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#we had to sing it every morning in school #although i think the version i know by heart is the old bad version #and there’s newer more awakened verses now #trivial polls dept

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Welp. Things get weird with the anesthesia department from time to time. Today a patient, left unsupervised for 5 whole minutes in her room at the surgical ward, chewed her central line out...

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What do you mean by Venus floating cities?

I'm hoping to write a science fiction story about visiting Venus as part of the space race and I would love your input

Alright so the thing with Venus is that we're all very familiar with her horrible hell-death clouds and 900°F surface temperatures. We all understand the surface of Venus is not a fun place for humans to be.

But, nobody ever talks about the fact that ABOVE the hell-death clouds, Venus is a paradise. The most Earth-like environment we know of in the solar system, beyond Earth itself, is actually in the skies of Venus.

About 30 miles above the surface, the pressure is ~1 atmosphere, and the temperature ranges from 30 - 100°F, which is Happy Human™ standard pressure and temperature.

What's more, a breathable mix of oxygen and nitrogen provides over 60% the lifting power on Venus that helium does on Earth. In other words, a balloon full of human-breathable air would float to the habitable range of Venus's atmosphere. We could float a ship with the very air we breathe.

The other great thing about this is that it avoids one of the big problems with Mars colonization. On Mars, any habitat on the surface full of breathable air is vulnerable to leaks and explosive decompression, a la the Martian.

Floating on Venus, a balloon full of breathable air doesn't have a significant pressure difference between the inside and the outside. Which means, any leaks or tears would be very slow and manageable. You could fix that shit with duct tape!

Similarly, because the environment outside the balloon is so Earth-like, humans living there wouldn't need any big fancy pressurized suits for extravehicular work. We'd need air to breathe, maybe some heat protection, and protection against the acid rain. That's it. 

Venus also provides the tools to keep us fed! It's atmosphere is made primarily of carbon dioxide, even above the dense horrible clouds. What likes carbon dioxide? Plants from Earth!! Lets grow FOOD on FLOATING PLATFORMS in the SKIES of VENUS.

This whole idea actually came out of a NASA effort exploring potential Venus colonization. The program was called HAVOC - the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept.

It hasn't really gone anywhere, and as far as I know there are no real plans to revisit it. Unfortunately, from a practicality standpoint, Mars is a much more viable target for human colonization. Not only is it better poised for outer solar system exploration, being farther away from the sun, but living on Venus would come with too many complicated contingencies. In the event of a major failure on Venus, you'd need to fly to another base, or fuck off all the way to orbit. I understand why people aren't really in a hurry to live somewhere where landing on the surface means certain death.

But that doesn't mean I won't be forever and always enamored by the skies of Venus. Here's one of the artist concepts to come out of HAVOC.

I want to be there.

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the person reading this is going to survive the rough patch they’re going through

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MYCROFT INTERLUDE - an imagined conversation between Holmes and Mycroft in 1888, after the events of the Greek Interpreter, when Watson and Mycroft meet for the first time. I was thinking about the 1885 Labouchere Amendment and Mycroft being protective of his younger brother.

(this is a part of the Watson's Sketchbook series)

#mycroft! #sherlock holmes

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oh baby it’s time for THE GREEK INTERPRETER! Holmes decides it’s time to introduce Watson to his brother and Watson saves a guy…with brandy!

Bonus Mycroft sketches bc I love him…started out really inspired by Stephen Fry’s portrayal but tried to make him my own. Might be working on a longer comic with a conversation between him and Holmes, stay tuned!

(this is a part of the Watson's Sketchbook series)

#i always did like mycroft #the deduction brothers. ha!

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THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON - part one of several, because this is one of my favorite Holmes stories! Ever since I read it I had a feeling there was something more...personal...going on with Holmes's hatred for Milverton than simply a principled stand against blackmail. A lot of this is directly pulled from the books but of course I took it in my own direction!

This is in the Watson's sketchbook series, and specifically references the Hound of the Baskervilles entry in that series :)

also thank you to my friend Phoenix for reading this when it was in sketch phase and reassuring me that it made sense!

Milverton design under the cut:

watson says he has a 'touch of Mr. Pickwick about him' so I tried to do Pickwick but...scary

#sherlock holmes

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Quick sketch of our Ecthelion just chilling at home because I wanted to try out granulating watercolours and what's a better subject than the primary character you've been drawing for the past 3 years

#silmarillion #oh my

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I Sent a Registered Letter to Dispute The Call and The Call Won’t Leave Me Alone: Next Steps?

What's the trope name for when someone finds out they're the Chosen One(tm) and is like "No, thank you" and goes and does something else

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Poll for writers and artists

Whether you write fanfic or original works or paint/draw, be it fan art or original work or whatever else - I have to know, because I have a feeling this is going to be very decisive:

Please reblog for sample size!

#synthetic extruded creative content #trivial polls dept

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#as with prev: sebastian flyte #sebastian like cecil is one of those quintessentially queer names for gay little novels

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that post about marine biology being a small field is even funnier if you know that the very night I rejoined this site, within Hours of my first post, someone on here was like “wait. I think my college class watched you do a porpoise necropsy last summer.” and they did yeah

#breaking: whalefall even more uncanny a phenom than originally believed

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by talos this can’t be happening is a mandela effect because the actual phrase is by the gods this can’t be happening and i’ve never heard anyone say the former in game

#chortle

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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#most recently jess silk #oh look playlist!

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“Salvage” created for Critical Chips 2, published/edited by Zainab Akhtar~

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if you're in canada, please take a moment to sign and share this petition calling for the investigation of registered canadian charities that give funding to illegal israeli settlement projects or to the israeli military.

this is an official petition in the house of commons and is endorsed by a member of parliament.

#cdnpoli #palestine