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NASA engineers monitor the Curiosity roverâs actions. All seems normal until the little robot suddenly changes its course. The scientists attempt to correct it over and over until they suddenly receive a transmission from the rover
âWill save Oppyâ
Can we get an F for OpportunityÂ
âáŽÊ ÊáŽáŽáŽáŽÊÊ ÉȘs ÊáŽáŽĄ áŽÉŽáŽ ÉȘáŽâs ÉąáŽáŽáŽÉȘÉŽÉą ᎠáŽÊáŽ.â || đđđđčđđŸđđœđ, đđ đ đđđđđđŸđđ!
âmy battery is low and itâs getting darkâ is so hauntingly human, so crushingly lonely. I canât articulate the deep, profound ache that sentence evokes. Itâs acceptance and defeat and terror and sadness all at once, all from one tiny machine we asked to explore the stars for us.
Bitch now Iâm crying over a robot
this morning NASA abandoned their mars rover Opportunity (aka Oppy) because it (she) got hit by a storm on Mars and it knocked her camera and wheels out and her last words to the team were âmy battery is low and it is getting coldâ. I know sheâs a machine but Iâm devastated. Oppy is the one who discovered water on Mars. RIP oppy ily space baby
they didnât abandon her!! they tried eight months to reach her!!!! as their last farewell to her yesterday they played her âIâll be seeing youâ by Billie Holiday:
âIâll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
Iâll be looking at the moon
But Iâll be seeing youâ
They love her so much and they tried so hard!!!
according to one of the scientists there on twitter (iâm sorry i canât remember where I saw it it was hours ago), they all gathered in the middle of the night (they knew theyâd know by 4am) and when she didnât respond they shared memories and cried and honored her.
And theyâve been trying since June to contact her, p much constantly. They sent over 800 uploads in an attempt to contact her. Thatâs more than 2 per day.
It is totally legit to mourn the fact that she has finished her job and is resting now, but donât you DARE insinuate that NASA and the people on the Mars Rover team abandoned her.Â
They loved her, probably more than we ever could, and they did their best and then they sent her a song saying theyâd see her again one day and theyâd miss her. That is not abandonment.
Aaaand now I'm crying
some promised dr. horrible art. Iâm not 100% done, so I left it more impressionistic, but I like how the face came out.
LOVE this
This image hurts my brain more than the original debate ever did. Brains are dumb.
i wanted to like make sure this was legit and stuff so i took a section of the left and stretched it over to the right and jesus fuck
rb for the last pic being the best demonstration by far
âThis is why I draw in black and whiteâ was all my sleepy, horrified boyfriend could say.
ok so i screenshotted this moment because i thought it was pretty cool
the first time we get to see all four elements working together for a common enemy, blah blah blah, but i started laughing because
sokkaâs fucking boomerang. sokka threw a fucking boomerang at princess azula, renowned lightning bender and heir-apparent to the throne of the fire nation.
and sokka threw a boomerang at her.
I said it once and i say it again.
Azula considered Sokka to be the biggest threat in this group and countered him first. What this picture miss is Sokka sanding nearby. All members of this group unleash their attack at same time, but Azula reacts to boomerang first. If you watch this part in slow motion, you could see that Sokkaâs boomerang was the first thing that would hit Azula and may even incapacitate her making her unable to continue to fight. So she had to counter in first. She deflected it with well placed shoot.
Then and only then, when there is no immediate threat, she starts to create her blue fire wall to counter other elements.
Lets think about this. How hard should you have to throw something to make it move faster that any elemental attack? Either all elemental attacks are slow or you are pretty strong. That said nonbenders with good aim and strong hands could easily overpower benders if they timed it right.(Aang got captured by Yuan archers who are all nonbenders.) Azula knew of this and acted according to it. She is talented bender and you may think that she should enlist other benders to help her track and capture Zuko, Iroh, and later avatar, but instead she uses her nonbender friend to help her.
Even if you have no bending you can still fight⊠and win.
Letâs not forget that on the Day of Black Sun, Sokka was the one in charge and Azula was no idiot Azula knew that.
When Aang, Sokka, and Toph all confronted Azula, she proceeded to make them chase her and waste their time. Azula is not only talented, sheâs sly and smart as hell. WHO WAS THE ONE WHO SAW THROUGH THAT BS CHASE?
Sokka.
