Inspired by this post, I'm officially announcing:
So, i won't be getting to the actual list in a few more weeks, while i go over the numerous reasons why they are my favorite animal.
I do not promise that I'll post every Friday, that i won't make mistakes, or that this will not get into unhinged rambling territory, but i do promise you'll learn way more about these interesting critters than anyone normal would want to :3
The Oh-My-God Particle was a cosmic ray detected OTD in 1991 and the most energetic one ever observed. It's thought to have likely been a proton travelling at 99.99999999999999999999951% of the speed of light, which is gargantuan even by cosmic ray standards. The reason for what made it travel so quickly is unknown. Must've been a wild event!
This is, for reference, a single particle with an energy of around 50 joules. That's about the energy of a served tennis ball in amateur games, or a 1 kilogram weight dropped from 5 meters.
In a particle so small and light, 600 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 of them weigh about a gram.
It takes the best machines humanity has to accelerate particles to energies 40 million times smaller.
Do deciduous trees get seasonal depression, or are they happy they have winters off?
What is happening? The recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis, by far the brightest one known, is a star* in the northern constellation Corona Borealis that, once every 80 years or so, increases in brightness from completely invisible by naked eye to among the ~100 brightest in the night sky. This increase is called a nova, from the Latin word for new, as it looks like a new star has appeared.
Where can i see it from? Basically all human inhabited latitudes, all except the far south. In the northern latitudes, however it is visible the entire night, while near and below the equator you will need to 'catch' it at the right time of night, which in August and September is just after sunset.
How will it look? Let's not get your hopes up too high. It will, at the brightest, reach a magnitude around 2 at most, so about as bright as the north star, relatively unremarkable and completely unnoticeable as unique to someone who doesn't know where to look. But still, it's the most visible sudden change to the relatively fixed pattern of the heavens any of us will live to see, so you should still go give it a look.
Where is it? Currently, the constellation is best visible about 1 or 2 hours after sunset. You will need to be relatively far away from light pollution, so at least a couple dozen stars are clearly visible. While learning the constellations, and finding the star by orienting via those is imho half the fun, you could use one of many sky map apps and websites to tell you the star's location. If it didn't happen yet, there should be nothing visible at that location. However, if there is, congrats! You just did an astronomy™ :3
It will appear in the circle next to the star labeled ε
Why is this happening? Most stars spend most of their lives in a stable, hydrogen fusing state. However, when hydrogen in their cores begins to run out, they switch to helium fusion, which makes them swell up to enormous sizes, turn red due to lower surface temperature, and are thus called red giants. After this helium runs out, the star will (in most cases) throw off the inflated outer layers, while its hot, dense core shrinks and keeps on glowing due to how hot it is, while not actually doing any fusion and not producing any new energy. Those are called white dwarfs, and because they don't fuse, aren't technically stars at all, therefore the asterisk in the first sentence of this post. The T-CrBo system is a red giant and white dwarf binary, where the red giant has grown so big, that the parts of it closest to its partner aren't gravitationally bound to it anymore. Therefore, the gas falls and accumulates on the white dwarf's surface (which otherwise has no hydrogen on its own), untill a critical point is reached where the pressure of the gas causes it to all fuse at once, resulting in a huge thermonuclear explosion bright enough to be seen from over 2500 light years. The explosion however, isn't big enough to blow the dwarf apart, and it starts accumulating new matter from its partner right away. Because of this, it with re-explodes every 8 decades, and it is due to go any day now.
TIL the English word "check", as in check if something works, check someone out.. is derived from the check as in, the chess thing. Which is insane, considering one is used so much more than the other, you'd expect it to be the opposite.
Same as how the color orange is named after the fruit.
Guys help me it's 2am. And I just got a great creative idea I have to work on now, or it'll become nothing but mist and faint memories in the morning. This is a monthly (at least) occurrence to me.
I'm making a board game, the main idea randomly came to me while watching board game youtube, and the other idea that makes it actually unique in the shower after that.
Like, what about being quite tired, and with loads of other chores not done, makes my brain go super creative. I guess we'll never know.
We're not ready for space Tumblr.
★ Star-of-this-show-deactivatedz=1.3
What if i try fusing just a bit of iron. As a treat.
⭐ StarryMcStarface
And their corpse is still here. Don't do drugs kids.
🇳 Neutral-To-The-Core
> their corpse
You called?
🔴 BetterRedThanDead
I don't care what you think about it, a binary relationship between a white dwarf and a giant is always predatory
Like you're literally taking their upper atmosphere from them. And using it for fusion, like you deserve to have it again even when you ran out of hydrogen eons ago.
⚪ PaleGlow44
Yeah well me and my partner @Hydrogen-Daddy increased our matter transfer rate several times this millennium just to spite you.
⭕ Hydrogen-Daddy
And we liked it. A lot.
⚫ BlackHeartBrightOutside
Preach. Nothing predatory in me eating half of my neighbors.
⚪ PaleGlow44
THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU!!
Fuck right off!
