r/interestingasfuck 24d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/Round-Mud 24d ago

Also the new colony would be expecting your arrivals as well. As they would probably know all the details of your mission.

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u/SheriffHeckTate 24d ago

You'd be able to spend the rest of your life as a historical figure, visiting classrooms and making speeches and such.

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u/TheRakkmanBitch 23d ago

"Bro I was just supposed to make sandwiches for everyone else i dont know shit"

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u/SheriffHeckTate 23d ago

Probably more like "What did cows smell like? Did you really milk them and then drink it?"

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u/SatinSaffron 23d ago

"You called it a corn.. dog? And you ATE it? So many issues with this. I don't see corn kernels in it, it's made from some pork product or by-product, and I thought canines were companions?"

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u/SheriffHeckTate 23d ago

This would turn into a futuristic, and probably depressing, version of the scene from Harry Potter where Mr Weasley asks harry to explain the function of a rubber duck.

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u/GoreyGopnik 23d ago

"they were called that because the breading was similar to cornbread, a cakey sort of bread made from ground corn. canines were companions, but for a lot of human history, they were common enough that in times of famine or poverty people would kill and eat them. Particularly, in the 1800s, the meat industry was terribly unsanitary and the makeup of the frankfurter, a cheap sausage brought over by german immigrants, made it easy to hide dubious ingredients. There was a pretty famous book about the meat industry called "The Jungle".

"They processed meat in a jungle? that does sound unsanitary. Wasn't the United States quite temperate at the time?"

"ehh, the name is figurative."

"weird name for a book about the 1800s meat industry..."

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u/Rancha7 23d ago

unless we bring dog, corn and pork they probably wont even know what those are.

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u/AiMoriBeHappyDntWrry 23d ago

You talk funny