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There’s nothing scarier than talking or thinking about your parent’s mortality…🦨

Ok i never posted a video from tiktok on here but this is hilarious

My favorite parts are:

Jewel: “I lived… sorry guys.”

And

- 55 when he arrived on erid (in relative terms, around 39)

- 45 when he went back for rocky (in relative terms, around 35)

- 32 when the ship launched

- like…27? 28? when the petrova line was discovered. maybe a bit younger than that? building the hail mary probably took 3 years and the mission to go get astrophage from venus took at least a year, maybe more. ok now this isn’t compatible with his comment about being in his "mid-thirties" when he was watching the nasa broadcast but ok whatever, his memories in the early chapters are fucked up by the french amnesia drug or smth

ftr, being in your late 20s and already having a) a PhD b) made enough powerful enemies to have c) been ostracized from microbio and d) built a successful second career in teaching is still insane. but it’s more within the realm of possibility

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.