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Imperialism kills.

What if we never really see Olivia go off on Elliot about those last 10 years? We’re waiting for it to happen, but what if it’s not Liv that brings up her past? What if Amanda is the one that actually brings it up to Elliot?

Amanda goes hard for Liv, but she’s also not the one to hold her tongue. If Liv is going along with something stupid. And Amanda knows for a fact that Liv wouldn’t agree with it if it was a different person. Then she’s going to speak up about it. I don’t think she’s going to agree with Elliot being around Liv a lot. Dragging her into his beefs and possibly making her a target.

Instead of Olivia confornting Elliot about that whole 10 year gap and not being there for her trauma after trauma. 🙄 Amanda will most likely do it for her. Remember the episode Liv was trying to prove that Cassidy wasn't guilty of killing that dude. Cassidy hid out at Liv place, while Liv was putting her job on the line to prove his innocence. Amanda showed up used her key to get in Liv’s apartment (which let me just say is fuckin big that Amanda has a key to Liv apartment like awww 🥰 I love their growing friendship) walked in on Cassidy chillin and cussed him tf out🤣 ...she rolled in said what was on her mind, put Cassidy in his place and rolled out. 💀

I find it interesting that Amanda and Elliot haven't officially met. So, i'm expecting some storyline with that or at least i'm hoping for it. My first thought is that Amanda will not like Elliot because 1) she wants to be Liv’s #1 bestie. 2) he will remind her of Amaro and not the good parts. 😂

I mean come on, beside Amaro who will actually confront someone on some bullshit and won’t mind the business that pays them....Amanda.

it's not so much that Venus's tectonic plates are locked, it's more that it never had them in the first place!

which is a major surprise, actually, because Venus is the most Earth-like of the other planets in our solar system.

surprise?

"what," you may say, flailing in consternation, "about Mars?? why are we trying to colonize Mars if Venus is more Earth-like???"

and it's a good question! Venus IS technically more Earth-like in the sense that it's right next door, is a solid 80% the size of Earth, and has both a working atmosphere and a liquid mantle composed of molten rock, BUT- it's also important to note that Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system and it rains boiling sulfuric acid at almost all times! our first probes to the damn place actually melted. MELTED.

this is what Hell looks like.

BUT ANYWAY so Venus is the planet in our solar system that's the MOST physically similar to Earth, our dear mother who does not rain boiling sulfuric acid on our heads hardly at all ever, so it's kind of a shock that its geology is COMPLETELY FUCKING DIFFERENT.

see, Earth's outer crust is broken up into a series of mind-breakingly-massive tectonic plates that sort of skid around on top of the liquid mantle, slowly drifting in different directions driven by Earth's rotation and bonking into each other randomly like a 300-million-year-long Pinball tournament!

but on Venus, the entire outer crust is a single solid piece sitting on top of the liquid mantle, like the peel of an orange.

though not as good for you. because of the whole Boiling Acid thing.

and contrary to what you might think, this actually makes Venus a VERY VIOLENT place! the outer crust twists and deforms slightly as the liquid mantle spins under it, like a water balloon being flung repeatedly against a wall by a small child, but all of that force can't really be dispersed because the crust is a single solid piece of rigid rock!

so what happens is that this force builds and builds and BUILDS until Venus can't take the strain anymore and has a very volcanic tantrum about it.

unlike the rest of the solar system, the surface of Venus is made of relatively new and entirely volcanic rock- because the entire planet is basically having a planet-wide eruption event at all times, with multiple huge volcanos just spewing gigantic amounts of liquid rock everywhere like it's their damn job, to the point where Venus is just getting resurfaced like a McDonalds parking lot every epoch or so.

aren't you glad Earth doesn't do this? I am SO glad Earth doesn't do this.

(much, anyway)

This extinction event, also colloquially called the Great Dying, affected all life on Earth, and is estimated to have killed about 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species living at the time.[11][12][13] Some of the disastrous events that impacted the Earth continued to repeat themselves on Earth five to six million years after the initial extinction occurred.[14] Over time a small portion of the life that survived the extinction was able to repopulate and expand starting with low trophic levels (local communities) until the higher trophic levels (large habitats) were able to be re-established.[14] Calculations of sea water temperature from δ18O measurements indicate that at the peak of the extinction, the Earth underwent lethally hot global warming, in which equatorial ocean temperatures exceeded 40 °C (104 °F).[15] It took roughly eight to nine million years for any diverse ecosystem to be re-established; however, new classes of animals were established after the extinction that did not exist beforehand.[14]