Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
Wernher von Braun, German aerospace engineer and space architect credited with inventing the V-2 Rocket and the Saturn-V, for Nazi Germany and the United States, respectively (via historical-nonfiction)
Von Braun: Proving that even if you use slave labour to fire missiles at British civilians, killing dozens if not hundreds, the US will still give you a job and a pension if they deemed you “useful“.
(via espanolbot)
The UFO discourse resists official ‘space frontier’ rhetoric. NASA redeployed American frontier myths of wild, open West, one vacant, empty, and ready to be settled. Ufology challenges the assumed vacancy of outer space and thereby intervenes critically in narratives of national identity. It demands that NASA, the government, the military, and the authorities who act in America’s name, allow for the possibility that, in space, we are the aliens.
“What is human existence? It turns out it’s pretty simple: We are dead stars, looking back up at the sky.”
— Michelle Thaller, NASA American astronomer and Research scientist
(via fyp-science)
so that’s what I’m feeling
The normalization of stimulant-usage as the standard method of ensuring enough energy in the day to perform labour is itself a massive sign that the economic demands placed upon humans are inhumane.
I wish more people were aware that “Needing coffee just to wake up.” is a sign that your lifestyle is killing you - and that those who demand you maintain that lifestyle through economic coercion are endangering your wellbeing for profit.
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Here’s a BIG thanks to James Poniewozik and the New York Times for naming Adventure Time one of The 20 Best TV Dramas Since ‘The Sopranos’. We agree!
