That's no moon

“Have you ever been afraid of the dark? How does it feel to turn on the night light?”✨ [Anna | 28 | she/her | queer | aries | autistic ] ♡ao3: spadesdame ♡

[astralmaenad]

Quintet after hours: aka totally correct texts omitted from the annals (2/?)

[eggsandspam]

"You don't even have a dog"

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Laika was a stray.

[tinymintywolf]

some long overdue phm fanart bc i wanted to make a new print for future cons! 🌎💫

[sharkfiinn]

prism is a little overwhelmed

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Rocky: we built our spaceship by unifying every mind on the planet to create a super hive mind, pooling out collective knowledge and problem solving skills to come up with a plan.

Grace: we gave the scariest woman I've ever met two coffees every morning, an unlimited budget, and enough legal immunity to cuss out any world leaders she wanted to and boy did she want to.

[clowndraws]

mimicry

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Okay but imagine being the team of Eridian scientists tasked with keeping Erid's Only Human alive for as long as possible while the whole planet's environment is literally trying to kill him. And then Rocky shows up and is like:

“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”

“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”

Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”

“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”

“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”

“WHY QUESTION???”

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

To celebrate Erid getting their sun back on track, Grace asks for some alcohol. There's a small amount left from the Hail Mary and Rocky offers to take it to the science Eridians to see if they can synthesise more.

“Grace want this liquid for celebration.”

“Of course.” They scan it. “You have wrong liquid. This contain compounds which are poisonous for humans.”

“Yes yes yes. Grace say humans like feeling of being slightly poisoned.”

“WHY QUESTION?????”

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Grace is like one of those extremely finicky tropical fish who instantly die if not kept in extremely specific conditions.

Only here the fish can talk and keeps asking you to make it vodka.

[namitheslime]

elli gets her own dome and happiness

[venuspenalty]

it's a curse

[red-garden]

Liu Qingge would use his ponytail to swat flies the same way horses do.

[unknown-lifeform]

Iron Lung + tumblr text posts

I liked this movie a lot

[unknown-lifeform]

Having a moment looking at Andy Weir's extended Eridian biology document because. Ok look it's been a hot second since I've done like any petrology at all but I'm

Ok look he says that the carapace is mostly made up of iron oxyde and specifically hematite. While also saying Eridian bodies have a very porous, honeycomb-like structure to allow the motion of muscles, but I assume that is the inner part of the Eridian? I don't think they have muscles in the carapace it all sits inside? Does hematite even do well in a honeycomb arrangement? But anyways hematite is either black/grey in metallic form or otherwise red/brown. This works out well enough with Rocky who is brown but the movie shows us multiple very blue-green Eridians. I don't think hematite does that and in fact I don't know if iron oxides do that at all but Andy Weir is pretty firm on Eridians being mostly iron. So what's up with the blue Eridians. Do we also have the copper oxyde subspecies Eridian

We're not even getting into whether or not hematite is the most efficient iron oxyde to make at 29 atmospheres of ammonia at 210°C with no oxygen because that's not an environment that is observable in nature and I cannot possibly guess from looking at some P-T diagrams. Mars is full of hematite (or maybe not idk?) so oxygen-rich atmospheres are clearly not a requirement for hematite but still I gotta wonder. Can a petrologist please help I haven't thought about oxygen fugacity in like five years

Also Andy said the planet Erid has an average density of 5710 kg/m3 which is a bit higher than Earth's 5513 kg/m3, which tracks given Erid is supposed to be a lot richer in metals compared to Earth and also have a gigantic iron core for that magnetic field of theirs. But um. Eridian blood is made of mercury and every Eridian has about 6.4 L of blood again according to Andy. Considering we must have a lot of Eridians around and also presumably other lifeforms that also have a mercury biochemistry given Eridian must have evolved from something, that's a lot of mercury to go around. So presumably Erid has a higher mercury content in its crust than Earth. We get a planet with a higher mercury content than Earth, seemingly higher in all metals actually, and possibly with an iron core that's proportionally bigger than ours. I almost wonder if Andy didn't underestimate density here because man we have so much metals

[manyblinkinglights]

yeah and then they don’t know about radiation. would they not be swimming in radioactive ores? <- genuinely asking bcs im not a fxkign, speculative geologist.

[unknown-lifeform]

So background radiation derives from both terrestrial sources and cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are what gets fully shielded by the Eridian atmosphere, while terrestrial radiation is there and kind of inevitable if you exist in the universe. According to wikipedia, cosmic rays are responsible for about 13% of the background radiation level on average, but places at higher altitudes get a higher amount of them. So that is a 13% less radiation Eridians get compared to humans, at least.

From what I can see online terrestrial radiation is mostly due to potassium, uranium, and thorium, with uranium also producing radon gas which one of the main radiation sources in the atmosphere. Thing is we don't know if those elements would be enriched, Andy only says there's more metals and I speculate more mercury but. Idk. If the planet is richer in metals in bulk then it would make sense for there to also be more uranium and thorium, but it's not a given I think? It'd depend on planet formation and I don't know enough about it to speculate

But it does make sense Eridians don't know about radiation even if there is background radiation around them. Early discoveries in radiation were made with experiments involving visible light and phosphorescence, which is our primary mode of interacting with the world but a relatively recent discovery for Eridians. Given they don't naturally perceive light and don't fully understand its properties (see: not knowing about the speed of light) it makes sense they would not have a full awareness of radiation, especially as a harmful thing (their carapace may also serve as a decent shield against environmental alpha radiation, so they might be less susceptible to certain radiation sources while not being able to handle the more penetrating stuff). Side note this does not consider what they may or may not eat if a rocky carapace is common in Eridian biology

[achillessulks]

In defence of Emily Wilson

[My modest collection of Homer translations; Wilson’s Odyssey is second from right.] Emily Wilson is the second woman to translate the Iliad

People have been very mean to Emily Wilson online lately. I’ve been on record as saying her translation of the Odyssey (or Iliad) wasn’t my favourite, but do I agree with the accusations of oversimplification or inaccuracy? (Spoiler alert: no.)

[antigone-deactivated]

[greekmythcomix]

🚨HOMER ALERT 🚨 a copy of a section from The Iliad has been identified as the text in a papyrus placed on the abdomen of a mummified person, excavated last year, as part of the embalming ritual. Pride of place, not stuffed inside a cavity like previously found texts, and the first piece of Literature found on a mummy and in a funerary context.

And guess which bit it is?

THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPS 😂😂😂😂

(Well, we all knew those pages had to be *someone’s* favourite bit 😉)

BRB, off to shoehorn this into a lesson…

Article: https://share.google/6ljv0Ny7jeNBbvW60

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy

Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

[unicorndeathrace]

Petrova Line

[wumbsie]

needy little rock

[essaimart]

☝️ one

[essaimart]

she needs a lot