witch-breed:

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Instant reblog forever

I’m thinking about watching the West Wing just because of Mr. President’s badassery.

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missatralissa:

quantumaniac:

Earth Will One Day See a Second Sun

Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star located in the Orion constellation, about 640 light-years away from Earth - is preparing to explode via a supernova. When it does, the Earth will have a front-row seat; in fact, the explosion will be so bright that Earth will seem to briefly have two suns in the sky. 

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest and largest stars in our immediate galactic neighborhood - if you dropped it in our Solar System, it would extend all the way out to Jupiter, leaving Earth completely engulfed. In stellar terms, it’s predicted to explode in the very near future. Of course, the conversion from stellar to human terms is pretty extreme, as Betelgeuse is predicted to explode anytime in the next million years.

But still, whether the explosion occurs in 2011 or 1002011 (give or take 640 years for the light to reach Earth), it’s going to make for one of the most unforgettable light shows in our planet’s history. For a few weeks, the supernova will be so bright that there will appear to be two stars in the sky, and night will be indistinguishable from day for much of that time. So don’t count on getting a lot of sleep when Betelgeuse explodes, because the only sensible thing for the world to do will be to throw a weeks-long global supernova party.

Physicist Brad Carter explains what Earth (and hopefully humanity) can look forward to:

“This is the final hurrah for the star. It goes bang, it explodes, it lights up - we’ll have incredible brightness for a brief period of time for a couple of weeks and then over the coming months it begins to fade and then eventually it will be very hard to see at all.”

Although there’ll be no missing the explosion, Carter points out that the vast majority of material shot out from the supernova will pass by Earth completely unnoticed:

“When a star goes bang, the first we will observe of it is a rain of tiny particles called neutrinos. They will flood through the Earth and bizarrely enough, even though the supernova we see visually will light up the night sky, 99 per cent of the energy in the supernova is released in these particles that will come through our bodies and through the Earth with absolutely no harm whatsoever.”

In any event, the Betelgeuse explosion will likely be the most dramatic supernova Earth ever witnesses - well, unless our Sun eventually explodes and destroys our planet, which would probably leave Betelgeuse the runner-up.

Though, I’m pretty sure our star is not capable of going supernova. I might be wrong, though.

Yup. it can’t go supernova, it’s not big enough. Though it will turn into red giant, which won’t be pleasant either, especially for earth. If there’s still life here it would burn. :) And it won’t look too good for other planets in our solar system either, because the red giant phase won’t be long enough to develop life (e.g. on Jupiter’s moons).

Oh well, we’ll all be long gone then. :D 

“I trust you, I know you’d do anything for me, I’d do anything for you, I know that you would take a bullet for me, I would for you as well, you know that, right? Can you imagine all that…”
“Yes.”
“…can you imagine what that would be like to share with a woman?”
“No.”

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Hawaii Five 0 2x22
He’s not angry.. he’s just worried about you! 

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ladyofrohan:

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Sometimes I wonder about what Gandalf says to Pippin in the movies about death. Gandalf is a Maia so he’s describing what ‘death’ is like to him. Of course he can’t really die. But Pippin’s a mortal, and not even the Valar know what death is like for mortals. But of course Pippin wouldn’t know all that. So while it’s touching that Gandalf comforts him with his words like that, it’s kind of sad that it isn’t really going to be that way for Pippin in the end.

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BUT ARE THEY GAY SKELETONS??? BECAUSE I CAN’T BE HAVING THAT KIND OF FILTH ON MY BLOG!

Who cares? Look how happy they are!

It’s just that I have never seen such enormous boners. They’re so hard for each other.

Uhm, excuse me, but is that a washing machine in the kitchen in the second pic? What even?!

In London at least, if not most of England, if not Europe… they put clothes washers in the kitchen. And then blink at you and say, “Well, where else would you put it? The bathroom?”  I know. I know. Believe me.

As and English person I can attest to this. My washing machine is in my kitchen. Everyone I know, all over the UK and expats in Europe, keeps their washing machine in their kitchen. Where do you dear Americans keep yours? I am utterly confused - it seems a perfectly logical place to keep a washing machine!

I had the option to put mine either in my kitchen or my bathroom. Because it was handier for the space, I opted for the bathroom.

i love how there’s pictures of skeleton sex and everyone’s talking about washing machines

Okay, I just need to know, Americans do you really put your washing machines in your bathroom. How do your bathrooms have the space for a washing machine. I mean, maybe I’ve just had oddly small bathrooms my whole life, in all the bathrooms I’ve had (which is five bathrooms to date) you’d never be able to comfortably fit a washing machine in there. 

As a Brit, I never thought the washing-machine-in-the-kitchen thing was weird, even though for my entire childhood ours was in the bathroom. We had a big bathroom though.

However, I’ve moved to Australia now and discovered something radical: Here, it’s most common to locate the washing machine (and tumble dryer, too) in a dedicated room called “The Laundry”. I swear, you couldn’t make this stuff up.

What is wrong with you people???  We have laundry rooms.  Rooms dedicated solely to washing, drying, and even folding our laundry.  EXTRAVAGANT!

^THANK YOU. Throughout this whole conversation I felt like I was watching a table of people debate this, and I’m just sitting there quietly like “Do they not know? Should I say it?” Really, guys!

I don’t usually leave the text but this is priceless. 

FINALLY someone mentions a Laundry Room. Why in the world would you put a washing machine in another room? My laundry room even has large shelves installed as a place to put the clean, folded clothes. I pity the folk doing laundry in their kitchens or bathrooms. 

Are you kidding me? Laundry rooms? Laundry ROOMS? You can afford to devote floorspace exclusively for laundry? 

You guys must live in palaces. *sob*

Wait, are you people actualy serious with the machines in kitchen? Because I honestly can’t tell