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The planet Venus is the easiest of the planets to spot with the naked eye from here on earth. Due to her high albedo and proximity to the sun she will appear at dusk, heralding the appearance of the stars before disappearing through the night, only to return at dawn as the stars fade into the morning light.
She may also harbor life.
Conditions on her surface are rightly described as “hellish”. The high temperatures, pressures, intense volcanism and presence of chemicals such as sulfuric acid are notorious for “killing” probes in a matter of minutes. Earthlings would probably not fare much better.
Phosphine is a gas produced by either volcanic or biological processes. In 2020, phosphine was detected in the upper atmosphere of Venus in concentrations higher than what could be accounted for by volcanic processes alone. Now, there have been published studies attempting to disprove these observations but, despite what the shitheads at Wikipedia say, the presence of phosphine has been validated by repeat observations.
This discovery has lead to some renewed interest in…
Fuck it, its not that serious, I can write this like I’m posting on hexbear, because I’m posting on hexbear.
Look at this picture okay?
Thats her, thats Venus, thats what she actually looks like to the naked eye. If you stood before her, in all her terror and glory, this is what you would see (more or less). Virtually every other picture you have ever seen of Venus has been some kind of false color image, usually in the ultraviolet spectrum, maybe in the infrared or really high or low ends of the visible spectrum with the contrast jacked way, way up.
This is an image of Venus, taken by Mariner 10, in the ultraviolet range.
The dark lines are areas where UV light is being absorbed. We don’t know whats doing that. We call it the “unknown ultraviolet absorber” and we don’t really know what it is. We have been staring at this thing for nearly a century and we don’t know what it is. Its prevalent enough to impact Venus’s weather cycle, its intensity waxes and wanes over time, it moves around, and best guesses have it absorbing about 50% of all UV light hitting Venus.
And we have no idea what it is.
The discovery of phosphine has lead to a reexamination of old data and… okay here’s the arxiv link and here’s the direct link to the pdf. If you have gotten this far and can parse astrobiological scientific journal articles you should read this because the argument it makes is rock-solid and very, very thoroughly detailed. If that’s not your jam here’s a youtube link to a lecture by Astrobiology rockstar Sara Seager about astrobiological study on Venus, it covers most of the same content.
Basically, there is a whole lot of really specific, really weird things going on in the atmosphere of Venus. No feasible combination of abiotic factors are able to form a model that explains all of them. Carl Sagan once proposed that the Unknown UV Absorber was microbial in nature and that seems to get more and more likely every day.
We won’t know for sure until we get some in-situ studies going on. Thankfully there are a handful on the way, including one planning on launching either this or next year. Its not sexy, basically a probe will fall through the atmosphere and use a laser to check for organic molecules, but its going to be the first of many. And its lead by Sara Seager, the aformentioned astrobio rockstar.
I just think about this a lot. We may have been looking at life, elsewhere in the universe, since before we were even human.
and it will have been on Venus, marscucks btfo lmao
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death note finale
Stuck the landing and killed it. Matsuda delivering the death blows was so satisfying. Incredible rant by light at the end. Chefs kiss to Ryuk writing his name in the notebook. Death Note is a legendary anime for a reason. What else is there to say
God I’m an idiot.
I was trying to replace a metal collar with a similar one because my old one broke, i had it’s circumference from my emails, but the one I wanted to buy only had diameter and for whole ass moment I was like “well shit”
Then I was like wait… math!
death note
Since L died it feels like Death Note is spinning out of control. This sibling(?) rivalry that is no where Near as interesting as the L/Kira cat and mouse is center stage, and now we are bringing in underground bases, plane hijackings, spy satellites, fucking missiles, and gimp masks to top it all off. The show has lost the plot about what made this all good
Nears whole existence cheapens Ls character as the world greatest detective. L comes across as a unique savant genius detective who can instantly see through whatever tricks light does, but actually there’s 2 people capable of doing that and the second person is a young teenager
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I don’t think the author ever intended for near to be as smart as L. I was pretty sure that near and mello together were supposed to have an edge over L, especially since they were working off more information than L started with.
I’ve also heard that near’s deductions were way more logical in the manga and the anime cut some important shit out. But I never actually read the mamga, which maybe I should.
