To round out the list: Africa is about 2.1 times as big. Oh, and glorious Afro-Eurasia is 6 times as big, get fucked Antarctica

The thumbnail genuinely had me thinking that it was a photo of a dress and the art you were sharing was that you made the dress. You must have just absolutely nailed the lighting and proportions enough that when the image is small enough to conceal the soft edges and less detailed areas, my eye just accepted it

Considering its influence on visible public conversation, particularly how often news outlets report on A Thing Someone Tweeted, I would suggest it’s at least partly to blame. Certainly not the only culprit, but I don’t think Elon Musk bought it to not shape public discourse

Thank you! I was defeated today because it turns out the glue I was going to use for the paper and a cable I needed for the music both need replaced, but hopefully I can share some of it once I grab replacements tomorrow. I’ve done the hard part of the paper stuff, at least, should just be a matter of assembling it

Art isn’t about being good though, it’s about self expression. If you feel a call to do it, go for it. None of us are born good at any of it

As I understand it we’ve identified nucleobases outside of Earth, but not nucleic acids. I don’t personally know how big a step it is between those components and then some actual assembled nucleic acids, but it’s definitely farther removed from what we generally consider to be life.

apparently Mars had a lot of water for quite some time

It did lose a lot, but it also still has quite a lot! It’s just mostly frozen and underground

Space is a really harsh environment and the odds of randomly getting between solar systems in bad before you start talking about survival parameters

While I agree, isn’t that still true for an in-solar-system event? It’s a lot less space, but we’re still going from “a ludicrous distance more than humans can really conceptualise” to “also a ludicrous distance more than humans can really conceptualise even though it’s orders of magnitude smaller”

I do agree that it’s absolutely worth testing, though, because whatever we find or disprove is interesting to know

Still cool, though! An artform in its own right

The article mentions that these molecules (not elements, they’re a bit more complex) degrade just from the heat of atmospheric entry, so it seems unlikely they’d be anywhre in an actual star

I know very little about this field, but I was under the impression that panspermia was not particularly well-supported amongst scientists. There is a joint NASA-ESA mission to get samples from Mars back to Earth and study them for evidence of life, but they both talk about it as Martian life rather than a potential origin of Tellurian life. Could you talk a bit about what makes you say the odds are even?

The hunting lodges were doing heather burnings all over Glen Esk earlier this week too

What were you using them for if not music?

The music: I was looking to make something to accompany a video and I wanted to get the same general vibe as Martyn Bennet’s Blackbird but faster. I wound up putting some very Vangelis-esque synths under Capercallie’s Alasdair Mhic Cholla Glasda and got close enough for the purposes of the video. I was telling a friend about it and she liked the sound, so I want to try to do a proper song version rather than just soundtracking a video

The art: a diferent friend made some layered paper art of Heated Rivalry to be her phone case and I liked the idea, so I’m go to try to do the same but based on A Highland Song. I have my plan, I just need to get to work with a scalpel

The Ukrainian wikipedia page for the Marvel character is Залізна людина, zalizna lyudyna, which is just the literal words iron and man

Not much on this weekend in terms of going out and doing things, but I’m hoping to get some hobby projects done. Making some music and a little bit of simple art, hopefully

ER Patches’ appearance at the Radahn festival is brilliant, but I think the whole thing with Lapp in DSIII’s Ringed City is the most interesting version of him. Not quite Unbreakable given aeons enough, it seems

That point is definitely an error. Apart from how weird and unnecessary a flight-path it would be, the southward leg of it would require the plane to do about Mach 6 to make the timestamps work

OP, can you edit the title to clarify that this is HRW addressing Hungary and not a statement by Hungary? There are already people misunderstanding in here because they haven’t opened the link

Because the grains of corundum are so small, less than 0.2 millimetres across, it was impossible to tell in images whether they are rubies or sapphires and what they might look like to the human eye.

“I would love to be able to pick one of those up and analyse it and see if it looks red – it’s pretty disappointing that all you can see is this white pebble,” said Ollila. But when hit with the SuperCam laser, they shone brightly.

Too small, unfortunately

I do consider myself very fortunate to live here; it’s not some magical utopia, of course, but there’s a lot of good and a lot of beauty. I try to make the most of it. Hopefully you get to some day too!

Of course, there’s plenty I want to see elsewhere in the world myself. Based on your posts it seems like you’re in Illinois, US? I’d love the chance to look around some of your national parks, especially the ones with terrains that just don’t exist in Europe like Badlands. I know many of those will still be thousands of miles away from you, of course, but I would assume the Great Lakes have some worthwhile sights?

I HAVE PERCEIVED YOUR CAT

HE’S CUTE