#timescales

[nobeerreviews]

Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.

-- Elif Shafak

(Giza, Egypt)

#time #history #timescales #elif shafak #travel photography #giza #gizeh #egypt #quote #sphinx #pyramids

[uncharted-constellations]

I... Cannot stop

#spider-man #coffee bean gang #peter parker #mary jane watson #gwen stacy #harry osborn #flash thompson #mj watson #art #my art #comic #comics #marvel #you may ask ‘bro how and why are you cranking shit out so fast’ #the answer is the bees! #also theres something freeing about using a different brush than i do for my more traditional art thats just bery fun #i needed more harry and gwen in this one since i focused more on the others before #flash and peter still ended up with a double page feature anyways #pbs kids peter is canon just ask the sliding timescale #gwens little widows peak is very important to me #i know the bangs are the more well known style but i dont care! #peters hair also never going in the right direction is equally important #there will always be at least one chunk rebelling

[justinempire]

Coordination Of Oscillating Synthesised Timescales  

#Coordination #Oscillating #Synthesised #Timescales #Instrumental #Contemporary #Artistic #Composition

[quark-nova]

ICS time bias in one picture

#palaeoblr #geological timescale #geology #holocene #anthropocene

[redstonedust]

this chat is just really funny to me for some reason

#i cant tell the timescale on how frequently this happened. i assume it wasnt instant but itd be even funnier if it was.

[regular-gnome]

I have a question for you (by the way, I am the one who writes to you to ask you things every weekend from another account) could you show me through a drawing the relationship between wayfarer and the anatomist?

the relations changed a bit since they were younger, but they are always the slightly dysfunctional siblings

#the timescale they exist on and masks makes them seem much further apart but there isnt even that big of age difference between all siblings #trying to figure out ways for faster colouring but yeah thaaaaaaats not it #the owl house #owl house #toh fanart #toh archivists #the archivists #toh collectors #toh the archivists #c:i Anatomist #c:i Wayfarer #regulart

[mishapen-dear]

hey. so. bad said that he was under the euphrates for like 1,000 years, didnt he? he also said that purgatory lasted for 1,000 years.

this bitch is so unreliable bbh why were you at the euphrates were you having a little vacation there were you actually trapped for 1,000 years or just a week. king. king. are you one of those four trapped angels or were you having a little meet and greet and the ancient river got stuck 2 seconds while you were trying to get out again. how's that time blindness going king

#qsmp #qsmp badboyhalo #i wouldn't be surprised either way tbh #he. probably meant the euphrates thing more seriously on a timescale thing but #we cannot trust him #that would be such an awesome long con

[unpretty]

OH thank you for sharing my old comic! I read Astielle over the summer and have been really loving it :)

i've been a fan of your work since i was a teenager so i'm going to be riding the high of this message for years probably

#original #adkjhasdajhdasjkhd #this is going in the #testimonials #tag so i can stare at it when i need motivation #i went through the applegeeks to johnny wander pipeline just as a reference for the timescale here #gonna print this ask out and eat it and then print it again to paste into my planner

[vickysaurus]

Happy New Year!

Let's imagine it was the Earth itself that was going into its 2024th year. That is to say, we're compressing the entire history of the Earth into just the past 2023 years. What events would have happened when?

Well, not too much is certain about the first couple decades after our planet formed, until around 50 CE when we were hit by another proto-planet, Theia, and the debris formed the Moon. After a couple years of the planet cooling down again, the oceans formed out of boiling rain. The timing of the origin of life is very uncertain, but there are chemical signs it may very well have happened as early as the second century. Around 200 CE, the gas giants did a big funky orbit-swapping dance, and in the process inflicted the Late Heavy Bombardment on the rest of the solar system, meaning the Earth was suffering a ton of meteorite strikes for the entire third century.

