a retard in tin foil

ireneybeany: dxo: limeflavored: An interesting model of our...

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:56:04 -0400

dxo:

limeflavored:

An interesting model of our solar system’s path as it travels through space in the Milky Way. Certainly a departure from usual models that show the Sun as a static object, which it certainly isn’t.

wow. this is amazing.

Sitting in your chair at your computer, you are blasting through space at 2.7 million MPH. :)

That’s some dope ass shit!

ireneybeany: Velma was ALWAYS my fave. She was adorable to me...

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:54:58 -0400

ireneybeany:

Velma was ALWAYS my fave. She was adorable to me & brainy laced with snark.

CDGAF

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:26:51 -0400

translation: Crispy Don’t Give A Fuck

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Sat, 18 May 2013 21:22:19 -0400

n-a-s-a: Sunbursts

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:45:50 -0400

n-a-s-a:

Sunbursts

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Sat, 18 May 2013 16:44:02 -0400

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Sat, 18 May 2013 12:32:06 -0400

seriously?

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:27:42 -0400

i mean, i can’t have/keep a relationship of my own, so how the fuck am i supposed to help you with yours?

we-are-star-stuff: Butterflies can’t see their wings. They...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:33:29 -0400

we-are-star-stuff:

Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.

Butterflies have excellent vision. Similar to birds, butterflies are able to see in the ultraviolet spectrum; unlike birds, butterflies have the broadest spectrum of color vision known to exist in the animal kingdom. A compound eye is located on each side of the butterflies’ head and is made up of many little eyes pressed together into one. The tiny individual eyes are called facets, and are made up of six sides. Thousands of facets make up the two compound eyes. Unlike human vision, where we see one image, butterflies see thousands of small images at a time. Underneath the facets is a crystal cone that extends inwardly and forms a transparent rod. When light enters this rod, it has already been reversed twice, making its’ rays parallel so that light enters the rod in a straight line. Compound eyes aid in seeing into the UV, detecting movement, and seeing varied colors. The side location of their eyes enables them to see in different directions at one time, useful in detecting predators. However, butterflies cannot see detail from a distance and can only recognize the fine patterns of other butterflies from a few feet away. This would mean they are capable of seeing their own wings.

So basically this is one of those supposedly profound quotes that tries to make a point while being based on really shitty information and thus falls apart. Surely they could have found an analogy that doesn’t fly in the face of basic scientific observation if they wanted to send the “you’re more beautiful than you think” message..

eireprince: masslyeffective: spangledmystars: I can’t click...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:21:14 -0400

eireprince:

masslyeffective:

spangledmystars:

I can’t click my reblog button hard enough

It’s not just the ladies who get insecure, it’s all of us. It’s a human trait, yo.

I can’t count how many times I’ve done those first 3 panels.

i literally cackled

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:07:25 -0400

i literally cackled

we-are-star-stuff: What the Death of the Sun Will Look...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:43:27 -0400

we-are-star-stuff:

What the Death of the Sun Will Look Like

About 1.1 billion years from now, the sun will begin to change. As the hydrogen fuel in its core is used up, the burning will spread outward toward the surface. This will make the sun grow brighter. This increased radiation will have a devastating effect on our planet. Here’s what that might look like.

The mean surface temperature of the earth will rise from about 68°F to 167°F. The earth’s oceans will evaporate. The planet will become a stark, lifeless desert.

Finally, at the age of almost 1.1 billion years, the sun will run out of hydrogen almost entirely. When the sun uses hydrogen to create energy, it changes it to helium. After all these years, the core of the sun will be filled with left-over helium. This helium will become unstable as it begins to collapse under its own weight. The core of the sun will become even denser and hotter. As this happens, the sun will swell one-and-a-half times its normal size and grow more than twice as bright as it is now.

Over the next 700 million years, it won’t grow any brighter . But it will continue to grow larger. It will swell to more than twice its present size. As it does so, it will cool down a little. From the parched surface of the earth, the sun will look like an enormous orange ball hanging in the misty sky.

At the age of about 1.2 billion years the sun will blow off more than a quarter of the mass of its outer surface. With a less massive sun to attract them, the planets’ orbits will change. Venus will become as distant as the earth is now, and the earth will move even farther away. Eventually, the ever-swelling sun will become a red giant. It will become 166 times larger than the sun we knew. This is almost as large as the orbit of the earth today. The planets Mercury and Venus will be devoured in the flames of the giant star. The mountains of the earth will melt and flow like red-hot molasses into vast, flat seas of lava. A bloated red sun will fill more than half the sky.

While this spells the death of the inner planets, it will bring new life to the more distant worlds. Here we see the ice floes of Europa melting under the new-found warmth of the giant sun… and Pluto basking in the light and heat of a sun that is even larger in its sky than it had once appeared in earth’s.

