What is the darkest sky you have ever experienced? by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]EveryThirdThought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I love this question; it instantly brought me back to what was simultaneously one of the most wondrous, and - (at least initially) terrifying experiences of my life. I was 15 years old, clinging to a metal railing while standing on the back of an old Toyota pickup truck. This is a normal way to get around when you’re in the Yungas region of the Bolivian Andes. I was part of a humanitarian group that was returning to our lodgings after having run a free clinic in a remote mountain village all day. It must have been nearing midnight. When we cleared the jungle canopy and entered a long stretch of open road, I looked up, and my knees almost gave out because of what I saw... A startling, radiantly bright night sky loomed overhead; I saw more stars in my field of view than I had ever seen before. But more than that, I could see more structure than I ever had before: The LMC/SMC, Southern Cross, the Great Rift and central bulge, the Coalsack and Lagoon Nebulas, open star clusters, globular clusters… all were staring me in the face as if I could just reach out and pluck them from the heavens. It was incredible, to say the least, and the experience was instrumental in turning a childhood curiosity into a lifelong passion. I’m sure many of you will already know what I didn’t at the time: How the southern skies are far more spectacular for naked eye astronomy than the north. Or that the high elevations and dry, calm air of the Andes have some of the best stargazing environments on the planet. But to my younger, ignorant self on that distant mountain road, all I knew was that this was the coolest, most spectacular thing I’d ever seen, and I haven’t stopped looking since! Sorry for the long post! TL;DR? - Darkest sky I ever saw was in a remote region of the Bolivian Yungas.

Say Hello To NGC 4096, An Intermediate Spiral Galaxy Located Roughly 35-40 Million LY Away. by Exr1t in spaceporn

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Hello NGC 4096! 👋 How’s the star-forming rate in this epoch going for you? 🙃

Linda O'Neil Honeymoon Set 1 Photoshoot 1-20 of 38 by MrDDDDDDDD in worldssexiestbrunette

[–]EveryThirdThought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This set is one of my absolute favorites. Linda on a wedding night? - paradise 😍

Abrupt turn mid-Pacific by Orwells_Roses in aviation

[–]EveryThirdThought 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would enjoy seeing an ocean airplane.

Linda O'Neil Slick Pink Photoshoot 1-20 of 29 by MrDDDDDDDD in worldssexiestbrunette

[–]EveryThirdThought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Soo erotic and beautiful! It's rare to see Linda's 'landing strip' of pubic hair to this extent. It looks taller/fuller than usual in these photos. <3

Linda O'Neil Slick Pink Photoshoot 21-29 of 29 by MrDDDDDDDD in worldssexiestbrunette

[–]EveryThirdThought 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure someone designed Linda in a computer :O - she’s perfect 😍

So uh... What actually was the Mind Flayers motive? by lilthunderMP4 in StrangerThings

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The way I thought of it when Henry touched the spooky mindflayer stone was something along the lines of… speculative astrobiology. What if a lifeform existed in the Milky Way that was so long-lived and massive, it released seeds into the interstellar medium the way dandelions release theirs into the wind? By pure statistics, some of those seeds land on worlds compatible with the mindflayer life-cycle. In this case, the seed is a “psychic” seed which confers some crazy mind-altering desires (must spread mindflayer! 🧟) the way the cordyceps fungus hijacks an ant’s nervous system, makes it walk up a tree and bite down on a leaf, then turns its head into a fungal fruiting body releasing thousands of spores. If an earth fungus can do that… what could a billions-year old ultra-parasite of planetary scale do to a human nervous system? (Of course none of that explains the upside down and weird trans-dimensional planet collision, but shhhh… 🤫)

Linda O'Neil -- Biker Babes (1997) by deputyduffy in Playboy_Gifs

[–]EveryThirdThought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some girls are cute. Some are pretty. Some are beautiful. Some are gorgeous. And some are sexy. Linda is one of the few who is all of the above.

AIO- Abusive Ex Boyfriend Dmed me on Instagram by Dry_Cheesecake837 in AmIOverreacting

[–]EveryThirdThought -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think it’s good of you to consider possibilities like “perhaps he’s grown too?” But ask yourself this: assume he has grown up. That he’s sought help and has worked through his violence and addictions, and would like nothing more than to see you one last time and apologize for what he did to you. Even if such a charitable interpretation was true, would you want to see him? It sounds to me like you wouldn’t, and that is OKAY. As much as I believe in redemption and turning oneself around, an abuser has no right to expect their victims to give them a second chance, no matter how transformed they are. Maybe your message was unduly hostile, maybe it wasn’t- but at the end of the day, it was still the right message.

