The Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the 🚨 emoji is red.
Doppler Effect [Explained]
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[Miss Lenhart is pointing with a stick to a whiteboard with various scientific drawings and words, including but not only a graph.]
Miss Lenhart: The more distant a galaxy is, the redder its light.
Miss Lenhart: Why? Well, that's an interesting question.
[Zoom in on Miss Lenhart.]
Miss Lenhart: Ever notice how, when a siren is approaching, it sounds like Bweeeeeeeeee...
[Zoom in on Miss Lenhart with her arms raised.]
Miss Lenhart: ...but then it zooms past you and goes Nyeeeeooooowww?
Miss Lenhart: And sometimes they hit a button that makes it go Pyeew! Pyeew! really loud?
[Miss Lenhart with her finger raised is standing in front of the whiteboard and holding the stick down.]
Miss Lenhart: And in Europe they go Ooooeeeeooooeeee...
Off-panel voice: So why are galaxies red?
Miss Lenhart: Oh, no idea.
Miss Lenhart: Anyway, another siren I like is...
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hey hey hey free book free book free book I wrote it myself
To make a very long story short: "what if Spiderman could fly instead of web swing, and she was a trans girl who had to learn the meaning of ACAB?"
Enjoy!
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Redshift’s new Top Shelf Bar.
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robots who, for whatever reason, don't have any speakers or means of speaking out loud "normally." but they do have wireless communication, so any time they talk it just comes through a nearby radio/personal comm device/etc
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Ava has made an assessment:
“The desert is too hot!”
Turns out, they’d rolled up in the back of their fancy box truck just before sunrise, and now the sun has risen. And it’s hot. Probably as hot as temperatures can possibly be. Ava’s pretty sure of that.
“Water is wet,” Beatrice says, more a grumble than a comment, and if Ava was not otherwise miserable from the heat and the sweating, she’d be on her ass. Bea is funny when she wants to be.
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So do you have any plans for z=-0.000000000000045?
Redshift [Explained]
Transcript Under the Cut
[Ponytail and Cueball are sitting at a table, eating dinner.]
Cueball: So, when did you first get interested in early universe cosmology?
Ponytail: Sometime around Z = 0.00000000038.
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Inner Growth (2019)
[Glad I can upload bigger GIFs now]
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A basilisk boi! Started off as what was meant to be a simple sculpt just for the shapes, but I couldn't resist adding in the scales and giving him some colour to finish the look ✨ Enjoy!
バシリスクトカゲはできました!
簡単に始めた、だんだんもっと爬虫類の鱗と色が追加する✨楽しんでね!
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