As the sun reaches its maximum size as a red giant, the helium core will reach a temperature of 100 million degrees. This is hot enough to trigger helium fusion. When this happens, helium atoms are crushed together, releasing huge amounts of energy in the process. At first it will seem as though the sun has gotten a new lease on life. It will shrink in size, though it will never get less than ten times its present size. It will begin a period lasting for the next 110 million years during which little change will occur. Just as helium was created when hydrogen atoms fused, new elements are created when helium fuses. Carbon and oxygen are created. As these elements accumulate in the core of the sun, new reactions will set in. Again the sun will swell until it doubles its size. Finally, the core will run out of helium. The carbon and oxygen will collapse, but there won’t be enough for new fusion reactions to start.

Out of fuel, the sun will approach the beginning of the end. It will grow to an enormous size as the last gasps of helium and hydrogen are blown away. It will become 180 times larger than the sun we know and thousands of times brighter. Huge quantities of its atmosphere will be thrown off into space, until nearly half its mass is lost. The loss of mass will cause the planets Venus and the earth -now little more than burned-out cinders- to move even farther away. The thin shell of remaining helium that surrounds the carbon-oxygen core will become unstable. The sun will begin to pulse violently, like the light on top of a police car. Every time it pulses, it will lose more mass. A final pulse will blow away the last of the sun’s outer surface. All that will be left is the bare core. This will be a sphere about the size of the late earth. This will be extremely hot, but it is just residual heat - nothing will replace it as it is lost. It is like a hot coal in a barbecue grill, slowly cooling until it eventually becomes a cold cinder.

The white dwarf star that was once our sun, seen from the burned-out cinder that is all the remains of our planet.

"a good deed is like pissing yourself in dark pants; gives you a warm feeling but nobody notices"

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:28:00 -0400

“a good deed is like pissing yourself in dark pants; gives you a warm feeling but nobody notices”

- Jacob Taylor— Mass Effect 2

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Thu, 16 May 2013 16:06:57 -0400

infuriatingly patient

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:56:19 -0400

i have been labeled as this before. i have always subscribed to ‘good things come to he who waits.’ and so i wait. what am i waiting for? hell i don’t even know. sometimes i think i’m waiting for some opportunity to present itself, whatever that opportunity may take the form of. i know, i know, if you want something you have to make it happen. but i learned years ago that forcing something tends to break it. you can’t force a rusted wheel to turn without destroying the axle it’s mounted on. you have to coax it, spray it with a little oil, turn it just a tiny bit to break the rust free, before you can give it a spin.
lately, i feel as though i’m approaching the far shore of my ocean of patience. that i’ve finally reached its end, and that now i will begin raging, as a hurricane, at that faraway end of my own ability to wait it out. but if i am both the ocean, and the storm, then i’m only raging against myself, which is completely ineffectual and leads only to more loss of patience, more maddening fury.
what’s a boy to do?

beben-eleben: There once was a young boy with a very bad...

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:15:50 -0400

beben-eleben:

There once was a young boy with a very bad temper. The boy’s father wanted to teach him a lesson, so he gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper he must hammer a nail into their wooden fence.

On the first day of this lesson, the little boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. He was really mad!

Over the course of the next few weeks, the little boy began to control his temper, so the number of nails that were hammered into the fence dramatically decreased.

It wasn’t long before the little boy discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Then, the day finally came when the little boy didn’t lose his temper even once, and he became so proud of himself, he couldn’t wait to tell his father.

Pleased, his father suggested that he now pull out one nail for each day that he could hold his temper.

Several weeks went by and the day finally came when the young boy was able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

Very gently, the father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

“You have done very well, my son,” he smiled, “but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.”

The little boy listened carefully as his father continued to speak.

“When you say things in anger, they leave permanent scars just like these. And no matter how many times you say you’re sorry, the wounds will still be there.”

one of mine and chloe’s rescues. found this guy crawlin...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:51:00 -0400

one of mine and chloe’s rescues. found this guy crawlin across the porch and figured he needed a new home on a leaf before he got squished. hope to see him later this summer as a butterfly

this is a fantastic idea. no real homeless people in my area,...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:59:19 -0400

this is a fantastic idea. no real homeless people in my area, but i think everyone needs to know that A&F’s CEO is a giant vinegar based vaginal cleansing product

nikolawashere: NY under water. The eye-catching swimming pool...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:56:39 -0400

nikolawashere:

NY under water.

The eye-catching swimming pool in Mumbai, India, has been built to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of global warming.

It was constructed by attaching a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline to the floor of the pool.

“Probably no stars will physically hit each other. There’s just...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:08:46 -0400

“Probably no stars will physically hit each other. There’s just so much space between the stars, but when Andromeda collides with us it’ll have a huge impact on the Milky Way. Some things will get thrown into the black hole in the middle, some stars will get ripped off and thrown away into space, so it’ll be dramatic. And the entire night sky will change.” - The Universe S1E9 Alien Galaxies