#Go Animate

[banzack]

unsold

[justjeremystims]

can't let gang know I fw go animate caillou... sweats

tumblr decided to post this on my main account so I'm really pissed at tumblr rn

primary colors, gilbert, pizza, n keyboardz!

screw you guys I'm bringing him to chuck e cheeses

[photo-roulette-wheel]

skibidi Caillou

[fluttershyfan555]

Harvey wit the Kayloos and Rosie (bonus wit a new baby)

[maxwellpaws]

[bobbysox]

caillou gets grounded goanimate videos were my skibidi toilet i was so obsessed with them. in 2014 i got my first ipad for christmas and all i did for a month after was sit in my bed and watch shit like caillou gets ebola and gets grounded or caillou gets black card at school and gets in dead meat. kids these days will never know the satisfaction of seeing him get ungrounded or the patience of going through two whole minutes of OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH YOU ARE GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED FOR 745743798478839748775729759548998398594959539 YEARS. they won't know.

[great-and-small]

The majority of the Earth’s rodents: How do you survive environments with practically zero oxygen, feel no pain, and live for decades when none of the rest of us can???

Naked mole-rats:

[sunshinetrinket]

i hope im not just a mutual to you but also a really annoying stranger who is somehow always going through something

[snowspot]

hecate 🔪

[arnab-factory]

Fascinated by this phenomenon

[iravaid]

On conservation and survival

[cyndaquilism]

[druid-for-hire]

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.

[canisalbus]

✦ Pebble ✦

[timemajestyruffusadventures]

The TMRA Chronicles – Tumblr Edition: Volume 1, Issue 2

“The Canon”

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[Note #001f: “Caillou nor GoAnimate are not cannot in neither the Majestyverse nor Magistralverse.” - Tamara Timestream Throneworks x Magistralverse Masterworks Media (Monday, May 12th, 2025)]