idk just a bunch of gay shit

“Which one of you sidewinders stole my horse?!”, he yelled with surprising forcefulness.

No one answered.

“Alright, I’m gonna have another beer, and if my horse ain’t back outside by the time I finish, I’m gonna do what I dun in Texas! And I don’t like to have to do what I dun in Texas!”

Some of the locals shifted restlessly. The man, true to his word, had another beer, walked outside, and his horse has been returned to the post.

He saddled up and started to ride out of town. The bartender wandered out of the bar and asked, “Say partner, before you go… what happened in Texas?”

I had a molecular biology professor who referred it to “vacuum packing” where many extinct animals are rendered slimmer or muscular than they may have been, since things like body fat and fur are not preserved during fossilization. So our view of animals like dinosaurs may be entirely inaccurate.

There’s actually a book, All Yesterdays, in which the artist, CM Koseman, draws modern animals as we might have interpreted them to look if we found them extinct the same way do dinosaurs.

Fun examples include:

The manatee

An elephant

Swans

And literally the picture of the hippo

THIS IS IT

THIS IS MY FUCKING JAM NOCTURNAL SUBWAY DOLPHINS IN SLIGHTLY OMINOUS LIGHTING FUCK YEAH

Tyree Callahan, The Chromatic Typewriter

reddit sent me an email recommending this article, and it just rubs me the wrong ways, and makes me a little frustrated with how a huge part of the scientific community views astronomy.

First of all, why does humanity collectively need to have a “goal”? No creature on this planet evolved because it was like,, striving towards something.

Most of the time, becoming a multiplanetary species is framed as necessary for preserving the human race, lest it go extinct. And I have to ask... why should we care? Their first justification for becoming multiplanetary is because eventually the sun will die:

Which makes me laugh because, that’s 5 billion years from now???? Our species haven’t even been around for a million years, why do you think suddenly we’ll last longer than not only any other species, but life itself??? Longer than the Earth itself?? It’s unlikely that any of Earth’s current species will be around then, unchanged from how they are today.

Also, there’s always this talk about “colonizing” other planets. I don’t think it’s inherently wrong to want to live on other planets, but the term “colonization” has certain connotations as though we’re entitled to any planet we deem vacant. Which can become really complicated really quickly because we only have one example of Life. Hypothetically, there could be life on other worlds that don’t fit our definition of what Life is (and we might not fit in their definition of Life either).

You can even make it double sided!