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@atwitchyship
I have a headache.... dr bashir wouldnt let me go on like this.... Mccoy would...
But thats bc mccoy would trust me to ask for help when i need it and the only reason bashir knows i have one is cuz hes analysing my pupil circumference from across the room. Then he would roofie my drink with ibuprofen.
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Was hosting my dad for a few days, and pushed myself too hard.
Must! Be! Good! Host! Must! Show! All! The things!
(must! burn! self! out!)
So I ended up just taking a nap today instead of going with him to the museum, and he went home all by himself. Which isn't... great host behavior, but he's my dad. He'll forgive me for needing sleep.
Herself was so wired. I can't tell if she loved it or hated it, but she was zooming around like her tail was on fire.
@atwitchyship Painfully accurate! 😭
deeply accurate, though I'd say everyone kinda hates her because that whole "She's the key" thing was contrived and uninteresting. Nothing to do with her, individually, everything to do with her plot arc.
When everything feels hopless we cannot forget that progress is not just possible but being made, healing is possible and happening.
i’m so glad goncharov happened pre ai slop era
#weird way to describe 1973 but i guess it’s accurate
the transition im crying
I am walking onto the field. Haters are forcefully removing me from the premise
A local bar is doing like a puppy girl/cat girl rave type thing and they have plastered all over it “not a kink event, this is not pet play” and I’m like are u fucking kidding me…
this event is pet serious
Imagine being the only person alive who can say this
buzz aldrin and neil armstrong liked to do a thing where they’d tell unfunny jokes at parties about being on the moon and when people were confused they’d go “guess you had to have been there”
that's hilarious and I love it. if you're the only people who did something THAT cool, you should absolutely be cheezy about it.
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what if we got like. a reeeeaaaaaally long stick and shoved in a black hole. and the pulled it back out. to see what happens
ken la mi kama jo a. e palisa suuuuuuuuuuuuli li tawa e ona tawa insa lupa pimeja pi weka mun. li weka e ona tan insa. li lukin e ante ona
Ok, I am not an astrophysicist, I am a scifi/fantasy author. That means my expertise is in coming up with explanations for entirely theoretical things based on a fistful of scanty data. So if a real astrophysicist would like to review my guess and tell me if it's good, cool. 👍
The problem is that the black hole has mega gravity, so my first concern is that it's gonna grab onto the Really Long Stick (RLS) and start schlorping that thang into its wretched gullet, and then whatever the RLS is attached to (e.g. hands, maybe with a lil wrist lanyard so you don't drop it; spaceship; a planet) will also be schlorped toward the black hole even if it had previously been a safe distance away. It's like when you have your dog on a leash and he starts dragging you towards a mud puddle. If you're standing still, it's way easier for him to yank you off balance and into the mud puddle.
However, if you're jogging past, then your momentum helps overcome his yanking and you go away mud-free. So we can't be hovering in space for this and slowly extending the RLS towards the black hole. My suggestion is that we attach the RLS to the bottom of the spaceship, pointing downwards, so that we look like a lollipop, and then we start a good distance away and go to faster-than-light speeds (light cannot escape a black hole, but *faster* than light maybe can) (suddenly i'm worried about whether WE turn into a black hole every time we're going FTL but that's a problem for another time). Point is, we angle our trajectory so the end of the stick dips into the black hole as we nyoom past.
I posit that one of three things will happen: 1. We will be slingshotted around the black hole because the gravity well still has enough force to curve our trajectory before we get out of it. As for the RLS, it: a) realistically probably breaks, or b) gets stretched like taffy so now we have an Even Really Longer Stick
2. Have you ever seen one of those coin whirl machines? This thing? This is what would normally happen if something heading past the black hole got too close to the gravity well to escape -- it spirals faster and faster the closer you get to the center, because the pull of gravity gets stronger. If matter traveling FTL cannot escape a black hole's gravity well, this will still happen to us, but it will happen at light speed as soon as our stick touches the event horizon. Because that's how fast we are already going. :))))))))
3. we successfully poke the stick into the black hole as we nyoom past, we don't get trapped, and it doesn't stretch or break. When we come out of FTL a safe distance away to check on the stick, we find that the end is covered in raspberry jam. Douglas Adams (speaking through a ouija board we brought with us for exactly this purpose) says, "Yeah, that seems right."
Hello! Astrophysicist here!
Really Long Stick into a black hole is an extremely fun game and let me tell you astrophysicists love to play mental games. Yes black holes do have heck of large gravity, but they don’t do much schlorping.
I’m going to assume several things here, the first of which is that by “into” the black hole we mean “past the event horizon” which is the point at which light cannot escape.
While in principle if you get close enough to poke at a black hole you should also be falling into it, I’m also assuming that we are far enough away and our stick is improbably long enough that I personally am not primarily under the influence of the black holes gravitational pull.
