NASA Celebrates Earth Day With 20 Mind-Blowing Photographs Of Our Planet

NASA Celebrates Earth Day With 20 Mind-Blowing Photographs Of Our Planet

Each year Earth Day reminds us of the beauty and magic of our planet. It is also a gentle push serve to propel us to find new ways to preserve it. This year NASA has compiled a wide range of their favorite photographs of Mother Earth from space. Taken by astronauts and several spacecrafts, they capture the immensity and invite beauty many of its inhabitants are unable to witness.

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good work, star wars rebels…. you managed to break my heart permanently . _,) it’s been two days and still hurts.

Its pretty incredible how accurate the science of astrophysics has gotten. New Horizons actually arrived 72 seconds early after travelling for almost 10 years straight to its destination.

Being involved in fandom is truly an education in insidious racism and microaggressions. If there’s one thing fandom doesn’t lack, it’s the abundance of coded language. 

People will do prize-winning mental gymnastics to justify not liking characters of colour and/or eliminating them as love interests. We’re literally witnessing the evolution of the racist, because as long as you’re not saying the n-word, you’re not doing anything bigoted by simply stating your personal preference. As long as you’re not spewing outright hatred, your racial biases can’t possibly be influencing your perception of characters of colour as undesirable protagonists. The way some of you have learned to adapt social justice concepts and the struggles of oppressed people to finesse racism is fascinating. 

“I don’t ship Rey with Finn because he held her hand and she obviously hates physical contact. He did it again even though she told him not to, so that’s a violation of her personhood. On the flip side, the other guy (who tried to kill her and her friends) respects her because at least he didn’t try to hold her hand.” 

“Black Hermione was fine when she was confined to fanon, but now that she’s canon, you’re oppressing white people by erasing their beloved white Hermione and this violation is totally comparable to whitewashing female characters of colour (who only get to be leads about 2% of the time and are already operating at a large deficit).” 

The level of bullshittery is inspiring, really. 

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. - Shirley Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005)

She was an American politician, educator, and author. She was the first African-American woman elected to Congress and the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.