I honestly had no idea that “sewer goblin” was a gender.

 

Europe pushing for the moon to have its own time zone

With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone.

This week, the agency said space organizations around the world are considering how best to keep time on the moon.

The idea came up during a meeting in the Netherlands late last year, with participants agreeing on the urgent need to establish “a common lunar reference time,” said the space agency’s Pietro Giordano, a navigation system engineer.

“A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this,” Giordano said in a statement.

For now, a moon mission runs on the time of the country that is operating the spacecraft.

European space officials said an internationally accepted lunar time zone would make it easier for everyone, especially as more countries and even private companies aim for the moon and NASA gets set to send astronauts there.

Maybe go there before you start trying to put it on metric time or whatever the fuck.

 

 

Rachel Weisz takes on a Cronenberg classic in the first trailer for Prime Video’s Dead Ringers

Top three things it takes two to do: tango, play tennis, and conduct troubling medical experiments. The first teaser for Prime Video’s new Dead Ringers adaptation is here, and even with only a single line of voiceover to work with, Rachel Weisz eerily commands the camera as both leads, twin OBGYN’s Elliott and Beverly Mantle. (Britne Oldford, Poppy Liu, Michael Chernus, Jennifer Ehle, and Emily Meade round out the cast.)

A modern reboot of David Cronenberg’s 1988 thriller of the same name, Dead Ringers follows the Mantle twins— both doctors—as their blurry sense of boundaries extends from their own relationship into their respective professions. The Mantles care about women’s health and leaving behind antiquated practices in medicine. Unfortunately, that pairs dangerously with the twins’ not-so-sound sense of medical ethics and willingness to do whatever it takes to succeed.

I know taking voluminous liquid shits over old IP is all the rage among the braindead, but this gender swap makes absolutely no sense. The original is about the male sense of body horror when confronted with female biology, leading to a dangerous insanity that drives the twin gynecologist into a murderous folie à deux. How does that even work with female doctors? Are they going to invent Gynaecological Instruments For Operating On Mutant Women or will it just be another curtain lecture about Planned Parenthood?