#cetys

[thelvadams]

<Message to All Marathon Terminals> Marathon Emergency Systems Broadcast Today at 0820 hours, the Marathon came under surprise attack from unknown hostile forces. The Marathon has sustained serious damage.

***INCOMING MESSAGE FROM LEELA*** I am now in contact with a number of colonists planetside, but their reports on the situation below are conflicting and obviously exaggerated. The primary medium-range radio antenna has been disabled or destroyed, which makes communication extremely difficult.

<Posted 2794.7.3.14.08.39>

[humnooshop]

Have some PHM-themed stickers that I have available on Redbubble :)

Get in loser Usually you not stupid Location Tau Ceti Current status

[imawriternotamagican]

My memes ain't even good but they're something so HERE

[hopecomesbacktolife]

just finished reading Star Trek: The New Voyages and I just— 🥹

this book made me cry so many times (and laugh too though!) oh my god. I wish I could say thank you a million times to Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath for compiling these stories into this book, and to the TOS actors for their lovely contributions in writing prefaces for the fics, as well. what a lovely collection ♡

[ask-postcrash-curly]

So, in your world, there’s colonies all over the solar system, yeah? What would you say your favorite colony is? When you make deliveries, do you stay on the planet for a bit? I assume some time is needed to unpack, refuel, etc, but is there any more time given than that? Are you able to explore the colony for a little bit? Or do they only give you the bare minimum time, and you have to leave right away the second preparations are done?

Tad farther spread than the solar system, I’d say. My favorite I’ve been to was on Tau Ceti-c. Great food, weather, and entertainment, and the haul was about half the length of this one.

Delivery is a good time for us. Our role in unloading the ship is actually very minimal. There’s paperwork, mostly for me, to authorize the delivery, our presence on the colony, and our supplies restocking. Typically some work for the mechanic too if the ship needs any repairs that couldn’t be done in space. Medic needs to prove we’re not carrying any diseases. Co-pilot usually has some paperwork to do to. Fun stuff.

As soon as all that’s taken care of, Pony Express and the third party companies prefer us to stay off the ship and out of their way while they take the packages, dispose of our trash and waste, and restock and refuel us. If we get there on time, Pony funds a hotel room for us, and if not, we have to pay out of pocket. That’s pretty much all they’ll fund though. We’re typically on our own for food and entertainment, but even cheap food and entertainment are a blast when you’ve spent months in a metal shell eating dispenser and vending machine food.

We usually have a couple days. Guess we could explore and see the sights if we wanted to, but fuck, who has time to be tourists? This is no vacation. Sometimes it’s our only proper days off for over a year! We tend to pool our money to have good, cheesy fun. Same sort you could have on Earth. No tours, no nothing. Just fun. Escape rooms, bowling, laser tag, fast food, karaoke, whatever. There’s this chain restaurant that only exists on colonies outside of the solar system. Rockin’ Chompin’. Great place. Good enough food to be worth it and just shitty enough to feel real. Almost every port has one nearby.

People back home think we’re crazy for coming all the way out here just to do things we could do on Earth. But when you’ve spent six months on a ship and you’ve got another six coming up, you don’t give a damn about where you are. You’re just happy to be on the ground. You don’t want fancy stuff, you want what feels like home, yeah?

[masters-of-void]

quetzal feathers and the lady de los muertos

[deanmarywinchester]

urrasti horror novel about waking up in the body of an annaresti and you think everything is fine and cool but then your child has to be taken from you to be raised in the crèche and you’re shunned for ignoring your assignment to go dig irrigation ditches and your wife leaves you for another man without even having to debate you in court first. AND they’re doing newspeak shit where you can’t even call her “my wife”!

annaresti horror novel about waking up in the body of a urrasti and you think you’ll get to see wonders and do cool research but then on this planet it turns out there’s something called “gendered expectations” where you have to spend 20 hours a day caring for your child without even getting a break from the crèche workers AND they’ve put an F on your “national ID card” which means employers will see you’re a woman and won’t care about your biostatistics theories. AND on top of all that “your” husband (which is crazy! he’s not “yours” he’s his own person!) might get “drafted” into a “war” leaving you destitute.

[neptunedestiny]

Tau Ceti Characters

Tau Ceti, b, g, c, h, d, e, f, i

[melrows]

I'm a professional astronomer who uses almost exclusively JWST data, and today I used JWST's Exposure Time Calculator for the first time. But it wasn't to plan my observations. It was to plan a hypothetical observation in the Project Hail Mary universe to calculate when they'd be able to see the rocket flares from the beetles.

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[sitting-on-me-bum]

The newborn sperm whale is still "floppy" so adult whales stay close to keep the calf afloat.

PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID GRUBER, CETI

[earhartsease]

agh audiobook discomfort again - listening to someone read one of our favourite Ursula Le Guin stories, Vaster Than Empires And More Slow, out of her so-called Hainish Cycle (she didn't like that term)

and there are people known as Cetians, inhabitants of planets of the star Tau Ceti* - Urras and Annares from The Dispossessed - anyway this is all sort of incidental but we know you like background as much as we do

the point of this post is that we've been enjoying these books and stories of hers since the 70s, and in our head Ceti sounds like seh-tee (as it would in the classical latin we learned, and in italian too) so to us, Cetians sounded like Seh-tee-ans (like SETI)

but the audiobook narrator pronounces it to sound like see-shuns, perhaps inspired by Helvetians (so we get how that might have occurred to him) but it hurts!

ah and now we have another piece in the puzzle, because apparently the "official" way to pronounce Ceti is based on a terrible outdated academic rendering of latin, so instead of being seh-tee as it would be in classical latin, it's see-thai *shudder* - but at least that makes more sense of why he chose see-shuns

but it hurts!

*Tau Ceti is one of the stars in the european constellation Cetus (named after a mythological sea beast), though arabic astronomers knew the star as Thālith al Naʽāmāt (ثالث النعامات) "third of the ostriches"

[humnooshop]

Get in loser, we're going to Tau Ceti.

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[katartna]

Forsetti Galerian 🐟🐠

@Stabbyness mech pilot from No Home In Twilight!

[macinthecaac]

I know this is my own fault. That is MY post. But God damn it, this is the funniest thing I've ever seen.

[hellafluff]

Rogue Trader has me by the balls and ive only reached Chapter 2. anyway. have this WIP of Ceti's portrait, idk if im gonna try and mimic the game's painted style bc ive never painted before, but im having fun trying to figure out fashion in the 41st millennium