The first indisputable evidence of life is from around 330, and the first stromatolites appear around 470. Those are basically the first fossils, stones created by layer upon layer of oxygen-producing cyanobacteria living and dying on top of one another. But even with oxygen producers evolving, it would take many centuries before oxygen became a major part of the atmosphere: not until the Great Oxygenation Event, which happened during the ninth and tenth centuries. That's also about the time the first complex, eukaryotic cells evolved through a symbiosis between an anaerobic archaean and an oxygen-breathing bacterium. The bacterium became more and more focused on just the oxygen-breathing task inside the larger cell, until its descendants were mitochondria, which as you all know are the powerhouse of the cell. The next seven centuries passed by with only slow, gradual changes, and life continuing to be unicellular and difficult to find in the fossil record.

(1735's Snowball Earth, by me)

From 1704 to 1730, the entire planet froze over. After merely two years of thaw, it happened again, this time lasting from 1732 to 1742. But these snowball Earth episodes set the stage for the evolution of animals that began right after. Across the mid-18th century, the bizarre Ediacaran biota, with its strange symmetries, fronds, and fractal-like pattern filled the oceans. In the early 1780s they went extinct, possibly due to a temporary drop in oxygen-levels, only to be replaced by a great variety of quite different creatures in the Cambrian Explosion.

(Class of 1799, by me)

Starting in 1784 and running for a few decades, the Cambrian period saw the origin of most of the modern animal phyla, reaching its most famous form in the Burgess Shale fauna of 1799. During this time, most animals still lived on the sea floor, either attached or crawling, with relatively few actually swimming creatures. Plants started tentatively moving onto land around 1817, and in 1825, the rising of the great Appalachian mountains caused a severe drop in global CO2 and thus temperatures, leading to the Late Ordovician mass extinction.

(Horseshoe crabs and sea scorpions on a beach in 1834, by me)

Bony fish first showed up during the 1830s, and around the same time plants were getting serious about inhabiting the land, evolving roots and vascular tissues so they could properly grow there. Millipedes and the ancestors of spiders were the first animals to follow them onto land. Our own fishy ancestors did not take their first step until 1857, by which point the arthropods were well established there and the plants had figured out how to become trees. The Late Devonian extinction, partially caused by the evolution of said trees and partially by the south pole freezing, played out in two pulses over the late 1850s and early 1860s.

(Swamp prominently featuring Meganeura and Mazothairos in 1889, by me)

Arthropods and vertebrates continued to gain adaptations to life on land. The insects became the first creatures ever to fly in 1878, and the high-oxygen atmosphere of the time would be especially good to them. Around 1884, a group of vertebrates called the amniotes, after the membrane that kept water inside their eggs so they could lay them on land without them drying out, split into two groups: the reptiles and the synapsids (which we mammals descend from). The next few decades would see the synapsids in particular being extremely successful as the supercontinent Pangaea formed. Until 1912, when a massive episode of volcanism caused the worst mass extinction of all time, the Great Dying, scouring the Earth of a huge portion of its life.

(A 1930 scene featuring the three branches of archosaur: dinosaur, pterosaur, and pseudosuchian, by me)

The 1910s were a period of slow recovery during which strange new forms of animal evolved. Many different, unrelated reptiles, such as the ichtyosaurs and plesiosaurs, went to sea, where they would continue to provide some of the most impressive creatures for most of the 20th century. On land, the dinosaurs first appeared in 1920, though for the next decade or so they'd live in the shadow of their pseudosuchian (crocodile-line) cousins. In 1934, Pangaea began to break up, resulting in another terrible pulse of volcanism that caused a lot of extinctions and left particularly the feathered and furry survivors with a lot of empty niches to fill, allowing the dinosaurs and mammals to diversify greatly. The last common ancestor of all modern mammals lived in the early 1940s, and by 1957 the dinosaurs had figured out flight, with Archaeopteryx usually being considered the first bird. Other dinosaurs took on an incredible variety of sizes, shapes, and forms. Some of the most famous ones include Dilophosaurus (1942), Diplodocus and Stegosaurus (1955), Iguanodon (1969), Velociraptor (1991), and Tyrannosaurus rex (1994).

