#scienciers

[hood-ex]

Isn't it weird how dick is just walking around with electrum blood like he's not 5 seconds away from getting shot in the head again with the kind of life that he leads?? I feel like this should come up more, if only because of how much of a freak bruce is about. you know *gestures vaguely at dick*

I cheated my way through biology, so I need someone sciencier than me to confirm whether the electrum would've been flushed out of Dick's system at some point. Because red blood cells fully regenerate after like a month or so, right? But the source of electrum was in his mouth (his tooth specifically)... so it wouldn't have gone directly to the bloodstream, it would've trickled through the GI tract? Or no?

Well, he wouldn't be swallowing it though... it would be absorbed through his gums, which would get absorbed through the tissue in his mouth and go to his bloodstream. So then it would've been flushed out once the tooth was removed and the blood cells regenerated.

Actually no because red blood cells travel all over the body, so the electrum would've affected more than just the bloodstream (right?). Wouldn't he have gotten sepsis or cellular damage then since electrum in the bloodstream could lead to metal poisoning? Although, electrum is a soft metal, not a toxic hard metal like lead or mercury, so maybe not.

Ugh did Bruce explain this at some point and I just don't remember alskdja. Or can we just chalk it up to comic book science and call it a day? Yes, let's do that.

[velvetvexations]

It's so fascinating to me to see discourse about male and female as terms cause while I know to many they're meant to be like, semi biological sex terms about bodies as opposed to gendered terms like man and woman, I personally have always primarily used them to mean "the adjective used for man/woman" and have only noticed a shift in more recent years where people separate them? Could just be my own exposure to usage. Like it seems like people saw incels referring to women as "females" (as a noun) and decided to ditch the term whatsoever (like woman athlete vs female athlete. The former just doesn't feel grammatical to me. With both meaning exactly the same thing). Nothing wrong with different usages and stuff, I just generally view woman as noun and female as adjective and vice versa, which means it takes me a second to catch up with other uses sometimes. Fascinating how language develops.

And that's why we're never getting away from their gendered implications! For literal centuries they've just been sciencier words for man and woman. One cannot seriously advocate for male and female as gender neutral terms when applied to people without their consent, but they're just as arbitrary as any other so, say, a trans woman AMAB that identifies as female and one that identifies as male are perfectly equal in validity.

I would prefer that they were opt-in. No one is born male or female, and men and women are not male or female by default, but you can choose to associate with an outdated binary sexual division if you want the way I do. Even that, however, is me being somewhat autistic about the meaning and also partially wanting to preserve the conception of what it means for me to be a male girl in the way that I am. The fact is that the overwhelming majority of transmascs and transfems call themselves male and female because...they're synonyms for man and woman. Most likely they will go on being synonyms for man and woman, and whatever technical distinctiveness they had will be fully sanded away because it was barely ever there to begin with.

[thesezombiestastelikeashes]

Wack Donalds Galactic Empire World Building

Yeah I said I'd do this if it got 5 notes and it got 0, but what do I care?

Here's the backstory for my dumb episodic sci fi game and the inspiration list:

The classic Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (book)

Dimension 20's A Starstruck Odyssey (live play)

The Young Lief spinoff from Midnight Burger (podcast) ((honestly 90% of the inspiration for the bonkers premise is this and hitchkers))

Oz 9 (podcast) ((players if you hear me say "its not my fault" in a very specific accent thats from this))

a larp a friend started working on a system for where there was a robot revolution

a d6 starwars game i played in where my pc was a robot assassin

my episodic zine based off the combination of those two games! which once i upload it to kofi will be linked here i'm sure

Backstory below the cut for keeping the post succinct on whoever's home screen this winds up on

It is well known in the universe that cows were initially an intergalactic non-space-faring race from the planet Bos Mootarus (bOHs mOO-tar-us). Around the time the rest of the universe became space faring, a capitalist focused planet within the same system of Bos Mootarus began hunting the peaceful species as they discovered their meat was delicious. The capitalist species known as WacDonalds began a corporate take over of the universe, using their delicious Mootaran based meats to establish franchises in many solar systems which led to a financial domination of worlds. As their financial and fast food empire expanded, their breeding and culling practices of Mootarans went unreported as they were non-space-faring and had not connected to the rest of the interconnected galaxies. As Mootarans began to go extinct from increased demand, WacDonalds began to supplement their burgers with an addictive plant by-product, slowly replacing the meat entirely with the plant based material. 

