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Bllarrrgh, I thought I was in a different post thread. Thanks for the correction. What Atomic said!

I’m writing it up! By the fates of bad luck, I was travelling all day today, so am just getting a chance to write now. Expect both a Pluto roundup of everything we’ve learned so far and a detailed explainer of the newest Pluto geomorphology on Saturday.

I really want a Pluto orbiter. I’m writing up a geomorphology of Pluto post right now that makes a huge argument in favour of having something that can track change over time like we do for Mars. I know that’s a tease, but it is so cool and so totally surprising that Pluto is an active little world!

Maybe something akin to this.

Ms. Theron may not have been “sexualized in the slightest” for Fury Road, but on that last shot of Furiosa ascending on the lift SHE HAS NEVER LOOKED HOTTER.

Folks have got to recognize that if the conversation opens with treating the representation of the Black Widow in the film like it is one of the ten greatest crimes of the 21st Century, then the conversation is going nowhere that will help anyone. For the same reason, if the conversation opens with “Shut up and like

Launched on the same day Kerbal space program launched V1.0..

Oh God, this would be a great start for a new horror movie, Laika’s revenge, where the ghost of the Russian space dog starts off possessing and destroying unmanned vehicles before working her way up to the manned stuff. And only the Russians. I’ll start penning right now...

What really disappoints me about science, the universe, and all its workings, is that math seems to be the universal(har har) language. This is disappointing because I suck at math. I expect that when we do explain everything, it will be mathematically derived, and I still won’t be able to understand the universe and

I got the ‘feel’ that Sansa was 100% playing the game, and she was doing a good job at it. I have high hopes for Sansa. She’s killing it, it’s just not flashy.

I did it 30 minutes ago.

If we're getting this information from material that's been spewed into orbit, we might not ever have to drill beneath the surface to look for life. Any life that's in Enceladus' ocean would have been ejected by those same vents. A mission to sample that dust, and check for carbon compounds, and microorganisms might

I am unreasonably excited by this.

We don't teach history to help you get a job, we teach history because without it people grow up to be ignorant jerks who deny that things like slavery and the Holocaust ever happened.