Sparks of Floss

anon i love you.

youre kidding prev but im not

question

The simplest: Grace is clearly doing at least okay, and even if he has no human company out there, he isn't completely alone with just the spaceship computer to talk to;

A friendly alien rock spider casually referencing a human movie is kind of objectively delightful, really;

Stratt's whole deal is that she loves humanity and wants humanity to continue existing as long as possible; this video is proof that not only have humans reached out their hands to the stars -- they left their fingerprints on those stars in doing so;

someone went and put up photos and drawings in advance. grace wasn't the one to take those drawings and pictures and tape them onto the wall. they're visible on screen already up on the wall when he's tilting his body to try and read the computer screen after realizing he's not in our solar system.

someone, we dont know who, when they were on the hail mary setting things up and putting things away, taped up those things for the crew. either that, or yao and or ilyukhina did so when they got to the hail mary before going into their comas.

i dont know which is more heartbreaking.

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history