(A tropical lakeside in the year 2000, by me)

In 1995, the world was struck by a meteorite, wiping out many groups, including the marine reptiles, pterosaurs, and ammonites. The surviving mammals and dinosaurs went on to diversify across the next couple of years and had formed thriving new ecosystems in the tropical world of the turn of the millennium. The first known bat lived in 2001, and the whales returned to the oceans next year. Around 2009, the world's climates turned colder and dryer. Antarctica froze over and grasslands spread widely. Our last common ancestor with the chimpanzees and bonobos lived in 2021, and by new year 2023, our ancestors were getting brainier and more proficient with tools. That's also when the north pole froze and the Quaternary ice age cycle began. The first known members of Homo sapiens lived on 10 November 2023. The latest ice age started on 14 December, and ended at 2 AM on 30 December. The great pyramid of Giza was built at 6 AM on 31 December and On The Origin Of Species was published at 23:22 PM.

#palaeoblr #happy new year #2024 #geologic timescale #vicky's vritings #one year is 2.244 million years if you're curious #and yes i did exclude both year 0 and 2024 #since 0 doesn't exist and 2024 hasn't happened yet #my art #i rather enjoy having an extensive collection of my art to illustrate my paleorambles nowadays #incidentally the big bang occurred in 4121 bce at this scale #which is curiously close to the date of creation creationists made up #if only they would follow through and insist humanity itself was seven weeks old too

[comicavalcade]

🤷🏾‍♂️ that's comics baybeee

#comics #comics age #age discourse #sliding timescale #time travel #clones #deaging #so unserious #i apologize for nothing

[oliveroctavius]

Let's look briefly at the Coffee Bean in Spider-Man comics!

Contrary to popular memory, Peter's college pals initially met up at a diner called the Silver Spoon (ASM 44, but also 46, 52, possibly 125).

The spread at the top of this post takes a lot from this place's layout. But as newcomer MJ might have pointed out, diners are so fifties. The modern teen needed someplace cooler and edgier to hang out. Somewhere more underground. Literally.

Maps place The Coffee Bean alternately in East Village or Tribeca. The beret and glasses? The lowercase Dante's Inferno quote? The wall-hung guitar? So hipster. Wait, wrong decade. So beatnik.

The OG Bean didn't show up much more frequently than the Silver Spoon (ASM 53, 59, and 82, most notably), but it's the one that stuck in the cultural imagination. I enjoy Tim Sale's take in Spider-Man: Blue with the unfinished basement look and cult film posters.

In early modern flashbacks, the location is plagued by a specific continuity problem: "then [character] leaps through the WINDOW!" from new writers who missed the fact that it's below ground. In ASM Annual '96, JRSr complies by raising the ceiling a level!

The Sensational Spider-Man Annual's approach to the Coffee Bean makes me a bit sad. Dialogue repeatedly emphasizes its unique character and long history and how well MJ knows the place. But it's drawn aboveground and totally generic. (This from an issue with a dozen Silver Age panels directly traced!)

It's not the first time that happens, but here feels like a critical failure of show-don't-tell. The eventual window smash is worth it, but... I'd argue this would work better set at the Silver Spoon (where MJ actually met the gang, old in an uncool way, aboveground) instead.

Brand New Day reestablishes a solid sense of place for the Coffee Bean. Brick and glass entryway, a logo that's less beatnik and more Starbuck, and an interior that reminds me of a Panera Bread.

(If it's supposed to be canon that the new more corporate look is due to renovations by Harry, that's been lost in the shuffle. But it would make sense to me. His effort at impressing Norman with a plan to make the Bean a chain store circa ASM 569 would extend his trend of editorializing his own memories.)

While it still teleports between Astor Place and Tribeca, this version has now had more consistent (and just more) appearances than the original. And, of course, it has a beautiful bank of windows to—

Ah, that's more like it.

The Coffee Bean has become a symbol of innocent nostalgia and a happier past. It was also (as designed by Romita Sr) a virtual bunker: not until 1977 would superheroics be written to take place inside the Coffee Bean. (ASM Annual #11—Romita Jr's first ever penciling job on Spider-Man, interestingly.)

As a silver age icon, the location was physically safe and interruption-free in a way that even Peter's apartments and Aunt May's house couldn't be. The architecture—and how it's changed—has been a large part of that symbolism, underappreciated as it sometimes is.

