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I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear x-rays, and I- I want to- I want to smell dark matter! I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me!
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FUCK
Fuck the Yankees.
That is all.
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Words!
There's a certain point where further procrastination becomes completely infeasible. I call that point "Stacie got it done before I did." Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful.
Alright, so it's late. Even thought I'm not completely thrilled with the writing quality here, I need to get to bed and I know I'll just start over if I look at this tomorrow. ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Sin
*INSERT RANT ABOUT PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET NOT GETTING MITOCHONDRIAL EVE*
Stephanie: Essentially the science version of Adam and Eve? :p
Michael: KIND OF like science's Adam and Eve except really really metaphorical.
Stephanie: right
Stephanie: well
Michael: Plus that suggests science has dogma. :P
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Perception of Time in Valinor
KNOWING THAT:- Time is perceived differently in Valinor than it is in Middle-earth, AKA the world as we know it.
- This difference in time perception is such that exactly one hundred forty-four years here is perceived as one year there.
- The mechanism in which time is perceived differently is known as time dilation.
- Time dilation is a function ( Read more... )
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Philosophers Need a Hobby
Taking ethics training today. Came across this.
"The word ethics comes from the greek ETHIKA, meaning "custom" -- as in how we normally or should treat one another; the word morals comes from the latin MORES, meaning "custom" -- as in how we normally or should treat one another. For the past 2000 years, ethicists and philosophers have been trying to ( Read more... ) -
Prosit!
“From here, southward along the Hithæglir, onward to Calenarðon. It shall be in the shadows of Minas Anor that we shall unite with Gondor’s armies. Once organized, we must surely retake Ithilien from the Enemy.”
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"For for this were you brought out of the Wrack of Gondolin."
Let's be honest here; we know next to nothing about Eärendil. The chapter within The Silmarillion was mostly based upon the text of the first Quenta Silmarillion, found in HoMe V. This dates to around the 1930s; a good twenty or so years earlier than the material that Christoper used to write just about the rest of the published Silmarillion. The ( Read more... ) -
It's funny because you KNOW that's how it all would've went down...
Michael: You DARE claim that Emperor Fëanor would be more awesome than Emperor Palpatine?!
rhaella : yes
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A look back in history: inventor of the first fusion reaction
OVirginSaint: I like [Varda] for one thing
OVirginSaint: inadvertently kicking down the "keep out" ward to the west that the Valar put up.
Michael: XP
Michael: Yay inadvertent actions!
OVirginSaint: it was a dumb thing to put up in the first place
Michael: I don't like the Valar.
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