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Current trying to find the "golden ratio" of weed and ozempic to cause my appetite to stack overflow and reactivate the long-dormant photosynthesis gene from that 50% of DNA we share with plants. will update
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many people dont know this but a good cue for deadlifting is to bring your chest up and lock your lats for proper spinal stability. this also applies to interacting with gorillas i'm told. testing no—
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yeah i work in area 51, it's pretty chill. usually you just get a tweaker roll by on a "spiritual journey" once a month. they tend to go away once you put a few AIM-9s downrange on their flying saucer
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4 mos ago
man is closest to god after an ice cold beer in the warm shower. his mind and body are freed. next closest is behind the wheel in a scool zone, also with an ice cold beer in hand. study this well.
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yeah mom its me can you come pick me up me and the boys were wondering if pulling a potato peeler over tommy's behelit would wake up the little guy in there and it started screaming.. thanks love you

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Sometimes, all it takes is a couple funny coincidences and shit sticks with you forever

Sometimes, your mech comes home missing an arm

sometimes the guys doing the paintjob catch wind of it

these things happen





For his part, Konstantin took in Artemie's words with a slow, steady nod. No data on dust honestly was something he should have expected, especially once you considered the limited scope of what the freezerburnt woman could actually access and parse through whatever personal terminal she'd used. Unless it was thick enough to cloak the surface entirely, you'd need more than a satellite image to catch it. Even spectrographs might not tell the full picture.

To be honest, waiting for the briefing was what would tell him what he needed to know in the first place— for his purposes, at least, he was not fated to deal with engines nearly so much as reactors powering his cockpit of choice. Aircraft in the colony module? A bit of a stretch, one he'd let that dream of his convince him to try reaching for, if only in this capacity.

A pleasant, modulated tenor caught his attention next as Fox, a fellow survivor of conscription via piracy, seated himself. How interesting it was that there seemed to be a significant subset of those that had seen their fellow man at its vilest, cruelest, and most unforgivable within the crew running security for what was supposedly a peaceful expedition. Soldiers were a necessity, that much was obvious. You did not leave home without some measure of personal safety— but perhaps he wondered if it were the difference between a guard dog and a beaten wolf.

...We're all professionals. Your head is still in cryo, Kon. There's no reason to not trust anyone to avoid the same mistakes as you.

Returning the nod, Konstantin replied without much in the way of frills, gesturing with a free hand to Artemie.

"Not yet. Just breaking our fast and discussing what we know of the destination. So far, it amounts to 'vegetation on the waterfront, breathable air, and the equator will cook you'. Very exciting."
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"A breathable atmosphere." he repeated simply, as though casting aside every other detail as extraneous. He'd already guessed she was old, no point stressing that. No mission would take him near the unlivable equator to begin with— not important. Vegetation would naturally lead to the detail he had focused on, so it in essence was relegated to the realm of an explanation rather than an important finding. He understood its scientific merit— exobiologists held alien flora and fauna as the Holy Grail of discoveries in their fields, but Konstantin had grown into a much simpler creature than they. Seas, if not oceans. Lakes and Rivers. Liquid water would regulate temperature, provide a cycle of both humidity and air currents, predictable patterns of wind between the airmasses that hung over them. Closer to the mark.

But breathable.

In some manner, Earthlike. He began to steeple his fingers in front of him, furrowing his brow as his eyes took on a new and intense light. His plain affectations were replaced by a bombardment of muttered conclusions, as if the pilot was attacking the questions in his mind as they came.

"Putting aside the obvious necessary similarity in composition, that means a similar barometry, if our lungs could process it. The same regarding density. Maybe closer to the top of a mountain or the depths of a canyon than sea level, but all told, human respiratory systems have a definite range of what constitutes proper breathability. So long as there are no curveballs on the fluid dynamics, that means lift generation isn't unthinkable. Did the probe get readings on airborne dust, by chance? Any sort of particulate that would jam a turbofan?"

He was already confident his Orbital could truck through most skies one might expect to encounter, but if traditional engines were capable of working, that opened a whole slew of possibilities.
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Nothing wrong with a little overlap— almost every modern military prides itself on generalism and redundancies (for better or for worse). Sometimes two people who can fill a certain role are much better than one. What if something happens to the other guy?

To speak of that— heads up to anyone i haven’t told, but my keyboard is out of commission at the moment. Hopefully I can get this issue solved by the end of the weekend, but if not don’t feel obligated to wait on my account.





"Hn! Colonel, white man I may be, but we Serbs can handle a little stronger than a Jalapeno. With due respect, I think your number's a couple zeros short." he replied with a chuff as the newcomer took both his hand and the time to try and get her throat properly lubricated, affecting the slightest air of indignance. Certain Ajvar blends were hotter, let alone the nigh-ubiquitous Tabasco... Probably a little joke.

"Konstantin Stojanović. Charmed, Isra."

Anyways, traded jests aside, he hadn't missed the degree of creakiness in the young woman's voice— worst case of it he'd heard by a long shot. For as much as certain people's bodies differed in how well they re-acclimated to room temperature, Konstantin had to wonder— just how many extra years in cryo did "some time" equate to? The humidity of the showers had gotten most everyone else working, even after 15 years, but this one still hadn't shaken it.

Even her grip seemed to still be weak. For all their sakes, he hoped she'd be up to scratch by the time they went on sortie.

And to speak of such:

"Likely some magnetic field generator. If anywhere'd have one, it'd be us." he regarded the eternally masked Gypsy Alexandros, an oddball amongst the expedition in so many ways, moping her way through an MRE of her own. "I doubt we didn't expect some rocks with dead cores and thin atmospheres. Mars all over again."

Or Ganymede. A rocky moon nestled within the magnetosphere of a gas giant certainly didn't seem terribly uncommon as far as exoplanets went, if memory served— certainly helped avoid radiation playing hell with your flight systems.

"On the bright side, it isn't as if there'll be many beaches to worry about that on. We'd have heard of a planet like Earth by now."
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