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Cartoon compares the responses of science advocates and scientists to a journalist's question "Why is it important that we have trapped antimatter?" Science advocates: "Oh! It has future applications in propulsion, energy creation, data transmission, you name it!" Scientists: "Because it's FUCKING AWESOME."
October 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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part of me really loves that the thing that prevents superheroes from having a definitive canon of stories — decades of different authors, rampant retconning, competing visions for characters, etc — is as old as Greek mythology
Hero or god Heracles's role as a culture hero, whose death could be a subject of mythic telling (see below), was accepted into the Olympian Pantheon during Classical times. This created an awkwardness in the encounter with Odysseus in the episode of Odyssey XI, called the Nekuia, where Odysseus encounters Heracles in Hades: And next I caught a glimpse of powerful Heracles— His ghost I mean: the man himself delights in the grand feasts of the deathless gods on high ... Around him cries of the dead rang out like cries of birds scattering left and right in horror as on he came like night ... Ancient critics were aware of the problem of the aside that interrupts the vivid and complete description, in which Heracles recognizes Odysseus and hails him, and some modern critics deny that the verse's beginning, in Fagles's translation His ghost I mean..., was part of the original composition: "once people knew of Heracles' admission to Olympus, they would not tolerate his presence in the underworld", remarks Friedrich Solmsen, noting that the interpolated verses represent a compromise between conflicting representations of Heracles.
August 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM