[Odo stirring for the first time was the most adorable thing ever. I would watch an entire cooking show if it featured Sisko the chef and Odo as his assistant.]
This zinnia flower was not selected for his beauty (although it is super cute!), but because it can help scientists understand how plants flower and grow in microgravity.
“It is a more difficult plant to grow, and allowing it to flower, along with the longer growth duration, makes it a good precursor to a tomato plant” said Trent Smith, Veggie project manager at NASA.
NASA Boeing 747 with Space Shuttle Endeavour on her back
The mid-air mating of a space shuttle with a 747.
Though their offspring will be sterile like a mule, Space Shuttles and 747s are close enough genetically to reproduce together, leading some scientists to believe they have a very recent common ancestor, possibly the Bell X-1.
Rudimentary social characteristics in both Shuttle and 747 groupings however make the mating a sort of taboo. If caught, the shuttle will face ostracization from its herd. The 747 my actually be dismantled by others of its kind. And the offspring not only faces social isolation, but runs a high risk of deformity:
Of course these risks are nothing compared to the recorded instance of a biplane mating with a tank:
That’s an Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka btw and it’s real.
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#pretty things #proud citizen of The Future #(and for the addition:) #storytime
They intended to dummy it out, but you can still access it if you strafe into the corner at the right angle. Doing this will bypass 3 nights of your stay and glitch out your room service to read 244 pizzas (the pizzas are actually infinite-use, the counter will not decrease).
Just go outside and punch the ground a couple times. Go back inside and build a noob tower up to the sitting area, it can’t be higher than 3, 4 blocks.
There are two things that are incredibly accurate about this comic:
In a century, I’m a space empress.
In a century, I’m still dropping Hamilton references.
…actually, now that you mention it, I could absolutely believe that century-old space empresses would make a habit of ancient pop-culture references, just in general. That particular reference is probably too obscure to communicate “Do not trifle with me, child. I was here long before your parents were born, and I have every intention of being here long after you are dust in the wind. You do not want to get in the way of that goal.”, but it could still serve as staying in practice for when it’s time to deal with other gerontocrats. (And there’s always personal amusement, of course.)
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#Parhelion #reply via reblog #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #it was interesting to listen to my brain attempt to synthesise what future!Alison would sound like #when I’m just reading her posts my brain gives up and just makes something up out of the stock voices #(though it’s worth noting that the thought-voice I read Alison’s posts in is both consistent over time and different from the default voice) #(but it has a very definite American accent because I tend to have trouble using thought-voices with accents different from mine) #(I did notice that after talking to her in-person and hearing her pronounce ”can’t” in the British manner) #(my brain started attempting to integrate that particular characteristic into her associated thought-voice) #(with limited success) #(anyway as I was saying:) #my brain actually made a proper attempt this time #and it’s always interesting to feel it scrambling to construct a thought-voice according to relatively precise specifications #even if it’s almost never as successful as I’d like #tag rambles
Brinens and Things 