/u/TheSanityInspector's posts

Year:

Only show posts with narrations

New Horizons is now in the outer solar system and both Voyager probes are in interstellar space, having performed their fly-bys of their assigned planets. Has a probe ever been sent straight "north" or "south" out of the solar system, as opposed to laterally? And if not, why not?

1 upvotes • r/askscience

Mark as read: Add to a list

Many nesting birds will starve a chick, or allow the other nestlings to kill it, if times are hard or if the chick is weak or sickly. But stork parents will themselves eject such chicks from the nest, with or without killing them first. Is there a known reason why storks are different in this way?

1 upvotes • r/askscience

Mark as read: Add to a list

"Mr. President, we've detected an odd signal pattern in between the increasingly strong cosmic gravity waves recorded by the LIGO observatory."

1 upvotes • r/TwoSentenceHorror

Mark as read: Add to a list

As I put away my cleaning fluid and wire brushes and prepared to hike back to my campsite, I congratulated myself on saving the National Park rangers the trouble of erasing all this graffiti vandalism.

1 upvotes • r/TwoSentenceHorror

Mark as read: Add to a list

I remembered reading about how this particular species of caterpillar was doubly protected, both highly toxic and also camouflaged to look exactly like a green bean.

1 upvotes • r/TwoSentenceHorror

Mark as read: Add to a list

It's 1973. A traditional wife & mother, now widowed, and her young adult Second Wave feminist daughter, interact against a background of contemporary events. [WP]

1 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

Mark as read: Add to a list

[WP] Pick a social media platform, and write a sonnet, an englyn, or an ottava rima about it

1 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

Mark as read: Add to a list

[WP] A detective story in which the detective is the real life artist, entertainer, critic or literary figure of your choice.

1 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

Mark as read: Add to a list

[WP] A group of alumni from a historically black college get together again in Atlanta, 20 years after they bonded there at Freaknik.

1 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

Mark as read: Add to a list

[WP] In 1874 Edouard Manet sees an impressionist painting signed "Monet", and thinks someone is pranking him. They meet in Argenteuil, and Manet is impressed by the younger artist.

1 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

Mark as read: Add to a list

Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
New Horizons is now in the outer solar system and both Voyager probes are in interstellar space, having performed their fly-bys of their assigned planets. Has a probe ever been sent straight "north" or "south" out of the solar system, as opposed to laterally? And if not, why not?	1	askscience
Many nesting birds will starve a chick, or allow the other nestlings to kill it, if times are hard or if the chick is weak or sickly. But stork parents will themselves eject such chicks from the nest, with or without killing them first. Is there a known reason why storks are different in this way?	1	askscience
"Mr. President, we've detected an odd signal pattern in between the increasingly strong cosmic gravity waves recorded by the LIGO observatory."	1	TwoSentenceHorror
As I put away my cleaning fluid and wire brushes and prepared to hike back to my campsite, I congratulated myself on saving the National Park rangers the trouble of erasing all this graffiti vandalism.	1	TwoSentenceHorror
I remembered reading about how this particular species of caterpillar was doubly protected, both highly toxic and also camouflaged to look exactly like a green bean.	1	TwoSentenceHorror
It's 1973. A traditional wife & mother, now widowed, and her young adult Second Wave feminist daughter, interact against a background of contemporary events. [WP]	1	WritingPrompts
[WP] Pick a social media platform, and write a sonnet, an englyn, or an ottava rima about it	1	WritingPrompts
[WP] A detective story in which the detective is the real life artist, entertainer, critic or literary figure of your choice.	1	WritingPrompts
[WP] A group of alumni from a historically black college get together again in Atlanta, 20 years after they bonded there at Freaknik.	1	WritingPrompts
[WP] In 1874 Edouard Manet sees an impressionist painting signed "Monet", and thinks someone is pranking him. They meet in Argenteuil, and Manet is impressed by the younger artist.	1	WritingPrompts