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Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

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That's it folks, anime destroying my heart over and over again but I still clinge to it because I love it

BITCH okay you know one of the things that really got me about Banana Fish?? in the second opening we got this little clip:

they’re desperately reaching for each other, so close, but they disappear before they can touch. I thought, that’s tragically beautiful, and I wonder what that’s supposed to exactly symbolize for them? Then we get to the hospital scene. Eiji is dragging his almost dead ass out to chase Ash because he heard Ash bidding him a foreboding “goodbye.” Their eyes meet and my heart fucking sank. We then got this:

and I’ve seen the opening plenty by now. internally I’m screaming because I know it wasn’t symbolism, their hands aren’t going to meet, that Ash’s “sayonara” was probably more final than it seemed in the moment because holy shit. the opening told us how this was going to go.

Eiji pulls his hand back and I literally stopped breathing. This is way too fucking much for me. Eiji tells Ash to run, and you can see it breaking his own heart,

and Ash makes this face

shocked and devastated, because Eiji is right there, but he realizes what Eiji is doing, that he withdrew so Ash wouldn’t get caught, even though he struggled and pulled his injured body through the hall just to reach him. he knows he has to run away even though Eiji is a hair’s breadth from him.

and I can just hear the opening lyrics, the “save you,” and “get away from me,” like christ. I knew the opening was more than a little accurate, but the sheer amount of blatant foreshadowing in it is fucking evil. I’m not over it.

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Hilarious Cat Snapchats That Will Leave You With The Biggest Smile ( part 1)

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why the fuck does english have a word for

but not for “the day after tomorrow”

???

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You may eat my slices of life but don't blame me when you are severely poisoned by those !!

Cut my life into peaches. They are a healthy snack

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New Science from our Mission to Touch the Sun

In August 2018, our Parker Solar Probe mission launched to space, soon becoming the closest-ever spacecraft from the Sun. Now, scientists have announced their first discoveries from this exploration of our star!

The Sun may look calm to us here on Earth, but it’s an active star, unleashing powerful bursts of light, deluges of particles moving near the speed of light and billion-ton clouds of magnetized material. All of this activity can affect our technology here on Earth and in space.

Parker Solar Probe’s main science goals are to understand the physics that drive this activity — and its up-close look has given us a brand-new perspective. Here are a few highlights from what we’ve learned so far.

1. Surprising events in the solar wind

The Sun releases a continual outflow of magnetized material called the solar wind, which shapes space weather near Earth. Observed near Earth, the solar wind is a relatively uniform flow of plasma, with occasional turbulent tumbles. Closer to the solar wind’s source, Parker Solar Probe saw a much different picture: a complicated, active system. 

One type of event in particular drew the eye of the science teams: flips in the direction of the magnetic field, which flows out from the Sun, embedded in the solar wind. These reversals — dubbed “switchbacks” — last anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes as they flow over Parker Solar Probe. During a switchback, the magnetic field whips back on itself until it is pointed almost directly back at the Sun.

The exact source of the switchbacks isn’t yet understood, but Parker Solar Probe’s measurements have allowed scientists to narrow down the possibilities — and observations from the mission’s 21 remaining solar flybys should help scientists better understand these events. 

2. Seeing tiny particle events

The Sun can accelerate tiny electrons and ions into storms of energetic particles that rocket through the solar system at nearly the speed of light. These particles carry a lot of energy, so they can damage spacecraft electronics and even endanger astronauts, especially those in deep space, outside the protection of Earth’s magnetic field — and the short warning time for such particles makes them difficult to avoid.

Energetic particles from the Sun impact a detector on ESA & NASA’s SOHO satellite.

Parker Solar Probe’s energetic particle instruments have measured several never-before-seen events so small that all trace of them is lost before they reach Earth. These instruments have also measured a rare type of particle burst with a particularly high number of heavier elements — suggesting that both types of events may be more common than scientists previously thought.

3. Rotation of the solar wind

Near Earth, we see the solar wind flowing almost straight out from the Sun in all directions. But the Sun rotates as it releases the solar wind, and before it breaks free, the wind spins along in sync with the Sun’s surface. For the first time, Parker was able to observe the solar wind while it was still rotating – starting more than 20 million miles from the Sun.

