Testaments to the Boom Times to Come

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[the-errant-mycorrhizae]

First flower ever grown in space bloomed today!

[goose-dad]

Yay!

[riotbadgrrr]

Happy birthday, space flower!

[happy-kirk]

(source: gilderoys)

[dragonescence]

KIRK IS HOLDING A ZINNIA. THE SAME FUCKING FLOWER.

FUCKING NASA MAN

[dragonescence]

No. Nononono. You don’t understand. 

I am so mad about this. Like, not like I wanna kill someone, but mad, as in, hysterical?

They wanted to answer questions about plants in space, right? How biology and botany would work in space. Because then who knows? We could grow crops in space, or fix the atmosphere. Or create the perfect biome for plants that are now extinct. Who fucking knows, right?

They could have taken a food crop. Wheat, maybe. Or rice. Something they could observe to see if it would be possible to solve a food shortage or whatever. Maybe a small apple tree to see if it would bloom, and then see if there could be a way to make it fruit. 

Or, you know, go the genetics route and take a sweet pea. See if zero gravity does anything to how genes are passed on. Mendel did it in a shed, why not a tin shed in outer space, right? Oh the possibilities.

Was it so wrong to take the zinnia? No, of course not. In my little horticultural brain, I thought, oh how lovely! A splash of colour in the emptiness of space. Something bright and cheerful, something that gives hope. That must have been it, right? 

But no. 

SOMEONE went, “Nah, mate, here’s an episode of Star Trek where Kirk is holding a ZINNIA in a SPACE DESERT.”

I could scream. I don’t know if I love or hate these fucking nerds. Oh my gods. 

[tree-of-blue-squirrel]

NASA, YOU NEEEEERDS

[mrs-spockulous]

love these NASA nerds 

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[first-iotian-in-starfleet]

IMDb’s Ten Highest Rated Episodes » Star Trek: The Original Series

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[charlemane]

Enterprise Gothic (TOS edition)

• It takes 430 crew to run the Enterprise. A landing party is sent out. It takes 429 crew to run the Enterprise.
  
• Everyone keeps saying that your ship’s first officer is the best first officer in the fleet. It’s true that he’s very good at his job, but you’ve been keeping track and he’s tried to hijack the ship on at least three separate occasions so far. What the hell is going on with all the other first officers in the fleet, you wonder.
• You order a chicken sandwich and coffee. You receive a plate of tribbles. This is different from every other time you’ve ordered a chicken sandwich and coffee, when you’ve received a plate of Play-Doh cubes.
• Another landing party is sent out. It takes 428 crew to run the Enterprise.
  
• You don’t even remember what chicken sandwiches and coffee taste like, and yet you keep ordering them anyway. One day, you hope, the replicator will deliver. Something other than those cubes. Something other than tribbles. You hope.
• You wonder if it’s a sin against god to eat a tribble.
• You wonder if god could even find you in space.
• You find god in space.
• The landing party fights him.
• It takes 427 crew to run the Enterprise.
  
• The first officer and the ship’s doctor are insulting each other on the bridge. This is how you know you’ve made it to safety.
• The first officer and the ship’s doctor are working together as a coordinated team. This is how you know there is an imminent threat of absolute destruction.
• There have been so many imminent threats of absolute destruction.
• You find a chicken sandwich and coffee. It is almost definitely a mind trick conjured by an incredibly intelligent race of aliens millennia beyond human development.
• The aliens want you to stop fighting. They do not give you the chicken sandwich or the coffee. 
• You’ve been en route to shore leave for six months. Strange things keep urgently diverting the ship along the way. You worry that you’ll be sent out in a landing party before you ever get your leave.
• It takes 426 crew to run the Enterprise.

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[truefactsaboutlies]

one of the best tips for Real Life that I’ve ever picked up is to always highball your estimate whenever someone asks you “when can you get this done by” by about 25% (if you can get away with it). that way, if it ends up being harder than you thought, you’ve got extra time to figure things out and if you were right about how much time it takes then you get to look like an absolute genius instead of just a simply competent person.

what you may not have realized is that I learned this crucial piece of life advice from an episode of Star Trek where Scotty is telling Geordi that whenever he told Kirk something on the Enterprise was at full capacity, it was always only ever a notch or so below full capacity so that Scotty looked like the god of all engineers when he was able to magically hack the warp drive to run a little beyond what he’d told everyone else was “full capacity” and honestly that one throwaway gag from Star Trek has changed my life.

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[stinkyinkyjess]

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[kylo]

here’s this full pic because someone asked i post it and it kills me

[toosouthernforspace]

This just makes me so happy