I just shipped my pants

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Wed, 22 May 2013 22:06:59 -0400

thewinchestercave: Do not pity the dead. Pity the living. And...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:09:53 -0400

Do not pity the dead. Pity the living. And above all, pity those who live without love. - SuperWhoLock take on a Harry Potter quote

Heaven is empty. All the angels are here.

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:09:06 -0400

Heaven is empty. All the angels are here.

tumbler-is-illogical: ponfart: #WE ARE ALL DELIGHTED BY YOUR...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:06:05 -0400

tumbler-is-illogical:

ponfart:

#WE ARE ALL DELIGHTED BY YOUR ANATOMY MR SPOCK

best tag ever

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Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:48 -0400

sensitivehandsomeactionman: the original mishamigos, Eric...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:47:26 -0400

sensitivehandsomeactionman:

the original mishamigos, Eric Kripke & Jeremy Carver, ep 4.03 DVD commentary

voculabulary: wake-up-kid: runwhenisayrunfightwhenisayfight: a...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:45:40 -0400

voculabulary:

wake-up-kid:

runwhenisayrunfightwhenisayfight:

ahorsecalledhonour:

fixthefisherking:

banjaxed:

nightlifemingus:

nosdrinker:

hypnotiqradiance:

If you don’t get this reference, you’re too young for tumblr.

are you fucking kidding me pixar puts out a movie ever year a baby would get this reference

it’s not pixar it’s a reference to that time in 1994 when lamps became sentient humanoids

many were lost that day

It was a grim day for mankind. My parents took refuge in a cave and thus saved us from certain death; we lived close to a lamp factory at the time and the surrounding region was utterly devastated in the conflict.

My brother fought one off using only an egg whisk and a pogo stick.

Only 90s kids remember the Lampocalypse

My father still has the scars from where one stole his kidney

Ironically, it was a dark time.

You did not

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Wed, 22 May 2013 20:44:14 -0400

thenewenlightenmentage: What is a Magnetar? A magnetar is a...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:42:27 -0400

thenewenlightenmentage:

What is a Magnetar?

A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field, the decay of which powers the emission of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-rays and gamma rays.¹

History

On March 5, 1979, several months after dropping probes into the toxic atmosphere of Venus, two Soviet spacecraft, Venera 11 and 12, were drifting through the inner solar system on an elliptical orbit. It had been an uneventful cruise. The radiation readings on board both probes hovered around a nominal 100 counts per second. But at 10:51AM EST, a pulse of gamma radiation hit them. Within a fraction of a millisecond, the radiation level shot above 200,000 counts per second and quickly went off scale.

Eleven seconds later gamma rays swamped the NASA space probe Helios 2, also orbiting the sun. A plane wave front of high-energy radiation was evidently sweeping through the solar system. It soon reached Venus and saturated the Pioneer Venus Orbiter’s detector. Within seconds the gamma rays reached Earth. They flooded detectors on three U.S. Department of Defense Vela satellites, the Soviet Prognoz 7 satellite, and the Einstein Observatory. Finally, on its way out of the solar system, the wave also blitzed the International Sun-Earth Explorer.

The pulse of highly energetic, or “hard,” gamma rays was 100 times as intense as any previous burst of gamma rays detected from beyond the solar system, and it lasted just two tenths of a second. At the time, nobody noticed; life continued calmly beneath our planet’s protective atmosphere. Fortunately, all 10 spacecraft survived the trauma without permanent damage. The hard pulse was followed by a fainter glow of lower-energy, or “soft,” gamma rays, as well as x-rays, which steadily faded over the subsequent three minutes. As it faded away, the signal oscillated gently, with a period of eight seconds. Fourteen and a half hours later, at 1:17AM on March 6, another, fainter burst of x-rays came from the same spot on the sky. Over the ensuing four years, Evgeny P. Mazets of the Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, and his collaborators detected 16 bursts coming from the same direction. They varied in intensity, but all were fainter and shorter than the March 5 burst.

Astronomers had never seen anything like this. For want of a better idea, they initially listed these bursts in catalogues alongside the better-known gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), even though they clearly differed in several ways. In the mid-1980s Kevin C. Hurley of the University of California at Berkeley realized that similar outbursts were coming from two other areas of the sky. Evidently these sources were all repeating unlike GRBs, which are one-shot events [see “The Brightest Explosions in the Universe,” by Neil Gehrels, Luigi Piro and Peter J. T. Leonard; Scientific American, December 2002]. At a July 1986 meeting in Toulouse, France, astronomers agreed on the approximate locations of the three sources and dubbed them “soft gamma repeaters” (SGRs). The alphabet soup of astronomy had gained a new ingredient.

Another seven years passed before two of us (Duncan and Thompson) devised an explanation for these strange objects, and only in 1998 did one of us (Kouveliotou) and her team find remains of a star that exploded 5,000 years ago. Unless this overlap was pure coincidence, it put the source 1,000 times as far away as theorists had thought—and thus made it a million times brighter than the Eddington limit. In 0.2 second the March 1979 event released as much energy as the sun radiates in roughly 10,000 years, and it concentrated that energy in gamma rays rather than spreading it across the electromagnetic spectrum.²

About 26 magnetars are known (see here).

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar

2 http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/~duncan/sciam.pdf

iloveeddieredmayne: #do u hear the ppl sing singing the song of...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:39:54 -0400

iloveeddieredmayne:

#do u hear the ppl sing singing the song of soapy men

french: my life all wrapped up into one photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:37:51 -0400

french:

my life all wrapped up into one photo

neil-gaiman: jupiterstarr: Abandoned Amusement Park in New...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:30:04 -0400

neil-gaiman:

jupiterstarr:

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

they say New orleans is haunted… this has proved the theory 100%

I was sending photos like this to everyone when I started writing Nightmare in Silver. There is something uniquely disturbing about abandoned Amusement Parks.

hawkeyedriza: absolutelydestinysmood: nannajane: in 7 years its going to be the 20s again so we...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:25:09 -0400

hawkeyedriza:

absolutelydestinysmood:

nannajane:

in 7 years its going to be the 20s again so we can bring back swing music and the aesthetics of that era but keep modern values who’s with me

you can’t repeat the past

can’t repeat the past? why, of course you can! of course you can.

dzioo: Wanted to try markers this time, believing they’d make...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:22:52 -0400

dzioo:

Wanted to try markers this time, believing they’d make the process of shading quicker. Not neccessarily>< And because I still such at using them, this may seem odd in some places. But it was fun to draw :D Sorry for another sappy and stupid comic.

snarkreactors: I had my hands full but I needed to turn on my light so I just used my mouth and...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:18:20 -0400

snarkreactors:

I had my hands full but I needed to turn on my light

so I just used my mouth and flicked the switch up with my tongue

and then I realized

uh

oh

amys-raggedydoctor: Amy Pond in every episode.

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:16:23 -0400

amys-raggedydoctor:

Amy Pond in every episode.

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh uh, Cicero, Lipschitz! He had it coming,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:13:36 -0400

_{Pop! Six! Squish! Uh uh, Cicero, Lipschitz!}

He had it coming, he had it coming
He only had himself to blame
If you’d have been there, if you’d have seen it
I betcha you would have done the same

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Wed, 22 May 2013 20:12:35 -0400

othartryggvassen: cthulhu: celebrate-the-magic: poison-ninja: ...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:12:11 -0400

othartryggvassen:

cthulhu:

celebrate-the-magic:

poison-ninja:

i-am-momo-senpai:

This is the most meta thing I’ve ever seen on Cartoon Network.

OH. MY. GOD.

OH MY FREAKING LORD

HOLY FUCK

oh.

monkeyscandance: I’ve fallen into the PJatO fandom and sunk...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:07:42 -0400

monkeyscandance:

I’ve fallen into the PJatO fandom and sunk like a stone. Of course there had to be fanart. I am doing an illustration series in cooperation with Ronja on most of the gods and their demigod children.

Poseidon | Hades | more to come