being human

late 20's | they | engineer | swords and stabby things

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Constant Puyo :: Le Vase mystique, 1900 [detail]. Tirage à la gomme bichromatée. Signé à l'encre en bas à droite avec un tampon à sec. | src Sotheby's

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[chrromebrutus-deactivated202105]

The Lord of the Rings: Loyal Steeds of Middle Earth

[candlejack]

EXCUSE ME EVERYONE. YOU MISSED ONE.

[zechery-deactivated20220114]

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

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

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

[shadows-ember]

This is humanity

[siawrites]

Happy Birthday, Curiousity.

[labelleizzy]

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

[the-cimmerians]

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

[codenamewife]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

[beentobeetle]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CURIOSITY !!!!

[nickelmining101]

Happy birthday Curiosity!

[the-real-yahoo-mail]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

[no-one-offical]

Happy Birthday, Curiousity!

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

[escuerzoresucitado]

[egypt-museum]

Alabaster Canopic Jar

Container held mummified organs needed for the deceased's immortal body. The jackal, Duamutef, guardian of the stomach, crowns the jar.

Late Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664-525 BC. Now in the National Museum of Natural History. 370312

[neko-mancy]

just saw a "only one bed" fic with the major character death warning

[dontbreakthechain]

#i guess that's one way to solve that problem

[idabbleincrazy]

“This bed ain’t big enough for the both of us.”

[polteergeistt]

[distantvoices]

Ana Takahashi on Instagram

[wizardarchetypes]

i get a $250 million production budget to adapt beowulf into a summer blockbuster and at the end beowulf is contemplating his reign as king in his old age and the passing of time and we hear some kids say something he doesn't quite understand and he says stoically "it's as if the English i speak is becoming old..."

[cicada-heart]

stained glass cicada lamp by cady poorman ✨🌿

[thebeautifulbook]

Elizabethan book cover worked in gold, silk and pearls on red velvet.

[sartorialadventure]

Une etude de femme d’ apres nature by Marie-Denise Villers, 1802

[unusual-suspects]

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[byjove]

[femme--deer-deactivated20260430]

Picture from the Photographer Kalynn Youngblood, in her series Staged Portraiture and Documenting daily Black Life.

This is all I need in my life.

[morayofsunshine]

interview with the masquerade

[morayofsunshine]

vampire: the vampire

[weaseltotheface]

Everybody say "thank you south america" for the humble potato

[weaseltotheface]

Actually let's get specific with it

*checks wiki*

Everybody say thank you indigenous people of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia from 7-10,000 years ago for the humble potato

[surelyangelic]

a picture i took myself of the lovely portrait of a young woman with a stylus, a fresco found in pompeii that now lives in the national archaeological museum at naples (which is also one of my favourite museums in the world).

the fresco is in the so called "fourth pompeiian style", or the intricate style, which is categorised partly by its dating to the third quarter of the first century ce, and partly for its focus being less on ornament than many of its predecessors and more on complex themes such as narrative and emotion. she is definitely intended to appear wealthy and educated by her rich colourful clothing, golden hairnet and earrings, along with her thoughtful expression and stylus and writing tablet that suggest education. the hairnet and curly hairstyle were in fashion at the time of nero (50-68ce), which itself suggests she is a beautiful and sociable young woman too.

her identity is unknown. at the time of her discovery in 1760, she was named as the archaic poetess sappho, however there is nothing to evidence this. she is far more likely to be a wealthy pompeiian woman, though it was not usual for these frescoes to depict specific individuals, and those did were labelled, so this is widely debated.

i love her so much, mostly for her expression. she strikes me as a philosopher, as someone remarkably intelligent both emotionally and academically. i always make sure to visit her when i'm in naples.