why arent u exploring the ocean its literally right underneath us ?? u can send a robot a million miles into space looking for aliens but not into the giant void that takes up the majority of the earth we live on?? please i am scared
Because they’re the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and exploring the ocean would be out of their tax-payer-funded mandate.
Thankfully, we also have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which includes the Office of Ocean Exploration, and you can visit their website to find out what they’re up to instead of complaining that the hat shop won’t sell you a pizza.
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call out post to Nasa
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Alan Turing was convicted for indecency because he truthfully admitted to being in a relationship with his boyfriend. In The Imitation Game they purposefully changed this fact to him being caught with a male prostitute.
…which is why I’ve never watched it.
Other films I won’t be watching:
– The stonewall movie
– The suffragettes film (Hey, where’d all the non-white people go?)
…the list gets longer each year.
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Snowfields in Beartooth Mountains melt away into history
Snowfields in Beartooth Mountains melt away into history
Jim Halfpenny, an ecologist and teacher, didn’t know where the snow went. He had taken a group of students to see the ancient snowfields of Wyoming’s Beartooth Mountains, but the vast white expanses had vanished.
“My stomach dropped. I couldn’t believe it,” said Halfpenny. “Last year I was inside that snowfield. It was 20 feet thick, and we were walking up tunnel mazes made by meltwater.
”
For the first time in recorded history, the ancient Beartooth snowfields near Yellowstone National Park melted.
Funny thing is, a whole lot of people in this country have absolutely no idea just how important a change this is.
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ladies invented your favorite science fiction subgenres
Margaret Cavendish – Mary Shelley – Emma Orczy – Catherine Lucille Moore
The Modern Novel:
Though there’s debate over it, many consider Murasaki Shikibu’s ’The Tale of Genji’ to be the first ‘novel’ as we might understand it today. It is, at the very least, considered one of the earliest classics and one of the most important pieces of literature of it’s time.
Not to mention, one the claimants to being the earliest known literary author was a woman known as Enheduanna.
A high priestess, Sumerian poet and hymn writer. She was also, arguably, the first to utilise writing in the first person.
We can never ever know who the first writer was, we certainly can never know the first storyteller, but what we can say with certainty is that ladies have been instrumental in shaping all sorts of writing and storytelling styles since the very beginning.
I’ll add that the first thing we might call autobiography in English was a woman named Margery Kempe.
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The Cool Girl Trap: Or, Why Sexism in Tech Isn’t Going Away.
The Cool Girl Trap: Or, Why Sexism in Tech Isn’t Going Away.
“So…I have a question for you.”
My
new art director, Nick, sat across from me, wiping a bit of pizza sauce
from the sides of his mouth. The animator, Robert, sat to the right of
him, and seemed to tense up anticipating the question. It was the first
week of my first job out of college, a small games studio in Florida
that I’d been initially proud and excited to have landed. The three of
us had gone out for lunch that day and were getting to know each other a
bit more.“What?” I asked.
“What exactly is your…genetic…makeup?” He asked.
I
paused, chewing for a second before answering, “that’s a really bizarre
way to phrase that question. Do you mean like what’s my…ethnicity? Or
racial background?”“Yeah.”
“Well my mom’s white and my dad’s Mexican. But I mean, they both were born here. I was born here.”
“Yeah, I was just curious, ‘cause like…your last name is totally Hispanic, but I was like…she definitely does not look Hispanic.”
“Ehh,
yeah. I get that a lot.” I dabbed awkwardly at my pizza with a napkin.
The subject was quickly changed, and I wrote it off as just a one-time
snafu. I almost forgot about it, until, as we were leaving, he asked me a
bit more about my family.“So do you have any brothers and sisters? I know you probably have a ton of them, right?”
“No, just my sister. Wait, why would you think that?”
“’Cause, you know…” he shrugs. “You’re Mexican!”
Evening reblog.
A friend’s experience in the industry. It doesn’t have to be marvel or dc for this shit to happen.
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I think our new programmer might rage quit
Chain of notes attached to a ticket:
New programmer on the completion notes: “Reduced 600 lines of mostly redundant case statements to 15 tightly constructed lines.”
Her manager, in the management notes on the same ticket: “15 lines of code in 3 hours is not enough.”
I want to rage quit and I don’t even have this job
I say this with great feeling (and after what’s essentially re-org number 3 in as many months):
fucking
_management_Wow. I wan to rage quite on their behalf. o_O
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So, that’s a relief
It’s not the official result yet. But…
:)
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Mind you, sometimes things went a bit far in public information films
It seems my beloved was unaware of Protect and Survive, the public information films on when I was a kid.
They are, I’ll grant, a little unnerving.
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Why
This is demonstrating why you absolutely do not pour water on a grease fire.
holy shit
Okaaaay. If any of you actually have a grease fire in the kitchen put the lid on the pan. It will suffocate the flames. Don’t pour water on it, and don’t freak out. Cook safely!
Or throw flour on it to smother it.
/quick safety announcement
NO, DO NOT USE FLOUR, DO NOT USE FLOUR TO SMOTHER A FIRE.
YOU HAVE TO USE BAKING SODA.
Throwing flour into a fire can cause it to combust and make the fire worse because FLOUR/SUGAR IS FLAMMABLE. One cup of flour into a grease fire can have the explosive force of dynamite.
The reason you use baking soda is that it releases carbon dioxide when heated, and CO2 is a fire suppressant.
REBLOGGING FOR LAST COMMENT TO SAVE LIVES
And ne’r was there more call for the old British Public Information Films.
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Petition to make Star Trek 2017 hella gay.
Boldly go, motherfuckers.