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Near is literally PLAYING WITH FUCKING TOYS. Look at my follow up to L dawg
God damn I literally hate people so much. I hate bigotry, I hate misogyny, patriarchy, I hate the fucking excuses for it.
transphobia
One particular thing has been seeing cis women genuinely argue and believe they are more oppressed.
And it’s just, fucking hell. I hate people. I hate how many people treat this like a choice, or a game, or whatever. I am suffering and trying my best to not have it get worse. That is it.
But nope, cis people will never ever take transsexual suffering legitimately apparently.
I think it’s funny when people say things similar to this in different contexts. I saw something where someone was hating on xenogenders and stuff because it’s bad optics essentially and comments were full of people saying our oppressers will never care about our suffering. Which is funny, if only because I say the same thing all the time, with a qcompletely different take away. They’re saying it because like, who cares if someone identifies as a xenogender or whatever and I’m saying it because it’s one of the biggest reasons I hate humanity and the sheer hopelessness of my (our) situation. That people truly do not care about our suffering, our dysphoria, our medical care.
Anyway. I just hate people. That’s been the thought tonight. People are shit and there’s always a million fucking excuses. I don’t give a fuck! My culture was shit, my education was shit, my religion was shit, fuck I am still surrounded by it. I actually tried. Something hardly anyone with the opportunity does. You can fucking hand someone education and they ignore it. I, I fucking accepted it as a teenager even through fucking crying that I’d be tormented in hell forever. But these dipshits can’t. People can’t do that. They can’t even accept black and white science that some people get born in the wrong bodies. Fuck people man. These fucking bastards. And, and these willfully ignorant fucks control every aspect of my life. They control government. Employment. Housing. They make up society as a whole.
These people gobble up misinformation for breakfast. Anything that could possibly be interpreted as supporting their preconceived fucking feelings gets parroted endlessly, even after being debunked. There was a fucking study that shows people believe things more strongly after being shown evidence they’re wrong! What the fuck?
How can there truly be any hope for me when the people are so shit???
Jesus I get off topic if I type a comment for too long, hopefully this is somewhat comprehensible. Tldr I FUCKING HATE PEOPLE (except you all and like two people I’ve met)
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And, and these willfully ignorant fucks control every aspect of my life. They control government. Employment. Housing. They make up society as a whole.
I do agree with this even if I disagree with misanthropy as a whole. Not only is the standard for the level of general education that adults are expected to have for things unrelated to their jobs abysmal, but people have such a poor attitude towards education. They do not see it as a blessing, civic duty or worthy of pursuit for its own sake. They see it as a chore in the best of cases, or as a threat to their own worldview that must be avoided in the worst cases.
They’re saying it because like, who cares if someone identifies as a xenogender or whatever and I’m saying it because it’s one of the biggest reasons I hate humanity and the sheer hopelessness of my (our) situation.
How can there truly be any hope for me when the people are so shit???
You gotta look for hope internally and find out all the ways in which you can negate the disadvantages that people put on you.
That is of course really hard+dependent on luck and the fact that we gotta do it just to end up 3 steps behind the place where others start is ridiculous.
One particular thing has been seeing cis women genuinely argue and believe they are more oppressed.
Yeah that sucks
I though Talia Bhatt really nailed things in her book Trans/Rad/Fem when having to explain this (CW SA, slurs, transphobia, misogyny, homophobia)
All regimes sooner or later need an external threat to divert attention to, a foreign enemy for its people to focus on so that the extant tyranny seems preferable, even tame by comparison, and the transsexual is the Gendered Empire’s very own Vandal. She is the menace against whom any violence can be justified, both the failed man who can be beaten senseless and the failed woman who can be r***d with impunity, against whom no amount of harm is unjustifiable.
Speaking in plain terms, the trnny is constructed as the union of fg and wh*re.
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Seeing Blanchard’s typology come back really hard lately in transphobic/terf/transmedicalist speech, someone called me AGP, which is the first time I’ve heard that in years, WTF?
The biological mechanism for this must be insane. How tf my brain wake me up at 5:40 every morning with an error of only 10 minutes?
5:40 was my old alarm. I haven’t had it for a month at least.
Shit got etched into my brain which is just fascinating.
I’ve thought over things and I want to reword my previous comment. I shouldn’t have started typing while drunk.
