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Moo-Rawahna Steaks

Move over Omaha Steaks, there’s a new game in town.

Here at Moo-Rawahna farms, our cows graze only upon the highest grade pot fields. The only truly “grass-fed beef”, we guarantee both tongue and mind will be expanded as you experience dry aged steak perfection.

Free bag of Cheetos with every order.

Moo-Rawahna Farms: Where The Steaks Have Never Been Higher.

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Hipster surround sound

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Hipster Oil Burner

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Hipster Keyboard

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No, YOU are openly weeping..

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If you’re having a bad day, here’s a video of people getting surprised with puppies!!

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this thread is the absolute holy grail of repeated self owns

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Enchantress: I turn you into a hideous Beast. What are the names of your servants?

The Prince: Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts -

Enchantress:

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Trying to figure out which colour Skelton I would be while dancing. Lime green seems my style.

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Came up with a new way to explain asexuality to someone the other day. It went something like this:

“You’re a straight man, right? Well, think about how you feel (sexually) toward other men. Asexuals feel that way toward everyone.”

And the eyes just lit up with understanding. 

Thinking about it further, some straight men are repulsed or disgusted by the idea of sexifying* other men. Some asexuals feel that way toward everyone. Some straight men are like “the idea doesn’t gross me out or anything, but no thanks. Not for me.” And some asexuals feel THAT way toward everyone. Just as a couple examples.

*That’s the proper term, right?

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This pops up every time I look at my notes.

I'm pretty sure this isn't Nostalgia-ween related, but I have an idea for a gif. Could you please do a gif of Maven's baby sneezing? Since it's from a Vampire Review, I figured it would be Halloween related.

Sure, why not. ;)

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Hi Ate Us..?

Life sure is a thing.

People have noticed in one way or another that this pawdugan chappie hasn’t been doing much online these past few months. This trend is expected to continue until the whenever future really as various projects and life events willfully dominate my mind and time.

For example, I’ve gone to freelance and picked up some lovely contracts editing podcasts. I’m working on an online portfolio (which I turn out to be very bad at) to secure more contracts in the future, but here’s a few I’m working with that I most enjoy working on:

https://soundcloud.com/bravo-tv-the-daily-dish

http://www.blastr.com/tags/who-won-week

https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/category/podcast/

There are about 10-12 others I do on a weekly basis so there’s where most of my days go. I’m also continually for hire so if you know of (or have) any projects that need a sound engineer you hit this brother up.

This of course takes a backseat to being a continually evolving and improving spouse, friend, and general annoyance to that incredible person who agreed to marry me. This brought about a 2 year old son whose half of me he’s unfortunately genetically inherited makes him as hard to handle as a smelt dipped in pork fat.

I also enjoy a full time career as a medical professional in a position of leadership 40 hours a week which includes continuing education courses and endless state licensing tests.

Added to this is the complex joy of home ownership which in and of itself is one of the more surprisingly engaging and rewarding hobbies a borderline ADD manchild could hope for. I even bought me a hammer and used it on somethin’!

Let these be the reasons for now that I don’t do much in the way of online video these days. You can still find plenty of my back catalogue on Youtube and what survived of Music Movies on Dailymotion

https://www.dailymotion.com/paul-schuler

https://www.youtube.com/user/pawdugan

I love to entertain, I love to play games, and I love my audience. Those things never change. A hero goes where they’re needed and my attentions are focused on what brings me joy and what pays da bills. Seriously, podcast production has proven exponentially more profitable (on a time spent/money earned scale) than any of my past projects.

I’m not saying I’ll never return to the pixels of YouTube, but for now let’s enjoy what we’ve shared over the past 10 years. It’s pretty much up to you guys to watch my back catalogue from now on as watching any of my previous videos makes me cringe to tightly that I’m developing a chip in my vertebrae.

I’ll always be continuously amazed at the community and support we’ve enjoyed (especially during the past 2 years or so) and will certainly enjoy entertaining each other again if and when I fire up DOSBox and my share a few more games I love with the world at large.

By share, I mainly mean make fun of and mock.. but you know.. with love..?

Until then you can find my bumming around on twitter if ya need me.

