sucked into the realm

[mykcrobia]

entering the orbit...there is life here, foreign and excitingly strange.

my mission is to investigate the world in which my beloved sister shamanatrix exists.

antennae are primed and sending out a signal.

Comments

[shamanatrix]

Antennae signal received. Beep. You have entered the world of LJ. Beware the vortex of time-wasting! (Hi Diki!) :-)

[bellaantimatter]

khhhkk reading you loud n clear, niner niner khhhk!!

[mykcrobia]

detecting lifesigns...

establishing language intercom:
diakuiu za pryvit!

looking forward to the discoveries

[dolston]

The Shamanatrix has re-broadcast and I am now receiving loud and clear.

[mykcrobia]

new life-sign on my radar...dolston...nice to make your acquaintance!

[shamanatrix]

I LOVE your picture!!! So perfect. Is that an EM image of your pet bacterium...oh crap what was it called...Thiobacillus ferooxidans...no...help me..ugh..can't believe I forgot...looks like?

[mykcrobia]

glad you like the pic...
you are close on the name but it is not my pet Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans but rather Dinococcus radiodurans which is a really cool (cells are actually red) extremophile that can withstand massive doses of radiation. It has 8 copies of its DNA that it manages to splice together into a working genome once the radiation has destroyed the existing one....super neat...isn't it (geeky finger pushing up dark rimmed glasses)
i could go on but will stop there!

[shamanatrix]

I was wondering where the "acidi" was supposed to go in the name. Yeah..the figure definitely doesn't look like a bacillus. I just thought maybe the picture was showing some funky agglutination (even geekier finger pushing up thick dark rimmed glasses). Yeah that D. radiodurans is creepy. WOuld you happen to know how it's classified if it's polyploid like that? Are some other Archaea polyploid? Imagine what's still out there that we haven't discovered? (Okay we should stop this geeky madness orelse you'll lose all your new friends!! )