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nearly all libraries have a ghost, but medical libraries frequently have a ghost and a skeleton

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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A very curious Pyroraptor spots something interesting (a cycad seed) on the forest floor, and is just...tickled pink by it for some reason.

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Source

#dance

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marine biology is so scary because it’s such a small field. i was giving a talk on cetaceans and afterward a woman approached me with her husband and she said, “you did very well. [husband’s name] actually pioneered the research and published the first paper on that. We were very impressed by you.”

Which is such a scientific interpretation/public education win I will cherish forever but also for the rest of my life any time I give a talk I will be haunted by the knowledge that the world’s leading expert who literally discovered/invented the topic might be in the room,

which is like, the opposite of what you’re supposed to do for stage fright. In fact I never used to experience stage fright but now I will.

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Mythbusters have 3 categories of myths

the general public doesnt know how physics works

the general public doesnt know how lying works

oh crap this ones real

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Do you think animals ever look at their young like "sweetie I know what you want to do but I'm not letting you do that. I'm preventing you from doing that on purpose. You will die. Darling I love you but you're so fucking stupid."

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Crescent Moon being photobombed by a crescent Venus

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public libraries are so sick. there are five books I want to read and they're all relatively new so they're only available in hardback which is so expensive but it just cost me $0 to place holds on them. five books for zero dollars. it requires nothing but clicking a button and then going to the library to pick them up when they're ready. zero dollars. that's crazy

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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Another good boomer joke

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Elizabeth Bennet: I went to Accomplished Woman Island and nobody there knew you. In fact it was uninhabited.

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some loser: humans are innately selfish creatures

my psych book:

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Did Michael Jackson defy gravity, or was it due to the shoes? 🕺👞

Archives Specialist Netisha Currie shares the shoe patent invented by Michael Jackson to create an anti-gravity illusion.

The shoes enabled Jackson to execute one of his signature dance moves, allowing him to lean forward to an exaggerated angle while performing the song "Smooth Criminal" on stage.

The patent is digitized and available in the National Archives Catalog.

📸: Drawings illustrating the method and means for creating the anti-gravity illusion boots, June 28, 1993. National Archives Identifier 5742940

📸: Declaration of Michael J. Jackson in support of establishing status of Triumph International, Inc. as a small entity pursuant, page 2, August 25, 1992. National Archives Identifier 5742954

📸: United States Patent 4,762,019, August 9, 1988. National Archives Identifier 5742962