okay okay okay so i haven't been tism about this yet (publicly) but like i really need people to hear about this
for ages scientists have been trying to drill into the mantle with things like the kola super-deep bore hole and just a few days ago...
they still haven't.
BUT THEY DID HARVEST ROCK FROM IT AND THIS IS WHERE IT GETS COOL!
Geologists managed to extract a kilometer long core sample of mantle rock through the Atlantis Massif and a "tectonic window" which basically means mantle rock was pushed up into the crust by tectonic shifting and got close enough to the surface seafloor that they were able to use a bore drill to harvest samples
now the reason that this is a major breakthrough for geology (and i would use all caps but i don't want to scare some of my mutuals away from this) is that this KILOMETER long sample could potentially change a lot of the things we know about plate tectonics, magma convection currents, earthquakes (falls under plate tectonics but important enough to get it's own mention), and geology in general.
What they find from analyzing the sample might change what you learn in school and that is any scientists DREAM
I am actually shaking bc of how exciting this is and i need everyone around me to be doing the same
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i love the new Solarballs episode
anyways....
SMART NEPTUNE (BRITISH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
💙👓
(ft ura)
gotta love this guy getting his sanity back
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I salute my flag and stand for the troops or whatever
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Have you read DC lazarus planet revenge of the gods? They have a black Apollo!
I've not read it yet but I took a quick peak over my lunch break today gotta say absolutely love their apollo design tho just who ever the artist is is just amazing their art looks so pretty
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Concept for 'attacking the new planet' outfit
How to protect someone with tech. She's already made the "well pro-tech-ted" pun. Everyone groaned.
And yeah she has the new and improved 'robot' for a lot of the time. This is just for when she's required on the ground.
I have a lot of thoughts on this but hopefully a lot of it's self-explanatory/made clear by labels
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