You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
@Anonus I forget, are burritos currently legal or not?
so apparently Caltech researchers think they have strong evidence that there's an undiscovered planet in the solar system, larger than Earth
that's cool if so
what the fuck
I'm pretty psyched for it.
Incidentally, I watched a video where some older people were asked to react to "Too Many Cooks" and in the Q&A segment one lady confesses to being a Metalocalypse junkie and admits to finding Nathan hot and I'm like, "I want to be this person in thirty-five years. You are my spirit animal."
Metalocalypse is decidedly not my thing from the few - five or six? - scattered episodes I've seen, and I'm sure it'd me more fun were I into metal (I can see certain obvious riffing on metal music and culture just not everything), but I can't not love names like Nathan Explosion and William Murderface.
Metalocalypse was always one of those shows I knew I could enjoy more if I were in the mood for it, but typically I'm not in such moods, so at best I could recognize it for being amusing/impressive for what it is but not really much more beyond that. (Funnily enough, I generally feel the same way about metal itself.)
Home Movies was created by the same guy, though, and Home Movies will always be The Shit.
Here is an article on Planet X. The gist of it is that some prominent astronomers have worked out that the perihelions (where they are when they're closest to the sun) and ecliptic angles (i.e. how far off they are from the imaginary flat plane most of the planets more or less orbit in) of a few "detached objects" are extremely unlikely (0.007%) to occur forever by chance, and that these things would be accounted for if there was another planet, about ten earth masses, orbiting the sun very distantly (seven times farther away than Neptune, at closest approach).
The "some prominent astronomers" are some guy I don't know and Mike Brown, who discovered Eris and essentially killed Pluto-as-planet thereby.
I do wonder what they'd call a new planet. I don't think there are any procedures, unlike pretty much every other kind of astronomical body.
Oh and I forgot to explain what a "detached object" is. I hadn't heard of this before, it's cool. It means stuff that orbits so far out that it's basically unaffected by any of the planets. Way past the Kuiper belt. Cool Shit.
i feel like, if i were a slightly different person, i would be strongly inclined to make a jab at this man implying that he gets off on the fact that he made Pluto not a planet anymore
I do wonder what they'd call a new planet. I don't think there are any procedures, unlike pretty much every other kind of astronomical body.
Oh and I forgot to explain what a "detached object" is. I hadn't heard of this before, it's cool. It means stuff that orbits so far out that it's basically unaffected by any of the planets. Way past the Kuiper belt. Cool Shit.
There are people who treat the ending of Rose of Versailles as a spoiler, which strikes me as kinda odd considering it's set during the French Revolution and Marie Antoinette is one of the main characters.
developmental biology is spooky, because almost all organs are formed from the middle and inner germ layers, but the nervous system is made of the outer layer, like skin is
Doubtless, the glory of the heavenly bodies fills us with more delight than we get from the contemplation of these lowly things; for the sun and stars are born not, neither do they decay, but are eternal and divine. But the heavens are high and afar off, and of celestial things the knowledge that our senses give us is scanty and dim. On the other hand, the living creatures are nigh at hand, and of each and all of them we may gain ample and certain knowledge if we desire. If a statue please us, shall not the living fill us with delight; all the more if in the spirit of philosophy we search for causes and recognize the evidences of design. Then will Nature's purpose and her deep-seated laws be everywhere revealed, all tending in her multitudinous work to one form or another of the Beautiful.
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someone say metal
The "some prominent astronomers" are some guy I don't know and Mike Brown, who discovered Eris and essentially killed Pluto-as-planet thereby.
There's no direct evidence of anything as yet.
I do wonder what they'd call a new planet. I don't think there are any procedures, unlike pretty much every other kind of astronomical body.
Oh and I forgot to explain what a "detached object" is. I hadn't heard of this before, it's cool. It means stuff that orbits so far out that it's basically unaffected by any of the planets. Way past the Kuiper belt. Cool Shit.
also that they're not allowed to have the same name as another object. so much for my legion of plutos plan
here is the paper
and doc brown's twitter account is seriously @plutokiller
i mean, larger than most astronomers, but let's be real, that doesn't mean shit
he just seems like a dork
wow if this planet does exist we should totally call it yuggoth
It's now half eight and I didn't stir once
(in vertebrates)
(dude's still sexist tho)
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
the 4th time in the row
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead