After foraging these tiny bees are often observed extending & retracting their tongues, creating bubbles. This ‘bubble blowing’ process is thought to help evaporate nectar to make the sugars more concentrated.
Detail of a wall painting depicting Osiris, Lord of the Underworld.
Tomb of Horemheb (KV57). New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of
Horemheb, ca. 1319-1292 BC. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.
Kyle Baker 1987: Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Deluxe Edition #15 — Alien Races
Fun Fact: Kyle Baker drew more pages of any single Handbook than any other artist.
Baker was on hand to draw all the aliens (in their little black Speedos). The Deluxe Edition saved all the alien races to be grouped together at the end of the series and formed the bulk of issue #15.
“It may be the case that life is rare in the Universe, in which case it will require us to look at a lot of candidate planets — possibly with very high precision — in order to reveal a successful detection. But if we search exclusively for planets that have similar properties to Earth, and we restrict ourselves to looking at parent stars and solar systems that are similar to our own, we are doomed to get a biased representation of what’s out there.
You might think, in the search for extraterrestrial life, that more is more, and that the best way to find life beyond Earth is to look at greater numbers of candidate planets that might be the Earth 2.0 we’ve been dreaming of for so long. But non-Earth-like planets could be home to life that we’ve never considered, and we won’t know unless we look. More is more, but “different” is also more. We must be careful, as scientists, not to bias our findings before we’ve even truly started looking.”
If we want to find life elsewhere in the Universe, it only makes sense to look at our own world, where we know it was successful, and to try and find other worlds similar to our own. But that absolutely cannot be the only thing we do, or the only inhabited worlds we’ll even have a chance at finding are the ones similar to our own.
We have many good reasons to favor or disfavor the probability of finding life on a variety of planets and moons out there in our galaxy, but the real truth of the matter is we don’t know how common or rare life is. We don’t know how common or rare a huge variety of processes are, or even whether life is more likely to arise under conditions very different from those we find on our own planet.
A temple palace belonging to pharaoh Ramesses II (r. ca. 1279-1213 BC) has been discovered at the Egyptian site of Abydos, north of Luxor.
New York University archaeologists excavating south of the temple uncovered a stone walkway leading to a limestone and mudbrick palace building similar in layout to the nearby palace of Ramesses’ father, Seti I (r. ca. 1290-1279 BC). Read more.
