Wow. Puts into perspective how big space is. “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” - Dogulas Adams.
FordBeeblebrox 10 points 2 years ago
You have no idea how rare it is to find a passing ship, much less one worth hitching a ride on but geez, I’m done with this planet.
Techranger 3 points 2 years ago
Don't forget to bring a towel!
QuantumSparkles 7 points 2 years ago
I can see the earth right from where I’m sitting and it’s in higher definition
AFC1886VCC 5 points 2 years ago path: 0 15101122 15106727, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 2
korthrun 51 points 2 years ago
Clubbed British Captain James Cook right in his head, then stabbed him in the chest with a dagger traded from his own supply, in an attempt to stop Cook from kidnapping the islands chief.
ftfy, not sure why one would want to frame it like this twitter user did, as some sort of uprising against an established and prolific oppressor. Those people did not let it escalate to anywhere near that.
AllNewTypeFace 32 points 2 years ago
As they say in Australia, Captain Cook is like me on pizza night: undone by a large Hawaiian
ShareMySims 21 points 2 years ago
Now that is a celebration I can get on board with lol
NigelFrobisher 5 points 2 years ago
Added a whole new layer of meaning to “we’re having the Captain for dinner”.
spujb 18 points 2 years ago
- because indigenous people faced a 95-100% decimation by colonization—they were murdered and replaced by white people
- and i still see plenty of similar jokes from indigenous voices anyway so you’re not even right idk maybe you just follow the wrong people
gmtom -5 points 2 years ago
because indigenous people faced a 95-100% decimation by colonization—they were murdered and replaced by white people
95% of hawaiians were murdered by white people?
idk maybe you just follow the wrong people
You mean this community we both follow?
xtr0n 12 points 2 years ago
95% might be high but close. Maybe 85% is more accurate?
Cook and his men also brought syphilis and mosquitoes so fuck those dudes right in the ear.
By Swanson’s estimates, 1-in-17 Native Hawaiians had died within two years of Cook’s arrival. By 1800, the population had declined by 48% since Cook set foot on Hawaii. By 1820, it had declined 71%; by 1840, it declined 84%.
spujb 6 points 2 years ago
no, indigenous people. the ones who were “actually colonized” like you said.
and no you said it’s “always a white American man” implying you follow spaces where similar voices reign and i’m letting you know that’s a uniquely you experience that doesn’t have to stay that way.
talk about bad faith, must be exhausting to be like that.
AnUnusualRelic -1 points 2 years ago
They have to be offended on behalf of all those people who are too busy actually having a life.
abbotsbury 15 points 2 years ago
Is disliking colonization really "getting offended on behalf of all those people"?
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It's also Pale Blue Dot day! For those that haven't seen it before, it's a photo of Earth taken on the 14th of February 1990 from well beyond the orbit of Neptune. Earth is that single blue pixel.
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