#long post #thank you for coming to ollie's deep dive of the week if anything here is wrong go ahead and add on #the coffee bean #coffee bean gang #down with the sliding timescale #images undescribed

[inverse-problem]

obsessed with the earthmovers. they're a weapon. they're a home. they're the last stand of a centuries-long war. how many people lived their entire lives on one, knowing nothing else? how many people died to keep them running? how many of them were left scattered, crumbling on the surface of the earth? how much of them remained once they were scavenged for parts?

did they feel pain?

did they feel relief?

#ultrakill spoilers #inverse problem.txt #basically rotating variations of this in my mind 24/7 rn #I am obsessed with them #I may have the timescales wrong re: how long they existed vs human lifespan but still

[blueskittlesart]

swings with you. i think sidon is the perfect capsulation of how men and mlm ships take precedent. he's a fairly boring character 😭 the only thing he really has going for him is that he's hot and "himbo" so ppl r obsessed w shipping him w twink link.

why are conversations about sidon so predominant when the narrative of totk is so clearly putting more focus on zelda. can she have one thing im begging here

thank god im not the only one. christ. like i feel like the only thing sidon has going for him is that he's a hot man. his story is like. fairly straightforward 'i had a family member who died and i am grieving her' which like. multiple other characters in botw had. i would argue that the other champions in botw had more interesting stories than him (riju's struggles to lead her people at age FOURTEEN, teba fighting for his son and the future of his family, etc etc.) sidon isn't a BAD character by any means but he wasn't a GREAT character either and i NEVER saw any chemistry between him and link. 90% of what people seem to like about him is just. fanon shit. can we please just drop him and talk about women for once i am begging

#AND HE ISNT EVEN REALLY A HIMBO IN THE GAME?? #like i assume that came from the whole 'never met a hylian' thing maybe??? but that was just like. because he is a zora. #they are an isolated society and on their timescale the calamity happened very recently of course he was sheltered??? #like someone please show me the textual himbo sidon evidence. i do not see it #asks #also not to be insane but i feel like no sidlink shipper EVER has considered the like. actual implications of this ship. #'hello ex boyfriend of my dead sister who i am still grieving for. she wanted to marry you btw. want to date me now' ????????????? #ugh. anyway. i swear i do not hate sidlink guys im just SO TIRED

[captcutshaw]

Here's the thing. Danny says that they're 91 days away from the end of the decade. This puts the scene on October 1st or 2nd, depending on if he's counting that day as well. The beginning of the film is about a week before this, I put it at September 25th or 26th judging by the timescale (starts on a Sunday, they set off on the Monday, get back Saturday morning and find Danny at their place). Withnail says he's 30 in a month. IN CONCLUSION, if we take this literally, Withnail's birthday is either the 25th or 26th of October. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

#I remember seeing someone talk about the timescale of the film before but idk where #anyway. very important for me to calculate fictional character birthday at 1am #you can tell I'm making good use of my film studies course #withnail and i #withnail & i

[quark-nova]

#palaeoblr #ics #geology #cenozoic #neogene #geological timescale

[skeletalheartattack]

i am taping your leg to the ceiling fan and turning it to max power :)

you're gonna what now? huh? wait. oh shit-

WAAAAHHHHHH!!!

#ask #evildoctorsex #it took me like three tries and one crash to make this #i didnt have any ceiling fan models in gmod 12 so i had to make one from scratch with planes #also i recorded this at .4 timescale just so i could get a good enough gif. then i had to halve the frames a few times to shrink the file #also i gave most of breen non-gravity so he wouldnt drag across the ground as much #and i had a turret out of frame that id trigger to break the table since i didnt think hed break it on his own #i was also afraid he would fly over it but thankfully he hit the ground just in time for me to press the turret key #i accidentally made the winch longer in the first second of the recording since i forgot which key did what #anyway hiiii hana :) #ik you wont see this until tomorrow but i hope you liked the effort this took me to make #i had to also put gmod in the lowest resolution which was very funny to witness #can you get me down now? please? please? the fans only getting faster okay? #thank you for the ask hana :) >:)