ScottinSoCal πΊπ¦ π π³βπ @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es
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So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
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@raccoonformality@mastodon.gamedev.place @bookstodon
If you enjoy The Martian, I recommend picking up Project Hail Mary by the same author.
#Books #Reading #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Thatβs twice this week that Iβve walked into Mastodonia only to findβ¦
::gasp::
People discussing my books! One witchy novel series, and one non-fiction magic book.
This is seriously an authorβs dream.
#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon
@bookstodon
@FatsGordo
As long as it's all consensual.
If you want to survive on Mastodon, here's what you gotta do. On the first day, go up to the biggest account you can find and kiss them on the lips
In the 1989 film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," Chekov, posing as the commanding officer of the Enterprise, speaks with the renegade Vulcan, Sybok, on Nimbus III. Sybok requests that Chekov and his first officer transport down to the surface. The fact that Chekov does not respond with "Beam me down to the Paradise City, where your blood is green and the girls are kitties" is why Star Trek V is widely regarded as the worst of the franchise. #StarTrek
@Dr_BoAbrahamsen
"earthquakes, mudslides and wildfires though they probably don't happen in the same location"
They actually do. The wildfires bake the ground, creating a crust so the rain can't soak in, which causes flooding and mudflows. Earthquakes happen everywhere because the San Andreas runs the length of the state, with lots of little tributary faults branching off it. The hills above Montecito had bad wildfires, and that's what created the conditions for the disaster a few years ago.
@ScottSoCal Excellent idea. I was going to get a jetboil anyway for coffee on my photo hikes so it can double for emergencies. Can't beat California for earthquakes, mudslides and wildfires though they probably don't happen in the same location (throw in some rattlesnakes for good measure).
@nafnlaus@fosstodon.org
It's what happens when people who don't know the technology throw in buzzwords.
Like 1.21 jigawatts.
"But I don't think this explains ALL life having a common ancestor as DNA suggest. Even plants and people have some common DNA."
The basic amino acids that make up life have been found in space.
My guess is that:
1. Life changed the composition of the atmosphere, weathering of rock, the seas everything. So it's just not the same now.
2. Nothing as simple as early life, which might not even have cell walls could cut it in the hurly burly of a modern puddle. So maybe it happens but never goes anywhere.
But I don't think this explains ALL life having a common ancestor as DNA suggest. Even plants and people have some common DNA.
Is there some other factor?
@futurebird @escarpment @gringene
Parasitic becomes symbiotic becomes a single organism, over time. That's how it's always been explained to me.
There is a theory that plant cells somehow... ate... but kept alive photosynthetic bacteria that are now the chloroplasts. Likewise what is up with the mitochondria with their own genetic system?
Is this the result of symbiosis gone wild?
Will Acropyga ants someday merge with the little obligate mutualist (domesticated er myrmesticated) mealybug they carry on their nuptial flights?
Today my husband asked me (because he thinks I know every damn thing for some reason)
"why can new life just start evolving now in some primordial soup from scratch like it did long ago? Why aren't there many different evolutionary trees with different starting points? Why one big tree?"
uuuuh I have some guesses but I don't know. π§΅
Ban Russia and Belarus from the #2024ParisOlympic and Paralympic Games.
"Russia is an outcast staging an unprovoked, aggressive, illegitimate, illegal war against Ukraine. And we should not allow the regime to have laureates from their country", says @gahler_michael.
Watch‡οΈ
π¦π: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1624755206511820805
@ScottSoCal I had a friend in Germany who made jewelry and he doesn't have any online presence, which I find very odd. He had a very unique name (Russian), so I'm sure he'd be easy to find if he was out there.
Norfolk Southern has a history of lobbying against safety regulations. Two years ago the union said that they were understaffed, that "just in time" BS was dangerous. And now an Ohio town is contaminated with toxic gas.
*very sarcastic slow clap*
This isn't getting enough news coverage despite lots of explosions and fire-- so if you don't know what I'm talking about please look it up.
Hi everyone! Iβm new to this platform. I am a queer, self-taught artist, designer, and zinester living in Miβkmaβki (Nova Scotia, Canada). My work revolves around radical love of the weird wildness of nature as a pathway to overcome self-criticism and truly come to love ourselves and others. Here are some of my favourite paintings from this year. #art #artist #introduction
Good morning from Dreadful Acres. Just had a fight with my coffee machine because yet again it brewed β contrary to my explicit instructions β a whole coffee without a cup under the spout. Naturally I have taken to my bed to recover from this trying episode. Which is why todayβs sunrise is once again photographed through my dirty bedroom window.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
- Orientation
- So gay. So, so gay.
- JoeMyGod
- Ε ΔΕΕ§Ε§ Δ - πΊπ¦ π
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
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