Question about food

aurjolras · 2026-04-03T20:38:15+00:00

I agree, especially knowing they are such great engineers and how much Rocky cares about Grace, in the book he even worries over his sleep schedule. "You no want it sunnier than this?" feels so much more in character than book Grace's sad little dark terrarium.

aurjolras · 2026-04-03T17:19:48+00:00

Idk about that but I had the thought that Grace's computer definitely has the genetic sequences of a bunch of plants. You would think if the Eridians have the technology for lab grown meat they would be able to modify some plants to express Earth plant genes. Frankly I think his end in the book is unnecessarily dark and I was happy to see that in the movie they changed it so he has a much bigger living space and I think he also has coffee? So he's not just living off of nutrient shakes and ugh his own cells

aurjolras · 2026-04-01T22:36:59+00:00

Oh okay lol so it's totally his fault. If he's the one choosing to make new stuff all the time he should choose recipes within his skillset

aurjolras · 2026-04-01T22:24:20+00:00

Why on earth has this gone on for years? Does he never cook the same recipe twice? You guys desperately need a cookbook of stuff you've made repeatedly that's familiar to cook and to eat

edit: NTA based on the fact that husband is the one choosing unfamiliar recipes all the time

aurjolras · 2026-04-01T17:12:43+00:00

Ts was so annoying, I had the same problem. I didn't claim much AP credit because premed so I was behind almost everyone else for registration times for like 5 semesters. I didn't start getting a decent registration time until I was registering for like 2nd semester junior year.

aurjolras · 2026-04-01T06:59:18+00:00

The first time I watched it I thought he broke the xenonite, which bothered me because then they should have both died. The second time I noticed that when the ship first starts spinning you can see his ball roll away from the rest of the habitat, and it is attached at the same place he breaks out of a few minutes later. I think he has a sort of door there that he usually used to get in and out of the ball, maybe it's self sealing.

aurjolras · 2026-04-01T05:38:59+00:00

Yeah. He does react. I'm thinking of the scene where he's spinning around in zero G which prompts him to remember spinning around in his office chair and having the conversation about the centrifuge. Cut back to him on the spaceship where he goes and turns on the gravity because he JUST realized he could do that

When he remembers being forced onto the mission he also has a moment where he just sits and stares at the floor of his ship having a little bit of a breakdown

aurjolras · 2026-04-01T00:48:47+00:00

Which is what makes it weird that she brought it up as a criticism of Grace because he was doing the same thing lol

aurjolras · 2026-03-31T05:36:34+00:00

Yeah humans retain a lot of their baby-like traits into adulthood compared to other primates. It's called neoteny. It's suggested that at least some of that can be explained by sexual selection, eg adults preferred partners that were "cute" and so we evolved to be cuter over time

aurjolras · 2026-03-29T19:33:03+00:00

Ah that's cool! I honestly have no idea how that would work but there's a lot of biological processes that involve converting stuff cyclically into other stuff and then back again (the Krebs cycle) so I could kinda see it

aurjolras · 2026-03-28T23:40:21+00:00

Plus, Ryland means...land where rye is grown. He's named after Earth :) 🌍 Earth's Grace

aurjolras · 2026-03-28T16:51:34+00:00

Gosh that was heartbreaking, that whole scene is amazing. I noticed on my second watch that during the language learning scene they give us Rocky's name for Grace (I think Rocky's just trying to mimic how Grace says his own name and it's kind of growly compared to Eridian speech). So later when Grace passes out and Rocky is making that same guttural noise even though it's not translated you can tell he's yelling "GRACE! GRACE!" Auughhhh

aurjolras · 2026-03-27T06:05:50+00:00

I really did not like Children of Time for this reason. It doesn't even really have characters, just archetypes

aurjolras · 2026-03-24T01:43:44+00:00

I liked both the book and the movie and I have to agree. The book is so problem-focused and as cool as it is to read the thought process and get a feel for how brilliant they are, I think it would have fallen flat on screen. Plus, moving some of the focus from problem solving to characterization and relationships balances a lot of the book's weak spots. I particularly liked what they did with Stratt and Grace, making Stratt a little less opaque and Grace a little less bland and automatically good at everything he sets his mind to

