#science fact

[stone2stars]

Hey Senku,

What the fuck is plasma and why is it evil fire?

- no longer numb burnt out college kid

Plasma isn’t evil fire. It’s just gas that got bullied so hard its electrons left!

Heat a gas enough and atoms start losing electrons → now you’ve got charged soup: ions + free electrons. Now, you’ve got plasma.

It conducts electricity and reacts to magnetic fields; It’s everywhere: Sun? Plasma. Lightning? Plasma. Neon signs? Tame, obedient plasma.

So no, it’s not evil. It’s just matter in its “I’m done with this everything. And no, it’s not a phase, mom!” phase.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Analog, Vol. LXXXVII No. 4, Condé Nast, June 1971 (cover by Kelly Freas)

[surfingkaliyuga]

Illustration by Kelly Freas for William R. Burkett Jr.'s story "Sleeping Planet", used as the cover art for July 1964 issue of Analog: Science Fiction / Science Fact.

[impactarchive]

UCLA was probably the biggest school affected by Impact Day. It wasn't like... the end of the world for everything? But it certainly brought people back to the dark days of March 2020 and everything that came along with that. God, the emails we got were so so similar. Even the timeframe too, now that I think about it. That's way too close for comfort, in my eyes. Anyway... One of my colleagues from the area sent me this old screenshot, she's meticulous about saving all of these kinds of things (read, never deletes her emails....) But hey, I'm grateful for what I can get. This project is built off of the backs of folks like you! Artifact dated: December 15, 2027

[wtf-fun-factss]

People who read live longer. But it's complicated. Click to read the full fact.

[circumvision]

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