<3

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I'm pretty sure this isn't Nostalgia-ween related, but I have an idea for a gif. Could you please do a gif of Maven's baby sneezing? Since it's from a Vampire Review, I figured it would be Halloween related.

Sure, why not. ;)

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DIBS ON PLANET F!

Largest Batch of Earth-size, Habitable Zone Planets

Our Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in an area called the habitable zone, where liquid water is most likely to exist on a rocky planet.

This exoplanet system is called TRAPPIST-1, named for The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile. In May 2016, researchers using TRAPPIST announced they had discovered three planets in the system.

Assisted by several ground-based telescopes, Spitzer confirmed the existence of two of these planets and discovered five additional ones, increasing the number of known planets in the system to seven.

This is the FIRST time three terrestrial planets have been found in the habitable zone of a star, and this is the FIRST time we have been able to measure both the masses and the radius for habitable zone Earth-sized planets.

All of these seven planets could have liquid water, key to life as we know it, under the right atmospheric conditions, but the chances are highest with the three in the habitable zone.

At about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from Earth, the system of planets is relatively close to us, in the constellation Aquarius. Because they are located outside of our solar system, these planets are scientifically known as exoplanets. To clarify, exoplanets are planets outside our solar system that orbit a sun-like star.

In this animation, you can see the planets orbiting the star, with the green area representing the famous habitable zone, defined as the range of distance to the star for which an Earth-like planet is the most likely to harbor abundant liquid water on its surface. Planets e, f and g fall in the habitable zone of the star.

Using Spitzer data, the team precisely measured the sizes of the seven planets and developed first estimates of the masses of six of them. The mass of the seventh and farthest exoplanet has not yet been estimated.

For comparison…if our sun was the size of a basketball, the TRAPPIST-1 star would be the size of a golf ball.

Based on their densities, all of the TRAPPIST-1 planets are likely to be rocky. Further observations will not only help determine whether they are rich in water, but also possibly reveal whether any could have liquid water on their surfaces.

The sun at the center of this system is classified as an ultra-cool dwarf and is so cool that liquid water could survive on planets orbiting very close to it, closer than is possible on planets in our solar system. All seven of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary orbits are closer to their host star than Mercury is to our sun.

 The planets also are very close to each other. How close? Well, if a person was standing on one of the planet’s surface, they could gaze up and potentially see geological features or clouds of neighboring worlds, which would sometimes appear larger than the moon in Earth’s sky.

The planets may also be tidally-locked to their star, which means the same side of the planet is always facing the star, therefore each side is either perpetual day or night. This could mean they have weather patterns totally unlike those on Earth, such as strong wind blowing from the day side to the night side, and extreme temperature changes.

Because most TRAPPIST-1 planets are likely to be rocky, and they are very close to one another, scientists view the Galilean moons of Jupiter – lo, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede – as good comparisons in our solar system. All of these moons are also tidally locked to Jupiter. The TRAPPIST-1 star is only slightly wider than Jupiter, yet much warmer. 

How Did the Spitzer Space Telescope Detect this System?

Spitzer, an infrared telescope that trails Earth as it orbits the sun, was well-suited for studying TRAPPIST-1 because the star glows brightest in infrared light, whose wavelengths are longer than the eye can see. Spitzer is uniquely positioned in its orbit to observe enough crossing (aka transits) of the planets in front of the host star to reveal the complex architecture of the system. 

Every time a planet passes by, or transits, a star, it blocks out some light. Spitzer measured the dips in light and based on how big the dip, you can determine the size of the planet. The timing of the transits tells you how long it takes for the planet to orbit the star.

The TRAPPIST-1 system provides one of the best opportunities in the next decade to study the atmospheres around Earth-size planets. Spitzer, Hubble and Kepler will help astronomers plan for follow-up studies using our upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, launching in 2018. With much greater sensitivity, Webb will be able to detect the chemical fingerprints of water, methane, oxygen, ozone and other components of a planet’s atmosphere.

At 40 light-years away, humans won’t be visiting this system in person anytime soon…that said…this poster can help us imagine what it would be like: 

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com

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Cate Gary

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This seems to be the biggest petition going. 500,000 signatures as of the end of January. Let your legion of voices be heard.

TIME Magazine threw down a impressively sized gauntlet Here’s the article if you need some further context before signing:

https://t.co/rrb0LZ60gU