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Bottle rocket under ice

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I’m pretty sure that the reason the ice fractured into six slices is the same reason snowflakes are often six sided and it has to do with the shape of a molecule of water and I just think that’s so freaking cool.

How would it even stay lit though?

!!!!! it IS actually because of the structure of water molecules! Water molecules are fuckin weird, as are lots of other liquid substance molecules, because theyre shaped like fuckin HEXAGONS! hexagons are those weird, six-sided shapes that re very sturdy, but they dont tend to sit very well when stacked together. thats why, when you fill up a glass of water to its full capacity, it can go OVER the brim a little and not spill over. It’s also why water beads.

anyway, so since water is essentially made up of a gazillion little hexagons, it tends to gather into larger hexagons as it shapes together. this is not visible unless the water is in a solid form, aka ice. when the water is split, it tends to crack around the established hexagons. that bottle rocket exploded in the PERFECT place to show this phenomenon and its geeking me out.

ALSO! the bottle rocket stays lit because the fuse was definitely waterproof and made with magnesium and an oxidizer of some sort. this means that they will burn underwater because they dont need the oxygen from the air to stay lit. thats so fucking weird isnt it. im tipsy and its the 4th of july. sorry for the science haha

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everyone can wear makeup!!! all genders!!! makeup is for everyone! anyone can wear makeup. normalize makeup being seen as gender neutral because it is. makeup is for everyone

no one can wear make up! no genders! make up is for no one! no one can wear make up. normalize makeup being seen as gender nihilist because it is. makeup is for no one.

one person can wear makeup!!! only one!!! makeup is for one person! one person can wear makeup. normalize makeup being seen as the mark of god because it is. makeup is only for the one

I think that covers all the bases.

one person cannot wear makeup! it is fine for everyone else. everyone but that one person can wear makeup. normalize makeup being worn by everyone but him, because you fucking know what you did, Randy!

50% of people who apply to be makeup wearers can and must wear makeup because that is how you do a controlled experiment.

the other half will apply something they think is makeup, but is actually just powdered sugar

Anyone can wear makeup, but they can’t know what kind of makeup, and all makeup-related communication is taboo. All makeup-wearers are perfectly logical. If any makeup-wearers discover that they are wearing blue eyeshadow they must sacrifice themselves at sunrise.

People will put makeup on all people who don’t put makeup on themselves.

Everyone can wear makeup, but it’s illegal to buy. This is called the Swedish Model.

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If Jesus was born from a virgin birth, doesn’t that mean he has only an X chromosome. Wouldn’t that make him female?

wait

TRANS JESUS TRANS JESUS TRANS JESUS

I have taken 3 years of Theology, 1 of Apologetics, and 1 of Anatomy and Physiology and I’m honesty stumped by this one

Those species which are parthenogenic (i.e. self-fertilising, certain lizards, snakes, frogs and fish) the offspring is always genetically/physically female-typical. So yeah, if we were to take the nativity as a scientific story, a parthenogenic human pregnancy (still a scientific impossibility) would result in an AFAB child, and since that child has always been referred to as “he”, voila, trans jesus.

Actually, I think that depends on species? Like, New Mexico whiptail lizards are an entirely female all-parthenogensis all-the-time species, but Komodo dragon parthenogensis always results in males because their chromosome determination is different.

So clearly, to get to the bottom of this mystery, the first question we need to ask is what kind of reptile was Mary.

Tumblr, asking the real questions

Raptor Jesus born of a Raptor virgin.

Merry Christmas, y’all.

@twentyonelizards

*nodding* solid science lads

Sex determination is a complex and fascinating field. As far as I can tell, here are our possibilities.

It seems Mary did, in fact, undergo
parthenogenesis. As stated above, offspring produced from partho varies. For example, snakes have ZW chromosomes with females being ZW
and males being ZZ, so a female can produce male OR female offspring in this way.

In addition to this, some reptiles use
temp-dependent sexing! This means it’s possible that Jesus was a male because Mary laid him in
an appropriate-temperature manger.

And then we come on to intersex conditions. For
example: Jesus could have been XX, but had congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), causing
his outward appearance to become masculinized. A myriad of other conditions could have led to a similar consequence.

So, in
conclusion: reptile Jesus, intersex Jesus and trans Jesus are all viable options, and i support a combination of the three.

Or how about Mary being a chimera, having male gonads (improbably, but not impossibly) surviving inside her body from a devoured male twin, and being self-fertile?

Life, uh, finds a way

There is nothing I don’t love about this.

Science is Amazing: An A.I. Designed to Play League of Legends Was Found Playing Cave Story Instead.

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Researchers at MIT were surprised when they discovered that an A.I. which was designed to play League of Legends was instead found playing the popular indie game, Cave Story. The A.I., dubbed Playtron 2000, was created to test logic and learning in machines. “We wanted to create an A.I. that could learn and strategize over time based on its experiences.” spoke Dr. Richards, head researcher at MI, “We chose League of Legends as Playtron 2000′s testing grounds as we wanted to see how an A.I. that was designed to learn from its mistakes would go up against an expect human player.”

However, the researchers plans were cut short when they found on Tuesday morning that Playtron 2000 had uninstalled League of Legends and installed Cave Story in its wake. “At first we thought there may have been an error in Playtron 2000′s code,” spoke Dr. Richards, “but we discovered that Playtron 2000 had indeed gone through a complex trial and error process and had made its decision entirely logically.”

Similar experiments were ran earlier this year with two A.I.’s designed to play DOTA 2, which ended in the A.I.’s uninstalling DOTA 2 to play Bejeweled and Castle Crashers respectively. Research into why this happens is still ongoing.

Robot uninstalls shit game for a better one

of COURSE the robot would play a game about robots…….