No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

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startrekedits

Leonard McCoy being soft™ and smiley

cosmictuesdays

kuttithevangu

Gorillas are another good example: for many years, nobody thought gorillas could pass the mark test. Turns out, the test was just very uncomfortable for them. Eye contact is a thorny social issue for gorillas, often leading to fights, several researchers said. More than that, gorillas are easily embarrassed, says Robert Mitchell, foundation professor of psychology at Eastern Kentucky University. Instead of messing with the mark in front of the mirror, they would sometimes go away, hide in a corner, and wipe the mark off there. Gorillas got what was going on, they just didn’t respond the way we thought they should.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kids-and-animals-who-fail-classic-mirror/

oh noooooooooooooo

judeoceltische

So when animals don’t have Anglo-American social manners, we have trouble figuring out what they understand. Is this what I’m taking away here?

humanoidhistory

March 18, 1965 – Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov floated into history as the first human to go on a spacewalk. Of the experience he said, “You just can’t comprehend it. Only out there can you feel the greatness, the huge size of all that surrounds us.”

Source: humanoidhistory

petermorwood

prokopetz

A lot of pets will ignore you, but only a cat will follow you from room to room and check your lines of vision to make absolutely certain that you can see them ignoring you.

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midnavidalia

theyre not ignoring you! this is actually just a cats way of saying they want to keep you company without infringing on your personal space. its the equivalent of going to a friends house while you both separately scroll through tumblr, even though youre glad to be together.
alternatively the cat could be curious about what you are doing, but shy to make its presence known. either way the cat is paying very close attention to you!

chauvinistsushi

this made me feel better

petermorwood

Alternately, the cat is making sure you don’t steal, shred or break anything. Cats have strong demarcation of labour regulations, and stealing, shredding or breaking is their job, not yours.

nasa

In Case You Missed It…

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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir sat down and answered your questions during a Tumblr AnswerTime session!

But don’t worry, we’ve got a recap for you! In addition to the highlights below, you can check out the full AnswerTime here.

Astronaut Jessica Meir was selected as part of our 2013 astronaut class (which was 50% women!) and is currently training to go to space. She could be one of the first astronauts to ride in the Orion spacecraft, which will carry humans deeper into space than ever before.

Let’s check out some of her responses…

Follow astronaut Jessica Meir for more: @Astro_Jessica on Twitter and Instagram and follow the Orion space capsule as it prepares to fly to deep space on Twitter and Facebook.

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