To Invading Germs, You Are A Jungle Full Of Hungry Tigers. To Your Gut Bacteria, You Are A Warm Orchard

To invading germs, you are a jungle full of hungry tigers. To your gut bacteria, you are a warm orchard of perpetual bounty. To your eyelash mites, you are a walking fortress and a mountaintop pasture. How many generations have you hosted? What do they name the wilderness of you?

— "Host" by @cryptonature, in his book Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

People are walking biomes if u think about it

the pastafarians are getting bolder I see

fucking. what?

nytimes.com

SpaceX’s Starship Kicked Up a Dust Cloud, Leaving Texans With a Mess

Residents of Port Isabel said that their city was covered in grime following SpaceX’s rocket launch on Thursday. The city said there was no

I found the thing to dunk on Elon for regarding the rocket launch.

A lot of experts in the rocket community were questioning Elon's decision not to create a flame diverter.

For those unaware, huge rockets like this usually have giant trenches underneath to channel the flames, exhaust, and debris safely.

NASA's Kennedy Space Center has a flame trench that is 571 feet long, 58 feet wide, and 42 feet high and is built with concrete and refractory brick and bisects the pad at ground level.

But giant trenches are costly and can make working on the rocket on the launch pad inconvenient. So Elon wanted to try forgoing the flame diverter even though he was launching the largest rocket ever built with the most exhaust ever output.

And now he covered an entire town with a layer of rocket dust.

Exploding the rocket was normal and expected.

Not giving a shit about the town around the launch site... fucking infuriating.

me, an existential nihilist: it is the nature of things to change and, eventually, to end.

me:

me, also autistic as hell: oh fucking christ it's the nature of things to CHANGE and eventually to END, I'm fucking in for it aren't I—

What are you to yourself?

To myself? The one guy who knows me better than any other guy could?

I see my self as a sort of explorer in a harsh, treacherous, and alien landscape. I think of myself as going on long expeditions into parts of my mind that other people have never seen before. And on the way I find things: strange creatures, wonderous gems, magnificent bounty.