The Gems just saying/doing things nonchalantly that would otherwise be HORRIFYING to humans is like my favorite thing like,
Pearl, after being horribly impaled through by a sword right in front of Steven: ‘Oopsie Daisy! haha weLL-’
Amethyst, Falling off a fucking cliff at a height that would utterly kill someone AND right before landing on a massive rock: ‘Ugh..this is so embarrassing!’
Garnet, after seeing a multi armed monstrosity fusion being dragged, screaming, to the bottom of the ocean after just literally crash landing: ‘Yikes.’
do tumbleweeds actually blow around in the southwest or is that a myth…?
!!! They do!!!
Tumbleweed is actually an invasive species from Siberia. What happens is when the soil gets too dry the roots come out of the ground and the plant curls up into a ball so that it can blow to a new spot. When it comes into contact with wet soil its roots will unfold and it will settle down.
That is ten times more fucked up than I thought. They plant themselves again? That’s neat. I always thought they were just dead leaves and twigs in a bunch.
I like this. Tumbleweeds just fuck off when they don’t like a place, they are not like other plants who have to respect your plant rules, they are rebels.
no wonder they like to photobomb serious shots
(The Moon’s surface in true color and high resolution, via China’s Yutu rover (JPEG Image, 4095 × 2768 pixels))
Okay, this picture is HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE, and it’s amazing.
It’s surreal to see a world without* an atmosphere and therefore a deep black sky. And before you claim it’s fake because there aren’t any stars, that’s because camera exposure to see the surface is too short.
*technically the moon has an atmosphere, but it’s around 10-100 trillionth of ours^
^assuming you’re reading this from Earth, and this isn’t being read in the year 2050 on a Mars colony
I was zoomed in on it, trying to figure out why it was making me vaguely uncomfortable and why my mind kept insisting this was fake, and I realized the problem I was having was that I was expecting atmospheric perspective to fade the contrast on the farther objects and make the horizon hazy, but….. no atmosphere.
i… am …disturbed
The preceding comment is interesting because it highlights one of the ways that our perception of reality can be culturally influenced.
You know how sometimes, when you’re watching a movie with computer-generated special effects, you can just tell whether certain scenes are CGI, even though you can’t put your finger on exactly why?
Well, one of the things your brain is picking up on to make that determination is missing or incorrectly simulated atmospheric haze; this is highly characteristic of cheap CGI because atmospheric haze is a huge pain in the ass to correctly calculate - most low-budget productions either omit it entirely, or else fake it with simple linear distance fog.
That’s why photos of the Lunar surface and objects in outer space tend to look fake to modern audiences: we’ve been unconsciously conditioned to associate wonky atmospheric haze with bad CGI.
I remember an interview with some of the Apollo astronauts and they mention that this lack of atmosphere (and thus lack of haze) made judging distances to rocks difficult, even with being there in person, even with stereoscopic vision.
a thing that’s happening that is kind of funny is. new technology looks dumb. like. someone who wears google glass. that looks dumb. someone riding a hoverboard everywhere. very hard to take seriously. it’s funny.
we need a movie with a syndrome like character except all his tech looks so fucking stupid and the league of evil refuses to take him seriously