NOT ONLY THAT but after Sokka explains to the Gaang that Azula is just baiting them, Azula actually verbally attacks Sokka. Not through fighting, but through words, knowing not only that an intelligent person like him could only be brought down with emotions BUT that Sokka was the leader and if she could get him the stay, Aang and Toph would follow his lead.
Azula knew Sokka was their strength and took him down. WOULD SHE DO THAT IF HE WASNT A SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO HER!!??!
No. She wouldnât waste her time and energy on someone she didnât think was capable of actually getting in her way.
WHEN SHE GETS HER FIREBENDING BACK SHE HAS THE OPTION OF ATTACKING BADASS METAL BENDING TOPH AND THE FUCKING AVATAR WHO DOES SHE ATTACK?!?!
Azula never underestimated the power of non benders especially an intelligent one like Sokka. Sokka was a huge threat to fucking Azula on multiple occasions.Â
Remember that.
Look at this spot on fucking discourse. LOOK AT IT.
Just thought Iâd drop thisÂ
into the debate as well, (instead of actually fighting him she backs off, and who blames her? Sokkaâs club looks like it could shatter bonesâŠ).
Along with this:
Scenes with Azula confronting Sokka are few and far in between but they paint a pretty interesting picture, donât they?Â
I mean, Azulaâs friends/most trusted warriors were two non-benders. Mai was an expert with thrown weapons and Tai Lee was the only chi blocker shown in the first series, and she was able to take down half a groups of earth nation soldiers like that. Azula knows that non-benders are dangerous and she sees sokka for the genius he is
Sheâs knows she can take bending, she can redirect fire and sheâs fought Katara a lot- but unlike Zuko she was probably never trained with weapons, she knows she has no defense to a sword or a club, and she knows that one of Ty Leeâs biggest advantage is that people underestimate her
Let me sum this up;
It doesnât matter how much crazy magic bullshit you have, a sword to the face is a sword to the face.Â
My man Sokka getting the recognition he deserves
Iroh: What are you doing?
Mugger: Iâm mugging you!
Iroh: With that stance?
please im begging you unmute this
I wasnât expecting this, donât know what I was expecting but I have not been disappointed
I WAS NOT PREPARED
But good gods đđœđđœ
SoâŠ.I totally never thought about this. Iâm sure very few of you have. I donât know about you, but Iâm a bit disturbedâŠ
Wow. Food for thought. Iâm sure thereâs an answer though.
Their names were translated/Anglicized after going from Greek to English.
The names of the Apostles are of Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew origins. The Hebrew, Aramaic and âGreekâ named Apostles were: Shimâon = Simon (Hebrew origin). Yâhochanan = John (Hebrew origin). Mattithyahu = Matthew (Hebrew origin). Yaâaqov = James (Hebrew origin meaning Jacob). Bar-TĂŽlmay = Bartholomew (Aramaic, which is related to Hebrew). Judah = Jude / Saint Jude (not to be confused with Judas Iscariot, Hebrew origin). Yehuda = Judas Iscariot (Hebrew origin, Betrayed Yeshua/Yehosua the Messiah). Cephas / Kephas = Peter (Hebrew / Aramaic origin meaning âRockâ). Tauâma = Thomas (Aramaic origin). Andrew = Andrew (Greek origin. Is the brother of Cephas / Kephas). Phillip = Phillip (Greek origin). You will note that there are only 11 names, that is because there were 2 Apostles named Yaâaqov (James), which brings the total to 12 apostles.
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To expand on this, Jesusâs name is Anglicized in this way as well. We get Jesus from the Latin form of the Greek âጞηÏοῊÏâ(IÄsous), which is derived from the Herbrew ⌌©ŚŚąâ(Yeshuâa, which meant âYHWH is Salvaionâ, YHWH, or Yahweh being the name of God). When another form of that name, â ŚÖ°ŚŚÖčŚ©Ö»ŚŚąÖ·â(Yeoshuâa) was allowed to Anglicize through a different set of corruptions, it entered the English Language through Reformist Protestants as the name âJoshuaâ. Yes. Jesusâs actual name is Joshua.
joshua christ this is fascinating
oily josh
And using certain patrilineal naming conventions common to the time, Jesusâs full legal-ish name might be Joshua Bar Joseph
or, JoJo.
