Silver & Exact

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Diana.

Grande mythologie tintamarresque. 1881.

Hannibal (2013-2015)

Everyone's talking about Artemis II, the first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years

Historic, right? BUT nobody's talking about the Deaf people who made it possible.

In the late 1950's, NASA had a problem.

They needed to understand what weightlessness did to the human body but every test subject kept getting violently motion sick

NASA needed to figure out FAST during the space race!

So, they went to Gallaudet University. They recruited 11 Deaf people.

Because a number of Deaf people had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children which also damaged their vestibular system.

Their inner ears couldn't be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Put them on zero gravity flights. A room for 12 straight days.

(All caps) It rotated the entire time.

One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters, the researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data and research it needed to send humans into space.

No Gallaudet Eleven? No Mercury. No Apollo. No Artemis II.

They stood on the shoulders of 11 Deaf people most people have never heard of.

e 'n su la punta de la rotta lacca l'infamïa di Creti era distesa che fu concetta ne la falsa vacca; e quando vide noi, sé stesso morse, sì come quei cui l'ira dentro fiacca. - Dante Alighieri, Inferno, 12.11-15

Mairon absolutely has a name in Khazad in this verse but I am at this moment using ‘Mahals son’ (which honestly Gimli is going to need like five to seven business days to recover from) which Curumo!Sauron is still salty about in so many ways.

The way thanks to @kenobiwaned fic I have concluded that Celebrian and Thranduil are extremely besties by the third age (to Legolas: ‘please call your father on this palantir’ (Feanor has made more palantirs it’s a fun craft project!)) and also this makes the events of maybe just before(ish) the hobbit more Something.

Thorin had a bunch of complex emotions about staying in Khazad-Dum I think.

Mirdania likes to hold a yearly ‘fuck you sauron I love my dad’ event in Ost-en-Edhil (there are food and drink stalls and entertainment and also you can throw water balloons at saurons face).

Adar thinks the King Elessar and Queen Arwen are still…they still feel like his baby grandchildren okay, give him a moment or ten. (Also in my silly dreams Freyja tells Eru that if she and Astrid and Estel and Arwen and Bjorn aren’t allowed to see their elf family she will be Making Sure They Can and THUS).