First Thing You See After You Zoom In Is How You Die

the whimsical boy genius has been hanging out by the monolith outside town too much and now all his charming inventions are made out of jagged black iron and animal carcasses

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the biggest bullshit everrrrr is when people say "men and boys are punished for crying whereas women and girls are validated and comforted" it's such bullshit people will literally see a woman crying and call her an evil manipulative bitch

I CANNNN so basically all the energy in the universe wants to be as spread out as possible so whenever energy goes into something it has to come out but it doesn’t always have to come out in the same form which is why stuff can exist without immediately exploding

can anyone explain entropy in a way that makes sense to a somewhat insane 17 year old

There's this sort of anthropomorphizing that inherently happens in language that really gets me sometimes. I'm still not over the terminology of "gravity assist," the technique where we launch satellites into the orbit of other planets so that we can build momentum via the astounding and literally astronomical strength of their gravitational forces, to "slingshot" them into the direction we need with a speed that we could never, ever, ever create ourselves. I mean, some of these slingshots easily get probes hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Wikipedia has a handy diagram of the Voyager 1 satellite doing such a thing.

"Gravity assist." "Slingshot." Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We're getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a "slingshot," because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can't be sure about the exact physics).

Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. "Black hole?" Damn yeah it sure is. "Big bang?" It sure was. "Galactic cluster?" Buddy you're never gonna guess what this is. I think it's an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like... idk, botany.

But, like. "Gravity assist." I still can't get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.

We are assisted.

And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:

"... You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. ..."

Gravity assist.

The “actions over intentions” take bothers me especially when used to determine the level of respect a person deserves because it feels unfair to treat someone who did something that hurt people by accident, was told what they did wrong, apologized, and made a genuine effort to not make the same mistake in the future the same way you would treat someone who is going out of their way to cause harm and doesn’t plan on changing anytime soon.

Yeah, ignorant people are annoying, but ignorance is very different from straight up malice. Besides, it’s just not possible for someone to be educated on every possible issue in the world even if they’re trying their best, and people are complicated and make mistakes.

does anyone in Lumiose sleep

Sometimes i think about this video once in a while and go “holy shit. this exist.”

Can we just appreciate how no one fucked in Wolf359. Not even a gram of sexual tension. They loved eachother towards the end, but it was never even a question if any of them would hook up. I know a lot of you would have loved some fucking, but you can get that in almost all other shows. It's just nice that Wolf359 offers something different.

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