So in this situation your first and most immediate problem is that the force of gravity on your Black Hole Facing end of the RLS is going to be WAY stronger than the end that you’re holding onto, and so the stick will experience a stretching. Under most definitions of stick, stretch is not a thing they do very well, and so your stick will begin to fray, first by fracturing and then at an atomic level, into smaller and smaller pieces. If you’re poking a small (star sized) black hole this should happen well before you get to the event horizon. So small black holes will simply “nope” the stick before it can touch it.
Large black holes will nope the stick after they get into the black hole and so pulling this stick back out (good luck) will give you a shredded, slightly less Really Long stick.
If you want to nyoom your way around the black hole while you do this, you sure can, but you have a momentum problem with the twisting motion of the stick now and the easiest thing is to just smash the stick into the side of the black hole (this will also fracture the stick and then shred the fractured bits into finest powder).
Probably the most fun you can have with a black hole is, instead of Poke with Stick, throw some gas at it. Not only is gas something that can’t get shredded (it already has no structural integrity), you can watch it do the doomed coin spiral from a distance. AND. As the gas spirals in, it will heat up to a ridiculous temperature and start to glow with visible light. (and x rays. Free scan of every single bone you have. Medical or astrophysical doctors do not recommend standing nearby.)
If you’re lucky, you still get raspberry jam (plasma edition) because you can find the chemical compound responsible for the flavor of raspberries out in space, and if it was in your gas cloud, you now have superheated raspberry flavor that irradiates your bones.
And this is why every SF/F writer should collect PhDs (that is, the people who have them, not necessarily the degrees themselves) 😍
Me: realistically.... based on what i know or can logically piece together..... you will stretch or break your Really Long Stick 🤔 Local Passing Astrophysicist: yes but it will be more fucking hardcore and badass than you are envisioning
apparently i’m the only one teaching the elective advanced esl course next year which means that i can do basically whatever i want. two years ago i forced them to watch measure of a man and read the left hand of darkness, which is just the tip of the iceburg of what i’m gonna put them through this year. MY CIRCUS. MY MONKEYS. FUN WILL NOW COMMENCE!!!!!!!!
a tip for all the teachers out there: if you buy the students enough snacks they’ll let you get away with almost anything. for example star trek themed work sheets and extremely long non sequiturs on the bronze age collapse
VERY generous. I used stand up front and launch into a profanity-laden monologue until they were beaten down.
OH you lucky fiend! I love being responsible only to myself and the students.
mattress history deep dive
So I got rid of my new bed's original mattress, and out of curiosity I wanted to know how old it was. So I looked up the model number and the company. (Daley Foam)
Nothing.
So I looked up just the company.
Nothing.
Upon a deep-dive I found a legal document from ~1983 about their trouble paying rent, but in Somerville, MA. The tag said Malden, which is the next town over. Other documents showed it operating out of another Somerville address, but I couldn't find anything for Malden, implying that it was too early to be documented online.
So. That mattress is at least 40 years old.
Good thing I got a replacement!
I'm waiting at home for my mattress to be delivered. Stuff gets stolen off my front steps at roughly the speed of light, so I Cannot Leave. Which like. It's not like I had tons to do today?
My dad is coming to visit this week, so most of my stuff to do is "make it look like I don't actually live here" chores. Still. I am very much stuck here until the mattress-in-a-box arrives.
At least I can open the windows today!
Need that outfit
I think I could rock Bashir's silly Risa outfit. The blue-on-purple tanktop? The horrible paisley pants? Heck yeah, I could look silly with the best of them.
Not that I don't ADORE Season 1 Kira's amazing red shoulder pads outfit, I do. That red-on-red jumpsuit speaks to my soul. Something about it is SO Trek, too. The jumpsuit, the suede-look shoulders, the weird seams that make it look just a LITTLE alien, I love it.
But that silly Risa outfit looks so comfortable. Just throw on my Starfleet Medical hoodie if I get chilly, I think I'd go to a con JUST to show it off.
self-harm via novels
So I read Flowers for Algernon in like, middle school, as a short story. I found it devastating. It was one of those stories you read in school that's Really Good, and you're like whoa, sometimes grown ups DO know some good stories.
Well I have had a copy of the novel on my shelf for a while and I tore through the first third, and it's ALREADY kind of devastating, and in middle school I remember this as being the happy part.
hooboy, here we go!
ugh Unfixed Male Cat is still unfixed, and while he is a very friendly, adorable boy with a very funny meow (mrrrOh!) he is also SO stinky.
I really, really hope the gross ammonia smell didn't stick to me. I know it won't stick to one (1) shoulder, because while cleaning and juggling materials, I sprayed myself with anti-stink spray. So my hair and skin might stink of unfixed male cat, but ONE SHOULDER will smell pleasantly of mint.
