A very old enzyme. Still fixing inorganic carbon in the biosphere through yet another mass extinction. Still grabbing the wrong molecule on occasion. Anyway, here are some more phosphoglycerates.

Kill your lawn, grow a garden. As you do this, look within and do the same.

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Cake day: December 23rd, 2023
  • RuBisCO@slrpnk.nettoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is a real trip on acid like? Is there any comparisons in movies? I took 3 tabs once and it just turned the world literally black white and gray. Did I miss something like the euphoria or whatever
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    23 days ago

    Taking Woodstock (2009)
    The seemingly bland or tacky artwork begins to shift, only subtly at first.
    A certain level of apprehension sets in, and a soothing voice is called for to calm down.
    More visual tricks; edges and straight lines begin to wiggle, physical sensation seems extra somehow, certain textures or patterns ‘pop out’ like a pop-up book, and it’s as if someone turned the saturation and brightness up everywhere.
    Cultural rules begin to dissolve, “just don’t be an asshole” is the permeating vibe.
    By the time he’s out the van, he’s in new clothes, and still hallucinating. The kids burning their IDs (selective service cards? draft notices?) aren’t given a second glance.
    And then the hills and the crowd start to undulate like giant waves, and a nebula grows out of the stage. (Seeing wholesale fabricated hallucinations like this is rare. Typically it’s an existing visual that is severely distorted to the point that describing it results in scenes like this one.)

    Overall, not a bad representation. Kinda lacking in fractals, but not bad.
    It’s hard to convey what happens psychologically, and the way time distorts. As David Cross once said, “Two things go right out the window when one is tripping: time and money.” Both lose their meaning.

    I agree with other comments, you had something other than LSD, not sure what.

    Also, The Rum Diary (2011) has a decent tripping scene, toward the end IIRC.

  • RuBisCO@slrpnk.nettoSpace@mander.xyz•End of the blue glow: BepiColombo turns off solar electric propulsion for Mercury arrival
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    1 month ago

    9 flybys?! And no “warp to encounter”.

    The stacked spacecraft left Earth with a hyperbolic excess velocity of 3.475 km/s (2.159 mi/s). Initially, the craft was placed in a heliocentric orbit similar to that of Earth. After both the spacecraft and Earth completed one and a half orbits, it returned to Earth to perform a gravity-assist maneuver and was deflected towards Venus.

    Following its Earth flyby in April 2020, BepiColombo was briefly mistaken for a near-Earth asteroid, receiving the provisional designation 2020 GL2.

    Two consecutive Venus flybys reduced the perihelion near to the Sun–Mercury distance with almost no need for thrust. A sequence of six Mercury flybys lowered the relative velocity to 1.76 km/s (1.09 mi/s). After the fourth Mercury flyby in 2024, the spacecraft is in an orbit similar to that of Mercury and remains in the general vicinity of the planet.

    Yeah, Earth was a little distracted in April of 2020.

    And then came the thruster issues:

    On 15 May 2024, ESA reported an issue preventing the spacecraft’s thrusters from operating at full power during a scheduled manoeuvre on 26 April 2024.[54] On 2 September 2024, ESA reported that to compensate for the reduced available thrust, a revised trajectory had been developed that would add 11 months to the cruise, delaying the expected arrival date from 5 December 2025 to November 2026.

    What a ride! Very KSP.
    The way Ap is drawn in at Mercury reminds me of airbraking at Kerbin.

    So fucking cool. Hats off to the team.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BepiColombo