Jolyon Ralph 🪨

"The idea that Earth was 'seeded' by babies from an alien planet, delivered in special space carriers such as this, belongs more to the world of science fiction than science fact."

Space Pod Baby seems much more content though [3/3]

"These peaceful green creatures sucking nutrients from the soil could be aliens from a distant planet where all life-forms are capable of photosynthesis"

It has some entirely reasonable alien reconstructions. These however seem to be regretting their life decisions. [2/3]

Cover of "Granada Guide to Aliens" showing simplistic art of aliens walking in a field.

Got three books for £1 yesterday at a charity shop, including this epic kids book on Aliens. [1/3]

a screengrab of a dialog from chatGPT saying "chatgpt.com wants to connect to a serial port" and a listing of different serial port devices on the computer.

Uh what, ChatGPT?

So I know the full story of this piece, and I have been lucky enough to have handled it. The piece is owned by the collector, who made it available for study and for replicas to be made. www.nps.gov/fobu/learn/n...

Possibly one of the most amazing fossils to ever come out of the Fossil Butte Member of the Green River Formation in the US, this is a fossil of a Apatemys chardini - a lemur like mammal from the Oligocene. This is the best and most complete example of this species - in a private collection.

And also...

No apologies

Mindat.org Mindat.org is the world's leading website about minerals and where they come from.

We've been hit hard by it at mindat.org - it's a constant battle to try to control it. Blocking entire swathes of the internet to stop bad actors is about the only way to deal with it.

The worst thing is the bots are mostly deceptive pretending to be genuine users

He got to see his sunrise

Is Galen Erso working at SpaceX?

www.pressreader.com/usa/santa-fe...

For those who can't read the original link which is behind a paywall/registerwall this, at least for me, is readable.

How old are you getting? Let us explain it properly!

you.regettingold.com

This site absolutely gets worse every time you come back to it.

#sorrynotsorry

Which sex club do you support? Do you go to their away games?

Have you seen the trona frogs?

My* mindat paper is published in American Mineralogist!

I feel almost like a real scientist. Now I need to beg for views and citations like some kind of Youtube influencer. Yay.

pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/ar...

* Other co-authors may exist.

Or even...

I wish it wasn't necessary, but with the current state of the world it's probably for the best.

I'll gladly tell them they are wrong.

There is no argument. Ice is a mineral on the International Mineralogical Association official list. Anyone who says it's not a mineral is just wrong.

I got into so much trouble for doing that.

I didn't enjoy the Tartakovsky series at all. The newer Clone Wars series is canon tho at least for now

It was all covered in the Star Wars Clone Wars series

Did he cry twice?

A antique stall with records including Sinnita

Antique stall in Tirana, Albania. No translation necessary

And I'm now in Albania, a place I've always wanted to visit. Enjoying it thoroughly.

Not if he has some warm water. This stuff very rapidly dissolves in water.

Melanterite stalactite, from the 10th level of the Trepça mine in Kosovo. Amazing visit yesterday.

Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!

An old photo of women making hats, and the caption says 'HATTERS GONNA HAT'