Jessica Wittner, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, hails from California. A National Outdoor Leadership School alum, Wittner enjoys riding motorcycles and off-roading. https://go.nasa.gov/49CxwUN
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I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it
they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons
and musical instruments
And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses
And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them
I know everyone has done this by now but it's always been my favorite MK track so I had to do it too! Please appreciate this nice video version (sound on!)
me sending yet another email to a French public service to ask them why they use so many gratuitous English words in a service that's supposed to be non-discriminatory and accessible to everyone in the country
ruby sunday is so bright eyed and bushy tailed and kidnappable, like i love it but buckle up girl, he’s abt to send ur ass to Hell World…. wait does she know he can travel anywhere in space?? ppl know about aliens in the show, but how will she react though - she has no idea that he’s like this …..ancient alien entity of life and time ??? i hope their reputation unfolds slowly and ominously as they visit other planets. i wonder when she’ll ask about the flux. i hope she starts connecting the dots, and i hope the sheer scale of it scares her