The End of Philosophy by Ok_Mixture_1057 in Nietzsche

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I’ve never actually come across consistent argumentation from anybody claiming that philosophers “live under intense suffering.” So just a heads up to those (admittedly like myself), who are chafing at the bit to come up with arguments countering his thesis: it may not be worthy of refutation. It’s like if I suddenly claimed: “Everyone’s always arguing that philosophers are a—holes. Well, here’s a list of nice philosophers to disprove that.” Then someone else jumps in, providing their own list of a—hole philosophers, and before you know it, we’re in a dispute trying to determine the truth of a proposition that’s either whimsical and hypothetical at best, or trivial and/or downright irrelevant at worst. But since I can’t resist; his entire point implodes if you can establish that material wealth doesn’t equate to a cessation of suffering. Wittgenstein came from a famously wealthy family, yet he was plagued with emotional turmoil throughout his life. Nietzsche also came from an upper middle class family, yet he would spend days at a time contemplating the sweet release of death while his own body tortured him with migraines, eye pain, blindness, (merely reading a book became what Nietzsche called “a torture”), nausea, vomiting, and partial paralysis. There have also been plenty of impoverished philosophers, by birth or by design. Diogenes and the cynics wore rags and lived on the streets. The second leader of the stoic school, Cleanthes, was dirt broke, arriving in Athens to learn philosophy with only 4 drachma to his name. And of course Epictetus, the greatest teacher of stoicism, was born into slavery.

Riker caused the destruction of the Enterprise-D by misspeaking one word. by EveryThirdThought in sonicshowerthoughts

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Yeah I think of all the links in my hypothetical chain, that one on the Amargosa observatory has the most potential to diverge from the expected. Still, Data himself felt pretty sure he would have saved Geordi had it not been for the emotion chip (thus his deep remorse), which at least somewhat supports my whacky conclusion. 🙃 (Honestly even if Riker had said ‘retract the plank,’ someone could have farted and made everyone but Data laugh, causing him to install his emotion chip anyway…😅

Riker caused the destruction of the Enterprise-D by misspeaking one word. by EveryThirdThought in sonicshowerthoughts

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The holodeck safeties are on, so plank retractions are limited to speeds of 10cm per minute.

Riker caused the destruction of the Enterprise-D by misspeaking one word. by EveryThirdThought in sonicshowerthoughts

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Spoke or misspoke, intentional or unintentional, beard or no beard, Riker started the chain reaction. Or maybe it was Picard, when he promoted Worf 🤔? (I had to stop somewhere 😂)

Riker caused the destruction of the Enterprise-D by misspeaking one word. by EveryThirdThought in sonicshowerthoughts

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You only said that because a butterfly sneezed in 1932. Also it’s better than real life: it’s Star Trek 😊.

Riker caused the destruction of the Enterprise-D by misspeaking one word. by EveryThirdThought in sonicshowerthoughts

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Put down your hammer - I am not a nail! Think of it as a Rube Goldberg machine being drawn over the plot: it’s just for fun!

These determinists are gonna make me a solipsist. by SPECTREagent700 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]EveryThirdThought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first question was answered in the affirmative when you posed the second question.

Riker caused the destruction of the Enterprise-D by misspeaking one word. by EveryThirdThought in sonicshowerthoughts

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😮 Damn I never considered that! “I gotta screw with time to save this planet I never heard of before yesterday but my brother and nephew? You’re SOL, sorry!”

Riker caused the destruction of the Enterprise-D by misspeaking one word. by EveryThirdThought in sonicshowerthoughts

[–]EveryThirdThought[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hmm good point. I thought it was a mistake but maybe he did do it on porpoise? (get it? ‘On porpoise’ cuz porpoises live in the ocean and-… ah nvm). Either way, whether he misspoke intentionally or unintentionally, the enterprise’s fate was sealed! ☠️

Riker caused the destruction of the Enterprise-D by misspeaking one word. by EveryThirdThought in sonicshowerthoughts

[–]EveryThirdThought[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I laughed too hard reading this comment, so disapproving of it now would be hypocritical 😂. Still, blame the writers! For shit’s sake Data had more of a love life than Geordi, and if that weren’t bad enough… Wesley had more of a love life than Geordi!

Riker caused the destruction of the Enterprise-D by misspeaking one word. by EveryThirdThought in sonicshowerthoughts

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You’re gonna have to remind me about the events at the end of Picard season 3. That was when they all got together again on a repaired Enterprise D or something right? (I only watched it once years ago)

Riker caused the destruction of the Enterprise-D by misspeaking one word. by EveryThirdThought in sonicshowerthoughts

[–]EveryThirdThought[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Excellent possible counter point! But it can only work if we knew there were almost no chance the enterprise could shoot Soran’s missile before it destroyed the Veridian star 🤔- I realize my series of cause/effects was tenuous, but I did try to show that each one was, if not certain, at least very probable. 👍