blue.silence

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

I thought this might have been from the Reading Rainbow x Star Trek crossover episode (WHICH SOUNDS FAKE I KNOW but it was real and totally worth watching especially for Michael Dorn dramatically exiting the makeup trailer and saying "Step aside. I take LARGE STEPS," which has been a part of my familect ever since.)

@douceurs

"There's no hope for the future." And that's how they felt during the Atomic Age, during the World Wars, during the Enlightenment Revolutions, during thr plagues, during the Viking raids, during the fall of Rome.