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i went to the gym today and there was a guy going to TOWN on the punching bags so i asked him “rough night?” and he said “my wife’s on a business trip and i miss her” and if that isnt the most steve rogers thing in the world idk what is

MBTI Types: Love/Appreciation for...

INTP: How genuinely curious you are about the world–your unquenchable thirst to learn.

ENTP: How quick-witted and original you are, how you’re always challenging ideas and concepts.

INTJ: How intelligent yet objective you are, how you’re always trying to see things from multiple and new perspectives.

ENTJ: How strong-willed and passionate you are about your work and your future goals.

ESTJ: How confident you are with yourselves, and how reliant you are no matter what problem arises.

ISTJ: How dutiful, committed, and responsible you are no matter the obligation.

ESTP: How bold and spontaneous you are, how you’re always pushing boundaries and trying to live life to its fullest.

ISTP: How flexible yet relaxed you are, how you can just “go with the flow” and see where life takes you.

INFJ: How insightful and trustworthy you are, how amazing you are at listening.

INFP: How open-minded and optimistic you are, how you always see the good in everyone.

ENFP: How beautiful your mind is, how you’re a true dreamer and have the most amazing ideas.

ENFJ: How wise and charismatic you are, and your unsurpassable capacity to love.

ESFJ: How fun and generous you are, how you always want everyone to have the best time.

ESFP: How entertaining and lively you are, life is never boring around you.

ISFJ: How loyal and caring you are, how willing you are to help your friends.

ISFP: How warm and supportive you are, how sensitive you are to others’ emotions.

Always wear your mind like a crown, it’s the greatest weapon.

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What are the general stereotypes of the types?

ISFJ: Book nerd. Helpful. Shyest of the shy. Hipster blog.

ISFP: Aesthetics are Important. Wanderlust. Tears of joy.

ISTJ: Organization. Always serious. Puns and sarcasm.

ISTP: Can fix things. Probably a mechanic. Will fight you.

INFJ: Existential. Knows what you’re thinking. Probably sad.

INFP: Always crying. Takes everything personally. Artsy. Ideas.

INTJ: No emotions. *Trips*. Probably planning your murder. Music.

INTP: Procrastinates. Knows a lot about space. Hates decisions.

ESFJ: Mom. Bakes. Greek life is their life. Always looks nice.

ESFP: *Flirts*. Parties and dancing. Superficial. Small talk.

ESTJ: Ambitious. Probably your boss. Best at making plans.

ESTP: High school football player. Likes parties. Best at gym.

ENFJ: The Protagonist. Advice central. Never wrong. Helps everyone.

ENFP: Brain is on drugs. “Fairies are real fight me”. Bad at math.

ENTJ: Intimidating. Always wins fights. Non-stop. No free time.

ENTP: Pyromaniac. Class clown. Thinks they’re the best. Awkward.

Why Bennu? 10 Reasons

After traveling for two years and billions of kilometers from Earth, the OSIRIS-REx probe is only a few months away from its destination: the intriguing asteroid Bennu. When it arrives in December, OSIRIS-REx will embark on a nearly two-year investigation of this clump of rock, mapping its terrain and finding a safe and fruitful site from which to collect a sample.

The spacecraft will briefly touch Bennu’s surface around July 2020 to collect at least 60 grams (equal to about 30 sugar packets) of dirt and rocks. It might collect as much as 2,000 grams, which would be the largest sample by far gathered from a space object since the Apollo Moon landings. The spacecraft will then pack the sample into a capsule and travel back to Earth, dropping the capsule into Utah’s west desert in 2023, where scientists will be waiting to collect it.

This years-long quest for knowledge thrusts Bennu into the center of one of the most ambitious space missions ever attempted. But the humble rock is but one of about 780,000 known asteroids in our solar system. So why did scientists pick Bennu for this momentous investigation? Here are 10 reasons:

1. It’s close to Earth

Unlike most other asteroids that circle the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Bennu’s orbit is close in proximity to Earth’s, even crossing it. The asteroid makes its closest approach to Earth every 6 years. It also circles the Sun nearly in the same plane as Earth, which made it somewhat easier to achieve the high-energy task of launching the spacecraft out of Earth’s plane and into Bennu’s. Still, the launch required considerable power, so OSIRIS-REx used Earth’s gravity to boost itself into Bennu’s orbital plane when it passed our planet in September 2017.

