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I dont know who the hell the B stands for but god its disgusting that you ship anyone with Dib. Thats a whole ass child, freak. Wanted to follow for the Pokemon content but you're out here shipping whatever the fuck badr is. Dont fucking ship the kids with irkens jesus christ
HUH????? BADR IS MY NAME ITS A NAME IN ARABIC I DON’T EVEN WATCH ZIM DUGDHBCHBVHJVFH WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ON
Are We Alone? How NASA Is Trying to Answer This Question.
One of the greatest mysteries that life on Earth holds is, “Are we alone?”
At NASA, we are working hard to answer this question. We’re scouring the universe, hunting down planets that could potentially support life. Thanks to ground-based and space-based telescopes, including Kepler and TESS, we’ve found more than 4,000 planets outside our solar system, which are called exoplanets. Our search for new planets is ongoing — but we’re also trying to identify which of the 4,000 already discovered could be habitable.
Unfortunately, we can’t see any of these planets up close. The closest exoplanet to our solar system orbits the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, which is just over 4 light years away. With today’s technology, it would take a spacecraft 75,000 years to reach this planet, known as Proxima Centauri b.
How do we investigate a planet that we can’t see in detail and can’t get to? How do we figure out if it could support life?
This is where computer models come into play. First we take the information that we DO know about a far-off planet: its size, mass and distance from its star. Scientists can infer these things by watching the light from a star dip as a planet crosses in front of it, or by measuring the gravitational tugging on a star as a planet circles it.
We put these scant physical details into equations that comprise up to a million lines of computer code. The code instructs our Discover supercomputer to use our rules of nature to simulate global climate systems. Discover is made of thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines that hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching. Day and night, they spit out 7 quadrillion calculations per second — and from those calculations, we paint a picture of an alien world.
While modeling work can’t tell us if any exoplanet is habitable or not, it can tell us whether a planet is in the range of candidates to follow up with more intensive observations.
One major goal of simulating climates is to identify the most promising planets to turn to with future technology, like the James Webb Space Telescope, so that scientists can use limited and expensive telescope time most efficiently.
Additionally, these simulations are helping scientists create a catalog of potential chemical signatures that they might detect in the atmospheres of distant worlds. Having such a database to draw from will help them quickly determine the type of planet they’re looking at and decide whether to keep observing or turn their telescopes elsewhere.
Learn more about exoplanet exploration, here.
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employees should be allowed to steal, actually
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As a disabled person aircraft carriers have:
-Thrown out my boarding pass while saying to my mother, “it’s okay she’s in a wheelchair of course someone will just give up their seat for her”
-had staff kneel down to me and talk to me in a baby voice and say, “oh sweetie you didn’t understand me I asked you if you could walk
-been through every thorough pat down known to man
-had my wheelchair banged up to the point I had to by new wheelchair tires
-had staff talk over me and about me as if I wasn’t there
- had staff complain about me while I was being moved in a transfer chair
-was brought to a flight of stairs up to a plane and staff was shocked that I couldn’t board that way
-was sent a bus to pick me up and bring me to the wheelchair accessible boarding spot. They had to send a second bus because the first one they called for was not wheelchair accessible
And NOW, the Department of Transportation is proposing laws for aircraft that would:
- FORCE me (and other SD teams) to get paperwork proven that my highly trained service dog is well behaved and isn’t gonna poo everywhere
-FORCE me (and others) to arrive and HOUR earlier than anyone else on the flight so my service dog can be WATCHED FOR AN HOUR before deciding if we’ll be allowed to board
This is being disguised as a way to control people taking advantage of ESAs and what it is trying to do and what it will do is IMPEDE disabled people. They want to refuse legitimately trained miniature service horses. They want to make ESAs not allowed in aircraft at all. And they want to discriminate against disabled folk even more than they already do. This is not okay.
There is about a month or two left for the public to comment on the DOTs proposal. Please comment and help out our disabled community especially those with animal helpers
https://www.rollcall.com/news/emotional-support-animals-banned-planes-dot
PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR FEEDBACK AT THIS SITE: https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-department-transportation-seeks-comment-proposed-amendments-regulation-service
Remember when that cop pepper-sprayed students in 2011? UC Davis paid $175K to scrub it from the internet’s memory https://t.co/5prbgrx1WL
— Xeni (@xeni) April 14, 2016
quakeriders’ new feysand taglist
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the day when people realize that nb people are trans is the day that my face will clear
Take Your GIF Game to Cosmic Levels & React Like a NASA Astronaut!
We partnered with GIPHY to help take your GIF game to cosmic levelssss. As the Artemis generation who will witness a whole new era of space travel, we wanted make sure you could express yourself… like an astronaut!
So, if you want to show some love…
… or you’re pumped we’re half way to Friday …
We’ve got you covered.
Don’t miss our whole collection of astronaut reactions!
Want to use them on your device?
Type ‘NASAReaction’ in your device’s GIPHY keyboard…
…. and choose your favorite!
You can access our full collection of official NASA astronaut GIFs by visiting: https://giphy.com/nasa/reaction-pack
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honestly it is SO goddamn funny whenever some straight man calls me a whore or a bitch or something like girl you think that shit hurts my feelings? my closest friend once told me i dressed like an accounting major going through her 2nd divorce while trying to get her oldest stepchild to call her once a month. THATS a real insult. try harder.
Once again, The Onion is not even in the general vicinity of fucking around
Reblog if a fanfic has ever made you cry
The Costasiella kuroshimae Sea Slug.
This Sea Slug lives off the coast of Japan, Indonesia and The Philippines and grazes on algae. It forms a unique relationship with algae as it consumes the chloroplasts of its food and then uses the chloroplasts within its own system. photosynthesising and producing its own solar powered energy made from the sun - just like plants. ⠀
Images via Jim Lynn and Lynn Wu. ⠀
Help a Fur and Her Mate Out!
Hey guys. My hubby and I are planning to move to Washington next summer. Before we make such a big move, we are wanting to travel there in September to check it out. We are still 600-700 dollars short to pay for the flight, hotel, and rental car. My commissions are a way for me to try and help us get there.
My price is $10 for a full body flat color single character, $5 inked sketch, $3 chibi. If anyone can help us out I would greatly appreciate it! I can give examples of my art! Message me if you're interested!
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Productive Things That Aren’t Studying
washing the dishes
making your bed
tidying your book/dvd shelf/shelves
cleaning the cupboard/wardrobe
reading
sleeping
writing a blog
planning your month/week/day
replying to messages or asks
responding to emails
sorting through letters/mail
clearing your email inbox
organising stationery
clean your sinks
clean your toilets
pet your pet
sort through old clothes
give to charity
go on a walk
go on a run
clean down any surfaces
work out
meal prep
get rid of empty shampoo bottles from the shower
clean out old food from the cupboard/fridge
empty out your school bag
call your parent
unfriend/unfollow people you no longer interact with
watch a TEDTalk
empty the bins/trash
clean the mirrors in your house
hug your pet
wash some clothes
buy any birthday cards/presents that you need to
reply to any old texts
make a tumblr post on productive things that aren’t studying
do kids these days know abt numa numa