Somebody giffed today’s comet-landing xkcd. Everything is better now.
And we have TOUCHDOWN!!! On the comet!!!!
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#xkcd #Rosetta #the power of science #space #\o/ #proud citizen of The Future
“Don’t take the smaller criminal charges lightly – even after they execute you for the big ones, they’ll still put your corpse in jail for the other crimes, so even if you get resurrected, you’ll still be in jail. It’s common sense, really.”
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#…they’ve got a point there
Today I was talking to my dad and I referred to myself as his son(I’m genderfluid btw) and he said
“Today’s a Son day huh?”
And I was like “yeah”
And he was like “huh, I thought today was a Saturday, not a Sunday”
And I just laughed for like 5 minuteslolllll oh dad jokes.
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#puns #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
Our world is in peril. Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet. She gives five magic rings to five special young people. From Africa, Kwame with the power of earth. From the North America, Wheeler with the power of fire. From the Soviet Union, Linka with the power of wind. From Asia, Gi with the power of water and from South America, Ma-Ti with the power of heart. With the five powers combined they summon earth’s greatest champion – CAPTAIN PLANET!
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#Captain Planet #my childhood #I used to watch this at 5:30AM while waiting to see the sunrise #mostly for Linka #I was born and raised in a post-Soviet world #and I thought it was *fascinating* to see a show that just casually treated the existence of the Soviet Union as a *thing*
CLINT BARTON SITTING ON HIS PORCH IN A ROCKING CHAIR PLAYING THE BANJO AND WATCHING THE FIREFLIES
*something explodes in the distance*
*plays banjo slightly louder*
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#Avengers #all my MCU is through cultural osmosis #so I don’t know if this is an actual scene or a what-if or a scene from comics but not movies or what #but #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
Scarred by war: Battlefield landscapes from First World War 100 years on
Source: The telegraph
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#now for a post about Remembrance Day that is actually *about* remembrance and not about immigrant experiences #Remembrance Day
The Canadian Space Agency is proud to have many Veterans among its employees. On this Remembrance Day, join us in thanking them and all Canadian Veterans for their courage, service and sacrifices that have kept our nation strong, proud and free.
(The poppy pin shown above is either old-fashioned or foreign, I’m not sure which. This is what a modern-day Canadian poppy pin looks like. I’m not complaining about the CSA’s choice of picture, but I thought I should give you the correct mental image for what I’m about to tell you.)
The importance Canadians place on Remembrance Day and World War I is probably the biggest thing that surprised me about Canada. I had no idea until after I moved here.
My first November here, the very first time I ever saw someone wearing a poppy pin, I told her I liked her flower. She was rather surprised. I was nearly fourteen: surely I knew what a poppy pin was? But I didn’t, and the people there had to explain to me.
The first time someone referenced “In Flanders Fields” in front of me, I didn’t know what they were talking about. They were surprised: surely I’d had to memorise it in school a few grades back? But I hadn’t, and they had to explain to me.
I memorised it on my own not long after that; I wanted to be more a part of my adopted country. I visited two World War I museums to learn the things a Canadian ought to know. I bought a poppy pin from one of the countless donation boxes for the Royal Canadian Legion, and I try to wear it whenever leaving the house during the first eleven days of November, as Canadians do. This is my country too, now, and its customs are mine.
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#Remembrance Day #our home and cherished land #cultural differences #the more you know
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft is set to release its Philae probe in preparation for touchdown on the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko tomorrow, November 12.
In case that didn’t sink in, tomorrow some human beings are going to try and land a spaceship on a comet. Here’s what you need to know, thanks to the folks at Nature (click here to explore a bigger version of the infographic).
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#space #the power of science #(there are *so* many things that could go wrong) #(here’s hoping this works)