2. It’s the right size

Asteroids spin on their axes just like Earth does. Small ones, with diameters of 200 meters or less, often spin very fast, up to a few revolutions per minute. This rapid spinning makes it difficult for a spacecraft to match an asteroid’s velocity in order to touch down and collect samples. Even worse, the quick spinning has flung loose rocks and soil, material known as “regolith” — the stuff OSIRIS-REx is looking to collect — off the surfaces of small asteroids. Bennu’s size, in contrast, makes it approachable and rich in regolith. It has a diameter of 492 meters, which is a bit larger than the height of the Empire State Building in New York City, and rotating once every 4.3 hours.

3. It’s really old

Bennu is a leftover fragment from the tumultuous formation of the solar system. Some of the mineral fragments inside Bennu could be older than the solar system. These microscopic grains of dust could be the same ones that spewed from dying stars and eventually coalesced to make the Sun and its planets nearly 4.6 billion years ago. But pieces of asteroids, called meteorites, have been falling to Earth’s surface since the planet formed. So why don’t scientists just study those old space rocks? Because astronomers can’t tell (with very few exceptions) what kind of objects these meteorites came from, which is important context. Furthermore, these stones, that survive the violent, fiery decent to our planet’s surface, get contaminated when they land in the dirt, sand, or snow. Some even get hammered by the elements, like rain and snow, for hundreds or thousands of years. Such events change the chemistry of meteorites, obscuring their ancient records.

4. It’s well preserved

Bennu, on the other hand, is a time capsule from the early solar system, having been preserved in the vacuum of space. Although scientists think it broke off a larger asteroid in the asteroid belt in a catastrophic collision between about 1 and 2 billion years ago, and hurtled through space until it got locked into an orbit near Earth’s, they don’t expect that these events significantly altered it.

5. It might contain clues to the origin of life

Analyzing a sample from Bennu will help planetary scientists better understand the role asteroids may have played in delivering life-forming compounds to Earth. We know from having studied Bennu through Earth- and space-based telescopes that it is a carbonaceous, or carbon-rich, asteroid. Carbon is the hinge upon which organic molecules hang. Bennu is likely rich in organic molecules, which are made of chains of carbon bonded with atoms of oxygen, hydrogen, and other elements in a chemical recipe that makes all known living things. Besides carbon, Bennu also might have another component important to life: water, which is trapped in the minerals that make up the asteroid.

6. It contains valuable materials

Besides teaching us about our cosmic past, exploring Bennu close-up will help humans plan for the future. Asteroids are rich in natural resources, such as iron and aluminum, and precious metals, such as platinum. For this reason, some companies, and even countries, are building technologies that will one day allow us to extract those materials. More importantly, asteroids like Bennu are key to future, deep-space travel. If humans can learn how to extract the abundant hydrogen and oxygen from the water locked up in an asteroid’s minerals, they could make rocket fuel. Thus, asteroids could one day serve as fuel stations for robotic or human missions to Mars and beyond. Learning how to maneuver around an object like Bennu, and about its chemical and physical properties, will help future prospectors.

7. It will help us better understand other asteroids

Astronomers have studied Bennu from Earth since it was discovered in 1999. As a result, they think they know a lot about the asteroid’s physical and chemical properties. Their knowledge is based not only on looking at the asteroid, but also studying meteorites found on Earth, and filling in gaps in observable knowledge with predictions derived from theoretical models. Thanks to the detailed information that will be gleaned from OSIRIS-REx, scientists now will be able to check whether their predictions about Bennu are correct. This work will help verify or refine telescopic observations and models that attempt to reveal the nature of other asteroids in our solar system.

8. It will help us better understand a quirky solar force …

Astronomers have calculated that Bennu’s orbit has drifted about 280 meters (0.18 miles) per year toward the Sun since it was discovered. This could be because of a phenomenon called the Yarkovsky effect, a process whereby sunlight warms one side of a small, dark asteroid and then radiates as heat off the asteroid as it rotates. The heat energy thrusts an asteroid either away from the Sun, if it has a prograde spin like Earth, which means it spins in the same direction as its orbit, or toward the Sun in the case of Bennu, which spins in the opposite direction of its orbit. OSIRIS-REx will measure the Yarkovsky effect from close-up to help scientists predict the movement of Bennu and other asteroids. Already, measurements of how this force impacted Bennu over time have revealed that it likely pushed it to our corner of the solar system from the asteroid belt.

