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huariqueje

Creyón Café - Pep Encinas , 2025.

Catalan , b. 1962 -

Oil on wood , 29 1/2 x 33 9/10 in. 75 x 86 cm.

huariqueje

A Little Light - Lossapardo , 2024.

French-Senegalese , b. 1996 -

Acrylic on canvas , 35 x 45 cm.

maculategiraffe

the thing is that every time they invent a new thing that everybody has to be able to do to get along in society, that also involves making some people disabled who weren't before, because they can't do the thing. and they never could do the thing, but it didn't used to be a disability.

driving a car. making a phone call. navigating the internet. getting a mortgage. you know? they keep adding new things that everybody has to be able to do or else there's something wrong with you. well maybe there's something wrong with driving a car. maybe it's a hideous activity. did they ever think of that

huariqueje

Tall Pines - Scott Lloyd Anderson

American , b. 1958 -

Oil on panel , 20 x 12 in.

thecollectibles

Art by Jakub Rebelka

spooksier

passages that make you whisper "oh my god"

koobiie

i feel strongly about this

ailurinae

pansylair

scanned in some silver dollar and pipefish derived fishies from the sketchbook and added some colour, I figured these would make fun stickers with a holo effect if people were interested! 🐟

feefal

Oyster mermaid~

lawrenceleemagnuson

Edvard Munch (Norway 1863-1944) Summer night on the beach (1903) oil on canvas 103 x 120 cm

urgetocreate

Keiran Brennan Hinton (Canadian b. 1992), Table for Two, 2023, Oil on linen

amartworks

I think a lot about the architecture ideas drawn by Étienne-Louis Boullée

They're sketches from the 1780s and they look like the end of the fucking universe

wheelie-sick

link

ayronaught

Transcript

Everyone's talking about Artemis II, the first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years

Historic, right? BUT nobody's talking about the Deaf people who made it possible.

In the late 1950's, NASA had a problem.

They needed to understand what weightlessness did to the human body but every test subject kept getting violently motion sick

NASA needed to figure out FAST during the space race!

So, they went to Gallaudet University. They recruited 11 Deaf people.

Because a number of Deaf people had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children which also damaged their vestibular system.

Their inner ears couldn't be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Put them on zero gravity flights. A room for 12 straight days.

(All caps) It rotated the entire time.

One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters, the researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data and research it needed to send humans into space.

No Gallaudet Eleven? No Mercury. No Apollo. No Artemis II.

They stood on the shoulders of 11 Deaf people most people have never heard of.

Now you know!