I'm a jack of all trades: Understudy Physicist & Education Researcher, Amateur Astronomer, Aspiring Polyglot, Seer of Sights.
Trying to figure out what to do with my life from here as I deal with chronic illness (lupus&friends). I'm a body mod enthusiast and I have a coffee table succulent garden. In addition to all things nerdy (science/comics/cartoons), I post a lot of landscapes. These are usually tagged #feels, because I have a lot of emotions that can only be elicited by photos of large open spaces. My inner child loves dinosaurs and dragons.
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I mean seriously, its got everything this website always bitches about other shows missing.
Strong Female Leads (actually more female leads than males)
Important POC (one of which is actually in charge of the entire warehouse)
Openly homosexual character who is not just a token gay, or a stereotype in any way, and is written no differently than any other character except that he is gay.
An openly BISEXUAL character
Umong others are Artie who is Jewish, the Regents (Who are basically like the board of trustees in charge of making decisions) are all middle class, blue collar workers (because governments and rich corporations cant be trusted with that kind of power) There are no flat characters, everyone is written extremely well. Even the antagonists can be sympathized with. and the “Good Guys” don’t always make good decisions. Everyone is a person, who makes both good and bad decisions, each character has their own personal motives and insecurities and internal battles to face that are ALWAYS PRESENT even when its not the central focus of the episode. (which is not always the case with TV shows).
everyone’s backstory is EXTREMELY detailed and well thought out, and that plays to their character’s insecurities and such.
And not to mention they totally say fuck you to gender roles.
Oh and mark Sheppard is in it too.
So yeah basically everyone needs to go watch warehouse 13 right now its a super amazing show and you will absolutely love it.
39-year-old drawing hints at what the Event Horizon Telescope may have just captured: the true shape of a black hole
Last week, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) may have captured
the first ever images of the edge of a black hole. As eager astronomers
await the arrival of the pictures (which sadly will take a few months,
as the hard drives containing them are stuck in Antarctica until the
harsh winter gives way to safer flying conditions), the rest of us are
left to wonder: what, exactly, should we expect to see? What does a
black hole look like, really?
Many of us have seen the standard artist’s representation of a black
hole: a giant floating disk with roiling, glowing outer rings and an
abruptly dark center from which we’re assured nothing, not even light,
can escape. Such images are compelling, but they fail to portray the
complex physical forces manifested by the black hole itself. When viewed
through a real-life telescope, it turns out these cosmological beasts
take a curious shape.
The first to accurately visualize a black hole was a French astrophysicist named Jean-Pierre Luminet. According to a recent Nature blog post
by Davide Castelvecchi, in 1978, Luminet used punch cards to write a
computer program calculating the appearance of a black hole, and then—in
what must have been an equally painstaking process—reproduced the image
by hand using India ink on Canson negative paper. The resulting
drawing, made of individual dots converging into a pleasantly organic,
asymmetrical form, is as visually engaging as it is scientifically
revealing.
For an explanation of why Luminet’s representation is accurate, check out the graphic below, from the December 2009 issue of Scientific American. You can also read the associated article, “Portrait of a Black Hole,”
to find out more about the mission to capture the EHT’s primary target,
a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way known as
Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*.
In 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts were kept in a trailer quarantine because scientists believed they might have brought back germs or disease from the moon. [Image via Reddit]
Another shot of the Tetons from 2015 because nothing gets me excited for a road trip like remembering the moment I saw this mountain range for the first time and cried. 🤷🏻♀️ (at Grand Teton National Park)
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