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I love your blog and your space asks but please pray tell what's the moon boom that jumpingjacktrash mentioned?

have you ever looked up into the night sky and wondered, why the moon is?

well, you're not alone! scientists and learnéd scholars across the ages have been baffled by our celestial neighbor.

WHY, is our Moon so proportionally fucking huge? (it's more than a quarter the size of the Earth! that's COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE AND BLOWS EVERY OTHER MOON IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM OUT OF THE METAPHORICAL WATER)

WHY, is the Moon made up of much of the same materials as the Earth?

and WHY, is Earth's magnetic field so massively overpowered that it can shield the surface from interstellar and solar radiation, allowing life to develop and paving the way for you to even ask these questions in the first place? (that one might not sound related, but I promise you it is so just bear with me)

well, it all comes down to the Theia Impact Hypothesis, or, OPERATION MOON BOOM.

in this fair solar system we lay our scene, four and a half billion years ago.

here, we focus on the third planet from the Sun, which is, surprisingly, NOT Earth.

not yet.

no, this unnamed rocky world is slightly smaller than Venus, and is formed of mostly-molten rock that's still settling into itself as our nascent solar system sorts itself out.

ENTER STAGE LEFT, THEIA.

Theia is a rocky planetoid about the size of Mars, on a wild and unstable orbit around the Sun that regularly brings it within spitting distance of our unnamed third rock! and today, it will get A Bit Too Close.

the two planets slam into each other with wild disregard for road safety, disintegrating their outer layers into a massive debris field that will take hundreds of millions of years to settle and fusing their planetary cores together into a single rough oblong of molten iron! BAM! WHAPPO!

but settle the debris does, as gravity takes a gentle but firm hold of this huge mess and gradually reshapes it into two familiar faces...

ENTER STAGE RIGHT: EARTH AND MOON.

that's right, you're standing on top of the alchemically-fused corpses of, not one, but TWO planets right now! our newly-reborn Earth and its singular orbiting satellite are formed from the same debris field and share a lot of similar material. and because the Moon was Made, and not a domesticated planetoid that wandered too close and got trapped in the orbit of a larger body, it's just ludicrously HUGE compared to its partner.

and getting back to that magnetic field thing, the whole reason Earth Can Have Big Field Pls is because Theia dumped so much extra iron into the Core that it generates a MUCH more powerful field than our neighboring planets, even the ones that are just slightly smaller than Earth!

the only reason that life can exist at all is because Theia took one for the team and reshaped the solar system.

so the next time you look up into the celestial dome and spot our closest neighbor, raise a salute to Theia, gone but not forgotten.

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ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122

To this day it blows my mind that when Naoko Takeuchi and Yoshihiro Togashi started dating, Togashi looked haggard to the point where he told an assistant that police regularly stopped him on the street for looking “suspicious”. And Ferrari-driving, couture-wearing Naoko still gave him a chance. The man was swimming in a pile of trash

looking like THIS

And he still married THIS WOMAN

His personality must be great

ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122

@nightstitcher that picture never fails to kill me. Like...the scene in hxh greed island arc with the trash...that was real...

thecrow1994

Her taste is exquisite to say the least

whetstonefires

Okay yeah and when you consider that the main couple of Yu Yu Hakusho is Yukimura 'only person who cares enough to yell at him about his delinquency, good at everything, saves his unconscious body from a fire' Keiko and Urameshi 'middle school dropout, the entire plot is secretly just him recovering from his self-destructive depression, could probably punch out god but refuses to be put in charge of hell, ends the story training to run her parents' restaurant like a good son-in-law' Yuusuke this really comes together.

(Honestly I suspect a key element was his respecting her career, like. Not gonna look down on being in manga because so is he, but not threatened by her success because he's doing fine for himself in a different genre and also fuck that.)

skarchomp

i bet those colors only shrimp can see suck major ass

bananahomo

jealousy isn’t the way bro

htcd

The shrimp aren’t gonna have sex with you.

bananahomo

you take that back right fucking now

scififantasystuff

Unfortunate news… scientists have discovered that shrimp do not see “extra colors”.

We thought that they did because they have 12 different molecules for photoreceptors, whereas humans have only 3. BIG difference, right??

