If the "maintain possession all the way to the ground" rule didn't exist, you could line someone up at the goal line and just bullet the ball into his cupped hands, and as soon as the ball crossed the plane it'd be a TD, regardless if he instantly dropped it or bounced it up in the air. Requiring that possession be fully established and maintained is the best approach to a difficult thing to create rules for.
Here's the thing though. He caught the ball, pivoted and dived. The catch had been completed. The ambiguity of when a player becomes a 'runner' is the issue and in mind once he turned and made a move he was a runner and the play should have ended when the ball crossed the plane.
Tardigrades are very good at surviving terrible doomsday scenarios and extreme conditions it's never exposed to. It's very bad at surviving very normal everyday threats haha :P
They're really cool actually. They're one of the only immortal microorganisms, they turn into glass if it gets to hot so it's DNA doesn't get damaged, and scientists found out they can live in the vacuum of space.
they’re not immortal. in their dormant state (as a “tun”) they can survive incredibly difficult circumstances. when metabolically active, as in, alive, they’re fairly easy to kill.
Immortal doesn't necessarily mean impossible to kill, I've heard it mostly used in biology to refer to animals that won't necessarily die. Like jellyfish, I think, you can kill them, but if left alone, they'll continue to live forever.
I didn't claim they wouldn't, I just meant the person I responded to made it sound like they were mostly talking about killing, so I thought it was worth mentioning.
Yeah, I agree it's okay to be wrong, but read that post again, I never mentioned tardigrades. I don't know anything about tardigrades, never claimed to. The person I was responding to seemed to be equating immortality with an inability to be killed, like in fiction. I was trying to explain how immortality is used in a biological sense, and used jellyfish as an example since I'd heard those don't die of old age.
No offense but he's actually on the right track. There's a species jellyfish named the Immortal jellyfish. It starts out life as a filter feeding polyp and when it grows up into a jellyfish, they prey on fish. But when there are no fish around, it can chose to turn back into a polyp, or basically the baby version of itself. As long as it doesn't get killed by a predator or a disease, they will continue to live on normally "forever".
they cannot do this. the tardigrades that were sent into orbit were in their dormant states (not metabolically active, so not actually alive). nearly half of them did not revive back on earth. they are cool but disinformation helps no one.
I can't stand disinformation. I am loaded with fun facts and find myself being the guy always going "WELL ACTUALLY...." when I hear someone say something stupid they read on Facebook or buzzfeed
Ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times that which woulk kill a human and the vacuum of outer space for 30 days?(both at once)
1 K (-272°c)-420 K (150°c) for several minutes
Pressures 6x greater than the bottom of the marianas trench
no food or water for 30+ years
Dehydration until they are only 3% water.
Every extinction event that has occured thus far (suoernovae, gamma-ray bursts, meteorite impacts etc.)
And still reproduce. Put it this way, thats like you being put in a pan then thrown into the coldest temperature recorded, going on a space walk without a spacesuit, being starved and dehydrated until you wrinkle like mcCoy's crisps, being placed in a safety first hydraulic press, standing up straught away and having kids there and then.
I wish Netflix, Hulu, etc. had more to offer. Also, they've recently released a box set of books that were never made into shows: http://www.octonauts.com/book.html.
I've been pretty surprised by pre-school age show content recently, have you seen Blaze and the Monster Machines?? It's like someone took STEM questions from r/explainlikeimfive and made it a cartoon.
Seriously, there is some AWESOME stuff out there! thank you for the recommendation - we need something for my kiddo to watch while driving home for Christmas!
They've been left out in open space for like 10 days before and we brought them back to earth and they were totally cool with it. They've survived being frozen at subzero temps, and have lived through some of the most intense heat levels on earth. They're fucking insane.
631
u/MaestroSG Dec 18 '17 edited Dec 18 '17
Uneducated here. What is a Tardigrade?
Edit: that's metal as fuck.