Ankita D.Raj

Helping you learn Storytelling
2D Animation
With a sprinkle of Life lessons

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

If you're a failure too...
Read my comic on @bakarmax_

https://t.co/Kbw5NUpEXb

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

@DuttShekhar Kon sa Nasha kar rahe hain sab?

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

@DuttShekhar I think 2027 is going to be revolutionary. The year india will be most united.

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

@DuttShekhar @abhiwhy After 4 failed attempts it was hard to leave. Then I read a out the sunk cost fallacy - it made the exit easier.

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

@KhananiShingan1 Learn from them. @warikoo

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

@forallcurious We are soon going to witness a surge in space exploration

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

We are soon going to witness a surge in space exploration.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Scientists found a massive alcohol cloud in space. It has enough alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

Ask an overthinker who has one more thing to think about.

[sy @seezyou]

Pattern recognition is the highest form of intelligence.

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

@seezyou Not for an overthinker. Believe me.

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

I still remember the last time I saw a sky full of stars. It was the summer of 2009.

Sad we don't get to experience it anymore.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Me whenever the stars are visible

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

I remember in my biology class , i thought this was some kind of a machine. Just look at the structure, straight out of a sci-fi.

[知念実希人【公式】 @MIKITO_777]

電子顕微鏡で見たファージ、マジでこの形していますからね

これ、【誰か】が
『こんな小さなもの誰も見ないだろうから、自然にできたっぽくカモフラージュしなくてもいいや』
って、適当に機能性だけ考えて設計したでしょ

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

Proof comes when the distance between ideation and action is minimal.
Most people can't cover this minimal distance.

[Lukas Not Podolski @OtitoNosike]

The world does not reward potential. It rewards proof. Nobody cares how intelligent, talented, or visionary you believe yourself to be if your life produces no visible evidence of it.

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

Now you get to see this everyday everywhere all at once. Dhawan ji's school really flourished.

[thrills by @gogokaghagraa]

the david dhawan school of filmmaking

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

And plants they survived to produce oxygen for us. So that we live or die slowly?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Oxygen already killed most of the life on Earth once. The first time it filled the air, around 2.4 billion years ago, it was so poisonous that nearly everything alive died. Scientists call it the Oxygen Catastrophe.

Back then the oceans were full of tiny microbes, and none of them used oxygen. Then one kind, an ancestor of the green scum you still see on ponds, started giving off oxygen as a waste gas, the same way you breathe out air you don’t need. Oxygen is a wrecker. It rips apart the delicate machinery inside a living cell, including the DNA, and as it built up in the water and then the sky, it triggered the first mass extinction this planet had ever seen.

A few survivors hid in the mud and deep underground where the gas couldn’t reach, and some of their descendants are still down there. But one tiny cell did something nobody else did. It ate a bacterium that had learned to use oxygen rather than die from it, and instead of digesting its meal, it kept it alive inside itself. That trapped bacterium became the mitochondria, the little engines that power your cells right now. Almost every cell you are made of carries hundreds or thousands of them, all descended from that one strange truce with a poison.

The trade was worth it because burning food with oxygen releases about 18 times more energy than burning it without. It is the reason anything can swim fast or think hard. Every big, fast-moving animal on Earth, you included, runs on the gas that almost ended life.

Oxygen changed the sky too. Some of it floated up high and turned into ozone, a thin layer that blocks most of the sun’s harshest rays. Before that shield existed, raw sunlight was strong enough to fry the DNA of anything out in the open, so life had to stay underwater, where a few feet of sea soaked up the danger. For almost two billion years, nothing lived on land at all. Only once the ozone grew thick enough, a few hundred million years ago, did the first plants and animals crawl out of the water.

And the old poison never really left. Every second, the oxygen your cells burn throws off tiny broken bits called free radicals, and they keep nicking your DNA and the proteins around it. The damage adds up, slowly, your whole life. Back in 1956 a scientist named Denham Harman suggested this slow rusting from the inside is a big reason we get old. People still argue about how much it matters, and no antioxidant pill has ever been shown to make anyone live longer, but the basic idea has held up. The gas keeping you alive right now is also quietly wearing you down, year by year. The joke just got the timing wrong. Oxygen really does kill slowly, and billions of years before we showed up, it already proved it can kill fast.

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

If killing with their judgement had a face.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Green vine snakes rarely attack. They just stare at you as you have disappointed them

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

Sent this to everyone of my friends. All said one thing - relatable

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

@rishilectual happens when you don't let comedians do their work.

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

Physics is so cool, and so is Biology. Chemistry people, enlighten us, please.

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

@aakashgupta that's a fascinating read.

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

@warikoo this is so true. have been telling my body all the positive things i can.

[Ankita D.Raj @adraj]

The light from someone else's world millions and millions LY from here is also falling on our eyes. we just cant see it. Maybe, that's why we have sprituality. to see that light from within.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The universe is a time machine and the math on the distance ladder will break your brain.

2,000 light-years gets you Rome. Go to 500 light-years and you're watching the Black Plague consume Europe in real time. At 80 light-years, you catch World War II. At 4.24 light-years, the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, the light arriving right now left Earth in 2022. Someone there is watching us argue about whether GPT-4 is sentient.

Now scale that in the other direction. The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away. An observer there right now sees Earth before modern humans existed. They're watching early hominids figure out stone tools. They have no idea what's coming.

The closest alien civilization is statistically estimated at 33,000 light-years away. They would be watching humans invent agriculture for the first time. Writing hasn't been invented yet. Cities don't exist. From their perspective, we are a species that just figured out how to plant wheat.

Here's what makes the physics cruel. To actually see a human-sized object on Earth from just 20 light-years away, you'd need a telescope array roughly 100 million kilometers across. That's more than half the diameter of Earth's orbit around the Sun. To see Rome from 2,000 light-years? The optics required would be larger than our solar system.

The light is real. The photons that bounced off Roman soldiers are still traveling outward at 300,000 km/s right now, carrying that information forever. The universe has a perfect recording of every moment in Earth's history, expanding in all directions at the speed of light.

The problem was never distance. The problem is that no civilization, no matter how advanced, can build a lens big enough to read it.