A group of revolutionary journalists discovered the culling and genocide of Mootarans and secretly began sneaking them out of the system, to the only other sentient planet without space faring technology- EARTH. EARTH has become a Mootaran Sanctuary where they grow and live in peace (as far as the revolutionaries are aware) and the revolutionaries occasionally still send Mootarans to EARTH for safe keeping. (This is why many depictions of aliens show cows being beamed by spaceships, humans have simply misinterpreted this as abductions instead of the relocation that it actually is. Silly humans.) 

WacDonalds has become more desperate to seed the idea that meat is unnecessary, promoting a radical cult of cykoteks which believe that meat is the way of the past. Because their plant by-products can fuel electronics (like corn fueled engines but way better and sciencier) they branched into medical cybernetic research and have begun a branch of the company which provides cybernetik organ replacements. The organ replacements however tend to be faulty, leading to cykotek electrical problems that cause blinding rages and moments of violent psychosis. This new line of revenue has combined with an underground cykotek gladiatorial ring where those who cannot pay off their cybernetic surgeries are sent to fight to pay off their debts to the company.  

As time has gone on the Sathars have made it part of their mission to protect the Mootaran Sanctuary, though no one is certain why. The belief that Trump was an alien plant in order to prevent further progress (scientific or otherwise) of the human race is an accurate one.

[lioparttwo]

how many of the mechanisms crew do we think have read homestuck

[lazywriter7]

“-the FF and some Avengers are shunted off into a pocket dimension created by Franklin with no memory of their real lives, Reed and Tony – along with Victor, Bruce, and Hank – all attended the same college and formed a group called the Atomic Knights of the Round Table (or the Legion of Eggheads, as Ben calls them)”

taken from this insightful Reed & Tony meta post  

[wizardsvslesbians]

This is the City in the Middle of the Night.  (Oh lord.)  Another real downer of a book, but in a hard-sciencier kind of way, and with added fraught depictions of planet-healing native culture.  Is mega-empath memory sharing the solution to humanity’s problems?  Again?  The silicon valley priesthood seem to think so.

Next up: UNCONQUERABLE SUN

[sporkandpringles]

For the Trek ask game!

How about #5 and #9?

5. Starship you’d like to serve on most?

The flagships always go on the important/dangerous missions. I’m really tempted to say I wanna be aboard a science vessel. But then I remember they’re all technically science vessels. And the sciencier ones tend to get involved in extremely risky experiments. *side-eyes the Discovery and the Pegasus* Can I uh... can I be on a space station? *Looks at DS9 which is about ten OSHA violations in the making* Oh wait...

9. Who would win in a fight between the captains?

I haven’t seen every show yet, but my instinct is to say either Janeway or Sisko. Kirk has too much hubris, which would be his downfall. Archer has all of that hubris plus he’s just feral and has terrible plans. Picard is too much of a pacifist to fight... he’d prefer to soliloquize about how the Federation isn’t about violence or some shit. Phillippa, Lorca, Pike, uh... discovery can’t seem to hold down a captain, they’ll get back to you. So that leaves the only two functional captains left. I’ll let you decide who wins. 

Star Trek Asks

[ascool66-blog]

It's quite hard to make a camera understand "what is temperature " than I used to think before......

