I was joking. I've read the books, watched the show, and was interviewed in a documenatry about it. :)

ok

Me, in *2013*: RFK Jr is anti-vax.

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That second photo was taken after they replaced Shatner in TOS with the Professor from Gilligan's ISland

I should watch that some day

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How much carbon-14 is in the air around you? I was surprised to learn how little it actually is

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Also 12 Monkeys

Oh I was being rhetorical; quite a few did! But compared to the number that just dragged on... whihc, honestly, is likely small compared to the number that were cut off early.

He gave Mariette Hartley two belly buttons

Roddenberry tried that twice after Star Trek

BABY GOATS

How many TV shows stuck the landing?

It feels cheap to me, like a money grab. I really like the Marvel movies, but this isn't a good look.

I learned how to mix prefixes and suffices from different languages on television.

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“Over on Twitter, they’re” shhhhh. Shhh.

Shh.

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Here you go. Pretty standard main belt asteroid roughly 2.5 km wide. :)

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Yup

Duuuuuuuuuude

This is literally the best news I've heard this year. The world is a little bit better now, or at least not quite as sucky.

is starbucks coffee named after battlestar galactica or moby dick

Ice cream cake!

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Rubin bags 11,000 new asteroids! This is just the beginning, too. There are more millions more out there waiting to be seen.

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A new picture of NGC 3147 from Hubble, comprised of data collected very recently, some of which was taken just a couple of weeks ago. This is in near-infrared and visible light, so the dust lanes look extra reddish. There's a certain transparency to the disk showing reddish background galaxies that I quite like, thanks to the near-infrared wavelengths in the red channel. It's one of those galaxies that fits nicely within the Hubble footprint, so this is a nearly complete picture of the brighter parts of the whole object. I enhanced the saturation and clarity of the whole galaxy, and the center dust lanes have been greatly sharpened. The small hole left where the chip gaps intersected near the nucleus was filled with data cloned 180° from the other side of the nucleus. This image was creating using data from the Proposal That Just Keeps Giving. The Hubble Constant to 1%: Physics beyond LambdaCDM Red: WFC3/IR F160W Green: WFC3/UVIS F814W Blue: WFC3/UVIS F555W North is NOT up. It is 42.64° clockwise from up.

NGC 3147 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/ETMTxh