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Unpinning a post like "back off into the depths you go"

fucks me up that by total coincidence the sun and moon's size difference is exactly matched to their difference in distance from us, thus making our beautiful total solar eclipses where you can see the silver threads of the sun's corona possible because the moon just covers the sun completely

The stars (literally) aligned just right for this experience to be possible. It's likely that aliens don't have this

uncivilliberties

The moon is also absolutely gargantuan by moon standards. It isn't the largest moon in the solar system, but it is BY FAR the largest in comparison with its planet. Ganymede is the largest satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the solar system. Its diameter is only about 3.8% of Jupiter's. Titan's radius is 4.4% of Saturn's. Callisto and Io are the next largest in the neighborhood, with 3.4% and 2.6% the diameter of Jupiter respectively.

Our moon is number 5. It is smaller in direct comparison to the above moons. The diameter of the moon is 3475 km. That is a full 27% of the diameter of the Earth. More than a quarter. That's ridiculous. It's unheard of. The universe is large enough that the word unique probably doesn't mean a lot, but this might be about as close as you get.

This has had a huge impact on our planet. Other things aliens might not have are significant tides. One of Mars's dumpy little potatoes wouldn't be able to move oceans the way our moon does.

Our moon has also stabilized our axis to a massive degree. Without her up there our axis would wobble all over the place and our climate would be far more chaotic. Aliens might not be quite so lucky.

I guess what I am really trying to say is that the moon is extremely cool. I like the moon.

willowdove

Just want to add that the reason we have such a large moon is because a whole planet crashed into proto-Earth. Theia (the planet) and Earth got so superheated by this collision that their component cores fused and the impact jettisoned a lot of material into space. That massive amount of jettisoned material became our moon. So Earth and the moon have very similar composition. This does not seem to be a common method of lunar formation.

gandalfsbignaturals

what if the answer to the fermi paradox is that life cant exist without a moon like luna

habbadax

I got a serious beef with the Fermi paradox. There is no Fermi paradox. There stopped being a Fermi paradox once the first radio telescopes went up, and we began to get a true sense of the sheer scale of the universe.

Space is big, empty, and loud. Sunspots can cause enough interference to affect global communications. We’re not even loud enough to talk over our own sun. On our own planet. We can barely communicate with Voyager, and we know exactly where it is and what its signal sounds like.

The Fermi paradox is like doubting the existence of Belfast, because you stood on a windy New York beach shouting towards it and didn’t get an answer.

headspace-hotel

kactusnz

i didn't realise we were drowned out by our own sun :(

derinthescarletpescatarian

She is screaming so loud

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I scream so loud

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It is comforting

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#spaaaaaaaaaaace

headofporridge

The Envoy of Mr. Cogito

Go where those others went to the dark boundary for the golden fleece of nothingness your last prize

go upright among those who are on their knees among those with their backs turned and those toppled in the dust

you were saved not in order to live you have little time you must give testimony

be courageous when the mind deceives you be courageous in the final account only this is important

and let your helpless Anger be like the sea whenever you hear the voice of the insulted and beaten

let your sister Scorn not leave you for the informers executioners cowards—they will win they will go to your funeral and with relief will throw a lump of earth the woodborer will write your smoothed-over biography

and do not forgive truly it is not in your power to forgive in the name of those betrayed at dawn

beware however of unnecessary pride keep looking at your clown’s face in the mirror repeat: I was called—weren’t there better ones than I

beware of dryness of heart love the morning spring the bird with an unknown name the winter oak

light on a wall the splendour of the sky they don’t need your warm breath they are there to say: no one will console you

be vigilant—when the light on the mountains gives the sign—arise and go as long as blood turns in the breast your dark star

repeat old incantations of humanity fables and legends because this is how you will attain the good you will not attain repeat great words repeat them stubbornly like those crossing the desert who perished in the sand

and they will reward you with what they have at hand with the whip of laughter with murder on a garbage heap

go because only in this way will you be admitted to the company of cold skulls to the company of your ancestors: Gilgamesh Hector Roland the defenders of the kingdom without limit and the city of ashes

Be faithful Go

- Zbigniew Herbert

#project hail mary

mundanesalad

it came to me in a vision

bug-lovers-island

Been thinking about hot rod horseshoe crab all day

girl-mercury

nickname poll

So currently I answer to my full first name (which I usually introduce myself with) as well as two nicknames/diminutives plus my last name when people mistake it for a first name. There are two or three other nicknames I've also gone by in the past. I'm perfectly fine with this, or neutral at minimum-- I have a common name and have had to be flexible with how I'm distinguished for my whole life. I also don't feel a deep and fundamental connection of my name with my identity, though I think going by another name entirely would confuse me.

