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From the depths of the ocean to the most distant galaxies, we’re all connected! 💫 💙

Recently, @montereybayaquarium Executive Director Julie Packard and Space Telescope Science Institute Director Dr. Jennifer M. Lotz were honored with 2024 Clarke Foundation awards.

In celebration, the Aquarium has partnered with STScI to bring you images from outer space and Earth’s life-giving ocean. It’s in moments like these that we can pause to appreciate and be in awe of the world we live in. As John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts wrote in “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”: “It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again.” ✨

Credit: NASA,ESA, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

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CLAMP made these artworks for wedding of Mika Kikuchi and Yuuji Kishi 

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https://store.line.me/stickershop/product/28369362/ja

official Sonic & Friends emojis

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5* Pretender Phantasmoon ascensions

I like her design better than Moon Cancer Arc lmao

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"Your Smile I Have Yet to See" by marina

Source: Tales of Hearts Anthology Comic Translation: richea Scans/cleaning/typesetting: @aera-enfys

Read it here

imgur.com/a/dqE9wQZ

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@bexdrey and I found this at a local goodwill, anyone ever seen it before? 🤔

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Enkidu: A Dreamworld can be able to connect with all dimensions, only those who had full potential they can use dreams or imagination as a bridge across many dimensions.

Gilgamesh: I was the one who created multiple dimensions, so yes, but the real problem is Kujaku using them to control the fate of reality.

Punch: As each simulation creates another, the original will be held down more and more....the more problems and the more new labyrinths, until finally, even if just one more simulation is created, no matter how abstract it would be enough to overload and collapse the entire universe.

Enkidu: You made Earth become the centre of all laws of the universe. All dimensions are balanced to not let the earth and the universe fail or vanish but if there more too much, the entire universe will collapse.

Punch: Without that, there was nothing to overcome....it passed by without even a meaningful ripple. But if we succeed in completing our mission.....those dimensions need to exist?

Gilgamesh: Of course. If we don't have any records of all past, present and future, how are we going to rule or teach our new generations? Don't forget, this is not the digital world, the fake world or the game world, the law of this world still follows the laws of physics.

Enkidu: God Anunnaki really leave this behind huh?

Punch: I wonder why he be able to get that power in the first place? I mean.....this timeline....

Gilgamesh: If I have to guess, god Anunnaki was the replacement of god Tsubasa when she/he came to the earth for the first time, maybe?

Punch: Maybe.

Enkidu: ..................(This is awkward)

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Drafts: Punch the savage pt. 4

Neil: This reminds me. At the museum today, they literally had a golden toilet.

Quincy: Literally?

Punch: Ho? Then how much is the golden toilet worth?

Neil: The toilet was valued at nearly $6 million.

Quincy: Wow do they really need to sit on gold to take a dump?

Neil: Don't know-

Punch: But when I get a chance, I'm going to destroy this thing.

Neil: Wait....you too?

Gilgamesh: I mean I'm a fan club of Golden but I heard they stole a golden toilet... guess someone really flushed their morals down the drain.

Quincy: Right? I don't need a golden toilet, I just need a bathroom with a seat that doesn't feel like it's been funded by the 1%.

Neil: *Clap Clap* Father really had a sense of humour!

Punch: Yeah, right? The golden toilet? Heh. Guess the only thing more shocking than the price tag is the idea that someone could actually afford to flush away that kind of money.

Neil: So in terms, of the golden toilet is useless.

Gilgamesh: At least Ishtar is not here, a good thing.

Neil: The golden toilet was just too much. It turns out even royalty doesn’t want to sit on gold... they'd rather be sitting on their throne.

Eva: (These jokes tap turn into the ridiculousness savages....)

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Gilgamesh: This was actually really nice.......Thank you for putting it all together for me. It must've taken a while, huh?

Peter: Well, I don't like to brag, but you would not believe how much storehouse wallet I had to spend to get all the props!

Gilgamesh: *Giggles*...................

