Molecular biosensing with First Dog On The Moon
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Organometallica rulz!
Dear Mr Onthemoon, we received your application for a gold Walkley in cartooning excellence. Thank you.
We are pleased to announce that it has been duly forwarded to the K.Rudd Institute of Scientific Nomenclature for further review.
We’ll get back to you……When the Oligomers are finished faking it.
You definitely need to see this.
http://improbable.com/projects/hair/
Proving once again truth is stranger than fiction.
Organometallica’s old stuff was way better. Check out Heck Reaction. Insane.
I want them to invent the magnetised Venise-o-matic recombinant cybernet re-attractor so that we can pull the levers, push the buttons and have it drag Venise back to us.
anyone got a translator?
I think Mr Carr has been misled…I believe very few of those experiments are likely to involve even a chance of an explosion. (Unless maybe someone spills some hydrogels on the mass spectrometer, but even then it’d probably just go ‘fzzt’ and stop working). No bugs or dinosaurs either.
You do realise you now owe Sophie Mirabella equal time?
@Holden Back: I have to say, I’ll be *most* impressed if Sophie Mirabella can draw as well as she breeds demons.
I’m strabismusfoliocombinatorialised, Doggy. I can’t take my eye off your polychromaticographised virtual surfaceology.
My vote goes to frame the last but one. I think Organometallica lay down the thinnest plausible angstromial films.
Holden, what are you doing ? Shooting for a sub-authorship by supplying the references ? Scientists with luxuriant hair ! YIKES !!
Buzz, the mad scientist in FD’s previous blog is allegedly working on a multi-tractorialized Venisomone attractant.
Should see her rushing through the door breathless any minute…… (fingers crossed)
@ Paddy. Not to pre-empt FDOTM but I’m thinking capybara. Or Staffie.
Gavin Costello! I love that flicked up tail! (Sigh! I try so hard)
Mr Onthemoon imagine all the words you like as if! and pose as scientist and a literary kind of dog an’ an no doubt guitar slingin’ hairy now there’s a word for Can We Help You? Hairy. Sent in by a Voyeur.
Mark Pesce could easily have been given a part of this strip. He would likely guess what to do. This appears as nothing but a random assortment of bytes. Out of derrh! a Science Journal delivered free a la HEADLINES HEADLINES.
Well, we are paying for it. Straighten up, First Dog. Don’t forget the home grown. The Full Story.
Is Venise back yet? Am I still in Australia
@ Mike Jones. Call it convergence of abiding interests in science and hair. Remnants of a youth mis-spent with joints and geologists.
My Dog, and I thought Chaos Theory was unintelligable. Brilliant as always.
This is a must have t-shirt for the champion of nanotechnology in the pineapple state - Peter Beattie and all those graduates of his Smart State Academies in suburban Brisbane. Gosh years ago they were bioteching, magnetising, biosensing and spectroscoping long before he took off for the US to sell South Carolina the idea! True!
BUZZ and SANDSHOE. MIKE JONES and EMC; EVERYBODY, in fact.
A discussion or two ago I was in my CATamaran heading towards death.
What I took to be one of the CATaracts of the mighty Iguaçu turned out to be a tiny off-shoot of this most mighty of rivers.
Now I am becalmed in a festering swamp. Shivering and in a state of semi-CATatonic(ism). Looking through my teflon-coated, titanium metal parted, machined to less than one trillionth of a millimetre, bubble-coated, water-proofed binoculars, I am appalled.
Hanging on the lower leaves of the surrounding trees are undulating black leeches waiting for me. On the leaves above them there are a couple of hundred thousand
armies of the smaller pink leeches. These have been known to jump off the leaves to attack man and beast at waist level and above.
Below this flaccid, Stygian water, rises the occasional bubble. IndiCATing the presence of a huge Anaconda. Electric eels infest these water as do Pirañas.
Late today I received, via satellite, via the out-station on planet Zog-past Jupiter, a communiCATion from First Dog (it arrived via my invisible !Pad) !
Amongst the multi-scientific, quantum theories which appear to abound in these magical incantations, there must be a clue to resolve my dilemma.
