#cynthia phillips

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Europa is enveloped in a thick coat of water ice. (Some other moons in our solar system have ice made of methane and nitrogen—the cosmos is a weird place.) The criss-crossing lines visible in the new pictures are actually cracks and fissures in that frozen exterior. Scientists suspect that they’re caused by the stretching and squashing that Europa experiences as it orbits giant Jupiter. The moon’s terrain is sprinkled with chemical compounds such as sodium chloride and magnesium sulfate—more commonly known to Earthlings as table salt and Epsom salt—and they could indicate briny waters below.

Scientists got their best evidence that a Europan ocean might exist two decades ago, when that earlier NASA spacecraft detected a magnetic connection between Europa and Jupiter that could easily be explained by the presence of a salty, global sea. This deep into the solar system, Europa’s underground ocean wouldn’t feel the warmth of the sun; it would stay liquid because of Jupiter’s gravitational tugging. In recent years, telescopes have detected signs of plumes of water vapor spewing out of the cracks and into space. Scientists believe that Europa’s ocean could be as old as the moon itself, about 4 billion years or so, which would give life plenty of time and a stable environment in which to evolve, Phillips said.

The data suggest that Europa has a rocky mantle—the layer between the moon’s crust and core—and when rock and water come together, magical things can happen: Chemical interactions between them are known to produce hydrogen-rich materials for tiny creatures to metabolize. “On our own planet, hydrothermal systems at the seafloor provide energy for communities of microorganisms,” Samantha Trumbo, a planetary scientist at Cornell who studies icy ocean worlds like Europa, told me.

The upcoming NASA mission, named Clipper—a nod to the speedy, lightweight vessels favored by 19th-century merchants—will study nearly every bit of the Europan surface. If it gets lucky, the spacecraft could fly through some plume particles, take a sip, and analyze the contents. Alyssa Rhoden, a planetary geophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute who studies Europa, is most excited about a Clipper instrument designed to detect warmer-than-usual spots on the moon’s surface. “When you look at Europa’s surface, you can see a lot of pits where the surface seems to have dropped down a little bit, places where the surface has been disrupted,” Rhoden told me. “We think that that’s happening from heating coming from below.” That signature could simply indicate the presence of melted bits of ice near the frigid crust—or it could mean a roiling sea has floated toward the surface, perhaps bringing any tiny inhabitants with it.

The Clipper mission is not meant to find definitive proof that life exists on Europa, only explore whether the moon has the right conditions and chemistry to make life possible. Evidence of life will require more missions, guided by Clipper’s data, that could land on the Europan surface and drill into the ice. NASA is also searching for life elsewhere in the solar system, notably on Mars, where a rover is collecting samples from a dried-up river delta. But Europa is a more tantalizing target, and so are the other ocean moons sprinkled across the solar system, such as Enceladus and Titan, which orbit Saturn, and Triton, around Neptune. The Mars mission is designed to search for signs of fossilized life that existed several billion years ago, when water once flowed on the planet. “It’s quite possible that Mars could have had life in the past, in a warmer-weather era, and it’s possible that there are subsurface pockets on Mars that could have remnants of this living biosphere,” Phillips said. “But on somewhere like Europa, life could exist there now.”

And what might humanity, by way of carefully engineered machines, find on Europa, once we’ve figured out which melty bits to inspect? “I would love for there to be Europan whales swimming around in that ocean,” Phillips said with a laugh. But alien life, if it exists, is likely to be small and simple. Energy sources are limited in the Europan depths, and scientists don’t think the environment can support the development of more complex organisms, Phillips said. Still, even the discovery of a single microbe would mark an explosive event in human history. It would mean that life had managed to spring up in two different places around the same star—in a universe absolutely brimming with stars. If it happened more than once here, in our own solar system, it’s likely happened elsewhere in the cosmos, around someone else’s sun. This is why scientists are so eager to catch a glimpse of Europa, and prepare as much as they can for the exploration to come. “We all want it to be water,” Rhoden said. “We all want it to be a cool plumbing system in the shell with lots of activity, and someday we’ll get down there and find little Europan sea urchins clinging to the bottom of the ice.”

  —  There’s Hope for Life on Europa, a Distant Moon

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Cynthia Erivo and Jeremy Jordan as Anne Wheeler and Phillip Carlyle in The Greatest Showman, as it should have been ofc

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You know that birth of the human spirit? It's reflected in each and every one of us.

Case in point, a man I knew in stir named Chuck. Chuck spent about a month in the infirmary after being stabbed in the lung. When they brought him back to the prison laundry where we both worked, he said to me, "Chris, live every day like it might be your last."

That's a tired old chestnut, I know, but try roasting it like this; it ought to be spring every day, every day we ought to wake up brand new.

Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As not heard save from a man, Who has been dead, and lives again. About the trees my arms I wound, Like one gone mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high, I laughed and laughed into the sky.

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n o r t h e r n e x p o s u r e created by joshua brand, john falsey Tranquility Base [s6ep23]

'Yes.' - barbara

'What?' - maurice

'I said, I accept, Maurice. But no big announcement, no splashy wedding. We do it by the book, or we don't do it at all, you got that?' - barbara

'Outstanding!' - maurice

'Well, aren't you gonna kiss me?' - barbara

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The Northern exposure regular cast (plus Eve) being photographed during the filming of the episode "Lost and Found" (3.17, 1992).

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NORTHERN EXPOSURE 3.03 “Oy, Wilderness”

“Five-thousand-some-odd years of recorded history, centuries of thought and planning, trial and error, research and development, finally, indoor plumbing is perfected. And, in one fell swoop, I’m reduced to squatting in the woods like a German Shepherd!”

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The complete 'Northern Exposure' – adrift in Alaska on Prime Video

Lifelong New Yorker Dr. Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), fresh from Columbia University’s medical school, arrives in Alaska to serve out his four years of service—the terms of his scholarship—in the first episode of Northern Exposure (1990-1995). But instead of the city of Anchorage, he’s assigned to the tiny Alaskan village of Cicely, courtesy of the machinations of town entrepreneur and former…

[stripclub-elysium]

Hearing that, Phillip grinned and slowly began to increase his speed, ramming his cock faster and harder as if he wants Cynthia to moan like a horny bitch. He then eagerly kissed her back, his tongue wanting to dominate her

Open RP Starter: A Champion’s Rights

“Congratulations—you are now the Champion of the Sinnoh region.”

Cynthia smiled as she admitted defeat and recalled the last of her fainted Pokémon. Though she tried to keep herself composed, in reality she was beyond elated. Not only because she had grown tired of her duties and position as the League Champion, but because this gave her the perfect chance to make good on a secret, dark desire of hers that she’d kept hidden away for years—ever since the day she learned of it.

“You know, there are stories about the first Champion of Sinnoh,” she began in a curious tone, stepping closer to her opponent. “According to the old tales from Hisui, the champion of the region had the right to mate with any woman he desired. It was considered a great honor, bearing offspring of a champion that the Great Sinnoh itself had chosen. Of course, those traditions faded away with time…I always thought it such a shame, though…”

Finally, Cynthia let a smirk spread across her face as her coat dropped to the floor, revealing the revealing dress she wore underneath. “It just seemed like the sort of custom worth bringing back into practice~ wouldn’t you say so, Champion~?”

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FATHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN (STRANGERS UNDER THE SAME ROOF).

East, West by Salman Rushdie / Woodtangle by Mary Ruefle / Dearest Father, a letter by Franz Kafka / This Dusk In A Mouth Full Of Prayer by Michael Wasson / Succession / Interview With The Vampire / Gangs of New York (2002), dir. by Martin Scorsese / An Oresteia by Anne Carson / The Cruel Prince by Holly Black / 6 ways to draw a circle by tumblr user filmnoirsbian / Origin Story by Desireé Dallagiacomo / Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod by Traci Brimhal / Abraham and Isaac before the Sacrifice by Jan Victors (oil on canvas) / The Sacrifice of Isaac by Philippe de Champaigne (oil on canvas) / Supernatural, Season 1 Epside 22 'Devil's Trap' / Ruby by Cynthia Bond / Erou by Maya Phillips / Interview With The Vampire / Cut by Catherine Lacey / Succession / Frankenstein by Mary Shelley / The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis / Mindhunter / tumblr tags by @buckybucananbarnes / Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya (mixed media mural) / Saturn Devouring His Son by Peter Paul Rubens (oil on canvas) / Mother - John Lennon / Succession / Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz / forgiving our fathers by dick lourie

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clingyduo; we are best friends, two hands of the same body— it no longer feels like a comfort in my mouth

vahan teryan / cynthia ozick / danez smith / @art--harridan / yevgeny yevtushenko / fleur jaeggy / kim quindlen / safia elhillo / @ahhhdownwego / mary szybist / @honeytuesday / forugh farrokhzad / mahmoud darwish / robert wood lynn / @shoestrum / bianca stone / carl phillips / @doodlebloo

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Galileo's Europa Remastered

Credits: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SETI Institute, Cynthia Phillips

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This cane is just to keep everybody else happy. It's a hell of a note when somebody my age has to act on the hobble when I'm already on the mend.

[apod]

2024 March 29

Galileo's Europa Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SETI Institute, Cynthia Phillips, Marty Valenti

Explanation: Looping through the Jovian system in the late 1990s, the Galileo spacecraft recorded stunning views of Europa and uncovered evidence that the moon's icy surface likely hides a deep, global ocean. Galileo's Europa image data has been remastered here, with improved calibrations to produce a color image approximating what the human eye might see. Europa's long curving fractures hint at the subsurface liquid water. The tidal flexing the large moon experiences in its elliptical orbit around Jupiter supplies the energy to keep the ocean liquid. But more tantalizing is the possibility that even in the absence of sunlight that process could also supply the energy to support life, making Europa one of the best places to look for life beyond Earth. The Juno spacecraft currently in Jovian orbit has also made repeated flybys of the water world, returning images along with data exploring Europa's habitability. This October will see the launch of the NASA's Europa Clipper on a voyage of exploration. The spacecraft will make nearly 50 flybys, approaching to within 25 kilometers of Europa's icy surface.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240329.html

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n o r t h e r n e x p o s u r e created by joshua brand, john falsey [tranquility base, s6ep23] Our Town

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The ensemble cast of Northern Exposure. One of the truly great tv show of the 90's (and also ever, beyond the barrier of the decades). From left to right : Peg Phillips as Ruth-Anne Miller, Darren E. Burrows as Ed Chigliak, John Corbett as Chris Stevens, Janine Turner as Maggie O'Connell, Rob Morrow as Joel Fleischman, Barry Corbin as Maurice Minnifield, John Cullum as Holling Vincoeur, Cynthia Geary as Shelly Tambo and Elaine Miles as Marilyn Whirlwind.