The MC

The moon is so metal. Like, the moon crashed into us and shore off a good chunk and that lump became a beautiful goddess that inspires poetry and art worldwide. Like, a really fem biker who just really likes to wear white.

I love your blog and your space asks but please pray tell what's the moon boom that jumpingjacktrash mentioned?

have you ever looked up into the night sky and wondered, why the moon is?

well, you're not alone! scientists and learnéd scholars across the ages have been baffled by our celestial neighbor.

WHY, is our Moon so proportionally fucking huge? (it's more than a quarter the size of the Earth! that's COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE AND BLOWS EVERY OTHER MOON IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM OUT OF THE METAPHORICAL WATER)

WHY, is the Moon made up of much of the same materials as the Earth?

and WHY, is Earth's magnetic field so massively overpowered that it can shield the surface from interstellar and solar radiation, allowing life to develop and paving the way for you to even ask these questions in the first place? (that one might not sound related, but I promise you it is so just bear with me)

well, it all comes down to the Theia Impact Hypothesis, or, OPERATION MOON BOOM.

in this fair solar system we lay our scene, four and a half billion years ago.

here, we focus on the third planet from the sun, which is, surprisingly, NOT Earth.

not yet.

no, this unnamed rocky world is slightly smaller than Venus, and is formed of mostly-molten rock that's still settling into itself as our nascent solar system sorts itself out.

ENTER STAGE LEFT, THEIA.

Theia is a rocky planetoid about the size of Mars, on a wild and unstable orbit around the Sun that regularly brings it within spitting distance of our unnamed third rock! and today, it will get A Bit Too Close.

the two planets slam into each other with wild disregard for road safety, disintegrating their outer layers into a massive debris field that will take hundreds of millions of years to settle and fusing their planetary cores together into a single rough oblong of molten iron! BAM! WHAPPO!

but settle the debris does, as gravity takes a gentle but firm hold of this huge mess and gradually reshapes it into two familiar faces...

ENTER STAGE RIGHT: EARTH AND MOON.

that's right, you're standing on top of the alchemically-fused corpses of, not one, but TWO planets right now! our newly-reborn Earth and its singular orbiting satellite are formed from the same debris field and share a lot of similar material. and because the Moon was Made, and not a domesticated planetoid that wandered too close and got trapped in the orbit of a larger body, it's just ludicrously HUGE compared to its partner.

and getting back to that magnetic field thing, the whole reason Earth Can Have Big Field Pls is because Theia dumped so much extra iron into the Core that it generates a MUCH more powerful field than our neighboring planets, even the ones that are just slightly smaller than Earth!

the only reason that life can exist at all is because Theia took one for the team and reshaped the solar system.

so the next time you look up into the celestial dome and spot our closest neighbor, raise a salute to Theia, gone but not forgotten.

Aquarius, the only time I left the house at the height of my depression was to walk in the rain with a nice umbrella, bonus points for lightning at a nearby waterfall.

reblog with your zodiac sign and if you love thunderstorms or not

This ghost friend is here to hopefully ease some of your worries. It can’t totally remove them, but it hopes that it might make you smile!

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I need help dudes.

I’m trying to engrave a pendant for my partner that says something along the lines of,

“I’m glad I met you when I did or we never would have grown into who we are now, and no one in the world will ever make me feel like this. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I love you.”

But, ya know, more concise and romantic like?

We cannot forget, of course, the generation that has consumed dissolving packets of a basic ph solution for clout. And the previous generation who did the same with a large quantity of spice that irritates the lungs because “lol funny coughing video”.

Now that humans have photographed a black hole, we all immediately have decided we wish to eat it, as it is vaguely bagel shaped and probably a good companion to the sarcophagus juice. Imagine aliens encountering this particular brand of humanity.

Heck my dude at least 60% will be hella scared that humans will actually find a way to have a nibble of the Forbidden Bagel. The other 40% will recognize the joke in it but still be vaguely unnerved.

House I’m working now has a cat. I was not told there would be a cat. More updates to follow.

Update: found cat, has his under covers in guest bedroom due to noise.

House I’m working now has a cat. I was not told there would be a cat. More updates to follow.

These little blurbs are giving me so much motivation. I love it.

A good squishy.

Suction cup boi

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I was just thinking about the Halloween of 2018 when one friend dressed as a very elaborate clown with red contacts and my 6′5″ friend as Slenderman. The clown sat on a sofa in the lobby of our college while Slenderman wandered around. I was security for them (because students get spicy when scared), but occasionally ran through with one of them chasing me. 10/10, would reccomend