and what the definition of life really is (right now, we only know that life exists the way it does on Earth, so finding out that life can exist very differently and using different chemicals will expand what we think of when we think of “life”). This is the first alternative biology we’ve ever known to exist; previously, the idea of alternative biologies has been mere speculation, more common in the realms of pop-science and science fiction.

Source: NASA. Photo via Gizmodo. More info at NASA astrobiology.

“I eat Unicorns for breakfast”