P0keball, red on one side, white on the other.
The confirmed planet will be gravitationally locked, with one side in permanent red starlight. The dark, cold side will possibly be covered with frozen volatiles like nitrogen frost.
But unlikely to harbor life, so that flower is more complex than the whole dead orb. http://www.space.com/33834-discovery-of-planet-proxima-b.html
brettsays
@birgerjohansson
Eyeball Planet! I doubt it’s habitable given Proxima’s volatile nature, but maybe if it has a thick atmosphere and extensive oceans . . .
Wow, that is stunningly beautiful! If that was on my property, I’d be cheered up for days.
dicksays
PZ is a biology prof. Wtf is he getting up to in his lab? What kind of mad scientist would create such chimerical monstrosities? And play God? Is this part of his evil plan for World domination?
At our last place, we had a large Azalea with pink flowers, which would, every year, grow exactly one white flower, flecked with pink, in the same spot. A true individual.
blfsays
[A] large Azalea with pink flowers, which would, every year, grow exactly one white flower, flecked with pink, in the same spot.
That was the communications antenna unfurling to send the annual report — always encoded, for some reason, as Get me out of here! — and await new instructions.
birgerjohanssonsays
blf,
I Think South Park had an episode about that.
But the communications antenna grew out of a more rude place.
I think I like this version more.
quotetheunquotesays
I know next-to-nothing about how one plays “Pokémon Go.” I do, however, play a lot of (as in, way too much) PvZ2 – so, I can say with some authority that if this plant, extraordinary though it may be, doesn’t shoot seeds, and isn’t poisonous, it won’t last five seconds in the latter game!
citizenjoesays
Is that flower broken? (As far as I know, only tulips and lilies get the virus)
madtom1999says
Polyploidy mosaicism? 2/3 one 1/3 the other?
Chelydrasays
citizenjoe, color breaking can also be caused by a transposon inserted into a gene sequence that breaks the pathway to form a particular pigment. The transposon “jumps” out partway through development of the flower, reactivating the pigment, and causing streaks of color. This sort of thing is genetic and heritable so you can breed for it. It looks like the normal condition for the flower above is white with pink streaks – the later in development the transposon jumps, the finer the streaking will be. It must have erroneously jumped in one cell when this flower was only two cells old, so one whole side descended from that cell has normal pigmentation.
mostlymarveloussays
citizenjoe
Is that flower broken? (As far as I know, only tulips and lilies get the virus)
It’s just a consequence of camellias and azaleas being so easy to hybridise. One of the camellias at our old house was fantastically beautiful and it regularly produced an equally beautiful sport with entirely different colour and form.
A lot of named camellia/azalea cultivars are the result of multiplying from spontaneous sports like this.
P0keball, red on one side, white on the other.
The confirmed planet will be gravitationally locked, with one side in permanent red starlight. The dark, cold side will possibly be covered with frozen volatiles like nitrogen frost.
But unlikely to harbor life, so that flower is more complex than the whole dead orb.
http://www.space.com/33834-discovery-of-planet-proxima-b.html
@birgerjohansson
Eyeball Planet! I doubt it’s habitable given Proxima’s volatile nature, but maybe if it has a thick atmosphere and extensive oceans . . .
Wow, that is stunningly beautiful! If that was on my property, I’d be cheered up for days.
PZ is a biology prof. Wtf is he getting up to in his lab? What kind of mad scientist would create such chimerical monstrosities? And play God? Is this part of his evil plan for World domination?
(I gotta agree with Caine, though.)
At our last place, we had a large Azalea with pink flowers, which would, every year, grow exactly one white flower, flecked with pink, in the same spot. A true individual.
That was the communications antenna unfurling to send the annual report — always encoded, for some reason, as Get me out of here! — and await new instructions.
blf,
I Think South Park had an episode about that.
But the communications antenna grew out of a more rude place.
I think I like this version more.
I know next-to-nothing about how one plays “Pokémon Go.” I do, however, play a lot of (as in, way too much) PvZ2 – so, I can say with some authority that if this plant, extraordinary though it may be, doesn’t shoot seeds, and isn’t poisonous, it won’t last five seconds in the latter game!
Is that flower broken? (As far as I know, only tulips and lilies get the virus)
Polyploidy mosaicism? 2/3 one 1/3 the other?
citizenjoe, color breaking can also be caused by a transposon inserted into a gene sequence that breaks the pathway to form a particular pigment. The transposon “jumps” out partway through development of the flower, reactivating the pigment, and causing streaks of color. This sort of thing is genetic and heritable so you can breed for it. It looks like the normal condition for the flower above is white with pink streaks – the later in development the transposon jumps, the finer the streaking will be. It must have erroneously jumped in one cell when this flower was only two cells old, so one whole side descended from that cell has normal pigmentation.
citizenjoe