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I tried to draw my version of human Hornet and Ghost but all I can think of are @doodledrawsthings​ designs. Wow they are good. Love you.

I did add some ideas for Hornet

And your Ghost is baby. Thank you.

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Hey look, it’s an ending where no one dies :D

Except Zote. No one likes you, Zote.

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So I found this caterpillar on my way to class

We’re bros

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Send me pictures of your cats

I’ll tell you want they’re jobs would be if they were people

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Here’s a nice little Easter egg from Disenchantment, no spoilers either! It’s Fry, Bender, and the Professor from Futurama! Looks to be from the episode they went forward in time.

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Me petting my dog:

My dog: Möre scriteese youe baestard

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Magic show

Me: you are feeling sleepy

Person: no I’m not

Me, glancing at my assistent holding a baseball bat: you will soon

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Cleaning windows

Water

Soap

Water

UNHOLY SCREECHING

Done

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When you eat the entire Oreo instead of just the cream

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Maybe it’s time to step out of that shower

At a certain point during your childhood you become simultaneously too old and too young for sucking on boobs.

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The Opportunity to Rove on Mars! 🔴

Today, we’re expressing gratitude for the opportunity to rove on Mars (#ThanksOppy) as we mark the completion of a successful mission that exceeded our expectations.  

Our Opportunity Rover’s last communication with Earth was received on June 10, 2018, as a planet-wide dust storm blanketed the solar-powered rover’s location on the western rim of Perseverance Valley, eventually blocking out so much sunlight that the rover could no longer charge its batteries. Although the skies over Perseverance cleared, the rover did not respond to a final communication attempt on Feb. 12, 2019.

As the rover’s mission comes to an end, here are a few things to know about its opportunity to explore the Red Planet.

90 days turned into 15 years!

Opportunity launched on July 7, 2003 and landed on Mars on Jan. 24, 2004 for a planned mission of 90 Martian days, which is equivalent to 92.4 Earth days. While we did not expect the golf-cart-sized rover to survive through a Martian winter, Opportunity defied all odds as a 90-day mission turned into 15 years!

The Opportunity caught its own silhouette in this late-afternoon image taken in March 2014 by the rover’s rear hazard avoidance camera. This camera is mounted low on the rover and has a wide-angle lens.

Opportunity Set  Out-Of-This-World Records

Opportunity’s achievements, including confirmation water once flowed on Mars. Opportunity was, by far, the longest-lasting lander on Mars. Besides endurance, the six-wheeled rover set a roaming record of 28 miles.

This chart illustrates comparisons among the distances driven by various wheeled vehicles on the surface of Earth’s moon and Mars. Opportunity holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers) of driving on Mars.

It’s Just Like Having a Geologist on Mars

Opportunity was created to be the mechanical equivalent of a geologist walking from place to place on the Red Planet. Its mast-mounted cameras are 5 feet high and provided 360-degree two-eyed, human-like views of the terrain. The robotic arm moved like a human arm with an elbow and wrist, and can place instruments directly up against rock and soil targets of interest. The mechanical “hand” of the arm holds a microscopic camera that served the same purpose as a geologist’s handheld magnifying lens.

There’s Lots to See on Mars

After an airbag-protected landing craft settled onto the Red Planet’s surface and opened, Opportunity rolled out to take panoramic images. These images gave scientists the information they need to select promising geological targets that tell part of the story of water in Mars’ past. Since landing in 2004, Opportunity has captured more than 200,000 images. Take a look in this photo gallery.

From its perch high on a ridge, the Opportunity rover recorded this image on March 31, 2016 of a Martian dust devil twisting through the valley below. The view looks back at the rover’s tracks leading up the north-facing slope of “Knudsen Ridge,” which forms part of the southern edge of “Marathon Valley

There Was Once Water on Mars?!

Among the mission’s scientific goals was to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils for clues to past water activity on Mars. In its time on the Red Planet, Opportunity discovered small spheres of the mineral hematite, which typically forms in water. In addition to these spheres that a scientist nicknamed “blueberries,” the rover also found signs of liquid water flowing across the surface in the past: brightly colored veins of the mineral gypsum in rocks, for instance, which indicated water flowing through underground fractures.

The small spheres on the Martian surface in this close-up image are near Fram Crater, visited by the Opportunity rover in April 2004.

For more about Opportunity’s adventures and discoveries, see: https://go.nasa.gov/ThanksOppy.

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Please tell me about your emotional attachment to Mars rovers so i don’t feel alone

Oh man, back in 2003 when the Spirit and Opportunity rovers launched, I was a wee lad of 6 years old. We didn’t have much money, and our local museum (Denver Museum of Nature and Science) had occasional free days which we always took advantage of. They had recently opened up a new exhibit called Space Odyssey. 

This was 2003, and since Mars Exploration Rovers had just launched, about a solid 40% of the exhibit was dedicated to Mars stuff. They had an interactive thing where you could see the effects of water erosion, a full mock-up of a Mars base complete with red dust, a thing where you could launch marbles at some dirt to see craters form, and a full-size model of Opportunity. They had a TV next to the model dedicated to showing that CGI launch sequence of the rovers too (this one if you haven’t seen it). The thing is 9 minutes and my hyperactive ass sat and watched the whole thing at least twice the first time I saw it. 

I was only in first grade at the time, and seeing all this stuff then kind of bonded me to it. Every time we went to the museum I always made sure to visit; there was a whiteboard that was periodically updated with the rovers’ activities and discoveries. I fully attribute my interest in robotics and engineering with these rovers too. I feel like I basically grew up with these rovers, and I literally cried when they announced Spirit had died in 2011. Now I’m almost 22 and Opportunity was declared dead, 5,352 Mars days into it’s 90-day mission. And yes I cried a little. 

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Thank you Opportunity! RIP (Jan. 2004 - Feb 2019)

(C.B)(2.18.19)

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This invokes such a deep memory I though died

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is this what growing up is like

me at 14: wow, protagonists in media my age! how relateable!

me at 28: WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHILD SOLDIERS? WHERE ARE ALL THE ADULTS? WHO LET THIS HAPPEN AND WHY ARE THEY NOT BEING PROSECUTED BY LAW WITHIN THESE FICTIONAL UNIVERSES

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I am blessed to be watching this conversation of gods

Can you stop commenting on everything?? Your responses are more and more dull and obvious than funny. No harm feelings. Really.

Thank you very much