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taishe do you have a marine widsom i am crying in the club right now

the word "plankton" comes from πλαγκτός, and the word "planet" comes from πλάνης. those are almost certainly related, because they're both forms of "wanderer."

it's a bit funny, right, connecting these things? one's this tiny, delicate creature, swept along by a world it can't understand. one is a world. it's a bit funny.

i'd like you to do something.

not now, but someday, you should do this.

go outside on a clear night. tip your head back until you no longer see the horizon, the road, the trees, the buildings, until it's just you and the sky forever.

imagine you are swimming.

yekkes

witchesversuspatriarchy

Our true forms

joshsundquist

when your crutches fall in a public restroom (X)

crippleprophet

[ID: a video of Josh Sundquist, a white man with an above-the-knee amputation who uses forearm crutches. He has shoulder-length brown hair and a brown beard. He walks into a bathroom wearing shorts, a tank top, and a neon green hat. He props his crutches against the counter by the sink, and one falls to the floor dramatically, filmed in slow motion with sound effects. Josh gives a drawn-out scream of “No!” as the camera zooms in on his face.

The video then cuts to Josh filmed from the chest up, in a white t-shirt and no hat. the captions label this character “Stranger,” and he proceeds to say, “Oh my gosh, oh no! I’m so sorry, wow, it’s so inspiring how you can just come out and use the bathroom in public. Are you a veteran from Iraq or Afghanistan? Thank you for your service. Do you want me to stand behind you and hold you up while you pee?” The sentences are spoken with no pause between them. He talks with his hands, his tone getting progressively more frustrated, and at the final sentence, he gestures to indicate holding someone up with an arm around their torso, making an exaggerated concerned face. end ID.]

shoyowo

Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

shoyowo

Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)

They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you

shoyowo

white people can and should reblog this

seriesofnonsequiturs

and shout out to the women engineers integral to the launch

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million.

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

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ambrosiadarling

there’s a movie adaptation of this! it’s obviously more dramatized/they use different names but i really really loved the movie! it’s called mission mangal and it was the first time i had heard of this and i was so surprised that literally? no one talked about it??? what they accomplished is incredible.

lastbenchpapers

ALSO, Mangalyaan launched in 2013 and was meant to be a 6 month mission. It’s been in orbit around Mars now for more than 5 years and has enough propellant to keep going for even longer.