HTF do I get out of here?
Love to all…Oh God the water has started rising! The leeches are getting closer! Help!
Venise - you’re back!
) I was about to start Googling for an appropriate incantation for your return! ;-O
Obviously, I haven’t got my emoticon commands down pat yet >:D<
At last. We have a postcard. In the meantime, I have been doing myself up more in the hope of attracting a man who can do anything and get Venise back. I can let myself go again.
I bet anything she didn’t think to take that nighty she said she likes to pop on when she’s travelling.
Mind blowing, Pups! You won’t get any of that stuff at the American Institute of Research!
What I said the other day about the CSIRO and good ol’ Aussie R&D still applies. Dollar-for-dollar, our lab-coated peeps rule! If we had the same funding as the Yanks, your shampoo would be making your hair 3.4896734 x 10^42% stronger!
Venise…..We’ll definitely want to come to the slide-night when you get back.
Some of those undulating black leeches might be just the thing, if a warm ferret doesn’t work on Tone the barbarian.
P.S. If there are any spare ones, a huge Anoconda electric eel would go down a treat in my aquarium. Just sayin.
It worked ! The multitractorialised Venisomone attractant worked ! Yay for scientificationolgistics !
Now where was the number for Zut’s DIY patent registronomy ?
Now you’ve got me wanting a Meccano dinosaur.
BUZZ: I thought FD’s ‘toon might have possessed the answer for the incantations?
SANDSHOE: :shuss: Don’t you dare tell anyone this. I tried to use the nighty to rig up a sail. I failed, and when it fell into the water a huge Piraña ripped it to shreds. So I was sitting there starkers.
PADDY: I had to junk my proper camera. You should have seen my reaction when an electric eel fell into my tiny catamaran. There had been a tiny monkey sitting on the prow of the boat. The eel sorta dropped onto the hull in a hoop shape. The monkey shot up onto my head and clung there. Poor thing was terrified.
MIKE JONES: As I was about to leap into the water the eel rolled off in a circular hoop motion. At that instant I was transmogrified into a naked naïad-except for my bikini bottoms-still wearing the hiking boots I’d bought in Punta Arena-Tierra del Fuego-with the tiny monkey forming a hat for my head. Afterwards he was licking me for the salt in my sweat. :fear: :terror:
EMC: You didn’t care! :sob:
Oh woe is me! 
I found a parchment in the local Goodwill store titled Monkey Head Mushroom sub-titled Hericium Erinaceus with footnotes in Egyptian and scribbled commentary in Chinese, V. Do you think it’s worth anything to you? (This could be my Great Big Internet Moment.)
Venise: I care.
I just know that Patagonia is nice this time of year and you can always logon to primerperroenlaluna.com.ar.
You sure know how to put on the dog, EMC.
EMC: Very very clever! ¿Could be known alternatively as ‘El primero perro de la luna’? o ¡El perro primativo de la luna! Ahem?! Got it….¡El perro príncipe de la luna!
éso es y ¡no hay mejor!
SANDSHOE: I’m sorry to shatter your illusions, truly.
The Monkey Head Mushroom does indeed come from China. Also, apologists for the cruelty the Chinese have towards animals try to pretend this mushroom is what is meant when people accuse them of eating the brains of live monkeys. Which they do.
You’ve changed your avatar again!
Oh holy crap, this is going to be all over CSIRO now, I bet. Brilliant work, Mr OnTheMoon. And my boyfriend is working with hydrogels, he’s going to love this.
BTW, you do know that bioprinters are just modified bubble-jets, don’t you?
@EYEBOWMAN: Darling, your boyfriend’s never going to dry up about this.
@VENISE: I did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Change my avatar again!!!!!!!! I’ve been swinging by gravitars dot com as if free of all cares-of course THAT meaning!-as careless as the little monkey once that made a hat on your head. Sweet love.
SANDSHOE: This be the one I wuz thinkin’ about. Well, almost..I thought you had on a pair of glasses which were perched low on your nose. Also the green hair appears to have been toned down a bit?
That Rockband pic should be a t-shirt.
SANDSHOE: Great avatar!