I hate it when people say technology is taking away kids’ childhoods
If anything, it’s actually giving kids more of an opportunity to let their imagination out
A lot of times when I let kids play on my phone, they go for the drawing app.
I watched a girl on the bus write a silly poem about her friends and then laugh as she made Siri read it
I hear children say to their friends “hey, FaceTime me later” because they still want to talk face to face even when they’re far away.
I see kids sitting, who would feel lonely and ignored if it weren’t for the fact that they’re texting their friends who are far away.
Children still climb trees. They might just take a selfie from the top to show off how high they’ve gotten.
They can immediately read the next book of their favorite series on their Kindles.
Most kids would still be up for a game of cops and robbers. Or maybe they’d google rules to another game they haven’t played yet.
When children wonder why the sky is blue, they don’t get an exasperated “I don’t know” from tired adults. They can go on Wikipedia and read about light waves and our atmosphere.
They show off the elaborate buildings they created on Minecraft.
Love this post so much to counteract much of the pessimism surrounding technology and kids. It’s not stealing kids’ innocence, just another means of expressing it. And so often do I hear that all kids do these days is “play on their phones” instead of doing other things, it’s starting to sound like a broken record. >.>
Heck, it reminds me of the first time our family got a computer; sure, I was on it all the time, but it afforded me a chance to talk more often with my best friend at the time. It filled in that boredom that would have otherwise been filled with TV and made me curious about the world.
NASA just saw something come out of a black hole for the first time ever
You don’t have to know a whole lot about science to know that black
holes typically suck things in, not spew things out. But NASA just
spotted something mighty strange at the supermassive black hole
Markarian 335.
Two of NASA’s space telescopes, including the Nuclear Spectroscopic
Telescope Array (NuSTAR), miraculously observed a black hole’s corona
“launched” away from the supermassive black hole. Then a massive pulse
of X-ray energy spewed out. So, what exactly happened? That’s what
scientists are trying to figure out now.
“This is the first time we have been
able to link the launching of the corona to a flare,” Dan Wilkins, of
Saint Mary’s University, said. “This will help us understand how
supermassive black holes power some of the brightest objects in the
universe.”
NuSTAR’s principal investigator, Fiona Harrison, noted that the
nature of the energetic source is “mysterious,” but added that the
ability to actually record the event should provide some clues about the
black hole’s size and structure, along with (hopefully) some fresh
intel on how black holes function. Luckily for us, this black hole is
still 324 million light-years away.
So, no matter what strange things it’s doing, it shouldn’t have any effect on our corner of the universe.
Obi-Wan can find an invisible planet hidden by a devious Sith Lord, Anakin can’t find his ex-best friend on his own home planet while the guy is still using his own damn name.
I know we give Obi-wan a lot of shit for leaving Luke with his real surname but Anakin really is that stupid
the perfect hiding place: the sandiest fucking planet that anakin would never set foot on again
I’d like to remind everyone again that it’s literally canon that Vader can’t step foot on Tatooine because the desert gets into his creaky old man robot joints and makes his suit break down
aka the sand is coarse, rough, irritating, and gets everywhere
i d o n t l i k e s a n d
okay but what if everyone was like ‘vader, kenobi’s on tattooine. he’s obviously on tattooine. he’s been there for years. he’s just right fucking there, we all know it.’ and vader is just desperately shaking down jedi like they’re magic eight-balls and he wants a better fortune. like ‘no i don’t like that try again’.
kenobi’s just sitting there in his pile of sand like a smug fucking bastard. he doesn’t need to hide jack shit. he went to the tattooine board of tourism and got them to print up flyers that say ‘COME TO TATTOOINE, WE HAVE SAND’ and luke is probably going to be safe until his midlife fucking crisis at this rate.
palpatine finds vader aimlessly checking behind pieces of furniture in some shitty space motel on kamino
‘he’s on tattooine,’ palpatine says.
‘nuh uh,’ vader says, and peers under a couch.
Oh my god.
every year on the aniversary of the day where obi wan owned anikins ass on mustafar, kenobi sends vader a bag of sand and a postcard that says “greetings from tatooine” with a picture of him in a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses lounging in a deck chair.