well to be fair, have you read the bible? It is quite a bizarre adventure.Â
disney: mulan live action movie
me:
disney:
me:
The change from Li Shang is concerning, and not only because itâs erasing a very distinctly bisexual character. Forget sexuality: even if you prefer a more platonic interpretation (which I donât), Li Shang clearly respects, admires, and likes Mulan as Ping and as a person. He loves her as a friend long before he loves her as a woman, girlfriend, or wife. The entire point of the movie is that Li Shang loves Mulan as a person (platonically, romantically, either way), not just as a potential mate. The entire point of the entire ending is that people do not award women the same respect offered to men. (Mushu:Â âHuh? Youâre a girl now, remember?â) The entire point of the finale is that Shang and Pingâs friends do give Mulan the same respect as a woman, because her gender doesnât matter: she is still the same person with the same good strategic sense, and theyâll trust her whether sheâs wearing armor or a dress.
If this âChen Honghuiâ hates Mulan/Ping until he finds out that she is a woman, that isnât just erasing Shangâs bisexuality: itâs also sexualizing Mulan and stripping her of all her agency and accomplishment. In this version, Mulan isnât worthy of respect as a person. She is only worth admiring as a woman. He canât like her as a warrior, as a strategist, as a friend, as a person; he can only like her as a woman. Let me rephrase this: Instead of giving Mulan a chance to earn the same respect Chen offers to all his other warriors, heâs only going to appreciate her once he sees her as a woman. As an âapprovedâ sexual object. ONLY THEN is it worth noticing her or granting her basic human decency and respect. âSomething like love,â as the description tells us, clearly has nothing to do with any of her personality and everything to do with genitalia. Even if he was completely and entirely straight, we should see that heâs at least befriending Mulan/Ping before the Gender Reveal. Straight guys can still recognize another manâs good qualities and appreciate them for what they are. If Ping isnât even a friend before âheâ becomes Mulan, then this isnât âsomething like love;â itâs just lust and objectification, pure and simple. The ârivalryâ is also bullshit. The fact that ârivalryâ can change so quickly into âsomething like loveâ means only that for Chen, a set of imaginary genitalia is all it takes to completely shift his perspective on someone from âworthy of competitionâ to âworthy of sex.â What, so heâs just going to abandon the rivalry now that sheâs a woman? Oh - because sheâs only a woman. He doesnât have to compete with her anymore, because thatâs not what you do with women. A rivalry would imply that sheâs still a man, and at least he can view a rival as a decent warrior; but now, she can be comfortably reduced to Sex Appeal.
Also⊠what about that personality? âCocky?â A âmean, bullying streakâ? Thinks of Mulan as âhis chief rival?â Are you going to strip the male lead of EVERY shred of decency? Li Shang isnât a bully: he is a soldier who pushes his men (and woman) to excel, because this is wartime and thatâs the only way to survive. He genuinely cares about them and shows real pride when they show signs of improvement. He doesnât see them as rivals; he sees them as friends for whom he is responsible. Sure, he doesnât like Ping at first, but thatâs got nothing to do with gender and more to do with the fact that Pingâs initial behavior is so inflammatory. (Dodges commanderâs questions; starts fights in the rice line; holds the other soldiers back in training; cheats on assignments, even if thatâs the result of Mushuâs intervention). Once Ping proves himself as a person and as a warrior, Shang doesnât hesitate to reward Ping with all the admiration Ping deserves.Â
Disney is so concerned about removing every hint of bisexuality from its movies, itâs also utterly destroyed any decency they could have in a heterosexual romance. In their attempts to make everything nice and straight and cisgendered, theyâre bending their characters WAY out of whack.Â
Theyâre taking Mulan - originally a woman who denies gender boundaries to prove that gender doesnât matter to personal worth - and theyâre turning her into a person who canât earn respect,honor, or even the admiration of her fellow soldiers until she puts on a dress and can be seen, not as a warrior or as a person but as an object of desire.Â
And theyâre taking Shang - originally a man who cares about his fellow soldiers and who respects Mulan regardless of her gender presentation - and turned him into a cocky asshole who only cares about himself and is only able to appreciate Mulan when she is female, and even then, only because heâd like to have some sex.
What the fuck Disney. What. The. Fuck
Reblogging this here as well because this pisses me off.
All of this, but also, letâs stop teaching young girls that itâs ok to be with boys who are assholes to you?
Iâm on board for this outrage and the reasons behind it.
people in period clothing doing modern things is my aesthetic
i canât believe you forgot the most important one
thank you! I couldnât find that one in google!
