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Found in WI of course! Lol

Even the Wikipedia page on the Catholic relationship with abortion notes that most pro-choice Catholics are those who barely/never attend Mass, while most pro-life Catholics are the ones who regularly show up.

Traditional cottage house in Poland

The First Woman In Space Turns 80, And You Probably Never Heard Of Her

“Her flight into space, at age 26, is still the record for youngest female astronaut/cosmonaut. Aboard Vostok 6, her rendezvous with Vostok 5 cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky made them the first cosmonauts aboard different vessels to communicate in space. In cosmonaut history, only Yuri Gagarin and Alexey Leonov are more revered.”

Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, launched aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983 amidst controversy. At 32, she was the youngest astronaut in history, surrounded by questions such as “will it ruin her reproductive organs,” “what if she’s menstruating” and “will she weep if something goes wrong on the job?” But 20 years prior, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova proved that women had every bit as much mettle and ability as the men. Tereshkova’s 1963 flight – which she piloted, orbited Earth 48 times in, and even had the first spacecraft-to-spacecraft communication in – demonstrated that women could withstand and function in space just as well as men. She was only 26 at the time, still a global record for women in space. Her incredible life in the military, in politics and as an ambassador for space exploration continues to this day, on which she celebrates her 80th birthday.

Come get the whole story – as much as fits in 200 words – on Valentina Tereshkova as part of today’s Mostly Mute Monday.

The phases of Venus as it orbits the Sun, illustrated by John Emslie in Astronomical Diagrams, 1851.

there was a really annoying post on a “Xtains don’t interact” blog (cause you know how people just hate using the word Christ) talking about how “Christians just can’t understand Hallelujah because it’s a jewish song” and “the context and the jewish relationship with God prevent Christians from fully understanding cause they can’t obviously have struggles with their relationship with God cause they blindly follow him” and a whole other bunch of crap.

And like, I’m only saying this cause people have such a poor understanding of actual, legitamite and Holy Christian theology that they can’t even comprehend that we have a complex relationship with God where we question things and doubt and fear.

Controversially, Christian people have struggled and fought from the very start to exist and continue to suffer and die for their faith.

I’m ranting but it’s just sad. Maybe actually bother to learn something about Christianity (or Catholicism since I am coming from a Catholic point of view) because a whole bunch of what people say and think is wrong because every one has a watered down, secularized and poorly represented version of Christians.

Damn.

Solving ODEs with discipline, call that Stern Liouville Theory

engage your neighbour across the lane in a shouting match about whether you observed a comet or an unnatural phenomenon, convinced you are in the right as you know very well he has no telescope

There’s a world you’re living in, no one else has your part.

Vintage knife circa 1919, newly engraved.

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)