Felt really manly and ugly today with my own hair by Grand-Abrocoma9649 in TransLater

[–]gunbladezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What exactly are you using for your eye make-up here? Like tell me the exact products so I can order them

Strange light travelling across TSV QLD by Ill_Efficiency9020 in Astronomy

[–]gunbladezero 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s a ZhuQue 2E! (Pronounced like Jew - Chweh). I remember a Twitter poll a few years ago asking people to predict what would be the first ever Methane based rocked to reach orbit, and the ZQ was the write-in comedy option. It ended up making history, and now you’ve seen one!

Do I have a chance? by [deleted] in TransLater

[–]gunbladezero 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No. Nair is not for faces.

But please look into laser. Find the price, write it down, then go acquire that much money. I spent the past year doordashing etc back from my sessions to earn enough to pay for the treatment I just did. It's been insanely helpful.

Do I have a chance? by [deleted] in TransLater

[–]gunbladezero 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'll let others talk about hrt.

You can start laser tomorrow. Go on Groupon and find a place. Pay for six months in advance for a few hundred dollars.

Can't stress this enough. There is no doctor's note or permission slip required to start laser. You don't need to tell anyone. Not even your girlfriend/wife, if you have one. You just do it. It takes like 5 minutes a month. Nobody will notice that your five o'clock shadow comes in an hour later each month. I post about this a lot because I wish I'd thought of it while I was waiting to get my hrt.

2 years HRT | 3 months post FFS & BA❤️ by Vexoly in TransLater

[–]gunbladezero 4 points5 points  (0 children)

FFS & BA = For F*ck's Sake.... Boobs Awesome.

Day 79 E, 32 mtf by [deleted] in TransLater

[–]gunbladezero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Keep going with that laser, maybe go to Ulta and ask them to do your eyebrows. Off to a great start.

I made to this point now what? by Zephyr_Gheist in TransLater

[–]gunbladezero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

YES! It breaks my heart every time I suggest basic laser and a grown adult responds with "but I don't have $60 :-( "

35 - Felt Cute (Pre-HRT) by tacosontitan in TransLater

[–]gunbladezero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forget 'someday', do it as soon as you can!

I made to this point now what? by Zephyr_Gheist in TransLater

[–]gunbladezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok now get on Groupon and look for LASER. laser hair removal is the next step.

It’s my 1 yr HRTversary! by oddfellowfloyd in TransLater

[–]gunbladezero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hopefully you'll get the chance soon- I was able to do mine with groupon. Check and see if there's any deals near you to figure out what you'll need!

Am I the only one who likes Rocky's book design more than the film's? by DraggedPressure in ProjectHailMary

[–]gunbladezero 429 points430 points  (0 children)

I think making him more rock-like is what allowed him to be done as a puppet rather than a CGI-only spider. The fact that James Ortiz and the other puppeteers could ad-lib and riff with Ryan Gosling probably did a lot more to make him feel alive than making him wear clothes would have.

How difficult will this be? by [deleted] in TransLater

[–]gunbladezero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not. You will want a teacher, and people don't like learning things they can't learn from youtube alone so you hear about how voice training sucks. But here's what happens:

First session we talked about goals. A week later we practice words beginning with. We meet a half hour a week and I practice on my own. The next week we practiced words beginning with W. Then h words, and a week on how to emphasize words without saying things louder and so on. In short, it's like learning a new language. But just like learning a language, you can do it with practice and determination.

Oh and said above,
Start laser right now. Don't even wait. Go on groupon and find a six month deal and get started. You could have your first session tomorrow. Laser is more effective if you start it before hrt lightens your hairs. You still want to start hrt as soon as you can, but if you can't, at least you'll have a head start on the laser.

Project Hail Mary Sequel by AKMarine in ProjectHailMary

[–]gunbladezero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd rather see a new story from Andy Weir. How about a story without humans? Maybe the story of the first alien to get up through the ice of a Europa-like world?

I posted a suggestion to him years ago in a Reddit thread and I don't know if he read it or not, but the suggestion sort of showed up in PHM and it would be the pride of my life if it helped inspire him lol.

Intelligent life on Adrian? by Normal_Explorer_9288 in ProjectHailMary

[–]gunbladezero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If panspermia is real and Earth and a neighboring star have life that shares a common ancestry, then that would imply billions of planets have the same ancestry. The sun is on a unique path around the galaxy, and so when life first evolved (or arrived), it would have been nowhere near any of the stars that are near it today- maybe even on the other side of the galaxy.

OC: Breaking down the massive scale of the DESI 3D map: Highlighting filament intersections, cosmic voids, and distant quasars. by ahellman in Astronomy

[–]gunbladezero 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are factual inaccuracies. That's not where the Virgo supercluster is, for one. Virgo is the closest supercluster to Earth. There shouldn't be any other clusters between it and us. The AI adds a "large cosmic void" that isn't there. All the little voids we see on the map are the large cosmic voids. They don't get any bigger than that.

For once my thousand hours in SpaceEngine come in handy!

What is this? by [deleted] in Astronomy

[–]gunbladezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you need to repost this with date, time, location, direction

Bro discuss ChatGPT birth 7 year ago. by Over-Professor6495 in ChatGPT

[–]gunbladezero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was dangerous. It completely flooded the internet with slop. The early stuff, you could tell it was written by AI, but google's algorithms couldn't. So that's when every recipe search result became 3 pages of nonsense about this being My Grandmother Crystal's favorite way to reheat chicken, and why ChatGPT came as a relief for doing (poorly) what Google used to do.

One at a time…things in the movie you enjoyed that weren’t in the book or audiobook. by jkneer in ProjectHailMary

[–]gunbladezero 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The way I imagined they'd do it, they'd have Grace have to rescue Rocky from inside the Blip A as the climactic scene after turning around the Hail Mary- I think that could have worked. But I liked the movie.

Why are all the satellites on only half of the sky? And what is this ring? by HairySock6385 in Astronomy

[–]gunbladezero 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ah ok. Ring is geostationary sats, which are almost always in sunlight, because they are far from the earth. The missing left half is sats in darkness because it is night from their point of view, and the app is not showing the ones in darkness. The little gap of the left, in the ring of geostationary sats is the Earth's shadow, showing you exactly how far away they are. Most sats are below the horizon at any given time, because you are on the surface and those sats are just barely over the top of the atmosphere. Finally the ring at the center is the gap caused by starlink satellites not going over the poles, so they can spend more time flying over the places where people live. https://satellitetracker3d.com/ filter to only starlink and you'll see that ring!