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ireallyamabear · 9 months

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The choice to put Una Chin-Reily on a Starfleet recruitment poster in the late 2370s seems a nod to the extraordinary person she is and her exemplary service, but Boimler’s enthusiasm for her as a personal hero cannot mask the fact of what Starfleet execs are really doing here: while it is Starfleet tradition to honour esteemed personnel from its centuries of history, we have to look at the poster as a product of its time: it seems clear that, shortly after the devastating death toll and the rapid militarisation of the Dominion War, putting a prominent figure of the Great Exploration Age - and notedly someone who had not served in the Klingon War - as the poster person for Starfleet is an indictment that contemporary young people of the Federation are not drawn to the service as it is in their time anymore.

Critically, Starfleet has to use somebody from a 120 years ago, a timeframe that would lap generations of even especially long lived member species like Vulcans or Denobulans, to attract new recruits. Boimler says himself that seeing Una as a representative and her motto - “Ad astra per aspera” was: “Uh, it was a really big reason why I joined.” Clearly there is a wealth of recognisable Starfleet officers from 2370 and onwards, but their entanglement in the Dominion War, or at least in the Borg threat makes them unsuitable as role models for people like Boimler who cannot help but associate these contemporaries with the horrors of war and intergalactic conflict. Thus, the retreat to a “safe” historical narrative, with Starfleet still being about peaceful exploration reflects the growing divide between the realities of a colonised galaxy, the ongoing need of new bodies to fill the posts on all those ships and space stations and the aspirations and values of young people today. In this essay I will question whether Starfleet can keep its promise of scientific integrity in the face of growing political unrest in the UFP and ask what “Number One” herself would have thought about-

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todayontumblr · 9 months

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Wednesday, August 9.

Space.

Yeah, science b*tch.

Space is, and let us make no bones about this, the cat's whiskers. The news each day is grim, and seemingly only ever grimmer. So it makes a refreshing change once in a while when those fine folk in the whitecoats deliver some fascinating, albeit existential, updates. But even here, there is better and worse: for better, for example, in the last year alone a rogue black hole was spotted on its own for the first time, NASA’s DART Mission hit an asteroid in a first-ever planetary defense test, and astronomers revealed the first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Very nice, very cool. Very space.

However, it seems we never learn when to leave a good (and very big, scary) thing well enough alone from the claws of capitalism, as Virgin Galactic plans to launch its first space tourism flight. In any case, we can't exactly blame their curiosity. The study of space has captivated our tiny minds for millennia, and it remains a beautiful, fascinating, frightening, and silent enigma. There are endless mysteries up there, and the question for us is whether they are best left well alone. Or, in the immortal words of Ian Malcolm, "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should."

So let's give it up for the magnificent beauty and ceaseless, elusive terror that is #space.

#today on tumblr #space #galaxy #planet #nasa #astronomy #outer space #space facts #black hole #nasa breaking news #space exploration #astrophysics

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cloudofbutterflies · 2 years

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The James Webb Telescope has some new pictures of Jupiter!

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spacecdt · 1 year

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Charon, moon of Pluto.

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starkiller1701-a · 9 months

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This is Ethan Peck visiting JPL to take a look at the Europa Clipper, a spacecraft that will be launched in October towards the Jovian moon in hopes of exploring that strange new world!

Just look at how happy and nerdy he looks at JPL. Props to whoever invited him, because it's only logical to invite Mr. Spock to JPL. And props to Ethan for supporting science and exploration! I love this man 🖖🥹

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wake-up-and-face-the-sun · 1 year

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Okay. You know what? I’ll make peace with The Collector’s conclusion.

ON THE CONDITION that he meets all our silly little Collector OC’s during his time in space and they all become a group and go on adventures together.

#toh oc #toh #the owl house #they go on journeys #quests #explore the universe together #discover new worlds #they camp out on nebulae and planets together #try to eat things that they should not be eating together #share stories of where they came from/how they got here #they visit the adult collector OCs together!! and the adults are stuck with the kids until they move on with their journey!#they make up their own rhymes and songs together!!#the possibilities are endless

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socialjusticeinamerica · 2 months

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#science #space science #Uranus #Neptune #nasa #space exploration #moons #outer planets #new moons

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bumblingbabooshka · 4 months

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Patreon Comic: Pearl & Hakeem - A Conversation About Humanity Patreon | Ko-fi

#Pearl #Hakeem #beas ocs #eyes & the observer #comix #sci fi #sci fi oc #A lot of the times 'Humanity' is presented as a monolith in the sci fi stuff I've seen #bc it's probably just easier you know? But I wanted to explore Pearl's complicated feelings/difficulties #Where she was raised on an alien planet devoid of any Earth culture or prejudice #and now when interacting with Humans she's under a whole new set of assumptions if that makes sense #& yes Pearl did give Hakeem a kiss with her mouth covered #bea art tag #star filled oyster

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tolbachik-art · 28 days

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Just tried to get myself tired before bed, and I had enough time, so I decided to do just a quick little Charon study! I can definitely say that the extra 30m I had for the Iapetus one was apparent, as this one is definitely less detailed. it was still fun, though, and I learned a lot!

#charon #pluto #space #space art #space landscape #solar system #new horizons #voyager 2 #nasa #astronomy #moon #digital art #artists on tumblr #tolbachik art #my posts #space exploration #digital painting #planets #outer space

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theofficialastronomy101 · 1 month

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i-mean-technically · 1 year

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#i feel like the anti-organic rhetoric is ramped up in tfa for a reason#there's some reason why Ultra Magnus and the council want mecha to stay away from organics and im just staring at it#... if we're rolling with the (Arachna 9 was a set up) theory Ultra might've chose an organic planet on purpose @transingthoseformers

yes that's what i've been thinking too! why were they told to stay away from organics. i mean there's always the quintessons as a reason bc i like them as enemies.

but that seems like a cop out to me idk.

and 👀👀 yeah yeah yeah Arachna 9 being a set up and it being an organic planet????? high command KNEW it was dangerous that's why it was off limits in the first place. and that much fuel/treasure on a ship???? they wouldn't leave it.

sure, command and Magnus say that decepticons don't exist but the war happened and the 'cons and probably all the war frame autobots that refused to be forcibly reformatted were kicked out of cybertronian space. meaning that they couldn't risk them getting whatever was on the ship. meaing that there probably wasn't anything on the ship if it was a set up

#tfa au #tfa #transformers animated #transformers #maccadam #i am also interested in exploring the reformating of the autobots after the war #the ones who went willingly and the ones who were forced #and the ones who chose to leave #did the autobots who left join the decepticons? did they join with other planets? are they drifters?#bc i think i've seen a map of the galaxy for tfa and there's several different territories/empires #ALSO ALSO #with the Allspark gone they had to use Vector Sigma for creating new autobots #that's canon #which i like to headcanon that transformers have biological reproduction and then the Well/Vector Sigma #so how does Vector Sigma differ from the Allspark in creating mecha and their sparks (especially since Primus doesn't exist)#....and if biological reproduction is a thing here do the new generations of autobots know about it

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scienceacumen · 10 months

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