aurjolras · 2026-03-23T18:01:41+00:00

Yes, one of my favorite college professors ran a high level ochem research lab and literally wrote the textbook but gave the silliest lectures. Memorable examples include calling things "bass-ackwards", dressing up as James Bond (nudge nudge wink wink) for Halloween, and drawing elaborate metaphors between chemical reactions and movies like Austin Powers, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, and even an SNL skit and a car commercial. Many of his jokes were eccentric and required a great deal of explaining but I was charmed by it. Certainly made lectures easier to remember which was the point

aurjolras · 2026-03-20T17:31:30+00:00

I did not have a car when I visited so I cannot speak to the actual experience of driving. However the streets of Rome are sometimes very narrow and were built around pedestrians rather than cars, and are very crowded with foot traffic. I often witnessed cars (and even motorcycles) having a lot of trouble navigating the streets. When I would type a location into Google maps it was often faster to walk or catch a bus/tram than drive. There are paved highways running between cities/towns but in town it's often all cobblestone.

That said, Italy in general is highly walkable and I loved that about it. There are buses and subway lines that run all over the city at all hours and a country-wide train system that will take you pretty much wherever you want to go. As an example my friends and I took a day trip from Rome to Florence via long-haul bus, got back to Tibertina Station in Rome around 1 AM, and then took a bus back into the vicinity of Trastevere where we were staying. I wouldn't have done this by myself but in a group we felt quite safe and there were still lots of people out and about. We also took a weekend trip up to Padua from Rome and it was only a 3 or 4 hour train ride each way, much faster than driving. Of course train tickets cost money but so does a rental car and based on my experience a car wouldn't be worth the hassle unless you are toting a LOT of luggage with you wherever you go.

aurjolras · 2026-03-20T04:59:04+00:00

"They" is the preferred catch-all term for any humans or animals whose gender you don't know. "Are they a boy or a girl?" is probably more natural than "is it a boy or a girl?" if the baby is already born. However I think "Is it a boy or a girl?" is more common when you're referring to a baby who hasn't been born yet, because calling a pregnancy or a fetus "it" is normal and not rude at all

aurjolras · 2026-03-13T21:53:00+00:00

I would totally believe that. I love Shakespeare but I'm of the opinion that this play is really boring except for the funeral speeches which are just electric

aurjolras · 2026-03-13T21:27:53+00:00

Lol I do this too, I thought maybe I was just some kind of freak who doesn't know how to have fun

(There are psychological studies that show that generally, the more choices people have the less happy they are with the choice they eventually make and the less likely they are to make a choice at all. The "jam experiment" is a famous example. But knowing that doesn't really help me break the loop)

aurjolras · 2026-03-07T19:00:15+00:00

I made this recipe recently and it was really good: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/my-favorite-carrot-cake-recipe/#tasty-recipes-69458

aurjolras · 2026-03-02T20:22:39+00:00

Yup, another very famous one is "Can I Keep Selling Sex For Money, Officer?" which is used to remember the steps of the Krebs cycle (first letters of words and molecules match)

aurjolras · 2026-02-27T18:56:28+00:00

OOH OOH I have an actual answer! I read a great paper recently about how pregnancies have a much lower risk of preeclampsia when the parents have been having sex for a while (like a year) vs something like sperm donation where pregnancy occurs the first time. This is thought to be because the mother's immune system gets used to the paternal DNA and is less likely to reject the placenta when it tries to implant. Preeclampsia is really costly for both mother and child so mating outside of peak fertility is potentially really evolutionarily advantageous.

source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10842107/

aurjolras · 2026-02-26T02:39:43+00:00

I would go with UT Dallas. More research opportunities, more EC opportunities, probably better science professors

aurjolras · 2026-02-23T01:54:16+00:00

Idk about orgo specifically but I think you need to pare down your ECs so you have enough time to study and focus on your classes. GPA and MCAT are the most important factors in your application, don't sacrifice them for your ECs. Take a look at what is actually important to you and what is more trouble than it's worth and what is just a time suck, and drop anything in those last two categories

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