When STEM People Have Fun.

Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad

20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’

The man who won't rest until the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is cleaned up has successfully tested his system for doing so.

““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.

Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.

Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.

The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.

GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.

It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…

Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21

“It has always been me and you…“

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while i know we all love to analyze the dream smp’s good parts and bad parts (myself included), i think we all also gotta realize that this isn’t some highly-funded television program that can get everything perfect. sure, we can be irked by certain aspects that don’t tie in well with the plot, but this is literally minecraft improv. it would be expected that there would be some flaws present.

it’s okay to care deeply about plot and lore, but let’s remember that this is all for fun too! we shouldn’t be too angry if something displeases us. take the dream smp with a grain of salt, and don’t forget to have fun while watching the streams!!

My memories are held together by meer threads...

oh my god all i can think about is the spiderverse. it is consuming my waking thoughts.

an incomplete collection of tweets i consider to be short poems

are. are keyboard smashes a thing. on tumblr.

Oh. Sometimes…plans go astray.

incomplete list of quotes that sound like they’re from classics but are instead from minecraft roleplay:

“Independence or death. If we get no revolution, then we want nothing.”

“The thing about this world is that the only universal language is violence, and we’ve had that conversation.”

“This isn’t the right thing to do. This isn’t the moral thing to do. What’s the point in doing anything if you’ve lost all hope?”

“Please remember that I’ve gotten everything taken away from me, and you know what they say about a woman that has nothing to lose.”

“This is the last moment for Judas to reveal themselves. Who’s the traitor?”

“However, I am questioning my own stand in this war. Am I on the right side? There is no true answer to the question, and it can only be told by time.”

(feel free to add on-)