Relistening to harrow as you do and picked up that John says the Mithreum is…40 BILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY?? that’s…3x the AGE OF THE UNIVERSE?? Meaning that not only is the Mithreum just stupidly far away, it’s also literally farther away than it is possible to see. When the lyctors go to the Mithreum they are effectively moseying out of the known universe.
Dying to know how the stele/obelisks work in that case, since non-lyctors are also able to get to the Mithreum to get Harrow’s body meaning they too are able to travel outside the visible universe
(For the non-Astronomy folks, the known universe aka observable universe is everything that light has had time to get to us from. That means the farthest stuff we can see is 13.8 billion light years old. [Edit: technically the farthest galaxies away from us are up to 50 billion light years away but we can only see them as they were almost 14 billion years ago. silly me forgot the universe is expanding woohoo] So the Mithreum being 40 billion light years away in the present means that its like he just fucking. Disappears into another dimension basically. If we applied the actual universe rules to it which obviously we can’t really do hah)
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Well guess who's officially applied to Erasmus. I'm not even fully done uploading all relevant documents and I'm already kinda regretting it. I will HATE myself for this next winter.
I'm not really doing it for the courses (they all somehow seem easier than what mine is offering) but for the french, but it'd be awkward if I misjudged things completely and this is all worthless to my degree because I already learned it in the bac.
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Theoretical semiotics is a fantastic start but we need more insane linguistic subfields that are seen as viable career paths in the star trek universe
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sent an email to a university i want to go to ahhhh
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my hot take is the whole "search for life in the universe" thing is truly just a spin to put sparkle in children's eyes and make dumb congresspeople who like the idea of aliens fund science that actually helps people
the endeavors bring about a ton of great science that is related to health and ecology and atmospheric monitoring and all sorts of stuff and understanding how our planet and life was former and the scientists who do this research and stare at radiograms and try to figure out if that chemical stretch is a C-S or a C-C or a C-O bond, are amazing scientists
but god do I have no interest in "uwu we might have found signs of life on other planets!"
the first time was vaguely neat, now we know it's entirely possible and not novel and probably there's phytoplankton (at best) in some ocean planets that we will never ever visit woo hoo
most of the astro people I know working on these projects are mostly interested in the spectroscopy part too and not the whole search for alien life thing so it's very hard for me to look at the press releases with anything but weariness
no one's interested when we figure out what metals are in the active sites of proteins or that actually a redox inactive metal mutated into this other protein actually increases its activity bc the mechanism involves redox active ligands and cofactors, rather than the metal itself. just. you know. as an example. but every time there's a little blip of "oh there's NOx and SOx and VOCs on another distant planet according to this one spectra--" gets a front page news thing.
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Red, yellow, pink, black (/j), grey, maroon (/hj) for the ask game, my lord
thank you for sending me an ask my friend
red: im actually mediocre amounts of cool but im glad you think so :D
yellow: you're welcome! i have no idea what im doing!
pink: this is interesting because i dont think im funny and dont know how people find me funny so hmm okay
black: as intended uwu
grey: i am here to request a wheel of cheese from you my friend
maroon: very insightful observation thank you very much
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i’ve had this patch lying around since like may and finally decided to actually sew it to my student overalls
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we have the technology (currently being developed and further studied and improved) to make nuclear reactors that cannot melt down (because a cooling system failure will stop the reaction; a meltdown is a runaway reaction that gets too hot to contain) and do not leave behind such huge quantities of nuclear waste nor nuclear waste that lasts for such an obscene amount of time (and iirc it can even take the obscenely long half-lifed nuclear waste from uranium reactors and re-use it more safely) and is more efficient and the materials are much more plentiful on earth and are safer and easier to mine than uranium
but nobody (exaggeration) wants to work on it because thorium can't be easily turned into weapons and it's more expensive and time-consuming to build and start up than previous (dangerous, uranium-based) reactor designs (but still pocket change for billionaires)
and nobody (exaggeration) wants to talk about it as a potential energy option or discuss its particular pros and cons because nuclear reactors that can melt down are Bad (which i obviously agree with, but that is not a relevant concern with reactors that can't melt down)
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Finally meeting my deadbeat thesis coach at 1 PM after calling, mailing and physically trying to meet him before... Super to see how well my university attempts to improve their image of being horrible at personal student care/contact
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the thing about psychology studies having wack methodologies is fully true and I see it all the time but at the same time it's so fucking weird to me because like...even at like, 2nd year level at my uni if I'd submitted some shit like that in a research proposal they'd probably like call me in for a discussion lol. my psych department's standards and scrutiny was actually way higher than a lot of other departments'.
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the where are you in the sibling lineup always throws me a little since i am currently the youngest child, but i spent a lot of my childhood as a middle child, and i was destroyed with all the pressure of oldest child since my older siblings couldn't handle anything and weren't expected to. most people assume i'm an oldest child. some people assume i'm a middle child but the 'eldest daughter.' no one has ever assumed i'm the youngest child or that i don't have siblings. but technically i'm now the youngest out of my siblings. bringing this up bc my friends have literally forgotten i'm actually younger than both my older siblings and roped me in as the oldest child when complaining about the difficulties of being the oldest child. but i also never got the attention they did. i always put it as having all the responsibilities of being the oldest without any of the privileges
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what do u wanna study at uni, and is there a dream uni u have? i’m also in year 13 so just curious :)
Hi!!!!!! Omg it’s so cool to have another year 13 mutual, I’ve applied to study veterinary medicine (hopefully) at university. I did actually have a dream uni, I think it started in year 10/11 and I went to the open day and I didn’t like it - I did debate applying but in the end I made a mental pros and cons list and the cons outweigh the pros. I’m really happy with my uni choices so I guess it worked out alright. I’d love to talk to you more about what you want to study and your a level subjects!!! :D
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Im starting my first year of Forensics and Applied Biology in September, Ill keep you all up to date with what I learn, if anyone's interested?
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