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Hello, future friends!

Basically I’m writing this so I have something original as a first post. I’m not that interesting of a person, so I think I’ll be happy with posting, what, cartoons? Philosophy? Cryptozoology? I need a place to congregate all my interests, so why not tumblr?

I don’t have much of a plan, maybe a few side projects, but mainly I’m just here to do stuff and run around wildly on the Internet. This could be fun…

I hate eggs.

And I should love eggs, you know, since they’re very healthy and a good breakfast food and such.

So this morning I thought, “Why don’t I make some eggs?”

I am a horrible cook and my sunnyside-up eggs turned out predictably horribly.

But I set it up on a plate with toast and orange juice and it looked all nice and delicious and healthy.

I got about three quarters through before having to throw it away.

I hate eggs.

Did you know there's a 20% chance we all live in a computer simulation? And I’m surprisingly not freaking out about it? Like, eh, I’m possibly an AI, but at least I’m a self-aware AI now. So it’s all cool, I guess.

KIC 8462852 is one of the most interesting stars in our galaxy.

Orbiting the star, astronomers discovered through discovering its dimming pattern, are masses of unknown objects. Extraterrestrial technology? Space debris? Personally, I’m leaning to the latter, but then again, our universe has always been a mysterious one.

Sources: X X

things that are great: being a teenager and going to concerts

how i spent my last day as a 15 year old: at a therapist's appointment

Wasting all my time on Planet Hunters seems to be a really good idea.

I should post more about space.

The most mysterious star in the universe

Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of Earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure what it is. As astronomer Tabetha Boyajian investigated this perplexing celestial object, a colleague suggested something unusual: Could it be an alien-built megastructure? Such an extraordinary idea would require extraordinary evidence. In this talk, Boyajian gives us a look at how scientists search for and test hypotheses when faced with the unknown.

Discovered by planethunters.org in 2015, KIC 8482852, or “Tabby’s Star”, is quickly becoming known as the most mysterious star in the universe.

The dimming patterns of stars are usually studied by computers in order to find undiscovered planets. When a planet orbits a star, the overall luminosity of the star will decrease. Volunteers on planethunters.org manually examine the data in hopes of locating anything the computers might have missed.

Tabby’s Star is unique in that simply how much of it’s light was obscured - up to 15-22% at one point. That is a massive amount. The largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter (about 1300x the volume of Earth), would only obscure about 1% of the light of a star of this size.

So what’s causing these periodic dimmings of Tabby’s Star? Comet clusters? Planetary debris? Gas clouds? Or, as some speculate, extraterrestrial megastructures built by aliens to harness the power of the star? That last theory may seem a bit far-fetched, but then again, it’s predicted we’d come into contact with extraterrestrial technology far before we encounter extraterrestrials themselves.

Whatever it causing Tabby’s Star to dim in luminosity every now and then, it is unlike anything seen before. Personally, I’m willing to bet on a natural explanation, but it’s fun and somewhat terrifying to think that aliens might be building a psuedo-Starkiller Base.

Check out Tabetha Boyajian’s TED Talk on it! Even if you’re a skeptic, you gotta love how fascinating and surprising space can be.

I’m back!!!!!

Great nonprofits to donate to today:

UN Refugee Agency

Planned Parenthood

Casa Ruby (a DC-based shelter for homeless LGBT youth)

American Civil Liberties Union (an organization that aims to protect and preserve the rights of individual citizens)

Natural Resource Defense Council (an environmental advocacy group)

Feel free to add more.

Sometimes I’ll meet a person and they’ll be so intriguing that I can’t help but think "I can’t wait for us to never interact again so I can write a book about you.”

Gonna start posting again with more original content! Cross my heart.

that mitski multiverse movie HURT me

don’t worry girls I am thinking abt the Roman Empire at least twice an hour two keep our stats up

starting a business where upper middle class catholic high school students pay me to write their theology papers

planning my post-apocalyptic steppe empire where i am khan of the american midwest

i think knives chau should’ve killed then all

glad im still seeing ppl post abt the band Ludo in 2024

retiring the art tag for reblogs bc everything is art, or nothing is art, i haven’t decided which yet