I’ve Seen Some More Idiotic Readers Go “Mark And Grace Are Just The Same People.”

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Given how humanity reacts to life in general, can we picture the INSANELY good memes that would have been made in the Martian universe while they tried to rescue Watney?

how to be a paleontologist in ten steps:

fall in love with the exceptionally dead

have questions about how they lived their lives

try to answer those questions

see how much we literally cannot know about the exceptionally dead

try to figure it out anyway through sheer chutzpah

succeed less than 1% of the time

cry

have an existential crisis about everything we cannot possibly know

contemplate doing something easier. like brain surgery or rocket science.

repeat

Einosaurus procurvicornis

Humans being the first. Not the strongest or the smartest or the weirdest or the most violent. Just the first.

We called out into the dark over and over. We sent out messages in hopes. We searched every planet we could reach, in hopes of any sign of life. Any at all.

We thought, hoped we were the last, because we couldn’t bear the idea of being the one ones this awake and alive in a world as vast as this.

And we died alone.

When the others are born, many many years later, they find us, everything we left for them.

They recover The Golden Record and look at it a million times over, they dig up our fossils and put us in museums, they study us for years and years, loving us as we love our ancestors’ painted hands on cave walls.

In a lot of their languages, the word they use for us has the same root for “mother”.

Longest solar Eclipse Ever Viewed

On 30 June 1973, a Solar Eclipse occurred which lasted 7 minutes and 4 seconds at any given spot, but which one group was able to view for more than an hour.

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Baby bird season is incoming and I’d like to remind everyone that birds do not have a significant sense of smell. Bird parents will not reject birdlets because you have handled them.

If you see smol birbs with few or no feathers on the ground, you can safely put them back into their nest, bird parents will still care for them.

If you see smol birbs with some or most feathers on the ground, please leave them there, as bird parents are probably nearby watching and feeding.

autistic shiro is probably my favorite hc ever so heres a list of traits i noticed in him. feel free to add more im going off memory

- he comes off as unintentionally rude or curt in some scenes ive noticed

- hes probably the least expressive out of the main cast

- his voice inflection also stays generally the same? at least to my own autistic ears

- likes doing things his way which can just be stubborness but also autistic “i know this way so its good”

- hes pretty considerate and sympathetic but doesnt seem to be able to relate to others much

- has a pretty strict routine of what we see

- special interest definitely space and piloting

Odysseus: We agreed we'd meet without backup. Are you alone?

Trojan: Yes. Are you alone?

(Diomedes steps out of the shadows)

Odysseus: No, I lied.

(Aeneas steps out the shadows)

Trojan: So did I.

Odysseus: I see. But here’s the thing-

(Achilles steps out from behind a tree)

Odysseus: I lied twice.