walking around the house at night w my cell phone flashlight on instead of turning on the lights feeling like a bronte character with a candle
rice is overrated
Of course, the real way to tell whether you’re in a Hard SF novel is if people keep providing you with unsolicited explanations of basic physics and everyday technology which you should, by rights, already know.
So every single woman is in a Hard SF novel is what you’re telling me
…You know, it’s occurred to me that this would actually be a very good way to do exposition in hard SF novels without needing anyone to break character.
#‘but of course teleportation technology based on quantum displacement is common now–’#‘I KNOW’#’–ever since they replaced the old SK-400s with the newly-discovered Mega Dilithium cores–“#‘I FUCKING KNOW THIS ALREADY MARK’
oh my god, sexist dudes aren’t mansplaining, they’re providing helpful exposition to your audience
“MARK. I INVENTED THE TECH BEHIND THE SK-400. MARK!”
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me!
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
So what if I traumatized a few small children? Price of war”
“ A FEW? IT WAS 36!”
“ It was an accident.
An exchange between me and another member of my party. Long story short, a few kids got caught in my Fear spell, failed their saves, and will now need therapy for the rest of their life. It WAS an accident though. Now I am not allowed around children. (via yourplayersaidwhat)
Biologists Respond to ‘Science Denialism’ Regarding Outdoor Cat Control
According to researchers, coordinated critics have mounted a “misinformation campaign designed to purposefully fabricate doubt regarding the harmful impacts of outdoor cats and stymie policies that would remove outdoor cats from the landscape.”
The conflict stems from a groundbreaking study published in 2013 by scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That study evaluated the combined impact of the tens of millions of outdoor cats in the United States. The authors found that roaming outdoor cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year and are the leading source of direct, human-caused mortality to birds in the country. Similar results have since been confirmed in Canada and Australia.
To those of you still in denial about how bad outdoor cats are to wildlife not just in your own countries but globally here’s the cold hard scientific facts stating that you are apart of a movement of uneducated critics spreading misinformation.
Here’s the link to the open-source scientific artificial as well:
Biologists Respond to ‘Science Denialism’ Regarding Outdoor Cat Control
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