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he reason I don’t feel anything about getting a masters (which to be clear, I’m more than a year away from. The end of lectures isn’t the end of the program, as you have to write a thesis after) or bachelors
Is that all I’ve gotten out of it are debt and depression so far. I’m so deep in debt. Even if I go into a PhD after the masters, it’ll barely pay more than a supermarket job. In an ideal world both should pay the same and both should be high paying jobs. But in this world, supermarket pay means you can forget about paying your debt, your parents, your little brother’s college education and your own rent at the same time. I won’t even be getting student discounts (as far as I can tell), meaning my rent goes up even more.
So all in all, that’s about 4 more years minimum of this same bs pretty much. Then after that? If the job market isn’t toast (it is) I might have a chance to join the upper middle class. Yippie. I get to exploit people while living alone and sipping oatmilk and my work might be used to upgrad some military bs even without my knowledge. Worthless. What did I even achieve for society?
I endured all this because I love engineering. Even if I time travelled knowing everything I’d still do this. But look at how much time I waste doing other things. I could put I’m way more hours. Do I actually love engineering? Or do I love the idea of being one? It feels like I’m lying if I say the first. Now to be fair, who the fuck goes through all this for something they don’t actually love? But I know I could be doing better. I know I have some potential I’m not tapping into. Because I’ve grown so tired of everything.
He’ll, I don’t even if know if I really love this or if it’s just because that’s what was beaten into me as a child. Because I don’t have anything else. I should be pulling myself outta bed with a smile on face excited to go learn. Instead I’m crying and typing.
what did I even achieve for society
Society is undeserving of our contribution
I cannot say bring myself to say that
The one that is currently withholding one of your sex hormones from you?
What could you possibly owe them if they fuck you over like that
o_o
(Idk girl)
the yearning is unreal haha hah…
My best friend made a list of all the ways she wished her boyfriend would support her but isn’t. Then she says “oh you’re doing every single one of those btw”???
Girl… this is literally one step away from the “I wish I could date someone just like you (but not you!)” trope. How cooked am I?
<lesbians uselessly>
like fuuuck i am so not cut out for this
ok but what if you are??!?!?!?!?!?
it’s an interesting hypothesis to be sure but I’m not sure the evidence pans out ,,
You can collect more evidence by dating girls. The evidence you have right now is insufficient. Have you even done bayseian analysis on it?
interpretation of existing evidence is part of the issue ^_^;
Interpret it in a way that makes you look good. All the scientists are doing it! P-hack your way into glory!
,,, the metaphor has gotten far enough away from me that I don’t know if I can continue in my vagueries ^_^;
what we’re dealing with is a classic case of “Autistic Lesbian doesn’t know if Very Close Friend is sending signals or if this is like coincidence,” with some added layers of complication
Sometimes I gotta shut the fuck up and stop acting like everything is wrong in the world.
I don’t understand why my emotions are like this tho.
Well, youre under a lot of stress and sleep deprivation. It tracks you might have a bare nerve
Trauma usually, is what I’ve found when I can’t understand why I’m reacting a certain way
Everything is wrong tho?
Not for me. The world others are living in might be hellish but I am not so misfortunate
I have read too many of your posts to think everything is okay with you, Sodium :meow-hug:
I think I’ll take a break from socials.
i hope you’ll go to an irl trans group and find some community
Social worker pointed me to one. I’ll go there when I have time
Appreciating my queerness and being trans
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I’ve been a big fan of MUNA since before transition and knowing I was a lesbian (I know shut up).
And whenever a new album for a band comes out we’re creatures of extremes panning or glazing it in the moment.
But I truly think this is their best album.
Like the songs they’ve done videos for (dancing on the wall, eastside girls, wannabeher) are great, in particular I think Wannabeher is my favourite with Eastside girls a close second with it’s “gender confirmation care” line).
But some of the others songs, Big Stick (about US imperialism), Girl’s girl and Mary Jane are straight bangers too
Worth checking out if not listening to it. They are gay and have gender going on.
No way
Given the band started with 3 she/her-s, and now has 1x she/her, 1 x she/they and 1x they/them. It’s pretty fitting.
Fuck Big Stick alone is worth checking out, a bop that’s less than 3 minutes that concisely connects social media, consumer culture, surveillance state, US soft power and it’s support of Israel.
I accidentally called my gf my fiancee when introducing her to one of my friends which is a bit of a slip since we’ve talked a fair bit about getting married and I’ve said that I am looking to propose sometime once I get settled in the new job and I’m able to bank a few paychecks to buy us bands. She was so happy. I love her so much.
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