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#gotta rereblog this from prev because oh my god????#thats cool as shit

kenstewdivorce

People on tumblr are like "I'm handing all my mutuals a bowl of soup we are kissing with tongue we are the bestest of besties I am killing and dying for you" but sometimes me and the mutuals are posting completely different shit existing on the same blogging platform but really we're just standing in the alley going "ayup" at each other like fucking king of the hill.

mankillercalledbunny

The answer to "How did these Ancient People do this????" is basically always

1. A lot of dudes. Just a ton of fucking people from beginning to end of the process.

2. Ancient people weren't stupid, they just figured shit out the same way we do: fuck around until you find out.

3. We're gonna plan this out and it's gonna take ten fucking years, and you will cope.

4. Sticks and string are surprisingly versatile and can be used for a variety of purposes, like moving stuff and making sure things are even and go in the spot you wanted to put them in!

5. I want to make this easier and more efficient to move. If I put this on the round thing and push, it will move. If I put this in water, it will move. If I get some animals and rope and have a whole bunch of them drag it, it will move. All of these things are a better option than one guy trying to pick the whole fucking thing up.

mankillercalledbunny

"I'm not calling the people who believe in this conspiracy theory racist" I am. They're racist. Maybe not out of malice, but the fact that they believe in this is in itself racist. These conspiracies are always about brown people. Machu Pichu, the Pyramids, Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island, it is ALWAYS POC. It's never the Parthenon, it's never the Colliseum, despite the fact that these were built around the same time as some of the other sites these conspiracy chucklefucks like to throw around, it's never something fucking European. It's always "primitive people" with "stone tools" and "no understanding of modern engineering" so "clearly someone must have taught them this or given them the technology because CLEARLY they were just too Primitive and Savage to figure it out themselves." Fuck off with that shit.

depsidase

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.

icarus-suraki

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

lesnby23

Happy birthday, Curiosity!💕

emmathefanficgal

Happy Birthday, Curiosity

#Happy Birthday Curiosity

triangleguy

my bad. turns off my perpetual motion dog catapulting machine

narcissa-black-supermacy

i thought the “this is the face that launched a thousand ships, although now it would maybe be five-hundred.” line was just an internet joke but apparently that's a line Menelaus actually says in Nolan's Odyssey??

Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?

"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?

"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?

"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?

"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?

The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?

You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?

I'm actually physically sick just thinking about it.

genderoutlaws

ive said it before but please continue to boycott starbucks until they finalize a fair contract with the union or at the very least stop making their workers inhale silica powder for the stupid ass blended refreshers. i know a girl who was out sick for a week with respiratory issues from ts

genderoutlaws

silica dust lingers in the air for hours to days too so even if you wear a well fitted n95+ mask (which you need a doctors note and approved medical accommodation to wear) youre still at risk if you take it down at any point for eating or drinking

also they could have just continued using the blending syrup emulsifier they already had but they rolled out silica based blending powder bc they hate their workers and want to punish them for unionizing / bringing health and safety concerns to their union reps i m o

thatrandombystander

I had a look into this because from my understanding silica dust is an issue in mining, construction and home renovation because silica dust comes from grinding quartz slabs or mineral deposits. I have been in underground construction tunnels in full PPE where this was a concern and I couldn't quite reconcile that with barista work or what that silica was doing in food?

Having a look, food-grade amorphous silicon dioxide is a commonly used additive in food and cosmetic for it's anti-caking properties (among other things). There does not seem to be any compelling evidence that it is toxic to ingest (as some people in the comments are suggesting just from hearing the term silica).

The type of silica causing silicosis issues in the construction and mining industry is crystalline silicon dioxide which causes long-term cumulative damage to the lungs, and has a different structure from the amorphous stuff found in food. Amorphous silica does not seem connected to long-term health issues, although large exposure to it could cause short-term issues and discomfort in the same way that breathing in any non-toxic particulate or powder would

While I agree that it seems like Starbucks should put in better practices to protect their workers from breathing in this powder generally, I don't think it's correct to assert the issue here is silica dust and silicosis by association

Saying the silicon dioxide powder was deliberately brought in to punish their workers also seems like a strange assertion to me? This seems more like a case of banal corporate disregard via trialling a new product in their recipes and not providing adequate training or safety frameworks, over a deliberate malicious attempt to kill of their workers or something?

darkenedyeastextract

I can't find my occupational toxicology textbook rn but I've read up enough that non-crystalline silica is still considered hazardous even though it's less toxic than crystalline silica. "Animal inhalation studies with intentionally manufactured synthetic amorphous silica showed at least partially reversible inflammation, granuloma formation and emphysema but no progressive fibrosis of the lungs" from the abstract.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s002040100266

While silicosis resulting from exposure is not documented, it is also not ruled out as per the report linked. If this was on my work site this would still be considered an uncontrolled hazard and seems to cause significant issues if it's got significant short-term exposure experiences.

Furthermore, food-grade amorphous silica is non-toxic for consumption but not necessarily for inhalation . Exposure method matters to a hazard's toxicity. For example, flour dust, produced by non-toxic wheat flour, with short term exposure consequences causing runny nose/eyes, wheezing/coughing/sneezing, and shortness of breath. Long term consequences can be conditions such as baker's asthma.

I think this issue is significant and depending on the dust load, it may be be making a nuisance atmosphere with, under our laws at least, is enough to issue graded-filter PPE and monitor exposure levels.

thatdisasterauthor

Sometimes I remember weird things from my childhood that seemed totally normal at the time but now I’m like “wait, no, that was not even a little normal.”

In other news, my family once dressed me up as a dead Victorian child to scare hotel guests.

dykeselfcest

recent epidemic of adaptations that take lots of liberties with the source material and also, separately, are bad. but then if you say "this is bad" you get hit with "you're just being a source material purist and you don't understand the vision"...like. well actually I think it rules when people do new and different things with classic works. I just think these particular new and different things suck ass.

hikari-ni-naritai

In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.

rainbowgod666

Hey its been at least 9 years anything changed?

hikari-ni-naritai

nope! all quiet on the linguistic front. i am a girl now though

house-of-mirrors

Post about increasingly niche stuff that nobody follows you for and barely has a tumblr presence NOW

house-of-mirrors

That indie game no one else has played. That show from the 1980s that isn't big in the pop culture osmosis. Your deep dive into Tudor history. A liveblog of your experience learning C++. Your welding skills. Post all of it. This is your house

sawed-on-shotgun

unfortunate truth of reality is that oftentimes 15 year olds will say/do/believe some stupid bullshit because they are 15 but telling them that they believe that because they are 15 is probably the most counterproductive thing in the entire universe

phaeton-flier

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

phaeton-flier

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

theaudientvoid

centrally-unplanned

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

theabigailthorn

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears