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jennstarkid:

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How Far is it to Mars?

How Far is it to Mars?:

jtotheizzoe:

You’re gonna want to click this.

Trust me.

That’s far. (Dunno if it works on mobile)

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So, one surprising thing and two reassuring things from...

So, one surprising thing and two reassuring things from Stormwatch.

Surprising: “Force” is not a new character at all, it’s Fuji with a different name! :D

Reassuring 1: while disappointed with the alien abduction origin and the fact that they still have real names (and Apollo now has a LAST name too) Apollo is beautiful, and dislikes clothes, as it should be, and he and Midnighter are already together. It was SUCH a relief to see Midnighter in his old costume again. Apollo’s is a bit different, but I am fine with it.

Reassuring 2: while difficult to show with just a couple panels, Starlin NAILED Angie’s personality, she’s awesome again :D

That’s not to say there weren’t things I didn’t like, I’m still very unsure of Jenny Soul, and I don’t like that Hellstrike is no longer sentient gas… but… if that’s what I had to trade for rescuing Angie, Apollo and Midnighter, I’ll take it.

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glukkake: cineraria: Magnetic Putty Time Lapse 1080p -...

glukkake:

cineraria:

Magnetic Putty Time Lapse 1080p - YouTube

Waaaaaant!

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"I am a mother of three girls, ages 2, 6, and 8. Two of them are Sandy Hook School students – one in..."

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I am a mother of three girls, ages 2, 6, and 8. Two of them are Sandy Hook School students – one in first grade, one in third grade. I would like to share with you our experience with Dec 14th and my feelings on gun control.

My third grader has gone thru some deep grief over the loss of her siblings’ friends. She was devastated by the loss of the teachers, especially her principal, Dawn Hocksprung, whom we all loved. She is angry that this has happened, that lives were lost so tragically and that she can no longer go to her school. When she was evacuated that day to the fire house, she did not know if her little sister had survived. She struggles with the concept that there is evil in the world, that something this horrific could happen to this town, to her, to her sisters, to her friends. She is 8.

In addition to the tragic loss of her playmates, friends, and teachers, my first grader suffers from PTSD. She was in the first room by the entrance to the school. Her teacher was able to gather the children into the tiny bathroom inside the classroom. There she stood, with 14 of her classmates and her teacher, all of them crying. You see, she heard what was happening on the other side of the wall. She heard everything. Shooting. Screaming. Pleading. She was sure she was going to die that day and did not want to die for Christmas. Imagine what this must have been like.

With PTSD comes fear – all kinds of fear. Each time she hears a loud or unfamiliar noise, she experiences the fear she had in that bathroom. She is not alone. All of her classmates have PTSD. She struggles nightly with nightmares, difficulty falling asleep, and being afraid to go anywhere in her own home. At school she becomes withdrawn, crying daily, covering her ears when it gets too loud and waiting for this to happen again. She is 6.

Imagine being this age and living like this. My children face their fears every day by getting on the bus and going to school. Would you be able to do the same? How would you feel if these were your children?

Although we are getting help and trying to heal, this will affect us for the rest of our lives. We are thankful that by the grace of god, our children came home to us on Dec. 14. As a family and a community, we are deeply saddened and heartbroken at the loss of so many innocent children and beloved teachers.

We are also furious.

Furious that 26 families must suffer with grief so deep and so wide that it is unimaginable.

Furious that the innocence and safety of my children’s lives has been taken.

Furious that someone had access to the type of weapon used in this massacre.

Furious that this type of weapon is even legal.

Furious that gun makers make ammunition with such high rounds and our government does nothing to stop them.

Furious that the ban on assault weapons was carelessly left to expire.

Furious that lawmakers let the gun lobbyists have so much control.

Furious that somehow, someone’s right to own a gun is more important than my children’s rights to life.

Furious that common sense has gone out the window.

Furious that lawmakers are too scared to take a stand.

The “what if’s” never stop going through my mind. What if this weapon were still banned? What if there weren’t high capacity rounds? What if the shooter had different bullets? I think the carnage would have been a lot less. Yes, there would have been losses. But there would have been time. Time to react and possibly make a difference.

Those children and teachers had NO CHANCE. They did not just get shot. They got blown apart.

It’s time to stop catering to the gun owners and lobbyists and start caring about our children, our families, our teachers, our friends and our neighbors. The NRA does not care about people, they care about money.

I don’t believe that anyone, other than the military, has a right to own the type of weapon or ammo used at Sandy Hook.

The second amendment is not limitless.

Weapons like the AR15 have no place in society. This is simply common sense.

Veronique Pozner, mother of Noah Pozner, killed at Sandy Hook Elementary, gave this statement which I believe whole-heartedly:

“The equation is terrifyingly simple: Faster weapons equal more fatalities. This is not about the right to bear arms. It is about the right to bear weapons with the capacity for mass destruction.”

We are trying to move forward, but there must be change. If our lawmakers cannot make this change, then we, as a people will elect those who will.

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Excerpt from a letter by CARRIE LENDROTH BATTAGLIA, the mother of two children who survived the Sandy Hook school massacre.

I dare the Republican members of Congress to take a meeting with her, or any other parent of the victim of gun violence.

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we-are-star-stuff: What would happen if the Sun...

we-are-star-stuff:

What would happen if the Sun disappeared?

Stars don’t just go out, so there’s no chance of the sun just turning off. A cloud of some sort of thick interstellar gas could conceivably suddenly blot out the sun, but where such a cloud could suddenly come from defies reason, again, astronomers haven’t noticed any stars in the sky suddenly being blotted out by clouds of gas. So for the sake of argument we are simply going to postulate that in some unknowable way, the Sun simply vanishes one day. What would be our fate?

In short: We’d be hosed. The actual details might be somewhat variable, but it’s still pretty easy to predict. How much does the temperature drop between sunset and sunrise? If the Sun vanishes, it will simply keep dropping at the same rate or an even higher rate as the water freezes out of the atmosphere and Earth loses its cloud cover. At high elevations and arctic areas this means within days the temperature would be several hundred degrees below zero. In the tropics it might take a week or longer, but it’s safe to say that in at most two weeks the entire globe would have cooled to hundreds of degrees below zero, and all surface life as we know it would be impossible. On the plus side, our planet retains heat rather well, so we wouldn’t freeze to death instantly. Also, as light from the Sun takes eight and a half minutes to reach us, we’d have a final few moments of glorious sunshine before our planet was bathed in darkness.

If the sun disappeared, for eight-and-a-half minutes we’d have no idea that the sun had gone. We’d still see it – lingering, like a ghost – in the sky above Earth’s day side. As soon as the last of the sun’s light reached us – eight-and-a-half minutes after the sun itself disappeared – the sun would blink out and night would fall over the entire Earth.

If you were on Earth’s night side when the sun disappeared, you might not notice anything … at first. But then the night sky would begin to change. For example, if there were a full moon – which shines with reflected sunlight – its light would disappear a few seconds after the sun’s light blinked out. Over the course of several hours, the planets would wink out one by one, as they reflected the last of the sun’s light to us.

Not until that instant would Earth sail off in a straight line into space. Einstein’s special theory of relativity tells us that no signal in the universe – not even the tug of gravity – can travel faster than the speed of light – about 300,000 kilometers, or 186,000 miles, per second. Though free from the sun’s gravity, we’d be traveling at the same speed as before – about 18 miles, or 30 kilometers per second. So Earth would be traveling at the same speed as always into eternal night.

Would the Earth be lifeless? No. The Earth itself would remain warm from radioactive decay for billions of years, so microbes deep in the crust would survive. The oceans would freeze over, but they likely wouldn’t freeze solid. Tidal action, volcanism, and the aforementioned heat from the Earth’s core would likely keep some water liquid. Deep sea life, especially that around sea floor vents that don’t rely on the Sun, would very possibly survive or even thrive.

On the surface though, nothing. In fact most of the atmosphere would soon freeze and fall to the earth as snow. Different components would freeze out at different times, so there would be layers of colored snow. The atmosphere itself would also freeze and fall to Earth, leaving us exposed to the harsh radiation travelling through space.The almost airless sky would be brighter than the starriest night on Earth now. The Moon wouldn’t have phases but it would still be visible as a gray ghost hanging in the cloudless sky, dimly illuminated by starlight. In fact the Earth’s surface would likely be stunningly beautiful in a silent still way, like a frozen dream.

We wouldn’t be around to appreciate it though. Some humans might survive for awhile in deep shelters or nuclear submarines, but unless there were a lot of them in a well equipped base, their chances of long term survival would be almost nil. Still, if there was enough of a society left to support an industrial base, maybe humanity would survive. Nuclear power would last forever, and the entire Earth’s surface would be littered with useful artifacts, not to mention frozen food in one form or another.

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So, my new Skyrim character Aleddor fought Mirimulnir (the first...

So, my new Skyrim character Aleddor fought Mirimulnir (the first dragon you can fight in the game) the other night, and I got some cool screenshots. :)

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oatmeal: The gay marriage debate in 50 years

oatmeal:

The gay marriage debate in 50 years

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