Heads-up, Earthlings! The Annual Geminid Meteor Shower Has Arrived, Peaking Overnight Dec. 13-14. It’s

Heads-up, Earthlings! The annual Geminid meteor shower has arrived, peaking overnight Dec. 13-14. It’s a good time to bundle up! Then, go outside and let the universe blow your mind!

The Geminids are active every December, when Earth passes through a massive trail of dusty debris shed by a weird, rocky object named 3200 Phaethon. The dust and grit burn up when they run into Earth’s atmosphere in a flurry of “shooting stars." 

The Geminids can be seen with the naked eye under clear, dark skies over most of the world, though the best view is from the Northern Hemisphere. Observers will see fewer Geminids in the Southern Hemisphere, where the radiant doesn’t climb very high over the horizon. Skywatching is easy. Just get away from bright lights and look up in any direction! Give your eyes time to adjust to the dark. Meteors appear all over the sky.

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7 years ago

gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

5 years ago
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6 years ago

condemned/forbidden area or building: *is rumored to be haunted/a place where supernatural or otherwise unexplained events have occured*

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6 years ago

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6 years ago

it’s a known fact that nasa = gay. have you ever seen a straight person wearing a nasa tee? no, ofc not. we’ve got the moon. now mars. next thing you know it’s the entire solar system. boom the milky way. the gays are spreading, in this essay i will

6 years ago

I saw an opportunity and I took it

6 years ago
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6 years ago

next time i’m with my paranormal society and we walk into a haunted building i’m just gonna power pose in the middle of the room and rip up my sleeve to reveal my “hey there demons” tattoo and the spirits will be QUAKING

6 years ago

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