sciencesinger.bsky.social
Retired educator; shameless nerd happily married to another shameless nerd; mom to three amazing humans; proud Trekkie; trying hard not to lose hope for democracy
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Funny. Also not funny 🤔
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what I'm wearing to the strange new worlds season 3 premiere:
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I apologize, Fiona - that comment was not meant for you. I still get a bit confused with the way the conversation threads show up here. I was replying to the original poster who responded "don't care" to you, which I thought was rather rude of him.
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The "Why" is clear: their mission is to completely demoralize the entire educated/intellectual community in this country because it poses the greatest threat to their plans, so they are doing their level best to gut us into despair and abnegation.
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Your terse responses seem odd with respect to your profile self-description. But perhaps you're having a bad day, so I'll just say Live long and prosper 🖖
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She was starting to loosen up and show some genuine warmth and also started changing her attitude about Data.
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Just to be picky...the yeoman pictured is not Rand. Poor Rand (Grace Lee Whitney) got booted off the series halfway through the first season.
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1984 - ThoughtCrime
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This 21st century former popsicle might fit the bill (TNG 1:25)...
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I've always felt that way as well, but this graphic shows it so clearly! #JanewaytheBoss
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My middle school advanced science students did a long term study with the USDA Forest Service when EAB was first detected in our area. For 4 years, starting in late 2006, we collected data and studied EAB larva. It was the most rewarding project of my career - getting kids doing real research!
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Idiocracy inches closer, day by day.
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Gorgeous
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I had always seen HHMI as an institution with integrity.I've spoken many times to students about its obvious efforts to be inclusive in its programs.Now you've joined the ranks of spineless organizations bowing to an administration that is without honor.I hope you reconsider this terrible decision.
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I sent this message through HHMI's "Contact us" portal:
I am saddened and thoroughly disgusted in hearing that HHMI has abruptly killed the inclusive excellence program - and with no explanation to the researchers who have built their work around this grant. (continued...)
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For sh*ts and giggles I ran some simulations on an impact simulator site, playing with parameters such as composition of the impactor and the impact site. You certainly wouldn't want to be in the immediate vicinity of a hit, but most likely you'd be in good shape if you were at least 15 miles away.
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Thanks a bunch (that was sarcasm BTW)
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FWIW, it didn't come across that way to me. It came across as a bit critical. But that's an unfortunate downside to written communication - no body language or facial expression to help communicate intent.
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When a question comes to my mind, I try to find the answer on my own. It's easy - you ought to try it sometime! It took me less than a minute to learn that on the planet Earth, several cultures, including the Chinese, wear rings on the middle finger. In some cultures it symbolizes equilibrium. Cool!
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Sadly, the folks with weakened immune systems, or who have conditions that cannot tolerate the vaccine, will suffer by the hands of the willfully ignorant.
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A ritch in kop
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Yes please!
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And more in Star Trek: women in positions of authority; the stupidity of racism (Let this be your Last Battlefield) eugenics (Khan), blind patriotism (The Omega Glory), ableism (Is there no Truth in Beauty), overpopulation (The Mark of Gideon) and many other topics and small acts of 'wokeness.'
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👃I blew my nose...FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE ⚔️
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You beat me to it. Colonel Flagg would be a much closer analogy than Frank Burns.
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Are you thinking of Season 2, Episode 25 "Bread and Circuses"?
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I agree, start it over, and keep the good feelings going. In all this current uncertainty, a lack of surprises in repeating a TV show isn't a bad thing. Plus, by this time, the cast has become rather like old friends.
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Although he has said he never spoke to Gene Roddenberry about it, John Delancey has speculated that he either consciously or unconsciously called upon successful characters from TOS, such as Trelane, when faced with starting up the new TNG series. Q then became a more fleshed out iteration.
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That thought had also occurred to the young me who was watching TOS in afternoon syndication in the late 60s. But then I decided that the whole Menagerie story wouldn't have worked otherwise, so I shrugged and went with it 😂
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Hang in there! Take some comfort in knowing you're not alone in this initial shock of psychological warfare. We'll all keep working toward refocusing those negative emotions into constructive action, while also knowing we have a place here where we can blow off some steam.
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I used to think I knew this...but sadly, it seems I was very much mistaken.
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Tom Paris reminds me of a person who has not yet fully dealt with their childhood trauma. I don't get that vibe from Riker at all.
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I suppose you could do the same with cooking shows, but then you'd miss all the fun of seeing how it all came together.
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In those situations I've decided to shrug my shoulders and think "we once thought breaking the sound barrier was impossible, too." That allows me to go back to enjoying the show 😊