Ali

- Eridian scientists and doctors doing their best to help him when they first get to Erid. A few weeks in, he's in and out of consciousness but doing better, a doctor (in a xenosuit obviously) comes in to check on him, sees he's asleep, so goes to examine him closely, because, you know, alien. Grace, who was only dozing, jerks away so fast it gives poor Dr Limestone a heart attack.

Things Rocky does when he got back from Adrien that weirds out other Eridians:

He (subconsciously) picked a facet of his body as his "face" and turns it sometimes to orient towards people or objects he's paying a lot of attention to or concentrating on. 

That thing I've seen Chinese people on social media discuss where they use their own characters to reproduce an English word phonetically, with the actual meaning being a fun sidepoint. Rocky reproducing his closest approximation of words without existing Eridian equivalents (relativity, caffeine, all the colours) that sound like gibberish or odd mashes of existing Eridian terms. 

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Making "random" components of structures transparent for no apparent reason (Grace can't be here, Grace will never be in this part of Erid, but if he were, he'd be able to see)

The Eridian word for "See" is probably something to do with detecting light. Rocky would use this odd, scientific phrase the way a human uses "Oh, I see!" to mean "Oh, I understand." Like someone saying "I've used a Geiger counter to verify the radioactivity of this abstract concept" when they mean, "I get it."

You need to be Silent when watching someone sleep because you could wake them up. A completely incomprehensible idea to Eridians.

You discovered it, you get to name it! No, actually you're Not allowed to call the new molecule "Low Friction, high thermal stability two-parts-carbon-to-four-parts-fluorine" try naming it after your pebble!

1, 2, 3, eyes on me! (Eyes being another phonetically assimilated word)

i say ban oil pipelines, period.

they will just be dirty poisonous empty pipes in 20 years when oil inevitably becomes a stranded asset.

and the straw ban isn't the worst idea in the world. it's just pretty obviously not as consequential to the overall problem as fucking OIL.

but i do think single use plastic needs to go. if we had a different attitude about this shit, like, if we reused plastic straws instead of throwing them in the garbage, they wouldn't be so bad.

we don't really have plastic straws where i live anymore but any time we come across one we rinse it and hold onto it to be used again instead of landfilling it. not just cuz of plastic waste but because they've become rare lol. it'll usually be a vietnamese restaurant that's still using them and its a bit like finding gold.

the alternative to plastic straws of course is to make the straws out of the many types of bioplastic being developed that are compostable and often made from recycled organics. but that's more expensive and no (large) company wants to pay for that.

all single use plastic is bad though. not just straws. focusing only on straws is silly. i think if the plastic isn't or can't or is unlikely to be reused it should be banned unless there are very specific reasons not to. like sanitation or medical uses or whatever. we shouldn't be throwing plastic out after one use out of convenience. that's boomer age shit we need to get out of.

and we need to ban petroleum. leave the oil in the ground. leave the methane in the ground. transition society away from using this shit as inefficient fuel. (more boomer age shit to get out of.)

i say ban oil pipelines, period.

they will just be dirty poisonous empty pipes in 20 years when oil inevitably becomes a stranded asset.

and the straw ban isn't the worst idea in the world. it's just pretty obviously not as consequential to the overall problem as fucking OIL.

but i do think single use plastic needs to go. if we had a different attitude about this shit, like, if we reused plastic straws instead of throwing them in the garbage, they wouldn't be so bad.

we don't really have plastic straws where i live anymore but any time we come across one we rinse it and hold onto it to be used again instead of landfilling it. not just cuz of plastic waste but because they've become rare lol. it'll usually be a vietnamese restaurant that's still using them and its a bit like finding gold.

the alternative to plastic straws of course is to make the straws out of the many types of bioplastic being developed that are compostable and often made from recycled organics. but that's more expensive and no (large) company wants to pay for that.

all single use plastic is bad though. not just straws. focusing only on straws is silly. i think if the plastic isn't or can't or is unlikely to be reused it should be banned unless there are very specific reasons not to. like sanitation or medical uses or whatever. we shouldn't be throwing plastic out after one use out of convenience. that's boomer age shit we need to get out of.

and we need to ban petroleum. leave the oil in the ground. leave the methane in the ground. transition society away from using this shit as inefficient fuel. (more boomer age shit to get out of.)

He learned that Eridians have no gender but it was too late for Rocky he already got hit with the boy beam