Peter: You are still heartbroken from the incident where I almost died, aren't you? If not because of Lancelot's sacrifice.

Gilgamesh: I mean........

Peter: PUNCH, look....I know you don't have the time to be distracted from your path, but I'm not here to do that. I know you can walk your path alone and it must be hard sometimes. When you need a reason to keep going I'll remind you. And if you want to be the star in the sky. I can be your "earth".

Gilgamesh: ........................you're proud of that line, huh?

Peter: *Nod*

Gilgamesh: It's lonely, I'll give you that. Walking on this path, sometimes I think if I have to not look to keep going, then how far can I really go? And it's not that I don't want to, believe me. Finding someone, sitting down, and having friends like family. It's not the first time I've thought about it. But all this.....this isn't why I said it wouldn't be a good idea.

Peter: It still didn't stop you from accepting my proposal and still spending time dating me again.

Gilgamesh: Uh huh. But my brother already proposed to you in Neverland.......and have you....

Peter: Hey......You're still Punch. If it's me you're worried about, you don't have to. I'll be okay. My choice is my own. Now all you two have to decide for is yourself. After all, that's how Punch's feeling is.

Gilgamesh: To live to the fullest......

Peter: Even until that time has come.....I'll always remind you......

Gilgamesh: *Lay his head on Peter's shoulder* Until then.....always......

Peter: *Kiss his forehead* I love you, Punch.

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Punch: Don't worry, I believe Mr Gilgamesh will give the same name as I name him. Yes, it was a tough decision here.

Nammu: My son had to make the choice, between his original path and his leadership path.....he chose to walk as the path of leader. Because of his decision.....someone needs to replace his original life.

Peter: And that's how Sonic was born.....

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Gilgamesh: That little guy is tiny, isn't he? Our little brother, "Punch".

Punch: Er........about that.....I've been thinking....maybe....he should take our species's name instead.

Gilgamesh: Our original species's name......?

Punch: I mean....I can't think of any reason why not. But after all that. I can think of lots of reasons why he should.

Gilgamesh: I agree. We did make a decision we abandoned our childhood personality so we need someone or a brother to be able to remind us who we are and never get lost even if it means his existence makes both you and I hurt. Although....."Punch" doesn't ring as well with any of the surnames now, does it?

Punch: Because he still couldn't be himself. He even doesn't know how to speak....how to feel emotions yet. Until he finds the place where he belongs, he will get his own surname later.

Gilgamesh: Do you have something else in mind, then?

Punch: How about......"Sonic"?

Gilgamesh: Sonic huh.......I agree. Our little brother, "Sonic".

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Syaoran: How about this then.....I'll protect you until you find your answer. Not only just what am I? But also this feeling that is hard like a rock even humans can't understand this "love" clearly.

Peter: Sonic made it through his childhood just fine with the love both Punch and Gil could give to him. Until Sonic finds himself who he really is by himself. The name "Sonic" will no longer not his real name or Sonic finally have his real name at last.

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CLAMP Comparisons: 

(Main) Characters across the dimensions series

↳ 1989 to Present

Characters’ appearances in their original series and some of their most recent ones.

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Login bonus dialogue for Tir Na Nog SUMMER: Tempests at the Beach Resort.

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000, dir. Ron Howard

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Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year (2002) dir. Jamie Mitchell and Gary Katona

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Dark energy 'doesn’t exist' so can't be pushing 'lumpy' Universe apart – study

One of the biggest mysteries in science – dark energy – doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding.

For the past 100 years, physicists have generally assumed that the cosmos is growing equally in all directions. They employed the concept of dark energy as a placeholder to explain unknown physics they couldn't understand, but the contentious theory has always had its problems.

Now a team of physicists and astronomers at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand are challenging the status quo, using improved analysis of supernovae light curves to show that the Universe is expanding in a more varied, "lumpier" way.

The new evidence supports the "timescape" model of cosmic expansion, which doesn't have a need for dark energy because the differences in stretching light aren't the result of an accelerating Universe but instead a consequence of how we calibrate time and distance.