The strength of the circulation was stronger than many scientists had predicted, but it also transitioned more quickly than predicted to an outward flow, which helps mask the effects of that fast rotation from the vantage point where we usually see them from, near Earth, about 93 million miles away. Understanding this transition point in the solar wind is key to helping us understand how the Sun sheds energy, with implications for the lifecycles of stars and the formation of protoplanetary disks.

4. Hints of a dust-free zone

Parker also saw the first direct evidence of dust starting to thin out near the Sun – an effect that has been theorized for nearly a century, but has been impossible to measure until now. Space is awash in dust, the cosmic crumbs of collisions that formed planets, asteroids, comets and other celestial bodies billions of years ago. Scientists have long suspected that, close to the Sun, this dust would be heated to high temperatures by powerful sunlight, turning it into a gas and creating a dust-free region around the Sun.

For the first time, Parker’s imagers saw the cosmic dust begin to thin out a little over 7 million miles from the Sun. This decrease in dust continues steadily to the current limits of Parker Solar Probe’s instruments, measurements at a little over 4 million miles from the Sun. At that rate of thinning, scientists expect to see a truly dust-free zone starting a little more than 2-3 million miles from the Sun — meaning the spacecraft could observe the dust-free zone as early as 2020, when its sixth flyby of the Sun will carry it closer to our star than ever before.

These are just a few of Parker Solar Probe’s first discoveries, and there’s plenty more science to come throughout the mission! For the latest on our Sun, follow @NASASun on Twitter and NASA Sun Science on Facebook.

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Women and especially WoC have to be twice as good to get half the credit

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Not to be furiously antimodern but like. Existence has meaning

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It's true, so sad and odd and true

when that seasonal depression hit someone add a pic im on mobile

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Spell duality:

Y.U.Z.U.R.U. H.A.N.Y.U.

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The words I never expected to read: "Giraffes are now endangered."

We know why 🤦🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🖕🏾

White ppl

Why do they do this? What do they gain?

imagine telling your grandchildren that giraffes used to exist

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Stop Hating On The Noragami Characters!

Yato is just an ABUSED, DESPERATE MAN trying to BREAK AWAY FROM THE ONLY FATHER HE’S EVER KNOWN AND MAKE A HOME FOR HIMSELF. His SELFISH ACTIONS are LEARNED BEHAVIOR, and he wants to BE THE BEST HE CAN

Hiyori is a SCARED TEENAGER trying to balance TWO WORLDS at once and take care of a bunch of NEEDY GODS who TO BE TRUTHFUL should be helping her be stable, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. She is scared of her future, but KINDHEARTED NONETHELESS.

Yukine is a KINDHEARTED and SELFLESS kid going through a ROUGH TIME. Although he had a tough start, Yukine is BRAVE, PROTECTIVE, AND MATURE. He’s been through so much, and it would ONLY BE CRUEL to blame him for REACTING TO HIS ABUSE AND ABANDONMENT LIKE THAT.

Nora is an EQUALLY AS ABUSED LITTLE GIRL. She comes from the SAME BROKEN HOME as Yato, and was NEVER TAUGHT HOW TO LOVE IN THE RIGHT WAY. Although she is bound to stumble, Yukine’s kindness was MEANINGFUL to her, and I trust her to MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE.

Bishamon is a JUST WARRIOR who only wants to do the right thing. Although her TEMPER OVERTAKES HER SOMETIMES, she is ultimately a MOTHERLY FIGURE who just wants to protect the BEST PARTS OF HUMANITY. She deserves to WAKE UP FROM HER COMA.

Kazuma

Kofuku and Daikoku are a LOVING COUPLE, and despite being CHAOTIC are VALUABLE ALLIES. They’re kind, BRAVE people who PUT THEIR LIVES AND HAPPINESS ON THE LINE FOR YATO AND THE GANG. Their KINDNESS SHOULD NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.

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The Amazon jungle is the world’s largest tropical rain forest and is home to the greatest variety of plants and animals on our PLANET

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i really like looking at google image searches for “firemen rescuing cats” or something because you get super cute pictures like

AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE