History Binge

Your spot for a little more history than you really wanted to know.

[1st-1]

A star created 1,800 years ago after the collision of two distant suns is set to appear in the night sky for the first time – as the light from the crash finally reaches the Earth. 

Scientists predict that for six months in 2022, stargazers will be able to witness the birth of the new star, by fixing their telescopes near the Pisces and Cygnus constellations. Dubbed the Boom Star, it has taken nearly two millennia for its light to reach earth — where it will be able to be seen by the naked eye. Astronomers expect the collision to increase the brightness of the pair ten thousand fold, making it one of the brightest stars in the heaven for a time. The explosion, known as a Red Nova, will then dissipate and the star will remain visible in our skies as a single bright, but duller, dot. 

You’re not going to want to miss this appear in our sky as it’s a once in a lifetime event!     More here and here and here

[montereybayaquarium]

Looking for a Halloween movie? How about “Attack of the Bone-Eating Osedax Zombie Worms!” You’re whale-come!

Footage courtesy of our partners at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).

[montereybayaquarium]

Got a bone to pick? Let Osedax worms know! These worms can transform a whale skeleton into a homemade broth, drilling into the ex-whale with acid and licking their plates clean until there are no more leftovers to be found for to-marrow’s lunch.

[catchymemes]

[opossummypossum]

yes

[boingmann]

:V 

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[mrlovenstein]

Secret Panel HERE!

[chanson-papillon-blog]

[butchdotgov]

And when they cut your pay/hours/benefits for no reason maybe you can get your XBOX to collectively bargain your employer for you with the help of your PlayStation. Wow! Thanks XBOX!

[butchdotgov]

[la-laborista-republiko]

And dues are assigned on a sliding scale so you would have to be making absolute fuckin bank to be expected to contribute 700 a year

[master7mindd]

Workers at #Delta have responded to the company’s anti-union propaganda with their own campaign.

[hawkellion]

The counter-ad went from zero to a hundred real fucking fast and I am Here For It

[catchymemes]

[loveandddrevenge]

This is already wild

[killowave]

[square-adox]

[ewaneneollav]

holy fucking shit people simulated the 302 neurons in a worm’s brain with software, put it in a Lego robot and it behaves like a worm

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/weve-put-worms-mind-lego-robot-body-180953399/?no-ist

[explodingbat-deactivated2017072]

upload the nematode

[asocratesgonemad]

upload the nematode / lock it in a box / keep it there for fifty years / then see if it talks!

[brazenautomaton]

but, like, it’s a worm. its behavior isn’t that complex.

if it’s not accurately behaving like a worm, how would we tell?

[asocratesgonemad]

^ an important point. IIRC they don’t even really have a complete characterization of the worm’s nervous system, so C. legogans here is at best a preliminary test. Still pretty cool, though.

[animatedamerican]

I looked at the article, and to my mind the significant thing here is that the lego robot demonstrated consistent behavior with no programming.  They didn’t program any stimulus-response behavior into it.  They just gave it their best approximation of worm neurons, and it made up the behavior.

I may be misunderstanding some aspect of this but to me that feels kinda huge?

[crocabit]

They made an artifical reactive set of neurons with consistent observable behaviors. Yeah, this is a big deal. It’s the first step towards ‘uploading’ minds.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

oh, worm?

[mixingmetaphorsoup]

You wouldn’t download a worm

[lopoddityart]

So the director of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie made a public announcement that his team will now be working to change Sonic’s design and improve it, after the huge backlash from fans. Curiously, there’s been no mention of the movie’s release date being pushed back, despite the process of re-animating and filming entire scenes with a new character model being an enormously time-consuming and costly thing to be done to an already finished film.

…..This has me feeling a bit suspicious.

-puts on tinfoil hat-

Hear me out. What if the whole trailer (and Sonic’s design) was deliberately manufactured to be as strange and off-putting as possible? All the fan outrage, the discussion on social media, the redesigns by various artists, the memes…it’s all been free publicity. What if Paramount stirred it all up on purpose, with a deliberately bad design?

And now, for the next bold, calculated move…..the director is pretending to be very concerned with fan backlash. He’s pretending that they’ll work on the movie, cost be damned, because they really care about giving the fans what they want. So kind. So thoughtful.

Horseapples, I say! There will be no new changes to the movie! Because the real movie, with the real Sonic design, has already been made. And we already got a peek at it in the promotional art.

(that’s the real Sonic design, folks. It’s been all along! >:O)

Now am I saying this has all been a very elaborate and convoluted scheme by Paramount to get more butts in theaters to see a movie about a fast blue rat? Especially in the wake of fellow video game movie Detective Pikachu, a film that will inevitably make absurd amounts of money, and potentially raise the bar for expected quality/accuracy in video game movies? Yes. Yes I am.

-adjusts tinfoil hat-

[sera-cb]

It’s called outrage marketing, and it works really, really well on generations that have otherwise grown pretty numb to traditional marketing tactics.  This is because, to put it simply, we really enjoy being pissed off at things together.  It’s like all we have in common, sometimes.  And marketing teams, being comprised of soulless vampires, have realized that this gets a ton of free publicity, because everyone needs to have an opinion or just be left out of the conversation.

Gillette did this, Pepsi did this, BK’s trying to do it right now by commodifying mental illness into their weird un-happy meals, it’s very much a thing.

If this movie drops and there’s not an expose on the shit working conditions of the artists who had to crunch like hell to basically re-animate an entire movie in a handful of months, then this is in fact almost definitely what is happening now.

They make us mad on purpose so we get talking about it, and then they attempt to address or “fix” whatever’s wrong to get us talking again. We don’t click ads anymore, but we do this very reliably.

[answrs]

I’m just saying, there is NO WAY Sega approved this trailer’s design. It is almost deliberately designed to be off-putting imo.

[scorpioetry]

male fragility

[scorpioetry]

bonus:

[kristina100000]

[emma-d-klutz]

She’s right though. Soir means night

[butchflirt]

Shut the fuck up his mom just died

[sunwukxng]

Probably out of embarrassment over him messing up bonsoir

[wizardshark]

men be like my mom just died time to go on a dating app

[ryangoslingofficial-deactivated]

[hotvampireadjacent]

that child is now dead

[peachy-saffic]

uhh literally that’s not true.  according to the update this child is on the autism spectrum, and he was given the opportunity to meet the artistic director.  don’t spread misinformation.  many orchestras are becoming more inclusive and less snobby.

[ryangoslingofficial-deactivated]

thanks i was worried the orchestra killed the child

[bedabug]

I am in love with the trend of bored Architects photoshopping increasingly ridiculous ideas for the Notre Dame roof

the community pool one tho is art

[bedabug]

[vaguelywatermarksthesky]

That’s just the baptism tank

[grimimelody-deactivated20260531]

“If it’s about a dad dating other dads, how come some of them have kids???”

[daggers-drawn]

[trans-corvo]

[k-rbie-blog]

everyone stop reblogging the chains that don’t include the trans flag challenge

[anemonequeen-moved]

[memesandlaughs]

[fiollaigean]

So Taako’s full name is Taako Taaco, and Legolas from LOTR is known as Legolas Greenleaf. And Legolas, as we know, literally translates to green leaf. So I’m digging this accidental tradition of naming elves the same name twice, but spelled a little differently.

The men, the myths, the legends: Greenleaf Greenleaf and Taako Taaco

[chongoblog]

Their joint fursona is Moon Moon