#webby pointing to the asteroid

[ear-worthy]

Important Unimportant: A Podcast For Listeners "Who Give A Sh*t"

Quinn Emmett, the host of Important Not Important, had an immediate effect on me after listening to several episodes of his superb and marvelously distinct podcast.

I first wondered how he survives with three double consonants in his name. That's a tough break. Then I speculated how he became one of the smartest people in podcasting. 

In a crazy world where everything wrong is Trump's fault or the result of those Democratic groomers, socialists, pedophiles, atheists, and people infected with Type 2 wokeness, Quinn Emmett is anything but a blamer. No, instead, he's a solutions person. We don't have too many of those today. Emmett doesn't point fingers. Instead, he looks for cures, not band-aids.

Emmett doesn't reflexively react to societal problems. He thinks about them. Their causes, their complexities, and the possible solutions. Sadly, many politicians have stopped even offering solutions. Listening to Emmett's podcast, his range of thinking spans a wide-open universe, from climate change to personal and cultural happiness.

Who is Quinn Emmett? It's fitting that Quinn comes from an old Irish word for wise, sense or reason. Quinn is also a first name that could drive conservatives crazy because it is a popular girl's name and a boy's name. Oh boy, the gender complexity.

Quinn Emmett is a screenwriter, investor, a self-described father of three growing humans, and the founder, writer, and host at Important, Not Important: science for people who give a shit. His critically-acclaimed newsletter, podcast, and coaching help you think deeply and act decisively about the world’s make or break science news, from climate to COVID, heat to hunger, and agriculture to AI ethics. 

His work is consumed on a weekly basis by senators and scientists, investors and doctors, students and CEO’s, best-selling fiction writers and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists. Quinn has spent the past two decades working, advising, and investing across a wide spectrum of business, media, politics, activism, and philanthropy. He has been nominated for 6 Webbys including Best Newsletter, Best Podcast Host, and Best Science Show.

Important Not Important bills itself as "a 6-time Webby-nominated show that delivers deep conversations with the world's smartest people (scientists, doctors, CEOs, farmers, and more), and digestible news updates every single week, loaded with tips and steps you, and we can take to fix this place right up. They’re talkin' clean energy and coral reefs, COVID vaccines and pediatric cancer research, clean water and carbon capture tech, asteroid deflection and artificial intelligence ethics. It’s science for people who give a sh*t, want to feel better, and unf*ck the world."

I think Emmett cleverly and uniquely pitches his podcast this way because he's searching for listeners who don't want to have their confirmation bias stroked by podcast hosts like Ben Shapiro or Charlie Kirk.  

Emmett's conversations and solutions often defy simplistic, sound-bite answers and transcend political ideologies.

In one recent episode, Emmett interviews Marc Schulz, who worked on an 85 year-long study of happiness. After following 724 people, the study learned about the importance of relationships and connections in our lives. Through their conversation, Schulz and Quinn Emmett expand on the findings to apply them to the challenges we face in our current society with technology, lifestyles, and loneliness. It makes you realize all the ways our support systems can help keep us healthy and happy.

It's a terrific episode because it questions our assumptions about happiness, and uses massive datasets to turn conjecture into sharply drawn conclusions.

In a July 24th episode, Emmett spoke with Cora Wyent, the Director Of Research at Rewiring America. The episode offers listeners a succinct assessment of where we are in electrifying everything from cars to homes. What are the breakthroughs? The blockades? 

Emmett offers listeners two types of episodes. Guest episodes -- like the one in late May about protecting yourself from wildfire smoke -- run close to an hour and are wide-ranging intellectual scouting parties. I learned from his guest, Dr. Mary Prunicki, that wildfire smoke that is days old is actually more harmful than just created smoke. 

Emmett also produces short episodes more like news broadcasts that are remarkably insightful and full of useful information.

In the show notes, Emmett infuses the attention to detail that is impressive and often lacking among many other podcasters. In the notes, Emmett includes a HERE's WHAT YOU CAN DO section to make his episode actionable. Then, he offers a NEWS ROUNDUP, which is a written version of his show so that listeners can readily access his links and sources. Finally, kudos to Quinn Emmett. Through more than 300 episodes, he has provided quality information without the massive financial and logistical assistance of Spotify, iHeart, or Amazon. It's much easier as a host to show up in a top-notch studio with a staff of people who assist in the myriad tasks that the independent podcasters must complete themselves.