Nope. Turns out that they simply do not have the mental wherewithal to blend, and so needed a separate receptor for each color. The human brain adds color emissions together to create a singular representative color, like reverse engineered printing. Shrimp can’t do that. They can’t take light emitting “green” and light emitting “red” and come back with “yellow”, like we do. They have to have a receptor for yellow, and are relatively horrible at distinguishing shades of colors.

So at the end of the day, not only do shrimp not have “extra colors”… they see less than we do. Shrimp can’t see the fake colors :(

luxflora

babe wake up new shrimp color drama dropped

studentgabrhee

LOL

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professorsparklepants

Genderbent Bilbo Baggins names ranked

Buckle up losers I’m being judgemental. This is not a comprehensive list because there’s 51 pages of Female Bilbo Baggins fic on AO3 and I don’t have the patience required to go through the tag a second time.

Belladonna: naming fem!Bilbo after her mom is both a power move and brings to mind the Gilmore Girls scene where Rory explains that she has the same name as her mom because Lorelei was “possessed by the spirit of feminism” after giving birth. I unironically love it. 10/10

Bilbo: doesn’t follow Hobbit naming conventions, but keeping a genderbend’s name the same is a galaxy brain move. 9/10.

Bilba: for real? For real? Are you serious? Adding an a to the end does not automatically make it feminine, how many times do I have to say this. 1/10

Billa: are you the chicken sidekick from Ozma of Oz? Is that what’s going on here? 2/10

Billianna: only slightly better in that you didn’t stick an A on the end of a boy’s name and call it a day. 4/10.

Bilberry: I respect the desire to keep it sounding the same while also making it seem more like other girl Hobbit names, but you probably should’ve gone with something that’s actually recognizable as a plant. Until I googled it to double check I wouldn’t make a fool of myself during this roast I thought it was made up. 5/10

Blueberry: THERE we go. 7/10

Briar: doesn’t sound quite right but I enjoy the Sleeping Beauty reference. Pairs especially well in Bagginshield fics because the King Under the Mountain trope is the spear counterpart to sleeping beauty. 7/10

Briony: an actual plant that has the bonus of sounding like something a genteel Victorian couple would name their children, which is crucial in the naming of Hobbits. 8/10.

Bluebell: a flower name that has the same sounds, the same initials, and the same number of syllables. Absolutely superb naming. 9/10

Bramble: very cute. No major complaints. 8/10.

Any plant name that doesn’t start with a B: I respect your desire to follow convention but also you couldn’t even bother keeping the initials the same? 4/10

Non-plant names that don’t start with a B: go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200. 0/10

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Some people can't work, if your leftism doesn't explicitly allow for this then your leftism is shit

primordial-fungus-monolith

This was a controversial one huh?

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oprerroma

The notes on this are starting to fizzle out. Don’t let this fade into the background!

Anti-romanyism is FAR too common, and there’s a certain, hippie side of tunglr dot hell that needs to see this

thequeenofcringe22

Reblogging because this is important

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rivendellrose

Anthropology major answer: “There absolutely was such a time! Modern humans and our ancestors shared territory numerous times over prehistory with cousin species like homo neanderthalensis, homo floresiensis, and many, many others!”

Folklore student answer: “Also, almost all cultures have something like djinn, faeries, hulder, fox spirits, and other similar creatures who can appear at least human and are very, very dangerous to humans!”

Both of these things are true, and may be connected both to the above and to each other. :D

et-regina

Biology majors: it’s dead bodies guys. Corpses.

luidilovins

Listen I hate this take on the uncanny valley so fucking much because many subpsecies of homonids lived in the same areas but some of them got along well enough to coexist and neandertals had enough desirable genetic traits to the point where human women (see here for a blanket on female vs male choosiness) would often pass up incel homosepian for the chad neandertal.

Genetics aside, various hominid species didn’t start visually looking all that different until 50,000 years ago, while under the skin changes began as early as 89,000 years ago (ie the development of the Y chromosome but I might be oversimplifying at this point) Point being, even our non-human cousins didn’t. look. that. different. from. us. Especially comparing the diversifying of humans themselves crossing trans continental as it was. And even then neandertals still had advantagious traits for living in the Eurasian hemisphere.

