Friday Frustule

Let it RIP: Is that you Skorp? It’s me, StarBear…

H/T to Cells Retrieved From Stratosphere Are Alien Life Scientists Claim (Discover Blogs)

Related articles

• Astrobiologists Claim to Have Found Extraterrestrial Life Form in Earth’s Stratosphere (sci-news.com)
• Proof of alien life? You need a lot more evidence than that (talesfromthelou.wordpress.com)
• Proof of alien life? You need a lot more evidence than this (arstechnica.com)
• New Alien Life Claim Far from Convincing, Scientists Say (space.com)
• The power of “only” (skeptophilia.blogspot.com)
• FEATURE: Proof of alien life? You need a lot more evidence than that (sciencealert.com.au)
• ‘Seeds Of Life’ Collected During Perseid Meteor Shower: Scientists Say Algae “Can Only Have Come From Space” (medicaldaily.com)
• Alien Life : Scientists Claim To Have Found Evidence (ufo-blogger.com)
• Scientists claim to have found evidence of ALIEN LIFE (topinfopost.com)

Puzzle Sombrero: RompeCabezas Jueves

RompeCabezas StarBear: Dancing with Fire?

As a StarDweller, dancing with fire is a requirement… even if you’re footloose and fancy-free. Always say hi to Eukaryotic SombreBro’s 🙂

See the beautiful Sombrero (Beautifully distorted…click for a different view point)

Sombrero Galaxy: A United Nations treaty declares Outer Space the common heritage of humanity. Garrett Hardin doubted the capacity of conscience to protect such commons areas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Wishbone Wednesday

Of Clavicles and Furculas

StarBears may not have furculas, and cannot fly, but they do have pharyngeal bulbs…in fact the entire animal resembles a developing foetus. 

from Pharyngeal Arch wiki

Do you wish to bone up on your tardigrade facts?

H/T’s to:

• Sophia Wallace on tumblr (Official Site)
• Wishbone Chair by Hans J. Wegner for Carl Hansen & Søn (design-milk.com)
• This Thanksgiving, Make a Wish upon a Dinosaur (Brian Switek, blogsmithsonianmag.com)
• And never grow a wishbone… (marantandmerlot.wordpress.com)
• Brain circuitry loss may be a very early sign of cognitive decline in healthy elderly people (medicalxpress.com)

Tongue of Cheek

Jigsawing in Space

StarBear’s been having some more puzzling dreams…

H/T to Jigsaw Puzzle (The Rolling Stones)

What were StarBear’s last words? (Answer: Victim, vict’ry gone)

(H/T to Vsauce)

Interesting Articles

Mystery extra-galactic radio bursts could solve cosmic puzzle (Nature.com)