When An Alien Race Discovered Earth’s Atmosphere Was Made With Oxygen, Their Best Scientific Theory

If humans were reconstructed from nothing but bones, they would 100% give us fur. The idea of “hairless except for the top of the head where the hair is actually the longest in the entire animal kingdom” would never come up

Good ideas. I been playing around with the idea of teleportation devices using the Earth's gravity as a point of reference when teleporting.

Imagine this: a time gun. Anything it shoots gets sent to whatever time it’s set to. Only thing that changes is their time. So because everything in space is constantly moving and the thing isn’t being moved they wouldn’t stay on Earth. Chances are it’s just adrift in space. So basically it’s just a gun. Anyone that gets shot with a time gun is almost guaranteed dead. At least the body is automatically disposed…

Ooh, interesting! Even without the Earth displacement, sending people/things somewhen else makes for a fascinating disposal method. Maybe there's a specific prehistoric volcano that's reliable for leaving no trace, or maybe the person with the time gun is the kind of wild card who grins at random chance. That's how you'd get a modern person in all sorts of interesting predicaments. Pyramid construction, next century's space invasion, or five minutes before the gun went off...

And if we DO include the way Earth moves, then humanity is leaving a very interesting trail through space! I wonder who or what might be following it.

I feel like people all around the world are lining up to kill him

A man stands in line at an ATM in Moscow.

After an hour he loses his patience and yells ‘Putin is to blame for this I’m going to the Kremlin and kill him!’

30 minutes later he’s back in line at the ATM. 'Why are you here again?’ 'The line in front of the Kremlin is twice as long as this one…’

Due to a curse placed upon your bloodline, you’re invisible. You’ve been married to your blind wife for 25 years and she’s just gotten surgery to recover her vision

Puppygirl this puppygirl that. I'm a catgirl for life. The classic. Tried and true. The autistique

group of adventurers breaking into your standard booby-trapped ancient forbidden temple/labyrinth/tomb/whatsit--accompanied by a UNESCO World Heritage archeologist whose only professional concern is site preservation

Cool 😎

CAPSTONE: Testing a Path to the Moon

Before NASA's Artemis astronauts head to the Moon, a microwave oven-sized spacecraft will help lead the way. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat mission set to launch in spring of 2022. For at least six months, the small spacecraft will fly a unique elongated path around the Moon. Its trajectory—known as a near rectilinear halo orbit—has never been flown before! Once tried and tested, the same orbit will be home to NASA’s future lunar space station Gateway. Here are five things to know:

1. The 55-pound (25 kg) spacecraft is equipped with solar arrays, cameras, and antennae for communication and navigation.

2. Powerful thrusters will help propel the CubeSat toward the Moon.

3. CAPSTONE will fly a unique elongated path around the Moon for at least six months.

4. At its closest approach, it will come within 2,100 miles (3,380 km) of the Moon's North Pole.

5. The same orbit will be home to Gateway— our future outpost for Artemis astronauts heading to the Moon and beyond.

CAPSTONE is commercially owned and operated by Advanced Space in Westminster, Colorado. NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology program within the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate funds the demonstration mission. The program is based at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The development of CAPSTONE’s navigation technology is supported by NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program. The Artemis Campaign Development Division within NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate funds the launch and supports mission operations. The Launch Services Program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida manages the launch.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

An unproduced design by Maurizio Sacripanti for the Italian Pavilion at Osaka Expo ‘70. The building’s oscillating metal panels, drawing inspiration from cellular organisms, would have “pulsed” unpredictably.

I wondered why green is so associated with hope and then I remembered being 8 and seeing a little plant sprout after a few days of waiting and. Yeah. I get it now.

Lol

being on tumblr is like being in a car in a parking lot

like it's technically public, but you're also sorta in your own little bubble, and people have to be Actively trying to listen in order to hear you, if they're even aware that you're speaking at all. and then sometimes you accidentally bonk the horn with ur elbow and suddenly the whole parking lot knows you're a virgin