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nice mechanical watches are wasted on wealthy men. a billionaire who will wear it once every four years and leave it in a case the rest of the time doesnt deserve a marvel of engineering like that. *i* deserve a watch like that because i get sexually aroused by clockwork

embers-braincells

jokes on you, i have a mechanical watch with transparent windows, which means i can see it ticking, and it (the watch) is just as sexy as you think

yuriartillery

you really are out of your league here on all counts. look up the vianney halter deep space resonance and understand my suffering

embers-braincells

oh dear god you are right, i need that watch carnally

sentient-tent

For anyone who needed to see her in motion.

#that gif gave me chills

yourbestmate

NEW MURDERBOT NOVELLA ON ITS WAY!!!

helltiervriska

GET ECLIPSED, ASSHOLE

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deathstars

me remembering that luke and rey didn’t even have a good relationship and we didn’t get to see them as a parental relationship or even as friends

artoodeetoa

cant believe they expected us to believe luke saw rey; a lonely kid from a desert planet dreaming about finding her parents, struggling with her identity, and dealing with the weight and pressure of bringing back the jedi…. and he didnt want to help her. not only that, they also made them argue the whole time. SICK

deathstars

the real luke skywalker would meet rey and be like oh i know you. i’m your dad now. i can teach you three things: how to Force, how to make the perfect cup of hot chocolate, and how to destroy fascists. let’s go do barrel-rolls in x-wings

softieskywalker

the way the real luke skywalker would have taken a single glance at that feral desert girl and been like. “my child now.” come here girl I’ll teach you how to build moisture vaporators so you never have to exploit yourself for water. yes this is more important than jedi training. yes we can cover that later. oh you want to fight kyle? oh you’re struggling with the idea that he might still have a soul? ok learn from my mistakes and don’t lose a hand in a fight you can’t win, but also did i tell you about the time i beat my dad’s ass so hard he bounced back to the light side? funny story actually,

all of this in the 10 minutes after she gives him anakin’s lightsaber

deathstars

Rey: i was abandoned by my family on a backwater desert planet and waited for them for most of my life before a droid and the man who would become my best friend showed up and i chose to leave everything i knew behind in order to help save them and help the rebellion. i am very strong with the force and want to learn in order to protect the ones i love but my own capacity for darkness scares me. i need help understanding who i am and what my power means

Luke:

softieskywalker

the force: here, have an apprentice who’s a metaphorical narrative mirror for you. she needs guidance and a mentor figure.

luke: oh you mean my new daughter

the force: what

deathstars

Rey: here dad meet my friends

Luke, meeting orphan mechanic rebel rose tico, pilot with a flair for drama poe dameron, and man who chose goodness in the face of overwhelming evil and is powerful in the force finn: oh you mean all my new kids

softieskywalker

luke, talking to the force ghosts of the jedi council: so my first apprentice grogu has a mandalorian dad right? and he told me about how he rescued him and adopted him and how that’s custom for mandalorians, right? to adopt the children they rescue. so THEN i got hit with a tax bill for religious organizations and i thought you know what doesn’t get taxed? children. like when you have a child. you’re not paying the government for having a child. SO i thought you know what i ain’t payin the government shit-

force ghost obi-wan: but isn’t leia the chancellor?

luke: EXACTLY imagine paying taxes to your sister!!! i’d rather die. anyway that’s how i ended up with 15 children. they’re all skywalkers.

yoda: force-sensitive, some of them are not.

luke: yes. your point?

deathstars

the real luke skywalker is a devoted father and a tax evader that’s all there is to it

aniseandspearmint

Yet another way we were utterly ROBBED with the sequel trilogy

katarh-mest

I like this version so much better it’s worth another reblog.

fnordseer

it would've been cooler if those animals they sent into space came back with superpowers

fnordseer

christianstepmoms

this is so fucking funny

strawberry-crocodile

second time this summer the US has had a gun embarassment

babyfoxcollectionthings

beleth

Y'all do know scott cawthon is making money off of the fnaf movie AND he donates to republican politicians who have been supporting the anti trans legislation going on?? Right.. righ???

setyourphaserstoslutty

I wanna see the Christmas Carol with Quark

setyourphaserstoslutty

Don’t hide this in the notes

wigmund

There are no ghosts, it’s just Grand Nagus Zek each time with a new excuse to torment Quark.

obrienpolycule

@wigmund how dare you leave this in the tags

vesperstardust

Self-care is drawing Shaxs doing Bajoran things (I drew him with Kira on DS9 before the season 3 trailer was even out, so as far as I’m concerned I manifested it)

fandom

Space! ft. NASA

It was a big year in our part of the cosmos. We’ve invited our friends at @nasa to recap all the stunning scientific advances that gave us a deeper glimpse into the galaxy around us this year.

