Have any of you heard of the Harvard MIT Pigeon Prank?
An MIT student dressed in a
black-and-white striped shirt went to the Harvard football stadium every
day of one summer, blowing a whistle while scattering breadcrumbs or
birdseed to coax neighborhood pigeons down onto the field. At
Harvard’s opening game of the season, upon the referee’s first whistle,
it’s said that hundreds of pigeons descended onto the field, causing a
half-hour delay.
Majel Barrett was Number One in the first pilot of Star Trek, Christine Chapel in TOS, Lwaxana Troi in TNG and DS9, and the voice of computers in the differents series and films (until Star Trek XI). She was the only actor that appears in the six series of Star Trek (TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT) and in the majority of the films.
Star Trek TNG: That blob is genderless, it’s literally just a blob. We shouldn’t impose human understanding of sex and gender onto societies that are totally removed by vast reaches of space. We cannot even comprehend many alien ideas about gender and sex.
Star Trek DS9: That blob is a boy… and he’s pregnant.
I still can’t fucking get over how cetaceans adapted to spend their entire lives in the water and just never bothered to redevelop water-breathing. there’s motherfuckers who spend an hour or more diving and the evolutionary solution is just “breathe a lot on the surface and then lower your heart rate to a near-hibernation level while actively cruising the seafloor for stuff to eat”. totally insane solution to one of the oldest solved problems in biology
Jew | Classical Languages | Sci-Fi & Comics Nerd | Ginkgo Enthusiast | Archilochus Apologist | One bad day away from a twin-based mistaken identity farce.
Header: Red-Figure Calyx-Krater of Medea in Chariot.
Avatar: Reconstruction of a marble statue (so-called Small Herculaneum Woman) by Vinzenz and Ulrike Brinkmann.
