I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.
Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didn’t know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said “Oh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.”
She stared at him for a long time and then said “How do you know I’m from Brooklyn?”
And he said “You have a Brooklyn accent.”
She said “I do?” and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said “I had no idea! The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn. I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did. So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.”
My moms a sign language interpreter, and she’s signed with people from all over the US. According to her, when she signs with people from the south they sign with a “drawl.” They have slower hand movements and exaggerate certain parts of the sign. People from the Midwest sign very fast and people from the south sign very slow.
So we were at a restaurant once and my mom started interpreting for someone who was trying to order and she was like “oh you’re from the south!”
And they were like “how did you know that?”
And she said “you sign with a drawl.” And they were really surprised that it came through that much.
It’s really interesting that even when not speaking verbally accents and heritage come through.
A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.
!!! ok but that’s legitimately what it’s doing!! That’s a corvid right there (looks like a hooded crow, to be precise), which means it’s intelligent enough to recognize, a) cars are dangerous and streets should be treated with a certain degree of caution, b) this car’s slowing down for them–cars do that sometimes–which means they’re not in imminent danger, so it doesn’t have to fly away just yet, c) that hedgehog’s still gonna get killed if it doesn’t MOVE, FAST (cars can change speed very quickly and the hedgehog’s still in the way), and almost certainly also d) if the bird does nothing it gets a free lunch.
Y’all, Y’ALL. This bird is consciously deciding to put itself in danger in order to save the life of a very stupid creature. A creature which, if the bird did nothing, could be free food.
i can’t - look if you follow me you know I have a thing for corvids, but this is - like!!! People are always saying “ah yes they have sub-human intelligence and don’t consider anything that isn’t immediately necessary for their own survival/pleasure,” but! Whether or not it can do philosophy, this crow is clearly demonstratingcompassion. Even if it’s just the kind of compassion a toddler shows to a snail, a social creature that instinctively recognizes the potential for emotion in other beings, that’s still hugeandcool andimportant and corvids!!! are! neat!!!
Also, by the car stopping for them, that hedgehog has two other species actively working to help it stay alive for no gain of their own.
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idk why everyones convinced aliens moving through the stars would all be murderer killers bcuz i think aliens would probably need a strong ethics system if they ever wanted to get their shit together enough to traverse the universe but idk.
Fascism gets its shit together pretty easily through force and fear. Add the Capitalist drive for wealth and resources, and the added bonus of nationalism (planetism) and xenophobia, and I think a murderous and barbaric race could easily traverse the stars.
It might take longer than a benevolent, socialistic, logical, and forward thinking race, but it could be done.
we are destroying our planet and depleting our resources. it’s just not realistic
i sleep soundly at night knowing ilk like elon musk and jeff bezos will never achieve their real space dreams
Ya especially considering your bones and muscles are depleted over time in space and that companies won’t want to spend the extra $10000+ for the equipment to slow it down (and will be unwilling to switch people out of space every few years AT LEAST.) Like there will come a point where even if capitalists get astronauts to space, the astronauts will have to grapple with the possibility that they will never and CAN never (from depletion of heart muscles) come back to Earth. And like…. idk about y’all but I won’t be too happy to carry out Musk’s Spaceland dreams if I was floating in space being paid money that is worthless without the rest of human society to cash it in knowing that I could never go home..
Movies portray aliens as monsters out to conquer the world because they draw from the closest experience anyone has: white people showing up.
i think people misunderstand how many orders of magnitude separate traveling land and ocean is from reasonably traveling space so they act like it is a good analogy when really it is vapid.
