Then, a questioner asked: “What do you think is the cosmological effect of Zayn leaving One Direction and consequently breaking the hearts of millions of teenage girls across the world?” “Finally, a question about something important,” he said. “My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay close attention to the study of theoretical physics. Because one day there may well be proof of multiple universes.” “It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another different universe. And in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction.” It got better still for the questioner. “This girl may like to know that in another possible universe, she and Zayn are happily married,” Hawking added. (X)
It warms my heart that even Hawking knows we currently inhabit one of the darkest timelines.
i’m this close to giving up on physics ughh
my schools has this crazy schedule and they rearrange like all holidays so i had to go to school on tiradente’s day but now i’m not having classes till thursday
it’s nice bc they rearrange the holidays more evenly so we can have proper rest from time to time but it also sucks bc my schedule is different from all my friends now
“When I was a little kid I used to watch Star Trek on TV. Every week, every episode, I’d sit there thinking, ‘I should play Spock’s daughter.’ I mean, I could arch my eyebrows as good as Leonard Nimoy! Get ‘em waaaay up there. Whenever I’d watch the show I’d write dialogue for myself so I could actually take part in the story. When Leonard said a line I’d respond.
“When my manager told me about this part, I thought, ‘Perfect! It’s not Spock’s daughter but it’s pretty close.’”
And this was an interesting observation on the challenge of portraying an emotionless female and worrying how the audience might react:
“The most difficult aspect of the job was developing Saavik in a believable, acceptable way. With a man, it’s easier to adapt to an emotionless personality than it is with a woman. When you’re trying to show no emotion as a woman, you can come off as being cold and unlikeable if you’re not careful. It was hard to be unemotional and yet remain feminine.”
This made me think about how we tend to think of women as more emotional and men as more rational/logical, which means it’s easier to accept men in a range of roles, but also makes it harder for men in real life to express a full range of emotions for fear of it seeming “unmanly” .
For women, that assumption of women=emotion/men=reason is a lose-lose – if you’re emotional you ’re irrational or overly sensitive, but if you’re unemotional you’re “cold and unlikeable” or “unfeminine”. I think that overall issue persists in society, even though characters like Saavik and T’Pol and other women Trek characters like B’Elanna, Dax and Janeway, help us challenge that underlying assumption.
“I’ve done far worse than kill you. I’ve hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me. As you left her. Marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet, … buried alive. Buried alive!“
one very important aspect of the scene where kirk delivers his eulogy for spock is scotty playing that fucking bagpipe in the background
We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted, in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings.
EY FATTY BOOM BOOM 