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L. Catala (they/them), aspiring writer, fantasy, horror, language, history, movies, music, biology, nihilism, France; speaks EN and FR
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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@comicaurora I was really inspired by your description of the eclipse, I haven't quite figured out how I want to draw a hole in the firmament of the sky but I am absolutely going to do it.
Also thank you so much for creating such a wonderful video about the eclipse! It was very cool
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Q+A from library visit where I read my comic about a skeleton that plays the fiddle
Kid: Is this fiction?
Me: Yeah
Kid: I kinda thought so
Me: Oh really? Why?
Kid: Because skeletons aren't real
Me: Skeletons are real. You have one!
Kid, jumping up out of his seat: Yeah but they don't move around!!
Me: Your skeleton's moving around right now!
Kid, yelling: THAT'S!! DIFFERENT!!!
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Duke, -duce, Herzog & ziehen
Duke聽comes from the Latin word dux聽(leader). It's related to the verb d奴cere聽(to lead; pull), whence English -duce, for example in to seduce聽(whose original Latin meaning was 'to lead astray').
The second part of German Herzog聽(duke) is cognate to dux. This part, -zog, is related to the German verb ziehen聽(to pull), cognate of d奴cere.
Old English had cognates of both words. Its counterpart of Herzog聽was heretoga聽(army leader). In Middle English it became heretowe, which would've become modern *hartow. The Old English cognate of ziehen聽was t膿on. This verb would've become *to tee聽if it had continued to exist. See the infographic for information about its past tense and past participle.
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donation comm for @silasoctakiseron. just little guys
#they really are the catholic/protestant dynamic#90% similar and absolutely hating each other over the remaining 10%
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The French localization of Captain Planeet has an original song rather than a recap narration over the openning credits:
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Cultural exchange at its finest.
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The words right聽and rectum聽have a common origin. Right聽comes from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz聽('straight; right; just'). This word shared a common Proto-Indo-European ancestor with Latin r膿ctus聽('straight; right; just'), from which the medical term rectum聽('straight terminal part of the large intestine') was derived. The infographic shows more.
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Badness Level
Maybe Harrow just needs to play some Elvis or go surfing.
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The word knight聽sounds like night聽but it's written with a K. That's because it聽used to start with a [k] sound, just like German Knecht, which has the same Proto-Germanic ancestor. The letters GH used to be pronounced as well. The video lets you hear the reconstructed evolution of knight from聽Proto-Germanic to Southern British English.
The common Proto-Germanic ancestor of knight, German Knecht聽and Dutch knecht聽meant 'boy; servant; attendant'. In Middle English, knight聽came to denote an attendant who became a soldier, and subsequently a soldier who became a nobleman through knighthood.
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>listening to nin
>hear a new layer to song ive relistened to over and over
>"wow i cant believe i never noticed this before! i wonder what kind of synth he used. its very forboding in a specific way only nin can achieve"
>pause song to write post praising nin
>the synth specifically keeps playing despite the rest of the song being paused
>look outside window
>garbage truck
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