🌟 FlareStarBestStar
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
☀️ TheHeliosHimself
Some of the wet gunk on my 3rd rock is getting interesting colors, i wonder what that means?
☀️ TheHeliosHimself
Update: It's getting into weird shapes and even changing things a bit on the planet. I'd almost be concerned if there was ever a chance of it impacting me in any way
☀️ TheHeliosHimself
Dysom Spfhere
⚫ Quasar53
I don't understand why everyone goes so crazy about planets with rings.
I have a ring too, and it's larger than your entire stellar system.
And it emits enough x rays to melt your face from 10 parsecs away
🔵 Bluer-than-thou
But don't you have to kill a guy to get one?
⚫ Quasar53
Well, beauty has a price sweetheart.
I saw this meme going around on twitter and I think it'll be perfect for this account.
List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.
I wasnt tagged (rude lol /j /pos) but i want to so!
ANYWAY
1. Chonny Jash
2. Tally Hall
3. Bookbinding
4. Foraging
5. Life and reproductive cycle of plants, specifically moss.
1. Fantasy high (d20 in general really)
2. Dragon age, also in general
3. Mental health/disability stuff(awareness acceptance pride ect ((there connected) in my brain atleast))
4. Werewolves!!!!
5. Myths and paranormal stuff (going into one thing cause my brain has Also connected them)
AH I LOVE THIS, I literally just woke up from a dream where someone was asking me questions about fantasy high, Very Normal Of Me.
Anyway, like always, feel free to ignore and have a wonderful day/night/whatever
YAY YIPEE THX FOR THE TAG
-type o negative
-werewolves
-my band
-gender
-dyeing hair
oooo
1. wof!
2. warrior cats!
3. blue eye fun facts :3
4. [REDACTED]
5. disney animation techniques!
woag!
1 politics
2 religion
3 gender
4 LGSM and the film pride (2014)
5 uhh uhhh your mum
In no good order:
1 mlp
2 gender
3 chemistry
4 yarn crafts/sewing
5 philosophy (tho unsure of my ability for a full hour idk)
@ostrigjpg @igotstuckinthevoidhelp @logorrhea5mip @jan-silan and anyone else who wants to join :3
@fraudfrogz @i-love-linux-and-reject-gender @i-eat-lip-gloss @coelii @curious-coven-crow @greetings-inferiors @cannibalistic-cucumber (I probably forgot a bunch of people sorry)
And that is an hour on each of the subtopics
If youćre interested in any of these things, do contact me about it.
Goddamn factorio
Why is it 3am
And i still haven't gotten 60 per min on the yellow science packs
tumblr leftists: if you ever associate with anyone who has ever associated with anyone who has ever said something a little problematic you're evil and should be cancelled
also tumblr leftists: we stan this group that has "a curse to the jews" on their flag bc we think they're cool for shooting at ships
tumblr leftists: Black Lives Matter!!!!
tumblr leftists: omg this group that brought slavery back to Yemen and specifically targets Africans and Black Yemeni are so heroic for taking maritime crew members hostage
Nuanced take: the Houthis, for reasons above, plus, yk, being religious extremists, are bad.
However, the recent attack of the west on them is only caused by the west protecting the interest of its ruling class, namely the continuation of international trade and protection of Israel. And they do not care about the effects to the people of Yemen. Which is also bad.
fucks me up that by total coincidence the sun and moon's size difference is exactly matched to their difference in distance from us, thus making our beautiful total solar eclipses where you can see the silver threads of the sun's corona possible because the moon just covers the sun completely
The stars (literally) aligned just right for this experience to be possible. It's likely that aliens don't have this
The moon is also absolutely gargantuan by moon standards. It isn't the largest moon in the solar system, but it is BY FAR the largest in comparison with its planet. Ganymede is the largest satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the solar system. Its diameter is only about 3.8% of Jupiter's. Titan's radius is 4.4% of Saturn's. Callisto and Io are the next largest in the neighborhood, with 3.4% and 2.6% the diameter of Jupiter respectively.
Our moon is number 5. It is smaller in direct comparison to the above moons. The diameter of the moon is 3475 km. That is a full 27% of the diameter of the Earth. More than a quarter. That's ridiculous. It's unheard of. The universe is large enough that the word unique probably doesn't mean a lot, but this might be about as close as you get.
This has had a huge impact on our planet. Other things aliens might not have are significant tides. One of Mars's dumpy little potatoes wouldn't be able to move oceans the way our moon does.
Our moon has also stabilized our axis to a massive degree. Without her up there our axis would wobble all over the place and our climate would be far more chaotic. Aliens might not be quite so lucky.
I guess what I am really trying to say is that the moon is extremely cool. I like the moon.
We love Luna on this blog! She is our bestie our partner our sister and we likely owe her our lives for real
To add to the Moon appreciation here, like, it is by far the most interesting thing in the sky by looks. Like.
If you have a ×20 to ×50 pair of binoculars or low end telescope(like i do lol), the stars are dots. The planets are large dots. The sun will blind you.
You can see its mountain ranges, when the low sun gives them long shadows.
You can see it's geology spilled over the surface in wide maria, frozen seas of ancient basalt lava.
You can see the almost continents of an almost planet. A whole another world.
It is very underrated, 10/10, would moon again. :3
i’m screaming
I don’t think this woman is straight anymore.
Yall are missing the best fucking part
This is my new favourite post on tumblr, bye
I mean, in the unlikely possibility that this is true, good for her, but if anyone suggested sex with a man to a sexually unsatisfied lesbian, this site would go apeshit lol.
Idk, the whole thing feels kinda weird to me tbh.
Okay, i realized what was weird here, like, the whole didn’t let me tap out thing is rape.
Yes, straight up rape. Doesn’t matter if she enjoyed it in retrospective, it’s rape.
Like, this is just the straight man fantasy of turning a gay woman straight by rape, but reversed.(which is likely why these messages are fake) And that doesn’t make it cool, except apparently on Tumblr where people are enthusiastically supporting it.
why did you do that?
how many water bottles are in your room right now?
>would you slaughter the rich? / favorite extracurricular activity? :3
how do you like your shower water?
is there dishes in your room?
do you have a favorite towel?
Do you use lip balm?
an app you frequently use besides this godforsaken site?
you get a free pass to kill anyone, who is it?
why did you do that? I didn't, I swear, im innocent!! 😭
how many water bottles are in your room right now? Zero i think.
would you slaughter the rich? Define rich and slaughter but yes :3
how do you like your shower water? Depending on the day between quite hot and like, tap water cold, usualy somewhere bellow the first one tho.
is there dishes in your room? No, i rarely eat here and when i do i usualy clean up right after
do you have a favorite towel? No, idk, theyre all interchangeable to me lol
Do you use lip balm? In the most stupid way possible, like, only after my lips start bleeding a bit from cracking lolol, then i stop whenever it stops too
an app you frequently use besides this godforsaken site? Hmm, many lol, but for something interesting Stellarium which you can use to predict the positions of stars and planets, and which is free :3
you get a free pass to kill anyone, who is it? The first fascist leader of the US somwhere in the mid 30s, like, you didnt say it has to be now.
i’m screaming
I don’t think this woman is straight anymore.
Yall are missing the best fucking part
This is my new favourite post on tumblr, bye
I mean, in the unlikely possibility that this is true, good for her, but if anyone suggested sex with a man to a sexually unsatisfied lesbian, this site would go apeshit lol.
Idk, the whole thing feels kinda weird to me tbh.
Okay, i realized what was weird here, like, the whole didn’t let me tap out thing is rape.
Yes, straight up rape. Doesn’t matter if she enjoyed it in retrospective, it’s rape.
Like, this is just the straight man fantasy of turning a gay woman straight by rape, but reversed.(which is likely why these messages are fake) And that doesn’t make it cool, except apparently on Tumblr where people are enthusiastically supporting it.
Recently I've gotten back into Kerbal Space Program, and boy am I enjouying it.
For the uninitiated, it's a game where you build, launch and pilot spaceships and airplanes(emphasis on the 1st), as well as having optional tasks of doing scientific research as well as handling funding of the space program.
It is very fun if you like games where you build stuff, flying sims, space, rockets, or explosions.
It also teaches you orbital mechanics and broadly how planes and rockets work, tho, tbh, you'll need the wiki a lot.
“Men need therapy” has become a mainstream idea in feminist circles but the conversation never, ever moves past that point because if it did it would inevitably brush up against the implication that the way we raise boys is inherently traumatizing. And that would complicate their nice neat theories about how maleness is only ever a privilege and femaleness is only ever oppressive.
way we raise boys is inherently traumatizing
One experience relevant to this I had in middle school:
My friend, a girl, got a C in chemistry. The teacher, who is genuinely a nice older woman and one of the better ones we had, responded by trying to calm her, explaining how it's not that important, she'll get a better grade next time, etc, nothing weird there.
My other friend, a guy, on another test a month or so later, also got a C in chem. He started crying too.
He was told, in an "I'm sympathetic but can't do anything here" voice, that boys shouldn't cry.
At no other moment in my life have I felt such a potent urge to strangle a grandma. I 100% believe she was doing all of that with the full intent of helping him, and that is precisely the problem.
He could have had a death in the family. He could have been going through a messy divorce, or sexual abuse, or a number of other things outside of his control.
He was maybe just a 14yo boy with chaotic emotions that couldn't be held back anymore. She didn't really consider that, I think.
Instead, his feelings were dismissed and declared as invalid and "not manly".
If this was an isolated incident, no harm would have probably been done. It wasn't, tho. It's simply the most obvious example of the constant reality of being a boy/man, and when you experience so much of that every day you stop noticing it, that's when the real harm is done.
Big congrats to the Russian government, they've gone so far, my Putin-loving, conservative homophobic dad was like, "Well, that's not okay at all"
I didn't think I'd live to see him disagree with them on anything ever, guess reality proved worse than i imagined.