A number of friends have been appalled at me being called names I don't say are my name. Which is really weird to me, although I'd go to battle for anyone else who was getting either deadnamed or called something they didn't want. But this perspective seems surprisingly common!

How do you feel about being called something other than the name you introduce yourself with?

I think it's fun if people give me (non-derogatory) nicknames or shorten my name

I don't care if people call me something else and will answer to it

I'm mildly uncomfortable or annoyed but won't make an issue of it

I HATE being called something else and will always correct people

Nuance in tags/Vanilla extract/I'm bald

Remaining time: 5 days 6 hours

#calling me by the diminutive version of my name is a surefire way to piss me off #a name or nickname separate to my actual name? I like!

habken

giving grace my problems: cluster headache

#ohhhh so that's what it's called when you want to scoop your eyeball out with an ice cream spoon #project hail mary

myuminji

waiter!! waiter!! more injured wolfwood please!!! 🙋🙋🙋

now accompanied with the lovely fluffy fic [i'll look out for you 'til i die, 'til i rot by beelzebby666 as part of our trade!!! 🤗🤗

#trigun

pipshinwhatever

logging onto tumblr like heyyy i'm thinking about the same character i've spent the past few weeks thinking about. no change here. just wanted to let yall know

pangur-and-grim

alright I'm almost finished Project Hail Mary, and I have to say, I don't get why people are shipping the guy with Markiplier when he's already in a perfectly healthy queer-platonic relationship with the alien spider made of rocks

pangur-and-grim

that's insane. we need to change this

ramlightly

Morgan The Crow Art Book

There once was a crow that got turned into a boy...

For two years, I played the character Morgan the Crow, a bird turned human turned thief, in a DnD game. During this game, Morgan fought monsters, auditioned for an opera, slept at brothels, broke his lock-picks, and fell in love with multiple people.

This art books explores his story and campaign through sketches, comics and illustrations.

47 pages of art, sketches, and comics (includes NSFW)

Check it out here!

creaturepeaches

something that i think is missed when ppl talk about season 1 is how it depicts John's final decision.

I'm probably cementing myself as creature 'johns more of a bastard than you remember' peaches here but in line with my interpretation of his recovery from antisocial tendencies, I don't think he spared Arthur out of affection for him.

It was mentioned that, in that moment, John and Yellow (the part that would be called yellow) were fully joined. Thats how John was able to remember. Which means that, when mindfucking him, John was apart of that too.

But it all came back to Arthur in the piano room, and his immense guilt.

At that point, John didn't know about Faroe. Only that there was a daughter and that Arthur was cagey about it. Considering his methods of controlling people, his preferences, and his budding interest in humanity, I imagine that secret was like catnip to him.

Maybe he recognized something vague in Arthur's emotions about the event from his confusing feelings about lily. Maybe it was a human emotion that he'd only just started exploring, and wanted to know more. Maybe Arthur was just a new book he couldn't put down, and he couldn't bear to kill him before getting to the ending.

I really like that as a starting point for change. That it wasn't some random spark of goodness that made him want to spare his weird little vessel, but a desire to explore his dimensions. He's used to seeing humans as too small to bother with, but here was some part of Arthur he couldn't understand. Some complexity that was being kept from him.

Emotions arent just random. You dont just fall in love for no reason. Especially if you were never taught how. So instead of having John just randomly gain an appreciation for this particular ant because he was nice to him, I like that the thing that actually ensnared John was refusing to let it end without learning what makes him tick

#i like this way of looking at him #malevolent