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Space memes, fusion schemes, and x-fundie dreams Recurrent laryngeal nerve's #1 defender
Magacommunism reeducation camp
Joined August 2011
I will tolerate recurrent laryngeal nerve slander no longer! It's actually the result of several elegant solutions to difficult problems in embryology, and the length is a non-issue. A 🧵 1/13.
My meager education in biology and evolution gave me the mistaken impression that evolution optimized everything. But it didn't. One example is the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN). It goes from behind your ear, loops down below your aorta, and then back up to the voice-box. 1/2
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Reminder that two launches a year is not a sustained rate, but requires holding on to hardware and rebuilding ML-1. As it stands, SLS and Orion cannot sustain a permanent human presence at or near the moon, as the Orion capsule has a max duration while docked of 6 months.
@ThePrimalDino Can't have a permanent lunar presence and Mars exploration with two launches a year, and to my knowledge, there aren't many ways to push past that. Even if every planned Artemis mission is fulfilled, that's only a couple steps in for a much larger goal.
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Here's your reminder that for brief stint in designing the Shuttle the leading first stage booster design was a mini-Sea Dragon booster that literally just Shuttlecocked into the ocean for recovery
The top 5 most overrated rockets ever (no particular order). 1. Sea Dragon (not as large as you think, medium sized for rocket designs at the time, and a horrible design that isn’t practical at all). 2. Energia (unreliable, too many boosters, and would’ve never seen reuse unlike.
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I need to see a Starship on the Moon, then Mars.
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Never ask:. A woman her age. A man his salary. A European how much more land it takes to grow those strawberries
I feel compelled to inform my American friends that the Finnish berry on the left is how a berry is meant to be. NOT like the American berry on the right. You have been deceived.
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And we are not done as a species. We have the potential to bring life to the other worlds of the solar system, and beyond. We can be the great panspermia event that brings life to the stars.
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And a massive part of that has been our impact on the nitrogen cycle. We've pretty much doubled how much nitrogen is biologically available. The development of humans is one of the biggest biological changes to happen to the Earth since the Great Oxygenation Event.
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It's reached the point that there's now more biomass in just humans today, vs all land mammals even 100,000 years ago. We've effectively boosted how many people can sustain themselves here on Earth by orders of magnitude.
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We've gotten so good at feeding people that famine deaths have gone down substantially even as the global population has boomed.
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It's hard to fathom sometimes, but the past couple centuries have seen humanity achieve feats that would have been miraculous to our ancestors. And the extent to which we've defeated famine is one of them
at its peak the roman empire had a population of 75 million with a fifth to a quarter living in cities. this makes it almost as grand as the democratic republic of the congo, with its 106 million people, 30% of whom are in cities.
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Imagine getting mocked by the god of pee
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People make content to get picked by millenial parents for their children to watch because of their fond memories of the original.
There is be a thesis to be written on the autocannibalism of pop culture. The evolution of pop culture from “new things based on old things” (“Star Wars”) to “new takes on old things” (Tim Burton’s “Batman”) to “new versions of old things that look just like the old things.”.
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Jarvis, set his parental controls to block cocomelon
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Never trust people who think raw meat is gross to eat.
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What did the solar satellite say to the other satellite . Truss me bro.
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That's just this site everyday.
Lex Luthor trained a literal farm of monkeys to post Superman ragebait online 24/7 😭.
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The Amish shall repopulate the earth after the Goonpocalypse.
Just seen Ani shaking her butt, what the hell has the xAI team done.
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The problem is the current administration would probably remove that pesky plaque about what the Statue of Liberty actually means
We should clean the Statue of Liberty and unveil its shiny color on July 4th next year for the 250th anniversary of American independence 🇺🇸
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I'm a Starlink, how about you?
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