#scientist.

[brokentoy13]

"I'm A Scientist, and even *I* can't get my own family To Wear Masks And Get Vaccinated." -an article headline I read years back

[break-between-the-walls]

Thanks, you guys. That really means a lot.

“It is no problem,” Henrik says.

“Yeah, we’ll figure something out!” Jackie says. “But for now—I think Chase and I had better go. Don’t want to drip river water on the carpet for too long.” They give a nervous little laugh, glancing at Stacy.

“I’ll just say hi to the kids real quick,” Chase says, heading upstairs.

“I’ll wait outside!” Jackie says.

“It was nice to see you, Jackie,” Henrik says.

Stacy nods. “Even with the river water.”

“You gotta tell us all about what happened later!” Phoebe says excitedly.

Jackie gives a little salute. “We will. See ya.” And with that, they head outside to wait.

[break-between-the-walls]

Yeah, me too. I wonder if that’s what kept us away so long? Some sort of “storm” keeping us from landing?

“The rifts? Hm I suppose it is possible,” Henrik says. “Perhaps the fabric of space-time was too unstable for a while. You could not settle.”

Chase shudders. “I don’t like to think is about space and time being unstable,” he mutters.

“It is a bit… unnerving,” Stacy agrees.

“Well also—perhaps the ghosts were simply pushed forward in time by the rifts,” Henrik speculates. “We have proven there are time distortions in the city. Jameson Jackson being here is proof enough.”

“Yeah, I can’t believe Mr. Mustache is from the past still!” Phoebe says. “How is he?”

“Fine last I checked,” Jackie says, and Chase nods in agreement. “A bit… paranoid. But it’s well earned.”

[break-between-the-walls]

I’m sure they have. But it’s probable that they were keeping to themselves while they chewed through the data they got.

“Oh yes, but how much do they understand?” Henrik continues. “And what are they planning to do next? The rifts were in the news, surely they must know what happened.”

“I am so glad those crazy things went away on their own,” Phoebe mutters.

[break-between-the-walls]

It all came through in a rush right before we got back, a lot like the other visions. But it really felt like an e̵te̸rn̛i̢ty out there.

“Oh! You must be experiencing time dilation of some sort!” Henrik says excitedly. “Maybe it is because of you being from other worlds! The visitors we had mentioned they were from a universe in 2020, but of course we are I 2017. Things do not match up! Perhaps your world moves at a faster time frame so the pauses feel longer to you than to us. But I do not think time is consistent in how it passes sometimes. Because sometimes it only seemed like a moment to you but much longer for us—Are you getting all this?”

Chase chuckles. “He’s been going on about a bunch of stuff like that for a while.”

“How do you know, Chase?” Henrik shoves him playfully. “You are not even here most of the time!”

“Stacy told me.” Behind Chase, Stacy nods.

“Well—I am excited!” Henrik says. “Prior is as well, I-I have asked him to access some of Psyode’s files for me, we are meeting up soon so he can drop those off. We must know if Psyode picked up on—well—everything that happened.”

[monards]

I hope we get the Hexenzirkel preview; and JUST to troll on the Hexenzirkel fans, Hoyo makes invisible bodies drink from the teacups like they did in windblume.

[scotianostra]

On June 3rd 1726 James Hutton, the chemist and geologist, was born.

I was busy yesterday getting drunk so playing catch up a wee bit.

James Hutton transformed our concepts of the earth and the universe by deciphering the message carried by common rocks.

He discovered that our planet is enormously older than people believed. He gathered evidence with his own eyes rather than relying on what ‘everyone knows’ or the written word. Prior to his work it was generally accepted in the West that the earth was about 6,000 years old, based on a literal interpretation of the Bible’s timescale.

Hutton devised one of geology’s fundamental principles – uniformitarianism – which says that the same natural processes we see operating today are the ones that have always operated, and that these everyday natural processes have shaped our world.

Other theories that require an immense amount of time – such as evolution by natural selection and continental drift – would not have been credible without Hutton’s work.

You can find out more on James Hutton at the link below. https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/earth-inside-and-out/james-hutton