Instead, he is the CEO, CFO, COO, host, sound producer, scriptwriter, marketer, sales executive, administrative assistant, and handyman for the podcast. 

To paraphrase Quinn Emmett's own words, "He gives a Sh*t."

Listen to Important Not Important and leave behind your confirmation bias and assumptions. It's an exhilarating experience. 

Quinn Emmett may not be for everyone, but he is certainly for anyone.

#podcast #podcasting #psychology #business

[astrodances]

So do you have other planets in your au so fare the only one you put up (that I know of anyway) is Canard and that colony that boyd and Borg attacked new Tokyo

DuckTales - Star Trek AU Map of the Galaxy

The following three images are the same hand-drawn overview of the Milky Way Galaxy that I did (which was really fun to draw!), with the first being the drawing itself, the second being a quadrant map, and the third being a details map, followed by a list of the corresponding points on the map, and then by some categories of locations that didn't make it onto the map for one reason or another (followed by some ending notes!).

The map + lists highlight most, if not all locations I've mentioned in previous answers (here's the AU tag), plus some other important locations that I haven't mentioned yet (some from Trek, some of my own design ;)). For everything else (especially the "Regions of Space"), it should be safe to assume that it's the same/AU version (or just doesn't exist/isn't mentioned in the AU) of the Star Trek maps, unless I say otherwise.

For this map/lists, I referred to NASA illustrations + data and Star Trek maps + info, especially the game map for Star Trek Online. That said, please note that the map and locations are definitely not to scale in terms of galactic distances between each point, but it should still provide a good general idea of where places are in relation to each other.

(Lists are under the cut after the images!)

Locations + Corresponding Points on Map:

Sector 001 - Sol system (Earth + Moon), AU Vulcan system - Earth: Klondike + White Agony Creek cabin, Dawson City, Starfleet Academy, Castle McDuck

Canard sector - Canard system (Canard), Deep Space 87 (DS87), Canardian wormhole* to Gamma Quadrant - DS87: Goldie's/Louie's Bar, Vic's Lounge, USS Thunderquack * The wormhole also serves as the "natural route" to the mirror universe, under the right conditions.

Canardian wormhole - Gamma Quadrant terminus

AU Cardassia sector - AU Cardassia system (AU Cardassia), Badlands

Risa sector - Risa

Sigma Iotia system (Sigma Iotia II)

AU Farius Prime, an Orion Syndicate planet

AU Ferenginar

New Tokyolk colony planet

Memory Alpha

Omicron Aquarioon III, an aquatic world **

Fiendish Nebula (F.O.W.L.'s homeworld) **

Lucy's Prize - option area 1 **

Lucy's Prize - option area 2 **

Regions of Space:

Federation space (primarily Alpha and Beta Quadrant)

Moonlander space

AU Cardassia space (Alpha Quadrant)

F.O.W.L. space (originally in Gamma Quadrant, extended to Alpha)

AU Klingon space

Neutral Zone(s)

AU Romulan space?

AU Borg space?

Extra-dimensional + Unknown/Unspecified + Classified Locations:

Shadow Q Continuum

Mirror universe

Areas of galaxy supernaturally explored by Magica and Goldie (primarily in the Gamma Quadrant)

Della's last known location (presumably "lost in an ion storm out in the middle of space"; possibilities for actual reason include (but aren't limited to): finding the Canardian wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant before its official discovery, or getting lost in the Badlands and pulled to the Delta Quadrant (à la Voyager))

Della's possible whereabouts (possibilities: Gamma or Delta Quadrant; an unexplored world that belongs to the Moonlanders)

Della's return blue signal location

AU Vagra II (Phantom Blot's possible origin planet)

AU Camor V (possible Dickie Duck storyline planet)

AU equivalent of Internment Camp 371 (for possible storyline where Webby is kidnapped and imprisoned, and replaced by changelings aboard the Klondike)

various asteroids for mining and aquatic worlds

location for the AU equivalent of the Mount Vesuvius battle

Beagle Boys' space junkyard

Known Ships of the AU:

USS Klondike, Federation starship, Starfleet flagship

Klondike shuttlecraft, including the Selene shuttle (other shuttles all named after Greek deities, except Zeus)

USS Thunderquack, DS87's starship

space version of Iron Vulture

Space Duck, a cargo freighter ship

Beagle Boys' scavenger ships

USS Southern Cross

space mining ships

Goldie's various ships

cetacean science vessel-classification starship

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Some random end notes:

** About those last 4 (technically 3) points on the map - these are cosmic objects specifically of my own design! :D Omicron Aquarioon III is an aquatic world that Fethry and Mitzy would definitely visit with their cetacean vessel + crew, but also...Aquarioon! A little nod to Huey's favorite water spectacle from "The House of the Lucky Gander!" The Fiendish Nebula (F.O.W.L.'s homeworld) is very special to me, and I'll explain why in a post I'll make after this one (it'll be my art of the nebula, and another artwork of a constellation - it originally wasn't meant for this AU, so that's why I'll keep it separate from this, but I'll use the AU's tag, so they'll still be close together). But I am very excited to share them. :) (And I hope to draw some art of my other two space creations here eventually, though it might be a while.) Lucy's Prize is very much a secret, so much so that I'm not probably not going to reveal much about it until I draw it and/or write the corresponding storyline for it. But I will give some teasing hints about it (and guesses are certainly welcome ;P): - Its possible locations being near the galactic center have to do with the region of older stars there. - I based it on a very, very cool bit of science I read on an old NASA site, and even without the AU, I would still want to draw/imagine it. It's just that cool. - Besides a certain group of the main cast of the AU, I'll say that specifically my AU version of the Iotians would be interested in it, if they know about it. - I named it "Lucy's Prize" mainly to honor Lucille Ball, the godmother of Star Trek (and I grew up watching I Love Lucy), but there's also an indirect connection to NASA's Lucy mission that recently launched to the Trojan asteroids. If you can find that connection, you'll have a major hint for what the Prize is. - It's just gonna be such a cool, legendary, almost mythical concept in the AU, with an equally-daring and epic adventure needed to get to it. I'm so excited! :D

About Goldie and Louie's bar name - I miiiight have mentioned this in some tag or note before (or just thought of it, but never wrote it down), but ok. I know I mentioned in the first post about their bar that Louie will pull out a sign with his own name and charge double whenever Goldie's away, but otherwise, the bar is just called Goldie's. Well, this works for a while, but after that, Louie starts wanting a little more recognition in their partnership and business, and things might escalate between them for a bit. (This might happen during/after the whole Morn death thing, especially if the will is in Goldie's name.) But then after some specific "episode" where they come to a new understanding (and/or after they use all that "useless gold"), maybe they change their bar's name to "The GOLD Bar" - The Goldie O'Gilt Louie Duck Bar, where their initials form the acronym! :D

About AU Camor V (possible Dickie Duck storyline planet) - on Memory Alpha, they say this about Trek's Camor V: "The planet was badly affected in the Cardassian Wars with a large number of the adult population killed in the war, leaving many orphans behind." I know I said in the answer about Dickie that Goldie and/or Scrooge would be tricked into thinking they're related to her, but what if in reality she's one of these orphans? (She'd be more grown-up when they meet her, but still.) I still need to rewatch that episode, but this is food for thought.

#Astro answers #DuckTales #Star Trek AU #space art #my art #long post #sorry for the wait but I got really into this one and it was really fun to do research for it and put it all together! :D

[cotton-tails]

Follow on from this post. Completely unedited, let me know what you think:

Scrooge wasn’t wrong about one thing, the kids are super excited to have Donald come along. Turns out Webby had been regaling the triplets with stories she had dug up of his adventure days, and to make matters worse, Scrooge had come along and encouraged the madness.

The moment he reaches the bottom of the stairs in the main entrance hall, Huey tackles him, jabbering on about something or other and- ah, the La Mère qui Crie, the banshee incident. Scrooge loved telling that story. Donald’s hearing was funny for a full year after that one. Dewey is next, hiding from Webby behind his legs. The girl simply goes for an easier target; Louie. The green clad duckling whimpers as she turns her attentions to him, and moments later Donald finds himself with an armful of terrified Louie.  

