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Okay but imagine being the team of Eridian scientists tasked with keeping Erid's Only Human alive for as long as possible while the whole planet's environment is literally trying to kill him. And then Rocky shows up and is like:

“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”

“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”

Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”

“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”

“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”

“WHY QUESTION???”

cheeseanonioncrisps

To celebrate Erid getting their sun back on track, Grace asks for some alcohol. There's a small amount left from the Hail Mary and Rocky offers to take it to the science Eridians to see if they can synthesise more.

“Grace want this liquid for celebration.”

“Of course.” They scan it. “You have wrong liquid. This contain compounds which are poisonous for humans.”

“Yes yes yes. Grace say humans like feeling of being slightly poisoned.”

“WHY QUESTION?????”

cheeseanonioncrisps

Grace is like one of those extremely finicky tropical fish who instantly die if not kept in extremely specific conditions.

Only here the fish can talk and keeps asking you to make it vodka.

the-haiku-bot

Only here the fish

can talk and keeps asking you

to make it vodka.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

raginrayguns

These three versions of the same image taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity illustrate different choices that scientists can make in presenting the colors recorded by the camera. The left image is the raw, unprocessed color, as it is received directly from Mars (and as available on the MSL Raw Images Web site: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/). The center rendering was produced after calibration of the image to show an estimate of "natural" color, or approximately what the colors would look like if we were to view the scene ourselves on Mars. The right image shows the result of then applying a processing method called white-balancing, which shows an estimate of the colors of the terrain as if illuminated under Earth-like, rather than Martian, lighting.

(nasa.gov)

fragariavescana

Here's the swatch they have on the rover for calibration

manicpixiedreamkiller

how many sharks does a tornado need to be considered a sharknado

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manicpixiedreamkiller

this is the level of analysis we’re looking for here people

houndsofbalthazar

Like most things I have absolutely no idea how common this knowledge is so forgive me if I am pointing out something completely obvious, but here is a tip to make smartphone use more bearable. If you want a free app for basic tasks like a file manager or music player and one that is not infested with ads, the keyword to add in your search is FOSS (free open-source software). The open sourceness doesn't matter all that much in the sense that I'm never going to be modifying my music player, but it does matter in the sense that open source software and ads don't really go together. It is, in my experience, otherwise impossible to find programs for your phone that just do the thing you want without also interrupting you with a full screen ad for temu every few clicks.

andmaybegayer

specific recommendations for open source apps:

Anything by Fossify:

A group of simple, open source Android apps with customizable widgets, without ads and unnecessary permissions.

they have a bunch of basic apps, including a gallery, a calculator, a calendar, a file manager, a notes app, and a clock. I am hopelessly dependent on their notes app and gallery.

For a really well-featured scientific calculator with graphing functions, Calculator++, my companion for many years.

Free scientific calculator with sleek interface and powerful capabilities

for a launcher, Lawnchair. My main launcher for the past while, lots of good options, gesture support, and a fast menu system.

The official website of Lawnchair Launcher, the customizable Pixel Launcher.

Bitwarden password manager, decent free tier, affordable paid tier with worthwhile upgrades, well-audited and run pretty responsibly. You should use a password manager, and Bitwarden is very easy to use.

Bitwarden is a login and password manager that helps keep you safe while online.

And of course you should install Firefox, the only good mobile browser. You can just install a desktop adblocker in it!

Private by default. Less tracking. Peace of mind built in.

hifas

Citrus Series by Dennis Wojtkiewicz

itsvondell-deactivated20180104

man i remember reblogging these very soon after i joined tumblr

you look at them and you’re like “wow! what amazing photographs” but they’re oil paintings

they are oil paintings

thaxted

they are oil paintings

of luminescent citrus fruit no less.

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I’d like to see the middle one as the great rose window of a fruit-worshipping cathedral.

I’d also like to see a fruit-worshipping cathedral, obviously.

gemville

Cartier Aquamarine and Diamond Necklace, Circa 1912

its-toofuu

Respectfully sir-

victusinveritas

shitter

absolute gold on Reddit today

revolxtionarygay

Cursed to rehash exactly what she suffered

archibaldtuttle

I want to show you an actual training slide from my customer service job that I had to see yesterday.

targetdotcom-deactivated2026011

Fińàncial Harm

tittyinfinity

roach-works

i recently found out the funniest thing about big horses recently which is that for centuries humans have sworn that the feathering on big horse’s legs has been bred in there for a reason, and the reason given is usually something to do with how it helps keep the joints warm and safe when the big horse is doing hauling work in fields.

the thing is: it doesn’t appreciably do that, because the feathers wick up water and mud, which cancels out any insulation advantage they might hypothetically confer, and also it wasn’t even put there on purpose.

the Leg Get More Hair gene is just linked to the Bones Get More Big gene. when you breed any lineage of horses to have bigger bones–not just taller, but chunkier–the leg hair just happens anyway. so every single breed of draft horse has feathered legs, and even carriage horses like friesians get feathers once they hit a certain threshold of lorge.