JWST Showed Us Space with New Eyes

In July 2022, we saw the first full-color images and data from the largest and most powerful space observatory ever made: the James Webb Space Telescope. This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” is speckled with glittering stars, and called the Cosmic Cliffs. It’s the edge of the star-birthing Carina Nebula. Usually, the early phases of star formation are difficult to capture, but the infrared Webb can peer through cosmic dust thanks to its extreme sensitivity, spatial resolution, and imaging capability.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Artemis I Flew Us Beyond the Moon

NASA’s most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), lifted off for the first time on November 16, 2022, launching the Orion spacecraft on a journey around the Moon. Orion has now traveled farther from Earth than any other spacecraft designed to carry humans to deep space and safely return them to Earth. The Artemis I mission is the first part of a new era of deep space exploration. The program is designed to take astronauts back to the Moon and eventually on to Mars.

Credit: NASA

This One’s for the Dinosaurs

NASA’s DART mission successfully redirected an asteroid—the first time humanity has ever changed the orbit of a celestial object in space. On Sept. 26, 2022, the vending-machine-size spacecraft slammed into the stadium-size asteroid Dimorphos, slightly shortening its orbit around its much larger companion asteroid Didymos. Neither asteroid posed a threat to Earth before or after the test. The objective was to test this “planetary defense” technique, should an asteroid ever pose a threat. Note: there are no known asteroid threats to Earth for at least the next 100 years, but NASA is keeping an eye on the skies, just in case.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL

Be sure to follow @nasa for more!

captaincrusher

Far beyond the stars really is such a good episode. Visually, narratively, symbolically. Perfect.

captaincrusher

One thing I always carry with me when watching that episode is the softness of Benny's voice as he speaks with his white colleagues and boss. It makes me remember the stories I've read from some black men that struggle with appearing shorter, appearing softer, appearing less, because their very bodies are seen as threatening. You shrink, mentally and physically, when constantly facing racist assumptions that are baked into the very structure of the society that determines if you get a job, housing, medical care or even if you live.

captaincrusher

Benny's soft whispers should be seen against the immediate backdrop as we enter the office of the magazine - Herb and Pabst fighting. Herb is loud, unapologetic, even threatens to quit. This is to mimic the Quark and Odo dynamic, clearly. But Herb is also completely unafraid, which is central here.

When Benny has his breakdown and raises his voice for the first time, Pabst is immediately scared and threatens to call the police. Herb is allowed leeway Benny completely lacks.

The episode lets our understanding of the power dynamic rest on the tone of Benny's voice and I see it, I hear it.

setyourphaserstoslutty

It’s so cold how is Garak not under a heat lamp 24/7

setyourphaserstoslutty

@mustangsjoeka

You’re right Dukat just lays down in his old office on a yoga looking Mat because he was waiting for Sisko and got cold

can0n-fodder

You know this is fascinating bc I never really thought about the fact that Cardassians are most comfortable in low light warmth, which is an odd combination. It suggests the Cardassian homeworld is very warm, but low light for some reason. A thick insulating atmosphere a la Venice, or maybe their Sun is some odd type that emits a lot of radiation while being visibly dim. Or, another option, Cardassians are nocturnal. Mmm...

setyourphaserstoslutty

This is brilliant

Some kind of Uv light could possibly work

nerdfishgirl

If I remembering the star charts book correctly, their sun is larger and cooler than ours. Now “cooler” in this sense means “cooler than other stars” - which translates primarily into light (electromagnetic) emissions primarily at longer wavelengths. Also according to star charts book, the Cardassian sun has a higher luminosity - i.e. emits more electromagnetic/light energy - than Earth’s sun.

This means that the Cardassian sun is sending out a lot more light, but at longer wavelengths.

Longer wavelengths in terms of the Cardassian sun would mean a lot of light in infrared, red and orange ranges, and less light in the blue-violet-UV range than Earth’s sun.

Infrared light or radiation is not visible to humans, but we do experience it - this is the energy from the sun (and from a fire, or a stove, etc) we experience as heat.

Therefore, I think it likely that the environment on Cardassia has red-shifted light, compared to Earth, possibly lower visible light intensity than Earth, and is likely much warmer, as more of their stars energy is being emitted as infrared radiation.

A Cardassian probably would enjoy a heat lamp exactly like Earth reptiles bc these lamps are emitting mostly infrared and red light - it would make a Cardassian feel like they were at a day at the beach.

Canonically, the Cardassian sauna has both reddish light and heated rocks, so I think the heat mats idea is great too.

UV light would probably not be preferable, as Cardassians would not be adapted to high UV.

I have an entire post about the Cardassian sun, and how to use it to calculate the length of the Cardassian year.

squish-this

I just gotta say this is my favorite thing about being in the Star Trek fandom. Someone knows the exact type of Star a fictional planet has and scientifically what frequency and wavelength of light it would emit and how that would affect a race of a fictional species of reptile aliens and they know this because they’ve done detailed research into this fictional sun to calculate the length of a fictional culture’s year. The best part about this is we can extrapolate this information only because the TV shows producers and creators understands their audience well enough to know they want as much detail as they can get, and actually released fictional Star charts.

Amazing. Love it. This is completely normal and happens all the time in Star Trek fandom. It’s like people knowing elvish from LOTR but make it sci-fi.