I really suspect that interstellar travel is simply flat out impossible for any culture. Unless some form of FTL travel is possible, which seems unlikely (yes, there are various theoretical possibilities, wormholes, “warp”, etc., but whether they’d actually work is highly questionable), travel between even the nearest stars would take years at the very least, and more likely centuries. Even travel at a significant fraction of light-speed would be fraught with dangers. At even, say, 10% light speed, every grain of dust would strike your craft with significant force, wearing away at the exterior, and if you were to encounter a small asteroid, it would be fatal, and it’s questionable whether you could spot such dangers far enough ahead to change course to avoid it (especially since things like Star Trek-style “inertial dampeners” and “artificial gravity” are probably impossible, so you would need a huge turn radius to avoid killing the crew with centrifugal force)
And what would motivate generation ships? A capitalist motivation is impossible, since there could be no trade between the stars (even in an FTL setting, I don’t believe trade would be feasible, at least, not material trade - trade of ideas, stories, etc., sure, but not materials - there’s no way it would be cheaper to import materials from across light-years than from within one’s own star system - especially in a heavily automated society where labor costs aren’t a factor), and a society that would create a large enough number of people willing to leave their homeworld for another star - one which only their descendants would see no less! - doesn’t strike me as a society which would be stable enough to afford such a huge investment
About the only way I could see generation ships being feasible is in a situation where a highly advanced culture is facing a disaster that they can’t avert, and fleeing to other stars would be the only hope for the survival of the species. But such a scenario would be very different from an alien invasion. That would be a small number of refugees, not a massive invasion force
*physicist hat on* whilst wormholes and the Alcubierre “warp” field do exist as solutions to GR, it’s pretty much certain that there’s no way to use them for practical ftl travel
First, both solutions require some profoundly weird stress-energy tensors that don’t behave anything like any known particle, field, or combination thereof that we know of (even including only partially understood things like dark matter and dark energy). This is why you often hear talk of “exotic matter” when these things come up, but “magic matter” would get the point of how implausible this is across better
Secondly, and more fundamentally, there are topological issues
In the case of a wormhole, there is a topological difference between a universe with a wormhole and one without (and between one with one and one with two etc), such that there is no way to continuously deform one spacetime until it looks like the other. This means there’s no plausible way of making new wormholes
In the case of the Alcubierre “warp” field, on top of similar issues around having to change the topology of the universe, the interior of the bubble is topologically separated from the exterior. This means that there isn’t any way to move something from outside the field to inside it, meaning that even if you could make the field (which you probably can’t) you won’t be able to put anything in it to send faster than light
Thirdly, whilst quantum gravity is definitely not anything like a complete or coherent theory, there are some problems in it that are soluble. In particular, people have done some calculations around the self-energy of a wormhole, and found that it would provide a strong pressure towards the two ends becoming as close as possible and, if possible, collapsing to nothing. Given the intense fields in an Alcubierre solution, it seems very likely similar effects would take place there due to Hawking radiation (which would likely cook anything you did manage to put in there)
Fourthly, and this isn’t so much a physics problem as a philosophical one, any ftl system can always be used to violate causality. No matter how smart you try to be with arranging your ansibles, it is always possible to set up an arrangement of observers such that later on, a message can be sent back to before its composition (i.e. a tachyonic antitelephone). This isn’t a problem physically, but it’s an unavoidable consequence that isn’t normally considered
And lastly, if you did somehow get something moving faster than light (this is also not a problem per se, the issue physically is mainly with things accelerating from below the speed of light to above it, or vice versa, which would require infinite energy) you have to deal with the rather counterintuitive dynamics of tachyons
Namely, they lose energy as they accelerate and will constantly emit Čerenkov radiation (definitely gravitational, and, if charged or magnetic of the more usual electromagnetic type) which occurs whenever an object carrying a given field’s charge moves through a medium faster than the speed of the force in that medium (i.e. an electron moving through air faster than the speed of light in air, or a dense object moving through air and forming a Mach cone), which together mean they will naturally tend to accelerate to infinite speed unless constantly trying to decelerate
The faster the object goes, the less time (in its weird reference frame) it spends near enough another object to interact with it, and so the lower the likelihood or effect of any interaction so any ftl object would rapidly stop interacting with the ordinary sublight universe
All in all, this means that it almost certainly isn’t possible to have an ftl system, even more certain isn’t possible to make one, and if you somehow did, it would be inherently unstable. But you could use it to cheat the lottery
December is now here, and while I understand that everyone is busy with daily life, I hope you are in good health.
