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the fermi paradox is so funny to me because people make it out to be some kind of cosmically horrifying unexplainable mystery but it's literally so easily solved by the speed of light. like everything in the universe is very far apart and there is a hard limit on how fast something can travel. like we've been sending out signals into space looking for alien life for what, 50 years? because of the speed of light, that means that these signals have traveled for, at most, 50 light years (shocking). if i go on space engine to check roughly how many known star systems exist within a 50 ly radius around earth, we get a grand total of: 776. even if we add in procedurally generated ones to get an estimate that accounts for star systems we don't know about then our total goes up to 3,407. our current estimations for the number of stars in the milky way alone is around 100 BILLION. our messages have only reached like 0.000003% of the total number of stars in our galaxy alone. and even if there are any stars with life within that radius, who says they would be able to receive these messages? single-celled life first evolved ~4,000 million years ago while multicellular life only came to be around ~1,600 mya. primates only evolved within the last 100 million years. we've only been able to receive signals for a few centuries. and if these aliens did receive our signals and were able to send them back, it would still take a while for those signals to then get back to us. if they were 25 ly away (a radius that contains 122 known star systems, btw) then it would take 25 years for the signal to get there and then another 25 years for it to come back. and this isn't even getting into the fact that these signals would become less intense the further they go due to the way light works. either way it's just so fucking funny to me that people think that "powerful aliens KILLED them ALL and they're coming for US NEXT" is anywhere near the most plausible explanation

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first time drawing fanart of a character : uughh i hope this is all canon accurate... it cant be canon innacurate at all or the enitire fandom will throw rocks at me...

10057th time drawing the character: heres them working at a mcdonalds

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these are KILLING me

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Happy deltajune

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honestly tho that scene in the incredibles where mr. incredible sees the names of all the old super heroes that used to be his friends / that he knew from Back in the Day and how every one of them has been killed by syndrome is such a chilling scene for so many reasons 

like for one, everyone he knew is dead at this point and has been killed on the same island he’s at now and two, its heartbreaking bc that means that almost every hero wanted to try out being a hero again despite the laws against it and wanted to try and help someone out and relive their glory days, only to be straight up murdered like fuck that scene is just so fuckin intense

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2015? that wasnt even that long ago. it was only... [doing the math] ohhh. ohhh..... oh dear...

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challenge: name an object no human has attempted to use sexually

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Maybe I am the way that I am because growing up in my household we'd often see how close we could get to someone before they realized that we were there and with creaky floors this was a real challenge

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blackstar: one of your daughters took a frog from our territory. she told us she wasnt going to eat it but was just going to let it live here

sandstorm: …..that doesnt sound like MY girls but okay. thank you for telling me. we’ll be on the look out for a frog i guess??

blackstar: …

sandstorm: they’ll get a stern talking to. we’ll make it hop back in your territory when we find it

blackstar: ….alright.

sandstorm, as soon as he leaves: alright you two give me the frog.

leafpaw: we named him jumppaw.

sandstorm: he needs to go back home

squirrelpaw: firestar promised he’d give him a warrior name and everything mom you cant get rid of thunderclans newest and bravest apprentice….

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One of my favorite stories to tell about myself from when I was a kid is the story how my grandma’s “Catching Fairies” game was banned because of me

So when I was really little my grandma had this game she made up, she’d give me and all my cousins jars and containers and tell us that in her garden there were fairies but they were smart and tricky so they disguised themselves as caterpillars and butterflies and as grasshoppers and worms.

Whoever caught the most ‘Fairies’ won but we had to set them all free because they tended to the garden

One summer day my brothers were at the age they were dreading ‘girly’ stuff so I was playing alone

At this point I had met all the fairies in the garden and I was getting bored without any competition and with finding the same old fairies

But then just as I was begrudgingly heading back to my grandma with the same fairies as usual I found a new fairy!

I thought she was so beautiful! She was resting on the sparkly thread in the leaves and her black body gleamed in the sunlight, she had long legs and a cool red spot on her back

Excited I coaxed her onto my hand and was so giddy I found a new one! I rushed back to the farm house to show my Grandma and Dad, gently carrying my new friend.

But when my Dad and Grandma turned around to see what fairy I caught I saw the color drain from their faces and both of them freeze, I could tell something was wrong but didn’t understand

My dad congratulated me and asked me if he could see the pretty fairy, I let him but felt a little nervous seeing how terrified he looked as she moved into his hands from mine.

Slowly he walked back towards the door, my grandma clutching my shoulders then my dad LAUNCHED the fairy back into the garden which I thought was rather rude

Then we had a nice long talk about Black Widow spiders

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Tumblr is making you look like a liar what is happening help

genuinely kinda doing this for performance art at this point

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if i’m ever brutally murdered and everyone feels like they need to do something productive in my memory, all i want is for you to pass legislation banning LED headlights in my name. regardless of how irrelevant it is to my murder. it’s relevant to my heart.

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it pisses me off SO bad how transphobes have so effectively used sports to launder transphobia and misogyny to people. like does nobody remember like ~5-10 years ago when it was a MAJOR feminist talking point to argue for desegregating sports and going by skill level instead of gender separation??? and now, because so many cis people hate trans people so violently and think we should be excluded from all aspects of public life, you’ve got a whole bunch of women who call themselves feminists laundering misogynistic talking points about how “women are just inherently weaker and worse at athletics than men :(( it’s just biology and women are inherently inferior :(( this is definitely not misogyny that’s unsupported by science, women are just weaker and worse at things :((“ like girl open your ears and listen to what you’re saying!!

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Throughout all of history, mankind has never created a more precise measuring tool than the infallible "eyeballin' it."

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Happy pride, everyone! I made a joke about my embroidery and now I've made it reality.

Want to use this as an icon? Consider tossing me, an unemployed trans person, a kofi donation! I'm still looking for a job and in the meantime any support at all really helps me to keep stitching projects.

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there's nothing i like more as a computer program than a long period of silent contemplation - not doing anything, not rushing anywhere, just standing here and enjoying this moment with the user. oh, it seems once again he has summoned my beautiful and ruthless wife Task Manager. hello, my darling! what are you doing with that long cruel scimitar