It takes into account that gravity slows time, so an ideal clock in empty space ticks faster than inside a galaxy.

The model suggests that a clock in the Milky Way would be about 35 per cent slower than the same one at an average position in large cosmic voids, meaning billions more years would have passed in voids. This would in turn allow more expansion of space, making it seem like the expansion is getting faster when such vast empty voids grow to dominate the Universe.

Professor David Wiltshire, who led the study, said: "Our findings show that we do not need dark energy to explain why the Universe appears to expand at an accelerating rate.

"Dark energy is a misidentification of variations in the kinetic energy of expansion, which is not uniform in a Universe as lumpy as the one we actually live in."

He added: "The research provides compelling evidence that may resolve some of the key questions around the quirks of our expanding cosmos.

"With new data, the Universe's biggest mystery could be settled by the end of the decade."

The new analysis has been published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.

Dark energy is commonly thought to be a weak anti-gravity force which acts independently of matter and makes up around two thirds of the mass-energy density of the Universe.

The standard Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) model of the Universe requires dark energy to explain the observed acceleration in the rate at which the cosmos is expanding.

Scientists base this conclusion on measurements of the distances to supernova explosions in distant galaxies, which appear to be farther away than they should be if the Universe's expansion were not accelerating.

However, the present expansion rate of the Universe is increasingly being challenged by new observations.

Firstly, evidence from the afterglow of the Big Bang – known as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) – shows the expansion of the early Universe is at odds with current expansion, an anomaly known as the "Hubble tension".

In addition, recent analysis of new high precision data by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has found that the ΛCDM model does not fit as well as models in which dark energy is "evolving" over time, rather than remaining constant.

Both the Hubble tension and the surprises revealed by DESI are difficult to resolve in models which use a simplified 100-year-old cosmic expansion law – Friedmann's equation.

This assumes that, on average, the Universe expands uniformly – as if all cosmic structures could be put through a blender to make a featureless soup, with no complicating structure. However, the present Universe actually contains a complex cosmic web of galaxy clusters in sheets and filaments that surround and thread vast empty voids.

Professor Wiltshire added: "We now have so much data that in the 21st century we can finally answer the question – how and why does a simple average expansion law emerge from complexity?

"A simple expansion law consistent with Einstein's general relativity does not have to obey Friedmann's equation."

The researchers say that the European Space Agency's Euclid satellite, which was launched in July 2023, has the power to test and distinguish the Friedmann equation from the timescape alternative. However, this will require at least 1,000 independent high quality supernovae observations.

When the proposed timescape model was last tested in 2017 the analysis suggested it was only a slightly better fit than the ΛCDM as an explanation for cosmic expansion, so the Christchurch team worked closely with the Pantheon+ collaboration team who had painstakingly produced a catalogue of 1,535 distinct supernovae.

They say the new data now provides "very strong evidence" for timescape. It may also point to a compelling resolution of the Hubble tension and other anomalies related to the expansion of the Universe.

Further observations from Euclid and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope are needed to bolster support for the timescape model, the researchers say, with the race now on to use this wealth of new data to reveal the true nature of cosmic expansion and dark energy.

TOP IMAGE: This graphic offers a glimpse of the history of the Universe, as we currently understand it. The cosmos began expanding with the Big Bang but then around 10 billion years later it strangely began to accelerate thanks to a theoretical phenomenon termed dark energy. Credit: NASA

LOWER IMAGE: This graphic shows the emergence of a cosmic web in a cosmological simulation using general relativity. From left, 300,000 years after the Big Bang to right, a Universe similar to ours today. The dark regions are void of matter, where an ideal clock would run faster and allow more time for the expansion of space. The lighter purple regions are denser so clocks would run slower, meaning under the "timescape" model of cosmology that acceleration of the Universe's expansion is not uniform. Credit: Hayley Macpherson, Daniel Price, Paul Lasky / Physical Review D 99 (2019) 063522

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