Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
do you ever think about how if you dive into the ocean and go deeper and deeper you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light, and if you go up into the sky and go higher and higher you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light
sometimes a post makes you get out of bed at 230am to spend a quick hour on something like this
sea squirts are called that because, um, they squirt!
all sea squirts are filter feeders that actively pump seawater through their bodies using a series of chambers and valves, very much like a disembodied heart.
too much. stop that, sea squirts.
and lightbulb sea squirts, while very pretty, are regrettably no exception- if you were a diver and happened upon a colony of them, like so:
you would see them all gently pulsating in the current. and then you would get the Davy Jones theme from Pirates of the Caribbean stuck in your head just SO hard.
Click on each picture to enlargen and read the text!
For those of you who asks me what scares me the most, it’s things like these. The fact that yes we do know a lot, but at the same time we know nothing.
95% of the ocean remains unexplored.
This is just a representation of the Mariana Trench, the deepest known part of the ocean.
Next to the letters at the bottom, take a closer look.
