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hold on sorry you're telling me the name of the boat was "the terror"?? i always assumed that was a retroactive name! did they WANT things to go horrifically awry???

obsessed with the implication that nominative determinism could have saved them

valtsv

renaming my ships to HMS We Won't Die in the Arctic and HMS No Scurvy before successfully navigating the northwest passage

maniculum

I think this is a great idea, if only because “The HMS Nothing Will Go Wrong On This Voyage Lost with All Hands” would be a fantastic headline.

lilacblossoms

Not only the Terror, but Erebus was the ancient greek personification of darkness, and a region of the underworld.

They took Terror and Darkness on an Arctic expedition.

(They also took lead-contaminated rations, which was a bigger problem)

xxxadgothur

technofeudalism

so international space station astronauts apparently dropped a tool bag during a spacewalk. and if you look outside when the ISS is in your region, you can see it with binoculars

The tool bag is now orbiting our planet just ahead of the ISS with a visual magnitude of around 6, according to EarthSky. That means it is slightly less bright than the ice giant Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. As a result, the bag — officially known as a crew lock bag — is slightly too dim to be visible to the unaided eye, but skywatchers should be able to pick it up with binoculars. To see it for yourself, first find out when you can find spot the space station over the next few months (NASA even has a new app to help you). The bag should be floating two to four minutes ahead of the station. As it descends rapidly, the bag is likely to disintegrate when it reaches an altitude of around 70 miles (113 kilometers) over Earth.

she's fucking magnificent

roach-works

everyone enjoy earth's newest and silliest satellite while she lasts

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

I have seen a new Hazard Sign. It’s… very specific:

[enhance!]

a warning against a bird party?

Worm time!

nudityandnerdery

"Opening outdoors may bring Alfred Hitchcock back from the dead to remake The Birds"

fadedlovemp3

not unfollowing a mutual who hasnt posted in 9 months out of loyalty and love like a widow still setting a place at the dinner table for her husband who died in the war

waroftheroses

Me!