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short rundown of reasons why for each
- Ceres: only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, body closest to the sun that's likely to have a subsurface liquid water ocean, fascinating cryovolcanism + salt and ice deposits
- Pluto: everyone has their own reasons for loving pluto, but for me it's the atmosphere and its likely variability from its closer-than-neptune periapsis to its faraway apoapsis. that and the icebergs, and the likely-common-but-still-cool resonant system of small asteroid moons
- Eris: eris is more massive and denser than pluto, and unlike pluto (and many of the others on this list) it's not in a resonance with neptune. eris is instead on a kind of weird eccentric and inclined orbit further beyond neptune (it's categorized as a scattered disk object), and while we don't know as much about eris as the objects we've gotten to visit we know that like pluto it's got a pretty big moon (dysnomia!)
- Haumea: haumea has got a lot going on. it's spinny, and because of that it's got a baffling triaxial shape. the same impact that caused that may have created its rings and moon system, though both of its moons are rather large
- Makemake: makemake is the largest known "cubewano" (named after the kuiper belt object 1992 QB1, later named Albion), a class of kuiper belt objects that have relatively regular planet-like orbits compared to the more eccentric resonant and scattered disk objects. like pluto it's "red" due to tholins, implying a more brownish surface than bodies like eris. unlike pluto this brown surface is expected to be fairly uniform
- Quaoar: we just recently made some very interesting discoveries about quaoar! not only might it have water ice on its surface (cryovolcanism, perhaps); but quaoar has at least TWO individual rings! these rings are rather odd because they're beyond the point where a moon would be torn apart by gravitational forces, implying that either they formed very recently or that their resonances with the spin of quaoar and the orbit of quaoar's moon weywot keeps them from condensing
- Sedna: sedna has a very eccentric orbit, one that takes it over 900 times further from the sun than earth (to compare, pluto is about 40 times further). it may give us some crucial insights about the existence of the oort cloud, a vast region of space within about a light-year of the sun that's probably full of comets. like pluto and makemake, it's "red".
- Orcus: orcus is notable for being a lot like pluto! it's also in a 2:3 resonance with neptune, but its periapsis is almost on the other side from pluto's (and its orbit is otherwise pretty similar to that of pluto). much like pluto, it's got one really big moon: vanth, which while smaller than charon and relatively smaller compared to its parent may also have a lot to tell us. it may have had cryovolcanism in the past.
- Gonggong: gonggong, like eris, is a scattered disk body. it's about the size of charon and rotates fairly slowly, either in about an earth day or about two earth days. this is probably because of its moon xiangliu. it might also have materials like ammonia on its surface. again, we don't know much about gonggong because we haven't been there and a lot of its amazing features may be obscured by the vast distance between us
- Other: there's a lot of dwarf planets and dwarf planet candidates out there! here's a quick tour- hygeia is spherical because it was hit hard and melted into a spherical shape and that means it's not a dwarf planet but i love her and she's an asteroid belt dwarf planet don't @ me, salacia seems to have a very low density and ixion has a very dark surface. or someone wanted to see the results instead :p
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"I'm too old to be playing games that aren't fun"
Damn right
Have I told y’all about my husband’s Fork Theory?
If I did already, pretend I didn’t, I’m an old.
So the Spoon Theory is a fundamental metaphor used often in the chronic pain/chronic illness communities to explain to non-spoonies why life is harder for them. It’s super useful and we use that all the time.
But it has a corollary.
You know the phrase, “Stick a fork in me, I’m done,” right?
Well, Fork Theory is that one has a Fork Limit, that is, you can probably cope okay with one fork stuck in you, maybe two or three, but at some point you will lose your shit if one more fork happens.
A fork could range from being hungry or having to pee to getting a new bill or a new diagnosis of illness. There are lots of different sizes of forks, and volume vs. quantity means that the fork limit is not absolute. I might be able to deal with 20 tiny little escargot fork annoyances, such as a hangnail or slightly suboptimal pants, but not even one “you poked my trigger on purpose because you think it’s fun to see me melt down” pitchfork.
This is super relevant for neurodivergent folk. Like, you might be able to deal with your feet being cold or a tag, but not both. Hubby describes the situation as “It may seem weird that I just get up and leave the conversation to go to the bathroom, but you just dumped a new financial burden on me and I already had to pee, and going to the bathroom is the fork I can get rid of the fastest.”
I like this and also I like the low key point that you may be able to cope with bigger forks by finding little ones you can remove quickly. A combination of time, focus, and reduction to small stressors that can allow you to focus on the larger stressor in a constructive way.
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The Venus girdle (Cestum veneris) is a comb jelly in the family Cestidae. The colorless species are transparent when suspended in water, except for their iridescent rows of comb plates. In other words, they majestic as fuck. Love to sea it 🌊
The long wavelengths of the light spectrum—red, yellow, and orange—can penetrate to approximately 15, 30, and 50 meters (49, 98, and 164 feet), respectively, while the short wavelengths of the light spectrum—violet, blue and green—can penetrate further, to the lower limits of the euphotic zone. Blue penetrates the deepest, which is why deep, clear ocean water and some tropical water appear to be blue most of the time. Moreover, clearer waters have fewer particles to affect the transmission of light, and scattering by the water itself controls color. Water in shallow coastal areas tends to contain a greater amount of particles that scatter or absorb light wavelengths differently, which is why sea water close to shore may appear more green or brown in color.
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Fun fact! This is why there are some sea creatures in the twilight zone in the ocean who use red pigment to camoflauge. Red light doesn't reach down that far, so there isn't any light to reflect and the animals appear black.
John Wojtowicz poses at the Brooklyn branch Chase Bank that he robbed in 1972 in an attempt to fund sexual reassignment surgery for his lover.
my main requirement in a partner is someone who's willing to "yes, and" me. if i say something completely insane i need them to just pick that up and run with it and commit to the bit until we wind up with a conversation that's funny to us but completely incoherent to everyone within earshot. actually now that i'm typing this out i've realised my ideal relationship might just be "shitty improv comedy duo"