Thank you for coming to My Hero Academia Super Stage.
MHA is at a state where it will reach its goal in a about year….if things go smoothly.
If things don’t go smoothly, then [Yamashita] Daiki-kun will probably be reading the same letter again next year at JumpFes.
I’ve been sluggishly drawing for 7 years now, but now that we’re in the Final Act, I plan to vent everything that I’ve been sluggishly saving up until now in it.
I’ve said this to Okamoto [Nobuhiko]-kun in LINE, but Katsuki will be having his greatest scene in the manga in future developments. I hope people who like Katsuki and hate Katsuki will look forward to it.
And regarding Ochako and Toga,
I have a scene that I’m itching to draw.
Frankly speaking, Toga is a character that was created specifically for Ochako.
And I’ve developed Ochako match Toga.
I don’t know if I will be able to answer your expectations regarding how it [the Ochako and Toga plot] will end, but I plan to put my heart into drawing it.
Also, I became Fukuen-san’s fan because of Cure Happy.
When I heard that Fukuen-san will be voicing Toga….I was worried about whether Cure Happy’s Image will be defiled. (Because Toga’s the complete opposite of Cure Happy).
Thank you for lending your voice for Toga. I love you.
And then, we have Deku and Shigaraki.
Even though his consciousness is becoming more and more ambiguous, he’s [Shigaraki’s] a mass of destructive instincts and frustrations.
He’s the greatest obstacle in Deku’s goal of “saving”.
Saving and Destroying are both born out of ego. Whose ego will win in the end? Is it even a matter of winning or losing? How will things go? What shall I do? What am I supposed to do??
Well, everything’s somehow gonna come off alright I guess!
Do your best, Deku! Destroy it all, Shigaraki! Die, All for One!!
To people who have been reading MHA from its serialization,
To people who started midway,
To people who are just skimming through it while reading Jump,
I will push forward and try to make it so that everyone will think that they’re glad they’ve read MHA.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to the anime’s season 6!
I’m very happy that I can enjoy the broadcast along with everyone again.
This liquid is boiling and freezing simultaneously because it’s reaching its ‘triple point,’ which is the temperature and pressure at which three phases of a substance (gas, liquid, and solid) co-exist in equilibrium. Source
You know, this is going to be a disorganized post but hear me out! I’m a fan of folktales and mythology and I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia, especially on the In Popular Culture content section. And it hit me, while there’s a recent surge in reaction fic in TCF fandom, I haven’t seen a lot of outsider POV fics. Or at least, the one like the Wikipedia part mentioned above.
Like, give me a Wikipedia on the characters as if they are truly historical figures we learn about in history class. Or at least, something like the cultural depiction of that character (Cale, especially) in the future generation time. Because even as we readers have a more in-depth read on the characters’ journey and motivations and reasons, in-universe outsiders don’t. And this could be great!
Imagine, how some people might think and agree that Cale is a saint-like figure (courtesy of some crazy legend lunatic) who was so kind, heroic and must be protected at all cost. A more realistic mindset people might believe that this depiction might be exaggerated by history and countered back, using the original Cale Henituse’s drunkward actions, to show that Cale Henituse was not a perfect angel.
Other folks (descendants of the nobles who wanted to control the royal family and/or jealous of the Henituse family’s wealth) instead argue that Cale is a more ambitious figure since he managed to capture the attention of the back-then-crown prince Alberu Crossman and became ally with powerful people of all races. You can twist it into something more scandalous, I guess, by making it seem that Cale was a Helen of Troy sort of beauty. Some believe he had a beauty that made even the most beautiful race, like dragon, bewitched. That he seduced all of those scary, powerful people into fighting for the Roan Empire.
Yeah, I was reading Anne Boleyn (who was often depicted as a seductive vixen who convinced the King to split from the Catholism church) and Hurrem Sultan (a red-haired concubine who eventually schemed her way into becoming the wife of the sultan).