I would like to add Alexander Hamilton himself to this collection.
and of course, alexandra dowling using a tablet computer on the set of BBC musketeersÂ
You forgot my favourites.
These are all canon.
this is my favourite post
What really happened in Hydra:
Bucky: *sitting in a dimly lit room in Hydra, with a vast assortment of makeup, brushes, and paints around*
Agent: *painting a red star on his metal arm*
Another agent: *trying his best at a smoky eye*
Bucky: *speaking in Russian* Whatâs the purpose of this?
Both agents, in unison: Aesthetic.
Headcannon accepted
One of the most bizarrely cool people Iâve ever met was an oral surgeon who treated me after a ridiculous accident (thatâs another story), Dr. Z.
Dr. Z. was, easily, the best and most competent doctor or dentist Iâve ever encountered â and after that accident, I encountered quite a number. He came stunningly highly recommended, had an excellent record, and the most calming bedside manner Iâve ever seen.
That last wasnât the sweet gentle caretaking sort of manner, which some nurses have but you wouldnât expect to see in a surgeon. No; when Dr. Z. told me that one of my broken molars was too badly damaged to save, and I (being seventeen and still moderately in shock) broke down crying, he stared at me incredulously and said, in a tone of utter bemusement, âBut â I am very good.â
I stopped crying on the spot. In the last twenty-four hours or so of one doctor after another, no one had said anything that reassuring to me. He clearly just knew his own competence so well that the idea of someone being scared anyway was literally incomprehensible to him. What more could I possibly ask for?
(He was right. The procedure was very extended, because the tooth that needed to be removed was in bits, but there was zero pain at any point. And, as he promised, my teeth were so close together that they shifted to fill the gap to where there genuinely is none anymore, itâs just a little easier to floss on that side.)
But Dr. Z.âs insane competence wasnât just limited to oral surgery.
When I met Dr. Z., he, like most doctors Iâve had, asked me if I was in college, and where, and what I was studying. When I say âmath,â most doctors respond with âoh, wow, good for youâ or possibly âwhat do you want to do with that after college?â
Dr. Z. wanted to know what kind of math.
I gave him the thirty-second laymanâs summary that I give people who are foolish enough to ask that. He responded with âoh, you meanââ and the correct technical terms. I confirmed that was indeed what I meant (and keep in mind, this was upper-division college math, you donât take this unless youâre a math major). He asked cogent follow-up questions, and there ensued ten or so minutes of what Iâd call âsmall talkâ except for how it was an intensely technical mathematical discussion.
He didnât, as far as I can tell, have any kind of formal math background. He just ⊠knew stuff.
I was a competitive fencer at this point in time, so when he asked if I had any questions about the surgery that would be necessary, I asked him if Iâd be okay to fence while I had my jaw wired shut, or if it would interfere with breathing.
âFencing?â he said.
âYes,â I said, âlike swordfighting,â because this is another conversation I got to have a lot. (People assume theyâve misheard you, or occasionally they think you mean building fences.)
âWhich weapon?â
âUh. Foil.â
âNo, it wonât be safe,â and he went off into an explanation of why.
Turns out, he was also a serious fencer â and, when I mentioned my fencing coach, an old friend of his. (I asked my fencing coach later, and, oh yes, Dr. Z., a good friend of mine, excellent fencer.) (My coach was French. Dr. Z. was Israeli. I never saw Dr. Z. around the club or anything. I have no idea how they knew each other.)
So this was weird enough that later, when I was home, I looked Dr. Z. up on Yelp. His reviews were stellar, of course, but that wasnât the weird thing.
The weird thing was that the reviews were full of people â professionals in lots of different fields â saying the same thing: I went to Dr. Z. for oral surgery, and he asked me about what I did, and it turned out he knew all about my field and had a competent and educated discussion with me about the obscure technical details of such-and-such.
All sorts of different fields, saying this. Lawyers. Businessmen. Musicians.
As far as I can tell, itâs not that I just happened to be pursuing the two fields he had a serious amateur interest in â he just seemed to be extremely good at literally everything.
I have no explanation for this. Possibly he sold his soul to the devil.
He did a damn good job on my surgery.
#op your oral surgeon is an immortal
Some god is slumming it on Earth with maxed-out stats helping people and his dive bar of choice is oral surgery.