technician: good news, doctor! we’ve successfully captured and/or created a deadly mutant space creature.
scientist: fantastic work, recruit.
technician: thank you, sir! what do you want us to do with it now?
scientist: put it in my hollow glass cylinder filled with blue-green fluid and connect one or more thin plastic pipes to its body.
technician: do you want us to occasionally blow some air bubbles upward through the liquid?
scientist: abso-fucking-lutely i do