ganja-man

Extraordinary Water Pictures on FunFoll.com
Darwaz - The Door to hell | brusnichka.com
Niagara Falls
There's all kinds of cool shit on those sites.....

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Bob_Saget

If you look at that carefully, you can see Skeletor.

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GLOWING ANIMALS: Pictures of Beasts Shining for Science




How do they glow?

Green fluorescent protein, received via DNA from father, which had been implanted with glowing sperm-creating cells from a flourescent mouse (2004)

What can we learn?


University of Pennsylvania researchers figured out how to maintain and grow glowing, sperm-creating stem cells from genetically modified fluorescent mice.

The team then implanted the cells into infertile mice, which "miraculously" fathered three of the pups pictured--and the offspring of the lucky mice "men" glowed green under ultraviolet light, tipping the scientists off to their success.
—Photograph courtesy University of Pennsylvania




How does it glow?

Green, yellow, and red fluorescent protein, introduced into its DNA (2003)

What can we learn?

In 1999 scientists at the National University of Singapore began working with zebra fish and green fluorescent protein, hoping to engineer a fish that would glow in the presence of toxic chemicals.

In the process, the scientists created fish that fluoresce all the time (under ultraviolet light) and in a range of colors.

A few years later, the first fluorescent pet hit the market, after Singapore had become the first country to authorize the sale of the genetically modified fish in 2003. Later that year "GloFish" (pictured) debuted in the United States, where in 2009 they retail for five to ten dollars at some pet stores.

Though fluorescent pet fish have spawned no scientific advances, they inspired the creation and clarification of laws governing genetically modified pets. The United States, for example, was initially forced to classify the genetic modification as a drug.
—Photograph courtesy GloFish




How does it glow?

Green fluorescent protein, introduced into DNA of egg via virus (2008)

What can we learn?

Scientists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta are using green fluorescent protein to study Huntington's disease, which destroys nervous tissue.

In 2008 the researchers infected unfertilized monkey eggs with an HIV-like virus, which changed the eggs' DNA to include the defect that causes Huntington's.

The virus also introduced a protein that would make rhesus monkeys fluoresce under ultraviolet light (as pictured)--making it easier to study the effects of the disease on the monkeys' brains.

—Photograph courtesy Anthony Chan, Emory University




How does it glow?

Red fluorescent protein, introduced via a virus into cloned DNA, which was implanted in cat eggs, then implanted in mother (2007)

What can we learn?

Scientists at Gyoengsang National University in South Korea both cloned a Turkish Angora house cat and made it fluorescent—as shown in the glowing cat (left) photographed in a dark room under ultraviolet light. (The nonfluorescent cat, at right, appears green in these conditions.)

The scientists weren't the first to clone a cat--they weren't even the first to clone a fluorescent cat. But they were the first to clone a cat that fluoresces red.

It's hoped that the red glow, which appears in every organ of the cats, will improve the study of genetic diseases.
—Photograph by Choi Byung-kil/Yonhap via AP

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JamoLovesBlunts

looks like a pokemon

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jikaboom123

Grenade!!!






Castle illuminated by a full moon:




A wood tick. They climb to the top, then hang on with one pair of legs while spreading the remainder. Hooks or sticky pads on the ends are then ready to snag passing animals or clothing.




Hymenopus coronatus. A species of praying mantis that camouflages itself in flowers.



Ida and Dactyl. Ida is an asteroid that is one mile long. It has it's own tiny moon named Dactyl.




High speed capture of a bullet ripping through crayons.

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BillyBobAndy

WOOT Niagara Falls definitely is beautiful. I don't go to the Falls that often, but I could if I wanted to. Just a bikeride away for me. I should find the pictures I took of them at night.

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Desperado

Just incase someone did not watch the video on this page

http://www.marijuana.com/science/122...h-reality.html





F***ing awesome eh?

Ygdonmir

Ants!



A rare species (Thaumatomyrmex) of ant that have adapted mandibles in order to help them hunt their favored pray, a species of thorned millipede.



A queen Leafcutter ant. She's a thick girl.



Dracula ants with their larvae.



Some ants laying the smack dab on an intruding trap jaw ant. The smaller Cecropia ants attempt to pin a limb down each in order to immobilize it.



A soldier and a worker ant of the same species. (Atta Leafcutters)



These honeypot ants can swell their bodies full of liquid in order to store it in arid environments. Basically living water coolers for their nestmates.

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Freedom_User

I don't see your pics. But I'll give you rep for the cool information.

Ygdonmir

Arrrrgh! The post is cleansed of photo's. I'll see if I can find the again, they were really cool.

-UPDATE- The website appears to of changed format, so the links had been severed. But I fixed it up. Sorry about that. Leave it to the New York Times. ( A World of Ants - The New York Times > Science > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 15 )