rocky is a genius.

- i figured out a way to save the world, it's on its way to you. please don't let it turn into a geopolitical mess.

- i had to figure it out alone, for a while. there's no way to say it that isn't sucky. i was the only surviving member of the hail mary crew.

- the "for a while" part is really cool though. i met an alien! an intelligent alien! his name is rocky. information about him is also on its way.

- we're on our way back to his planet now, 40 eridani a b. i've decided just to call it "erid."

- in the meantime, since rocky figured out how to get the internet, (he's a super-genius. it's pretty awesome.) i want two things:

- 1, let me know how earth's doing.

hey there! rocky and i haven't come across anything recognizable as a spaceship, but neither of us were really expecting to. heck, neither of us were expecting to find each other in the first place. space is really big. like really big. any other spacefaring societies out there are probably gonna be really far away because of that, if they even exist at all.

Why do you like teaching so much?

i think i've said before on here that i don't believe in "the meaning of life," in a universal sense. i think we all find our own meanings of life, and that they can change over time. well, mine is teaching.

more specifically than that, i love to learn. i love discovery and curiosity and all those other things we name rovers and satellites after. but there's no point in learning things if you can't share it with other people. science is based around the idea that everything we learn, we learn together. that's why we check each other's work. two heads are better than one, and all that. the academic world can be... a bit hostile, since everyone already thinks they know everything about their subject. i'm not perfect there either, honestly. you get so used to being the expert in a given room and you just stop questioning things as much.

but put yourself in a room where everyone's there to learn? where you can help foster that curiosity in the people around you? well, you get curious again. sometime you get lobbed a question that you don't know the answer to, and you get to look it up and discover it together. more than that, you know you're helping to push more people into becoming scientists, philosophers, writers, artists, who will all check each other's work, and make the world better at what it is they do. it's a pretty great feeling.

wait what do you mean shot into space?!

Science man!! （/＞□＜)/ Nooo!

I took an AP Environmental Science class, which was honestly my first mistake. The exam was so easy I could’ve passed it in middle school, and my teacher exclusively taught through projects. A month before the exam, she disappears from the face of the earth, and all her students have to go off of is another teacher around the corner saying that she left because another class was a bunch of idiots who she couldn’t handle anymore. I feel bad for her about that, honestly.

So, it’s crunch time, and we just started ANOTHER project before exam review, but there’s a long-term sub. The sub has no idea what she’s doing and just tells us to read the instructions on Canvas. Half the class doesn’t do the project because the instructions sucked because they were designed to be supplemental to real human work, who could’ve seen that coming?/sarcasm Then it’s review crunch, which is also absolute buns and two-thirds of it was broken, and then after the exam we get ANOTHER NEW long-term sub for the last four-ish weeks of school. He also knows nothing and just gives out really bad WebQuest packets. This whole thing was a mistake, I should’ve just taken earth science and been bored for a year.

Next year I’m taking astronomy, so I have high hopes since most other students I talk to said it was fun

hooooly crud. that sounds insane. my school didn't have any environmental science classes growing up, but i would have jumped at the chance. probably would've made the same mistake you did.

Sending much love from Earth. 💕 Tell Rocky we love him for saving our favorite teacher.

i doubt there's a nintendo switch on the hail mary so please figure out how to pirate and emulate it and give it a shot. you've already pirated pretty much everything ever (well, not you, but you're in possession of it) so nobody can get you in trouble. evil activities are worth the whimsy

maybe you can make a mii of rocky as a human!