women are like diamonds: synthetically-produced women are not meaningfully different from naturally-formed women, and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is probably trying to justify keeping their women mines open

Women are like diamonds since they are composed primarily of carbon.

Women are like diamonds because they’re shiny sometimes

[ID. An illustration of stratt and grace from project hail mary during grace's introduction on the vat. Stratt, holding her two coffees, grabs grace's sleeve and says, "this is my scientist. He's very nervous, so please clap." Grace stands stock still next to her, an arrow pointing to him labeled "just threw up". End ID.]

Important reminder

This reminds me of the fact that "Ancient Egypt" goes back so many thousands of years, that the most recent "Ancient Egyptians" were already studying (even more) Ancient Egypt.

Not even the most recent ones. It was an Egyptian prince from the 13th century BCE studying and restoring artifacts from the 26th century BCE.

For context, the last Pharaoh, Cleopatra VII, lived in the 1st century BCE. Prince Khaemweset, known as "the first egyptologist", was as ancient to her as the pyramids and tombs he was studying were ancient to him.

I remember having me mind completely blown when I learned that the "New Kingdom" was pre-Bronze Age Collapse.

This has totally be mentioned in another fork of this post, but it reminds me quite a bit of Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, a museum in Ur, c. 530 BC, which housed mesopotamian artifacts dating back in some cases to the 20th century BC

@copperbadge this seems up your alley

hail mary from rocky's perspective is so funny. imagine you met an alien for the first time ever and it was a hummingbird. its so so fragile and delicate and it needs to rest constantly and eat constantly and it views the world so totally different from you and then you find out the hummingbird is on a suicide mission