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BUR

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blame @whalesbone for this btw

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What is this?

Who has left me a bag of Wendy's?

Dave's double? I didn't know Oshry had a restaurant.

I guess I'll give it a try.

*Horrible "slurping" sounds that can only be compared to "how to grapefruit your man"*

My God! It's the most wonderful thing I've-

*"slurping" continues*

AGH. BURGER.

*NOM NOM* AH.

A divine comedy.

*even more "slurping"*

The joke: that I spent all this time without this.

*getting freaky with the burger*

*Laughing* You're pregnant now.

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There's this sort of anthropomorphizing that inherently happens in language that really gets me sometimes. I'm still not over the terminology of "gravity assist," the technique where we launch satellites into the orbit of other planets so that we can build momentum via the astounding and literally astronomical strength of their gravitational forces, to "slingshot" them into the direction we need with a speed that we could never, ever, ever create ourselves. I mean, some of these slingshots easily get probes hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Wikipedia has a handy diagram of the Voyager 1 satellite doing such a thing.

"Gravity assist." "Slingshot." Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We're getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a "slingshot," because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can't be sure about the exact physics).

Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. "Black hole?" Damn yeah it sure is. "Big bang?" It sure was. "Galactic cluster?" Buddy you're never gonna guess what this is. I think it's an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like... idk, botany.

But, like. "Gravity assist." I still can't get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.

We are assisted.

And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:

"... You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. ..."

Gravity assist.

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hmm…

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Do people care if u get inspired by other polls.... Anyway the red/blue poll I see going around is nice but I found that I associate my friends with all sorts of colors so. here

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I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of nature’s most prolific machines met and were like “hmmm. We should lay around and do nothing together”. Now we’re both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all

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one I finish my commissions I wanna get back to doing more personal art & fanart again... haven't been ultrakill-posting and it's making me sad. what if i did ultrakill mermay

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affirmations for IKEA screws

If you strip I will kill you

If you strip I will kill you

If you strip I will kill you

If you strip I will kill you

If you strip I will kill you

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lets All lock in starting Right Now

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peculiar algorithm pull today

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He died doing what he loved. Being fatally injured.

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Když se chcete hádat na internetu o historii ale potřebujete se ujistit že nemelete hovadiny

Můj chrabrý zachránce

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guess my job from this image alone

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i think it's ok to play fighting games to cum. there are worse reasons to do something

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vent art for having expensive hobbies but you’re 23

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Legendary Holy Blade, by nolan192

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songs to crash your car to