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a kind of poem (?) about the cosmic microwave background

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Steps leading up to Villa d'Este (1884) by Peder Mørk Mønsted

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Wallace Breen gets this notification from G-Man seconds before Gordon teleports into his office

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Experimous: A gender that is reminiscent, has the qualities of, and/or pertains to experiments. This gender may be similar to experiments, given their hypothetically similar qualities, albeit one’s gender and experiments are not the same thing, however intertwined they may be with one another.

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Timelapse of the moon rising behind Taipei 101. Shot from 4.85 km away with a 500 mm lens. 🌚

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Jen Olsen’s World Clock (rear view), København Radhus (City Hall), Copenhagen, Denmark

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UB tower Bangalore, captured during recent rains…

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New gender systems part one:

All accessed from the dictionary of obscure sorrows. Similar to sonderous and kenochoric in concept.

Monachopeus: An umbrella term for identities that relate to monachopsis: the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Rubatosian: An umbrella term for identities that relate to rubatosis: the unsettling awareness of one's own heartbeat.

Aftersaean: An umbrella term for identities that relate to aftersome: the feeling of being astonished to think back on the bizarre sequence of accidents that brought you to where you are today.

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Out of all the cool stuff that mythbusters ever shot on high speed camera, shooting a soccer ball at 60mph out of a truck traveling 60mph is one of my favorites

Just look at it. It is the most perfect visual representation of Newton’s 2nd law of physics I’ve ever seen. The ball, which was shot out of a CANNON, drops straight down. Two equal and opposite velocities completely canceling each other out, leaving the soccer ball to drop to the earth with a net velocity of 0. Sir issac newton would be proud to tears of this gif.

And yet this “myth” is nothing more than basic physics at work. A 10 year old with an interest in science could have told us this is possible. 60mph in one direction minus 60mph the exact opposite direction is 0. Basic.

But what makes this so frieken cool is the fact that they went through all the trouble to actually demonstrate the invisible laws that govern the way our universe works. To get this shot both the soccer ball and the truck had to be moving at the exact same speed. Real world variables make that extremely difficult to pull off. It took them hundreds of attempts to get it right. They went through all that trouble to “prove” something we have known as fact for hundreds of years. And we get this amazing gif to watch as a result.

Mythbusters is incredible. Science is incredible. And the fact that this experiment in physics can be used in science classes for years and years to come to help children learn about physics is incredible.

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Totally not the Eye of Sauron, Prague, Czech Republic

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National Drama Theatre in Lithuania

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sometimes i think about the golden record and i want to cry

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Uranium glass chandelier with black light bulbs.

Ken and Julia Yonetani

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Omg.........