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uhm. not to be pedantic, but this... isn’t quite how relativity works. Luna is, on average, 1.3 light-seconds from Earth. if a vessel made the trip around the moon at FTL speed, which it could not do because that’s not how velocity works, it would arrive roughly 2.6 seconds before it had left. assuming, of course, that you don’t subscribe to the notion that the universe can be treated holistically as one frame of reference. this was so close to being a cool and accurate sci-fi idea, but you missed the mark by about 3597.4 seconds.

NASA launches their Faster Than Light spacecraft and makes a round trip to the moon. Upon reentering earth’s orbit, they ask Houston for the time. Houston replies “Quit messing around with the coms, theres still an hour until launch”.

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this has been sitting in my inbox for I don’t even know how long. Anon, if you’re still watching, what the FUCK does this mean

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Coelacanth Friday

reach WITHIN to your LOCAL polar ice cap and you will find a Friend And Boy

Paleontologists Find Antarctica’s First Frog Fossil

Antarctica was not always a frozen rock at the bottom of the world. In April 2020, analysis of a 100-foot-deep sediment core from the Antarctic ocean floor revealed the presence of ancient pollen, roots and other tell-tale signs of a rainforest that thrived there some 90 million years ago. Now, paleontologists have uncovered an even more recent sign of the frigid continent’s balmy past: a fossilized frog dating to roughly 40 million years ago, reports Maria Temming for Science News.

This fossil frog is the first ever discovered in Antarctica, according to the new research published in the journal Scientific Reports. Prior digs have unearthed the remains of less familiar-looking bygone amphibians, but none with such a direct evolutionary through-line to creatures that walk—or hop— the Earth today.

The ancient frog’s anatomy bears a close resemblance to a living family of frogs called helmeted frogs (Calyptocephalellidae) which inhabit damp, temperate forests in Chile.

“They looked like today’s frogs. No different. Our frog was rather small but this is in the range of the living ones, although most of the living ones are bigger,” Thomas Mörs, study co-author and a paleontologist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, tells Katie Hunt of CNN.

During the life of this frog, Antarctica was replete with water lilies, mammals and even leeches—all of which have also been discovered on Seymour Island, the area that produced the frog fossil, Mörs tells CNN.

A Helmeted Water Frog, Calyptocephalella gayi, by Wikipedia Commons