9. … and to keep asteroids at bay

One reason scientists are eager to predict the directions asteroids are drifting is to know when they’re coming too-close-for-comfort to Earth. By taking the Yarkovsky effect into account, they’ve estimated that Bennu could pass closer to Earth than the Moon is in 2135, and possibly even closer between 2175 and 2195. Although Bennu is unlikely to hit Earth at that time, our descendants can use the data from OSIRIS-REx to determine how best to deflect any threatening asteroids that are found, perhaps even by using the Yarkovsky effect to their advantage.

10. It’s a gift that will keep on giving

Samples of Bennu will return to Earth on September 24, 2023. OSIRIS-REx scientists will study a quarter of the regolith. The rest will be made available to scientists around the globe, and also saved for those not yet born, using techniques not yet invented, to answer questions not yet asked.

Read the web version of this week’s “Solar System: 10 Things to Know” article HERE.

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Why did the integer drown?

It couldn’t float.

This is gorgeous

Winter ice floes down streams in Iceland

Feeling Like Myself Again

Mental illness wrecks you. You feel like a shell of yourself, constantly in a daze. It’s terrifying when you think about it. In an effort to find myself again (er, maybe to create myself for the first time), I’m compiling a list of things I love, things that make me feel like me, things I know are no good for my mental health, and things that make me feel fake. This is an ever-evolving list, so stay tuned. 

| Things I love |

1. Running—not fast, just simply putting one foot in front of the other. Occasional weightlifting.

2. Weddings. Check out my Pinterest board.

3. Planning, being organized, sticking to a schedule.

4. Traveling. Road trips, backpacking, hiking, camping. Taking flights, dressing the part, finding the perfect outfit to roam around a city in, gathering inspiration from people-watching, creating new goals based on lifestyles I see.

5. Hawaii. Literally everything about it. The relaxed vibes, the *mostly* constant sunshine, the waves, the vivid hues of the water. The food, the coffee, the adventure, the lifestyle. Oh, and it helps that there is a military base for every branch on Oahu ;).

6. Learning and problem solving. Reading nonfiction books about topics and people. Using the NT part of my personality (ENTJ). The feeling of accomplishment when I solve something challenging. 

7. Nutrition. The science, the creativity, the recipes. 

8. Eating clean. Little sugar, lots of fruit and nuts, whole grains.

9. Fandoms. Star Wars, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, etc.

10. Outer space. Complex theories. Technology. Fierce debates. 

11. Concerts. Symposiums. Expos.

12. Shopping. Finding steals. Buying myself and others little treats just because.

13. Exploring cities—the neighborhoods, the shops, the bakeries/restaurants.

14. Daydreaming. Writing down ideas for businesses, inventions, my personal life, etc. 

| Things that make me hollow |

1. Partying. I do enjoy hanging out with friends and playing competitive games, but drinking makes me sick. Being out till 2 am makes me sick. Pretending to be someone I’m not in order to fit in makes me sick. 

2. Going to the gym every single day of the week and feeling worthless and disgusting if I don’t. 

3. Hiding my more feminine side to blend in with the guys in my major/field of work.

4. Hiding my more daring, badass side to blend in with the girls in my sorority.

5. Not having a routine sleep schedule.

6. Excessive scrolling on Instagram. Comparing myself to other girls. Not embracing myself. 

7. Putting far too much face value on how I look, the stretch marks I have, the shade of my skin, my frizzy hair, my red blotches or blemishes on my face, the fact that my thighs touch, the fact that I’m naturally curvier than most girls.

8. Being excessively spontaneous and never having a plan. 

9. Drinking too much coffee. Like 3+ cups per day.

10. Hanging out with people I don’t enjoy just so I won’t be alone.

11. Being a “yes” girl. I cannot emphasize this enough. Say no. Take care of yourself. You don’t have to be in charge of everything or even part of everything. Do. Not. Spread. Yourself. Too. Thin.

12. Being lazy. Not kickstarting my day early.