But that’s all. I will come back to this if I can think of more.
Bruh, from an outside view, Cale Henituse is a whole CONSPIRACY.
Like, this guy already emerged with a swordmaster by his side. The Black Blade Choi Han was said to be his bodyguard since before the Plaza Terror Incident. Cale Henituse had the worst reputation ever at the time. So why did the swordmaster followed him?? So sus.
The then-crown prince Alberu was understandable if he decided to ally with Henituse. He owed him for saving his people. Alberu Crossman was a ruler that genuinely cared for his subjects.
But then there’s Toonka. TOONKA. A barbarian that at the time, never had a single ounce of sympathy for the weak. He said that Cale was his friend, the only person that believes that the non-mage faction would win even when the civil war hadn’t even started yet. Many argued that Cale was the reason the war started in the first place.
The Jungle fire was the one with the most speculation. So Cale Henituse just happened to be in the path of no return, somewhere between the Whipper Kingdom and the Jungle, which is no where near Roan, while Queen Litana who just happened to be there, in a final effort to find a solution to an unusual fire that’s never been seen before? Yeaaahhh too much coincidences. Many speculated that Cale Henituse was the one to start the fire in the first place. He used the same fire in the Gorge of Death remember? Why does everyone conveniently forgot about that when singing praises about him. The whole thing was way too sus.
And the whales. The WHALES. So Cale Henituse saved the prince? Who was poisoned by mermaid poison? A poison with no known cure, even by the whales that have been battling them for generations????? I CALL SUS!!!
AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THE WHOLE MOGORU SITUATION CUZ THAT IN ITSELF DESERVE A WHOLE BOOK AND A 3 HOUR LECTURE!!!
NO WAIT CUZ I JUST THOUGHT SOMETHING
Ya know, his past was pretty sketchy. No, i don’t mean that we-don’t-know-much-about-his-past sketchy, but something-doesnt-add-up sketchy.
He was the first born of one of the richest noble families in Roan. He’s someone that has the power and money to do whatever he wants, and to order people to do whatever he wants.
Why is this important? Cuz of what we know about him in general. Remember, he was the trash of the Henituse, he had a horrid personality, always drinking in bars and causing general chaos and discomfort, he always did property damage, etc.
But why did he even do all that? If the whole drowning in alcohol really was a grief response from losing his mother, why did he even need to go to bars and taverns if alcohol is what he wants. His house probably has better alcohol than any bars in the kingdom. He’s rich, why did he even need to spend energy to actually go somewhere? And for something lower quality than what he could get while lounging on his sofa?
And even when he was a jackass, the damage he did wasn’t really up to par with what you’d expect from an actual jackass. He never hurt anyone physically, he threw bottles but only at other jackasses, and even then it never hit. He causes property damage but it was never something important or life-ruining, always something replaceable like furniture or something. He’s an asshole, but not as big as an asshole that you’d expect from someone so infamous.
He’s so infamous in fact, that even foreign countries know that he’s an asshole. Let me repeat myself, HE’S RICH. He has all the money and power to keep people’s mouth shut. Enough family influence to stop rumours and stories from spreading, or at least dampen his trashy reputation at least. Why didn’t he? If anything, his trashy rep was kinda blown out of proportion. It’s like he wants to be known as trash.
So here’s my own theory. Let me ask ask you something, if you ever want to get to know the latest news and gossip, or to meet up and make deals with people, where would you go? *slams table* THE TAVERNS!!!!
Cale Henituse has been using his drunken outings as a cover for information gathering!!!!
No but LISTEN IT ALL ADDS UP!!! The Henituse territory had been a little too prepared for the war don’t you think? They had fortified their castle walls, gathered more knights and mages, made evacuation plans, gathering extra food and farming tools…
Those would need a couple of years of preparations. Are you telling me, that a small territory of the northeast, bordering a Forbidden Region, with no known route for any foreign invasion, had been that prepared for one?? Especially after only a couple weeks after the announcement by the Indomitable Alliance and only 3 days after the discovery of the wyverns?????
They contributed a third, A THIRD, of the funds needed for the Ubarr Navy Base. They contributed as much as the royal family!! And for what?! THEY WERE A TERRITORY KNOWN FOR ART AND CULTURE, NOT MILITARY. SO WHY??????!!!!
Even Marquis Ailan, who actually known as a military household, was not as prepared for the war as the Henituse. How the heck did the art nerd with no known connection to the outside world could predict the war even better than the actual war jocks??
Okay, let’s just step back a little. I know that it’s highly possible that the Henituse just had more money to buy better information than anyone in Roan, and it might not even be Cale Henituse at all, maybe it’s just HENITUSE in general.
But remember the start of all this. Remember the Plaza Terror Incident. Remember how the mana was disturbed just as the terrorists was trying to detonate the bombs, remember how the bombs flew over and detonate at the mountains, like someone had transported the there, like someone had deliberately prepared to counter the attack, that someone had been ready.
Cale Henituse was there instead of his brother Basen. CALE Henituse attended, when his brother had been attending the functions for the past 2 years. Why? If it is a Henituse operation, Basen Henituse would have suffice. No need to make a change that would draw eyes to them. But CALE Henituse was there. Like it needs to be Cale. Not Henituse, but CALE.
Perhaps we never really know who Cale Henituse was before his rise to being hero. At least, nothing that wasn’t what Cale Henituse himself wants us to know.
A screenshot from demo V1.2 of our current project - Faceless - a lovely house full of lots and lots of toys for our little MC!
“Waking up late in a toy-filled daycare, the little girl hurriedly heads back her home as soon as she can. Throughout her way, however, a series of unfortunate events occur…”
Please note that this demo only serves at a prologue to the story in our eventual product.
So, don’t mind me if my idea is shitty, but this has been floating around in my head for quite a while! I tried to do something new with my painting but… uh, let’s just say that you shouldn’t use this piece to generalize what my art would look like in general…
Anyway, in [WORKING TITLE], monsters tend to get their names from their first victims.
In our protagonist’s case, their victim happened to be a child, and that child called him… the Peepee Poopoo Man.
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The 2 types of people on Tumblr.
There is a domestication movement of possums in America. I think ours are cuter too. are you guys domesticating them?
Australian possums are definitely cuter than American possums, and no, that sounds like a terrible idea. The last thing we need is even more animals running around that are unowned but dependent on humans.
Where I live does have a giant sinkhole where tourists go to feed the resident possums bits of fruit, though.
I kinda actually love that. But also, all I can think is, “Hey kiddos, wanna go for a trip to the POSSUM PIT??!??!”
My aunt and uncle got married in the possum pit.
It’s a hole in the ground. There are some possums in it. If you give them bits of apple they will eat it. I don’t understand the question.
The sinkhole looks like this:
The possums live in the walls.
I wish to live near or inside the possum pit
Tourists & Traps 1st Stop: The Possum Pit!
Why is this still getting notes
I love how magical this is and how the Australian is just like
If Strelitzia truly is the star we talked to tho that confirms my theory that
a. stars might not see themselves as stara
b. stars in the final world go through cycles of being asleep, being awake, and in between states. Hence why some stars were silent, some were aware, and some seemes caught in mumbling and thoughts.
c. Sora is likely in the Final World as a star
d. the reason Riku and Kairi and no one else found him was because before the Fairy Godmother made them able to see the stars (maybe you can only see them if you are dead?) they thought there was literally nothing in the final world (as they commented)
e. So it’s likely Sora’s heart is deep asleep, and that Quadratum (or similar worlds if there are more) are like sleeping worlds for those in the afterlife. They probably need to wake Sora up before figuring out how to bring him back at all.
The alternative is that having been erased from existence Sora has been yeeted directly in the dream part of the afterlife and there might be no trace of him in the Final World for real, but I do think it would make sense for him to be one of the silent stars, sleeping away and dreaming.
