Science Fag

One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.

this is my son ben, short for benthic sediment

and this is my daughter callie, short for calcareous ooze

i thought of another. their cousin ally short for alluvial deposit

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

the cambrian period was like 10 years ago

the cambrarin period was like 3 years ago

Everyone should strive to be as strong as the Juan de Fuca Plate. That stubborn plate refuses to die.

i LOVE geologic processes

Today’s spoiled, phone-addicted generation wouldn’t last five minutes inside the Earth’s molten core

pluto (the celestial body) told me that it’s actually kind of upsetting how much you guys insist on her being a planet. she says it feels like you don’t like her for who she is and you’d prefer an imagined version of her instead. what’s so terrible about being a dwarf planet, she asked me. does she have to be a “real” planet to be worthy of love?

repeat after me. humans are not inherently evil humans are not like a virus on this earth humans do not “deserve” to go extinct or anything like that. we are living breathing animals that deserve space just like every other creature on this planet. there’s just a tiny amount of us that have a fuck ton of money and power and they really suck

picture a guy abruptly seeing a friend he hasn’t seen in about a year & saying “pinch me, i must be dreaming!” followed by someone actually pinching him like a little joke & this causing him to wake up on a hellish magma-covered field of volcanic rock being constantly struck by meteorites