“Please don’t let her eat me!”

Donald snorts at their antics, letting Louie climb up on his shoulders and picking up the other two with one under each arm. He tries not to grunt with the effort; it definitely won’t be long until he won’t be able to pick them up at all and heck if that isn’t a depressing thought. He shakes it off and turns to face Webby with a mock-glare. She has always been a force to be reckoned with, and they’ll need all their strength and teamwork to win.

“If you want them, you’ll have to go through me,” he growls, biting back a grin. Webby giggles, then lets out a shrill war-cry and charges.

Scrooge comes downstairs some twenty minutes later to absolute carnage in the hall, including two overturned sofas, Nerf darts covering every available surface and a candelabra hanging from the chandelier. Donald is holding back an over-eager Webby with one hand, while Louie cheers him on from his position atop his shoulders. Dewey is climbing on top of an overturned sofa and is preparing to jump-tackle Webby. Scrooge can’t help but be just a little impressed when, without even glancing up, Donald catches the duckling mid-leap with one arm and sweeps him away before anyone can get hurt.

“I thought I told yer to make sure the kids were ready to go,” The older duck says, announcing his presence. All five trouble-makers froze, glancing at each other then up at Scrooge.

“Uh…we are ready?” Donald attempts, trying his best to look innocent.

“Are you now?” Scrooge says with a raised eyebrow. “I think you and I have very different ideas of ready m’boy.” He sighs, a smile finding its way to his face. “I expect this room straightened out and you five by the plane in ten minutes, you understand?”

“Yessir!” comes the chorused response.

They do it in eight and a half.

Within minutes they’re in the air and hurtling across the Atlantic. The kids are happily pouring over blurry images, debating over what the object that fell to earth could be.

“It’s aliens guys, it has to be,” Webby says, trying not to bounce in her excitement. “Think what we could learn from them, the technology, the languages, the cultures!”

Huey is a little more sceptical. “There’s no solid proof that aliens actually exist,” he says, “I mean, statistically, the chances of us being the only living creatures in the universe is slim to none, but-”

“Aw c’mon!” Dewey interrupts, “it’s an adventure! We’re going to discover something new, get in the spirit!”

“Or we’re going to find a big space rock,” Louie drones, barely looking up from his phone. “Chances are it’s an asteroid or something.”

“Nah,” Webby says, holding up one of the pictures. It’s in no way clear, nothing more than a fuzzy image of something burning through the atmosphere. “The shape’s too….”

“Space-ship…y?” Dewey says, leaning over shoulder. “I mean, I guess rocks can be any shape, but that’s a little too…. Y’know.”

The debate rages on.  

Meanwhile Donald finds Scrooge, who is, for once, not winding up the kids into even more of an excited frenzy. He’s sitting quietly in a corner, studying another copy of the image the kids were examining.

“You really think it’s aliens?” Donald asks, keeping his voice down. He sits next to Scrooge, glancing at the image.

“I don’t know what it is,” Scrooge admits, putting the picture down with a sigh. “The picture’s not clear enough, the only way to find out is by going to see for ourselves.”

“And if it is aliens?”

“Then we’ll be the first the make contact and learn some amazing things.”

“And if it’s just a space rock?”

“Then it’s just a rock, but it’s a rock from the depths of space and probably worth millions.”

Donald rolls his eyes and allows himself a small smile. “Of course,” he mutters.

The rest of the flight is surprisingly subdued, and at some point, Donald is able to doze off. He wakes some hours later with an armful of a snoozing Louie and Huey, with Dewey and Webby curled up on either side. Scrooge is sat on the other side of the aircraft looking down at a camera with a smug smile.

“Yes,” The older bird says without looking up, “it’s an adorable picture and I will be framing it.”

Donald just pouts, knowing there’s very little he can do or say without waking the kids.  

“We’re almost there,” Scrooge says, pushing himself up with an exaggerated grunt, “you might as well get them up.”

#ducktales #donald duck #dad!donald #scrooge mcduck #HDLW #huey #Dewey #Louie #Webby #DT17 #fanfiction #Think I've got a semi-solid plan for this now #welcoming feedback #my stuff