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?
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.
kudos to Ryland Grace for finally being the true “I am alone in space” representation we deserve by sobbing his eyes out every chapter. Relatable. I do that and I’m not even light years away from my bed
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.
I’ve seen some more idiotic readers go “Mark and Grace are just the same people.”
if they’re the same people, explain this:
Mark Watney: *at any minor inconvenience * FUCKING FU— Ryland Grace: *world-ending, life-threatening news* holy moly
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
as someone who jumped from the Martian straight into project Hail Mary I was really not expecting how much more absurd project hail mary is.
like. The Martian is fairly grounded? Its sci fi and had some elements that couldn’t really happen but ultimately it was a survival story. And since the two are so closely associated ig I expected something similar?
But every chapter of project Hail Mary is like ‘algae are eating the sun’ ‘they nuked antarctica’ ‘aliens and humans have a common ancester’ etc. It’s amazing.
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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why are all these modern aus for the Odyssey set in a high school. where's the retelling where Odysseus is just a guy lost in an airport who keeps missing his connecting flights home due to a comical series of delays and disgruntled airline employees