At the Bottom of the Box was Hope

"What if Stratt didn't force Grace to go?" Then the Earth dies.

"What if Yao and Ilyukhina had survived?" Then they all would have died in space, not enough food to get to Earth or Erid

If the Taomoeba hadn't escaped then Grace would have never seen his best friend again. Returning to a world he loves but no longer recognizes.

If the stars weren't dying then Grace never would have met his best friend at all. Living content but alone.

Project Hail Mary is a hopeful story. It is a story of friendship and what it means to be brave. It's a story about saving the world.

Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.

This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.

https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or

Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.

16 July: Trinity atomic bomb test (1945), US foreshadows upcoming mass death at Hiroshima/Nagasaki and heralds age of fear and global imperial hegemony

17 July: the end of Tsar Nicholas/Romanov family (1918); RMS Carpathia (rescued Titanic six years earlier) sunk by German u-boat (1918, same day as Romanovs); Francisco Franco starts Spanish Civil War and leads outbreak of counterrevolutionary/fascist coup (1936), eventually culminating in decades of Falangist rule of Spain (lasting into the 1970s); Churchill, Truman, Stalin meet at Potsdam (1945, one day after Truman's people tested the bomb); Walt Disney opens Disneyland at Anaheim (1955), his first major theme park, heralding another kind of ascendant, decades-long cultural/corporate hegemony

18 July: Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (1925)

19 July: France declares war on Prussia and the Franco-Prussian War begins (1870), with France eventually surrendering six months later when Prussia invaded Paris, announced the throne of Kaiser Wilhelm and the unification of German states, and founded the German Empire, from which inter-imperial rivalries on the continent stoked European anxieties culminating in the First World War; Lakota leader Sitting Bull surrenders to US Army (1881) after being hunted in the aftermath of the Battle of Little Bighorn, signalling intensifying US suppression of Indigenous resistance (Sitting Bull was eventually killed by US police/Indian Agents on 15 December 1890, two weeks before the US Army killed 200-300 or more people at the Wounded Knee Massacre at nearby Pine Ridge on 29 December 1890, "closing the frontier" and signalling that the US had allegedly won "the Indian Wars" and conquered the continent)

It also inherently challenges purity culture with multiple varied casual and symbiotically supportive relationships.

Taking both of those into account challenges the Patriarchy itself, and the idea that a singular man should be in charge and rule over his own household like a petty tyrant.

In the order that I happened to read them:

• A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

• Spear by Nicola Griffith

Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s Upton Lovell Shaman was a woman

Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that a Bronze Age shaman was male. Photograph: Wiltshire Museum

Drawing this au was actually so much fun

+ Some padawan!reva au stuff;P

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