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[loracarol]

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Right, there are lots of free study guides for the GRE that can help with that, but I'd say give yourself some time to work through them and practice. You managed to survive a sciencier degree than me, so I think you'll have a better/more current grasp on the math. I think probably if you're doing an MA they'll be more important than they might in a PhD because you're less focused on research? But like I said, I think it'll be feasible, just give yourself plenty of time

also that definitely sounds like a More Employable degree to me, though I'm obvs not an expert in the field! My rough understanding is "MAs make your more employable for non-academic work, PhDs just qualify you for academia".

Yeah, I checked out a Kaplan and a For Dummies from the library, to see if they’d be worth purchasing.... I haven’t actually looked at the books yet, but I have them checked out. |D 

Thanks. :D I’m not interested in academia, so that’s a good thing to keep in mind. :V This has all been v. helpful, thank you! 

[clannfearrunt]

do you think maybe they went with cuttlefish for the 80s/90s band because the frills look kind of like perms? also since other than those they look pretty much like inklings, do you think maybe it’s just hair and not that their heads are long? (like how the goth bangs cut is just a big slice of hair)

Hmm, I don’t know enough about 80s~90s fashion in Japan (or, well, anywhere) to weigh in on the perms thing. Maybe??

As for the head, I personally would very much enjoy an All Hair situation from the standpoint of what I’ve been trying to do with my personal sciencier AU. But I think that the angle that the visible head is held at doesn’t look like Hair Physics, but rather more like a Long Head.

If it is indeed a Long Head situation, it does bring up the question of… Do they have a cuttlebone.. I guess it’s in that head area… But also if they have a cuttlebone that should very very hinder the ability to Squish and stuff… Though I guess splat doesn’t particularly care about that. I wonder what they wanted to do there. I also super wish we could see the lighter skinned girl’s head too, for additional reference. Since they ARE still active in the industry, maaaaybe we’ll see them referenced again? Who knows.

[nombomi]

Thinking about how jimmy neutron's parents just happened to have the surname "neutron" and also gave him the middle name "isaac," which happens to be a pun on "isaac newton," despite having seemingly no interest in science themselves. It's established that he has hypno-technology; is it possible he retroactively made everyone in town believe he had a cooler, sciencier name?

[transgenderer]

@discoursedrome said: being greek makes it scientific

magic also comes from greek! if anything its sciencier b/c it was traditionally with tekhne. the modern term "magitech" has just retvrned to magike tekhne

can we stop saying "thaumaturgy". it literally just means magic. i know what youre doing. you cant trick me. say magicology if you must

[trashandtreasurespod]

The Hunger - The Most Famous Lesbian Vampire Movie (Somehow)

We can't prove that Anne Rice watched this movie about vampire being from Egypt, Actually, but we have a thought or two. It's okay, this movie ripped off Interview with the Vampire first.

Anyway, this is one of those movies that's too good to say the word "vampire," and also makes you watch David Bowie age rapidly. It would all be very sad if not for the things that are so, so bad. Who knows how to write queer women better than a straight man?

4:00 Background Info 8:00 Anne Rice saw this movie 12:00 These vampires are better and sciencier 20:00 WHY IS THERE A CORPSE FURNACE 24:00 David Bowie is sad 27:00 The meat is a metaphor for penises 34:00 "Seduction" 43:00 This sure is a third act 49:00 WE COULD'VE HAD IT ALL (not really) 52:00 Should you watch this movie?

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[scienciersnewz-blog]

New Solar Telescope shows the highest resolution images of Sun

Swipe to see the unedited image of our Sun. This is the highest resolution image of sun ever taken by the human kind!!

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[corvidprompts]

“Just make it sound sciencier.”

“How do you science ‘I paid highschoolers in gum to stumble around a swamp mimicking the mating call of a frog at 3 am’?”

[windsroad]

just finished the first season for tanis... I SUSPECTED that twist!

I’m not sure if I want to watch black tapes as well. the black tapes seems to be more occult/demon stuff than tanis’s sciencier stuff. occult/science is less scary than occult/demons.