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I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off. 

You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?

I just found the greatest thing.

This is a canary resuscitator.

When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.

By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.

Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!

All I see is a proud gender-fluid pansexual bird. 

The first one is DEFINITELY a lesbian though. 

SO COLORFUL

it fascinates me that theres (probably) billions of species left undiscovered

adulthood is all about fighting for your life to meet up with your friends at a scheduled time

HOLY SHIT NEVER HAVE I EVER LAUGHED MORE IN MY LIFE. 

I’M GOING TO PRINT THIS OUT AND FRAME IT. THIS IS GOING ON MY WALL. 

Someone who hasn’t watch Star Trek, please explain this picture

god grant me the strength to send this email, the courage to send this email, and the wisdom to send this email

An accurate depiction of how my cat sees herself. 

her ladyship, a princess cat 🌸🐱👸

By @psych2go

He’s probably fantasized about this moment happening over and over again and spends his sleepless nights analyzing how he’d accept. He needs more time to choose the appropriate reaction. 

Also, L-O-V-E by Nate King Cole started playing from my playlist while I was reading this post and it just makes it all the more funnier. 

you can clearly see Jim thinking deeper and deeper as he tries to figure out if this is a proposal or not.

Matilda (1996) dir. Danny DeVito

I-I'm sorry but I can't stop thinking about this

After spending almost an entire episode on lead and it’s harm to human health, I think he should have spent a bit more time on light pollution.  I was hopeful….

The small town mountainous area where I live used to have a limiting magnitude of 6 or more, now there are lots of times we can’t quite make out the Milky Way…..just in a matter of a few years…

Get info from the International Dark Sky Association:  http://www.darksky.org/

Carl Sagan

Gone but not forgotten. 

:)

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

Steven Weinberg

RIP S. Weinberg (1933-2021)

This is the cutest thing I’ve seen all day. 

I made Gary (my gecko) a tiny Tallis and yarmulke for Rosh Hashanah and he wished u all happy new year

KATRINA’S REWATCH OF TOS IN THE YEAR 2021

STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES S1E03 | Where No Man Has Gone Before

this important and valuable information and now you’ve all seen it. 

i learned that astronauts need to sleep near air vents or risk carbon dioxide from their own lungs forming a bubble around their head due to weightlessness (x)

me irl

Jim: What is love?

Spock: A neurochemical con-job

Jim: baby don’t hurt me

Sooooo Vulcans are very sensitive to touch and often don’t like being touched….

Really makes you think about how much Kirk is rubbing his grubby little hands all over Spock

Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Ep 2: Charlie X. 

This will NEVER not be my favorite episode. I love it so much. This is my favorite moment from the whole show. My other favorite moment is when Spock tells Kirk that he’ll need to act as a father figure to Charlie, which makes him uncomfortable, ESPECIALLY when explaining sex + women to Charlie. I gotta feeling nobody knows sex + women better than Captain Kirk, though. 

It's easy to get overwhelmed by the possibilities and different ways how things could be. But we must not take for granted this one life we're living. Because one is all it takes.

In Green Company: Aurora over Norway : Raise your arms if you see an aurora. With those instructions, two nights went by with, well, clouds – mostly. On the third night of returning to same peaks, though, the sky not only cleared up but lit up with a spectacular auroral display. Arms went high in the air, patience and experience paid off, and the creative featured image was captured as a composite from three separate exposures. The setting is a summit of the Austnesfjorden fjord close to the town of Svolvear on the Lofoten islands in northern Norway. The time was early 2014. Although our Sun has just passed the solar minimum of its 11-year cycle, surface activity should pick up over the next few years with the promise of triggering more spectacular auroras on Earth. via NASA

Thor: Hey, can I have your number?

Bucky: *confused* Uh, okay-

Steve, slapping Bucky’s phone to the ground: It’s broken, sorry

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

Practical Magic (via perfectquote)

deleted script from City on the Edge of Forever (1967).