Marbles

Any Pronouns, 20, Ace/Bi-Trans I love space, music and nature

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Re: the last post, the article mentions that some places use clams to test the toxicity of the water. It’s like that in Warsaw- we get our water from the river, and the main water pump has 8 clams that have triggers attached to their shells. If the water gets too toxic, they close, and the triggers shut off the city water supply automatically.  

The clams are just better at measuring the water quality than any man-made sensors.

Edit: check out this documentary trailer : https://vimeo.com/408820791

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God Bless Our Troops

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They hot glued a spring to a clam and gave it full control over the water supply

[sindri42]

No of course not, that would be ridiculous.

They hot glued springs to eight clams and gave them collective control over the water supply.

[strangetikigod]

No of course not, hot glue would kill the clams.

The used silicone adhesive to attach springs to eight clams and gave them collective control over the water supply.

[emily84]

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[pjackk]

i call it pink worms in the garden

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#myship

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"pjackk" was an experiment to synthesize the world's first "ethical lolcow" conducted by a team of researchers at the massachusetts institute of technology

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Unizilla :3

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northernlion deciding what to stream next

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Never forget what they took from us.

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For those asking how it compares today

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and also

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Mid-year 2026 update (this is without tax):

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Remember this the next time someone argues that raising the minimum wage will raise prices

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2026 August 5

Spokes on Saturn's B Ring  Image Credit & Copyright: Brad Croslin Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)

Explanation: Don’t get spooked by Saturn’s ghostly spokes! Today we feature a nearly two-hour timelapse of Saturn and its rings looping forwards and backwards. If you look closely, a ghoulish shadow appears and disappears as Saturn’s B ring rotates. Decades of observation with Voyager 2, Cassini, and Hubble show the appearance of Saturn’s spokes varies with the planet’s seasons. Like Earth, Saturn’s spin axis is tilted compared to the plane of its orbit around the Sun. During Saturn’s equinox, the rings are less tilted toward the Sun and they receive sunlight at a shallower angle. Saturn’s spokes may be electrically charged dust and ice temporarily levitated above the rings by electromagnetic forces. It is still uncertain, but the ring plasma and charge environment may be influenced by changing ultraviolet illumination, meteoroid impacts, or indirect effects from interactions between the solar wind and the planet’s magnetic field.

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Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

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No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Happy Birthday you funky little robot!

Curiosity celebrates her 14th Martian birthday this week and she’s still trucking along in Gale Crater where she’s sampling Martian soil to learn about the geology and climate and teach us all about the ancient lakes that used to cover our nearest neighbor!

Thank you to everyone who keeps this post queued up so I never forget her special day. I love how much love this post gets every year.

If you would like to see what Tumblr’s favourite Rover has been up to recently you can read about her latest mission updates here and you can see her live position in Gale Crater on this map here. (You can also see the great photos she takes!)

Happy Curiosity Day. Go do something curious!

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The rings of Saturn. Voyager 2 - 1981

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Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, 25.01.25, by Manusia dan Langit (composite picture of the alignment also called “planet parade”)

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NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

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anyone celebrating Esther Day with me tomorrow? remember to tell the people you love that you love them

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Esther Day is celebrated every August 3rd, the birthday of the late Esther Earl, an incredible human being that was active on tumblr & inspired the character Hazel Grace Lancaster from John Green's The Fault In Our Stars, as well as one of the inspirations for the novel itself

there's nothing i could say here that would do any of it justice, if you're not familiar with Esther or John Green's work then i can only leave it to you to check them out & promise you it's worth it

This Star Won't Go Out

Impacting childhood cancer one family at a time.

after her passing, her family established This Star Won't Go Out to support families struggling with childhood cancer & a book of the same name was published as a biography to her life & work

i can't stress enough when i say finding this book somewhere between highschool & college saved my life. i would not be who i am if not for it. i was around on tumblr when she was but we never interacted, it was maybe a few years afterwards that i found the community she left behind & her influence is still everywhere

Esther said she wanted the day to be about family & love, you can't get any more clear cut than that. whoever's in your life, blood related or not, if there's anyone out there at all you can reach out to & say something along the lines of I Love You, or It's Good To See You, or I'm Glad We Met, or Thank You For Existing, or Etcetera, do it. cherish your friends & those you know while they're here, & even after that

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happy esther day everyone. i love you platonically as much as you're comfortable with & i wish you lasting peace & joy among so many other things that you deserve. please stay safe out there. thank you

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Before and after yep hes mustard gravy

Didnt smell good so i poured it down the drain without take a bite

[pjackk]

My plugs got a special strain i be buyin in bulk