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Honestly this con has the most costumed people I've seen in one place 💙 We don't have an official table here but Dave Lalley was super prepared and has put up a poster and logistics map for us ⭐️ * * * #worldcon75 #helsinki #finland #summer #cosplay #costume #convention #sciencefiction #sfcon (at Messukeskus)

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C-3PO makes me laugh because you have to remember he was assembled by a child out of things from a scrap heap. Everything about him makes sense if you bear that in mind. Anakin wanted a droid who could help his mother, but the only AI package he could find was one somebody threw out for being too fussy. The combination of tweaking to give him a worried/caring personality makes him constantly anxious. A protocol droid comes with a fair amount of language packages, but why stop there? Somebody threw out like, three different galactic language dictionaries because they weren’t the recent edition. Just load ‘em all up. all of them, even the packs that contain things like ewok and a thousand variants of different manufacturers’ droid codecs. don’t add half the other requirements most legal protocol droids have included at the factory like emergency wipe protocols or shutdown failsafes, or programmed obsolescence. Build that sucker out of non-commercial materials that are already over a hundred years old and still good, tweak it to withstand tatooine of all places.

so now you have this droid that is over thirty years old and it could never be obsolete because it was never manufactured by anybody but a kid on a sand ball somewhere, it’s never running down because it was built to last on tatooine and there’s nothing programmed in to try and urge you to buy the latest model because there is no latest model. 3P0 is simultaneously totally useless yet hyper functional because he was not made according to any specs except “the best most toughest things possible to help my mom for a long long time on a hot desert planet”

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The Doctor: is 2000 years old

Also The Doctor: is offended he could be a 20yo's grandfather

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Divided we fall..

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steve rogers + symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, as requested by @heyhosers​

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someone literally just reblogged my gif and said “the tumblr shipping of kirk and spock has begun”

i dont even know how to begin to react to that statement

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alexander siddig is cuddled by avery brooks and then gets excited about seeing terry farrell for the first time in 3 months

from this charmingly 90���s e! documentary (x)

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Rocket 5 by Robert LaDuke

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look…………….. write as much shitty fic as you want. nobody can stop you. you’re learning constantly and it’s better to write hackneyed implausible ridiculousness than it is to not write at all out of fear of fucking up. you’re good

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When you encounter anyone passive, complacent, or indifferent to the global affairs of theirs and equally, subsequent generations, remind them of this briefest exchange in Rogue One which should reverberate through our past and echo into the future:

Saw Gerrera: “You can stand to see the Imperial flag reign across the galaxy?”

Jyn Erso: “It’s not a problem if you don’t look up.”

In this life, you can unfortunately choose to disengage from the uncomfortable truths of our human history still unfolding before us. But there’s nowhere you can escape to. Ignoring the causes of human stagnation places you in opposition of the cause.

Disengagement is tantamount to treason against your own species and the conglomeration of biodiversity we exist and thrive in partnership with. There are a multitude of tools at our disposal available for our choosing we may arm ourselves with; the finest of which is knowledge, the underpinning of awareness that feeds our sentience.

We are defined by our actions and our impact on others’ lives; whether or not we live to see them ourselves. You do not have to place the entire world and the misdeeds of others upon your shoulders. Simply acknowledge your talents, skills, interests. Acknowledge your own failings and shortcomings; confront your insecurities; make peace each day with your idiosyncrasies that make you ‘you’. Embrace every breath; as the brief moment in the sun of your existence belies an opportunity for influence toward change.

“What chance do we have? The question is what ‘choice.’ Run. Hide. Plead for mercy. Scatter your forces. You give way to an enemy this evil with this much power, and you condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission. The time to fight is now. Every moment you waste is another step closer to the ashes of [humanity].“ – Jyn Erso

“We don’t have the luxury of deciding when or where we want to care about something. Suddenly the rebellion is real for you; some of us live it. You’re not the only one who lost everything. Some of us just decided to do something about it.” – Cassian Andor

Recognize the significance of your ‘now’.

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so like i was saying [taps mic] reylos need to understand that you dont “love” finn if you erase him constantly like…yeah you may say you love finn but words dont mean shit most of the time

i mean..some of you straight up white wash him? the reylo who made that one edit and used the excuse of “i got it on youtube” still hasnt apologized for her actions. i dont think you realize how awful it feels to look at a picture of finn where he’s cropped out and replace with a white dude. that proves you dont actually care about him.

im tired

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A group of rough looking boys walked past me today and all I heard of their conversation was “he’s got that anxiety disorder bro so I went with him so he’d be more comfortable” and it made me realise the world isn’t all that bad

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Five Times Astronaut Peggy Whitson Made History

On April 24, 2017, NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson established the new record for the most time spent in space by an American astronaut. She’s spent more than 76 weeks of her life floating in microgravity!  It’s not the first time in her career at NASA that Whitson has established new milestones: here are just a few.

First NASA Science Officer

Peggy Whitson was the named the first NASA Science Officer aboard the space station in 2002. The position was created to work with the United States research community to understand and meet the requirements and objectives of each space station experiment.

First Female to Command the Space Station… Twice

Whitson became the first female to command the space station during Expedition 16 in 2008. Then Whitson became the first female to command the station twice during her current mission on April 9, 2017.

First Female Chief of the Astronaut Office

In 2009, Whitson became the first female and first non-pilot to achieve the most senior position for active astronauts, Chief of the Astronaut Office.

Most Spacewalks for a Female

On March 30, 2017, Peggy Whitson broke the record for most spacewalks and most time spent spacewalking for female astronauts. Suni Williams had previously held the record at 7 spacewalks.

Most Time In Space By A NASA Astronaut

At 1:27 a.m. ET on April 24, Peggy Whitson set the new record for cumulative time spent in space by an American astronaut. Jeff Williams previously set the record in 2016.

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By artist Bin Ying.

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Moon Treaty Participation.

Green: Parties

Yellow: Signatories

Red: Non-parties

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Nimit Nigam

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