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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

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.

Been thinking a lot about this book as of late and wanted to do a fun cover art mockup for it

(Who else is very excited for the film)

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

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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Favorite bird genre has got to be 'that's literally just a dinosaur'

Groove-Billed Ani

Hoatzin

Pheasant Coucal

Meet Socks!

Einosaurus procurvicornis

(voice of a girl who's already weird about it) can i be weird about this

I can't believe the Voltron crisis lasted only two years. Seven seasons in two years. Deranged. Awful time to be online. PEAK shipping discourse. And the evil is defeated.

saw this trend floating around and it reminded me of him

(I don't know the context of this screenshot here. I just know that this was the most in character moment ever)

Zeus and Hermes judging if these 2 villagers (Baucis and philemon) respected xenia good enough or if they should hit them with uncalled for retribution

i love how the forward of every hitchhikers book is like, "yeah this book has no fucking plot. it has no fucking coherent characters. but are you really here for the plot or for the shits and giggles?"

And they are fucking correct. damned be the plot, we wing it with the wackiness of universe. Heres to the clever, hilarious, silly and occasionally deep, shits and giggles of h2g2.

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

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.

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

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

Humans being the first. Not the strongest or the smartest or the weirdest or the most violent. Just the first.

We called out into the dark over and over. We sent out messages in hopes. We searched every planet we could reach, in hopes of any sign of life. Any at all.

We thought, hoped we were the last, because we couldn’t bear the idea of being the one ones this awake and alive in a world as vast as this.

And we died alone.

When the others are born, many many years later, they find us, everything we left for them.

They recover The Golden Record and look at it a million times over, they dig up our fossils and put us in museums, they study us for years and years, loving us as we love our ancestors’ painted hands on cave walls.

In a lot of their languages, the word they use for us has the same root for “mother”.

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?

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

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.