another RandomWalk

[miriam_e]

Thanks to jaguarnoelle for noticing and reminding me. I forgot to announce this one a few days back. I've been kinda busy for a while so it slipped my mind. I'm hoping to finish another cartoon today.

The waterbear (also known as the tardigrade) is possibly the cutest of all microscopic creatures. Some grow up to one and a half millimeters long -- big enough to see with the naked eye. They were named "waterbears" because their movements resemble those of bears -- yes, really. It is quite uncanny. They are astonishingly able to survive the most extreme environments, such as boiling in alcohol, drying out, very high levels of radiation, and even the vacuum of space. Now their ability to survive may help us.

Comments

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Freaky looking animal.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

...but oh-so-cute. You ought to see it walk. :)
There are a number of you-tube videos of it.
Or find some moss, wet it with some water and wash off onto a glass plate, then watch through a low-power microscope or a high power magnifying glass, or a jeweller's loupe.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I'd rather not.
BTW, this has borked my friends list a little. I think it might be about 50 pixels too wide. Or it just might be me.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I'll put future cartoons behind an LJ-cut if you want...yeah?

I wish I could think of a way to put the picture inside its own scrolly sub-window so it doesn't widen the entire page. There must be some way...

[greylock.livejournal.com]

A cut might be best. It's only a minor annoyance though.
And I do like the cartoons.

There is a way of getting a scroll bar but I have only ever done it by accident.