Shannon the Shenanigator
@ShannyGasm
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Friendly, neighborhood mad scientist, liberal, travel enthusiast, yoga lover, amateur potter, and nerd. My spirit animal is Tigger
Las Vegas, NV
Joined August 2018
Now would be a great day for an asteroid to come hurdling down through the atmosphere and land on Mar-A-Lago. Just saying. Not too big, mind you. We don't want an extinction level event. Just big enough to level the place.
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As if Cocaine Bear wasn't enough, I give you cocaine sharks! https://t.co/DadU2WsGAs
bbc.com
Sharks taken from the shores near Rio de Janeiro have tested for high levels of cocaine.
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Jedi Bear is not as good with the force, but he's a mean lightsaber user. #usetheforce #starwars #bears
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Jedi Bear is not as good with the force, but he's a mean lightsaber user. #usetheforce #starwars #bears
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Not only is this a cool image, but NASA details when and where each color in it was photographed. Now, this is a fantastic application of fun science!
How do you draw a pride flag? 🤔 With SCIENCE! This flag is a composite of NASA imagery of phenomena from Earth and far, far beyond it. Details below ⬇️ Credit: Rachel Lense
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The living room now has a functional disco ball. Follow me for more interior design tips.
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The irony of living in Alaska tonight with this fantastic geomagnetic storm causing wild Auroras - it's too light at night to see them now. Not quite 24 hours of daylight yet, but close.
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I just got this religious magazine delivered at work addressed to my lab. It raised my hackles. I was just going to throw it away, but this statement caught my eye before I did, so i took a picture. 😂😂😂😂😂 Facts and biblical truth in the same sentence! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I've given it a lot of thought, and I'd very much like to meet a panda bear in the woods. Whom can I talk to in order to make this happen? I bet it's a man. 🫤
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Because who wouldn't want a flamethrowing robot dog? https://t.co/LCdywpl4Y9
futurism.com
The flamethrower on the "Thermonator" has a fire breathing range of up to 30 feet, for those willing to shell out nearly $10,000.
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Scientists just don't know yet. But what this scientist knows is that she needs more glow-in-the-dark googly eyes to decorate her lab with. Because pipettes should be easy to find in the dark. 5/5
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Some creatures do it to attract mates, some do to attract prey, some do it to just look pretty (not really, but I'd totally do this if I could). It takes a lot of energy to glow, which might be why we glow so faintly. Do the rewards outweigh the expenditure of energy? 4/5
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We know that bioluminescence evolved independently more than 100 times in evolutionary history. Life just really wanted to glow! But we don't know why. It doesn't seem to serve any one particular purpose. 3/5
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This got me thinking: which came first, bioluminescence or the eyes to see it with? Bioluminescence first appeared around 540 million years ago. Eyes first appeared around 540 million years ago. Coincidence? 2/5
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Random science fact: Did you know that you emit light? Humans are luminous! It's just not visible to our eyes because they're not sensitive enough. We glow at about 1,000 times lower than our eyes can detect. 1/5
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It's not often I beat big science accounts to big science stories. But I totally beat IFLScience to this one last week!
The Once-In-An-Eon Event That Gave Earth Plants Has Happened Again https://t.co/Q950LFRRlR
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