Also I digress, regardless of it being intentional, and with few perserved records from that chapter in our species’ history, I don’t like the implication that the uncanny valley effect stems from humans being inherently racist (for lack of a word for hatred of non-human intelligences). I know that sounds off the wall but prejudice and sense of superiority by birthright is vastly different than othering by means of the sucess of social groups and the need to compete for territory or resources. Racism is entirely a Eurpean fabrication and it’s been proven time and time again to be a cultural outlier and purposfully designed to further the agenda of corroded theocratical religious divinity (here, here, here) and the financial benifits of the exploitation of colonism that otherwise has not been replicated by other cultures to the same degree. (this is the only example off the top of my head but I’m know there’s more.)

You know what’s older than racism?

You know what’s more flesh crawling than neandertals?

fucking rabies

You know what LOOKS like a human but doesn’t ACT human ENOUGH? Do you know what might bite you and get you sick or turn you into something that also moves about in a non human way? Brain parasites that give you painful headaches and intensifies agression and confusion.

Say you’re a monkey and one member of your troop gets bitten by something. Later he starts twitching and swaying about. He keeps stumbling out of trees but barely feels anything when he hits the ground. He won’t eat sleep or drink. He makes guttural noises that keep alerting predators and he’s in obvious writhing agony. Suddenly he’s not your friend anymore. He doesn’t recognize you and he attempts to bite and claw at anything that moves.

Up until preventitive oral medications and vaccines were developed in the 1970s there was NOTHING stopping rabies and it still prevails today and kills hundreds of thousands of people in third world countries with limited medical resources a year. There’s no cure for rabies once youve got it and the only reliable diagnostic is a brain autopsy.

Rabies. TB. Leoprosy. Syphilis. Meningitis. Toxoplasmosis. Anthrax. Mercury Poisoning. Prion disease. These are all bad and in different varying degrees can cause limps, sores, agression, confusion or dazed trances, ambled pacing, convulsions or uncharacteristic behavior in humans.

Basically everything that people are terrified of when it comes to zombies. Vampires bite. Werewolves rip people apart. Demonic possesion? Easy. Changlings take the place of your loved ones.

Also I don’t think that it’s a conicidence that the things we find uncomfortable with the uncanny valley also just happen to line up with predatory behavior, smiling too wide or staring you down, blinking too slowly or moving towards you with a slow steady speed. It’s just a danger signal to keep other monkeys in a troop from getting bitten by an infected monkey. Simple as that.

After all what’s scarier? A dead body, or moving body that will MAKE you dead?

I’m not going to be a hypocrite by pointing out racism being excused as a stemmed human behavior without claiming that the deep seated primal fear of disease doesn’t make a good excuse for ableism as well. I mean we use othering to discern friend from foe, and then at some point decided that was a good enough excuse for racism. Theres legitimate proof that ancient homonids could and would be hospitible to the disabled out of compassion. The point of having these initial fears is to guage saftey measures first, but once someone or something is proven to be harmless that normally should be the end of it. I mean if an adult wild silverback gorrilla can look at a spycam and decide it’s chill after a moment of inspection then there’s really no excuse for any of us.

Healthy othering =/= newly invented racism.

healthy fear of infectious diseases =/= excuse to hate disabled people.

But yeah rabies is more likely the reason for the uncanny valley effect thanks for coming to my goddamn ted talk.

quasisnipr1048

Reblogging this version bc of sources and I personally think this makes for much more interesting (and terrifying) lore than any other post in this thread.

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foolisherudite

“it is creeping throughout my entire being. exhaustion. the worst kind actually. the type that does not result from a busy life but from a busy mind. you see, one can escape the world for even just a moment but one cannot escape from oneself, from ones being, from ones own thoughts. fatigue. i feel it coursing through my veins. i feel trapped for i know this cannot be expelled even from the deepest slumber for even then, my mind remains active and wide awake turning my fears, hopes, and desires into vivid dreams. my mind simmers in its own thoughts and there i discover that my greatest enemy is none other but me. but how can i run away from myself? weary. i am weary.”

— Tsukiko.: fatigue.