Reading A City in Mars, and this is the most Murderbot-ass paragraph ever:
"One analysis of every single reported in-flight health issue in all
shuttle flights from April 1981 to January 1998 found a total of thirty-
four events of “behavioral signs and symptoms,” giving an incidence of about one for every three person-years of spaceflight. That’s amazingly low when you consider that the thirty-four events include things like “anxiety” and “annoyance.” We had thirty-four anxiety and annoyance events just editing this chapter."
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A Spectacular, Rare Alignment of 6 Planets Is About to Happen in The Sky
An illustration of the June 3 planetary alignment. (Star Walk)
By Michelle Starr
24 May 2024
Six of the planets of the Solar System are about to line up for a rare sight in Earth's sky.
In the wee small hours of 3 and 4 June 2024, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus will appear in a straight line in an alignment known as a planet parade.
Only Venus will be absent – even Earth's waning crescent moon is going to put in an appearance.
It's not uncommon for several planets to be in the sky at once, but it's less common for more planets to align.
Any number of planets from three to eight constitutes an alignment. Five or six planets assembling is known as a large alignment, but five-planet alignments are significantly more frequent than six.
These alignments do not represent the planets lining up in space like you see in diagrams and illustrations of the Solar System. That's not a thing that actually happens in the real Universe, sadly.
A planetary alignment occurs because the planets of the Solar System all orbit the Sun more or less on a flat plane called the ecliptic.
Some are a little above or below this plane, but it's roughly the same.
This is because of the way stars form, including the Sun.
A baby star in a cloud of material starts spinning; the cloud around them swirls into a disk that feeds into the baby star.
A planet forms from what remains of the disk and, if left to its own devices, will stay in that level position.
This means that, occasionally, the planets will be on the same side of the Sun as they move along their orbits, so we get to see them in the sky at the same time.
They appear to be in a straight line because they're all on the ecliptic.
This is what will be happening in early June, around an hour before sunrise. You might need some visual aids.
While Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn will be bright enough to see with the naked eye, Uranus and Neptune are too far and faint.
If you want to catch a glimpse, you'll need binoculars or a telescope.
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Some dapper and pomme! They have some cute things with them, they're just chillin. (cuties <3)
I'll miss them a lot, even if I did not watch them on stream often. (i hope their admins will stick around the community for a while still)
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Precisely because homophobia often operates through the attribution of a damaged, failed, or otherwise abject gender to homosexuals, that is, calling gay men "feminine" or calling lesbians "masculine," and because the homophobic terror over performing homosexual acts, where it exists, is often also a terror over losing proper gender ("no longer being a real or proper man" or "no longer being a real and proper woman"), it seems crucial to retain a theoretical apparatus that will account for how sexuality is regulated through the policing and the shaming of gender.
— Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter
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cannot believe i didn't get a 'thorki is illegal' anon. feeling so left out. clearly i have not posted enough thorki lately and need to rectify that. (im sure that's what anon wanted right? more thorki? ) xD
I feel like saying that it’s illegal is prompting discussion on the legality of it all. For instance, would Asgard have definitive laws against incest? How does the realm define incest at all. Are there exceptions to this rule, have there been a historical cases that prompted such a legal binding to be specified? Are members of the royal house exempt from any laws? Are there historical cases where this happened? Why? Does any exemption include laws on this topic, even if the intention was to prevent coercion or encourage regulation to political marriages? What cultural views surrounding these laws are there and how many minor revisions to documents would it take in theory before it is now legally sound. If it was ever illegal at all.
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