I’m Just A Silly Little Guy

fucks me up that by total coincidence the sun and moon's size difference is exactly matched to their difference in distance from us, thus making our beautiful total solar eclipses where you can see the silver threads of the sun's corona possible because the moon just covers the sun completely

The moon is also absolutely gargantuan by moon standards. It isn't the largest moon in the solar system, but it is BY FAR the largest in comparison with its planet. Ganymede is the largest satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the solar system. Its diameter is only about 3.8% of Jupiter's. Titan's radius is 4.4% of Saturn's. Callisto and Io are the next largest in the neighborhood, with 3.4% and 2.6% the diameter of Jupiter respectively.

I got a serious beef with the Fermi paradox. There is no Fermi paradox. There stopped being a Fermi paradox once the first radio telescopes went up, and we began to get a true sense of the sheer scale of the universe.

i rlly do dislike when people downplay the feral hog problem in the US bc they are genuinely a massive pest in a lot of the south since early colonizers literally set them free on purpose when they got here so they would have a familiar source of food and so they could continue the european aristocratic practice of boar-hunting 😭

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

are people talking about the labor conditions at Taylor Farms yet? like the fact they use enslaved prisoners in their facilities?

On the prisoners point: