Month: October 2014

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vrabia:

I mean, dystopian stories about revolutions and redefining social order in the wake of worldwide catastrophes are cool, but you know what’s #1 on my list of wasted post-apocalyptic plot devices?

The Global Seed Vault. 

This is a thing that exists right now and was created as a safeguard against accidental loss of crop diversity. 700,000+ seed samples from all over the world are stored inside a giant concrete vault in a remote location in permafrost conditions so in case we fuck up everything like we’re probably going to we’ll be able to re-invent agriculture from scratch.

Also it looks like this

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and it might as well have FREE PLOT DEVICE TO GOOD HOME written all over it, because can you imagine a bunch of exhausted, discouraged, hungry and injured kids travelling thousands of miles in search of this place they weren’t sure even existed, coming up a frozen slope and finally seeing it

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walking through this tunnel in stunned, reverent silence because they’re afraid to let themselves believe this is real

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coming inside the actual vault that’s lined floor-to-ceiling with the stuff that’s going to feed what’s left of humanity and jump-start new ecosystems.

If you know about this place and can’t imagine a fantastic post-apocalyptic story of hope and discovery and spiritually-tinted science about the equivalent of present-day millenials pulling the world out of darkness by learning to grow kidney beans

I don’t know what to tell you, man.

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#my thoughts exactly

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jrcbouillabaisse:

 

unbuttonedinawood:

i never thought i’d write the words “deeply evil carpet” but. seriously. what a deeply evil carpet that is.

 

of-the-yellow-ajah:

And what you should do is to put this over an actual trap, like a hole in the floor so people will be like “Oh ha ha ha that’s soooo funny, it’s a rug!” And then fall through it. 

 

fishslut:

are you satan

 

copperbadge:

It gets better — I tracked down the source (because I wanted one for the Bartment) and that entire image — including the floor around the carpet — is a trompe l’eoil painting.

So in theory you could really fuck people up and hang it on your wall. 

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#trompe l’oeil

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americaninthedeerstalker:

Retrospectively, you know what I really would’ve liked in an episode of tos? Kirk and Spock beam down to a planet of humanoids that doesn’t know about aliens yet, so of course Spock has his hat on, and when they get down there they look around and all the humanoids have pointed ears and it’s a mad scramble to trade off the hat.

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#Star Trek #TOS #:D

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In an absolutely wonderful [/sarcasm] beginning to Asexual Awareness Week, I fumbled my ace ring in the bathroom this morning and it shattered against the tile.

I’m going to keep an eye out every store I go to. The next time I find a place selling non-hematine black rings that look decent and aren’t horribly expensive, I will buy one. The next time I find hematine rings that meet those standards, I will buy five. I really like the magnetism aspect, and like hell am I waiting until the annual Rock and Gem Fair in May to replace it like I did when I broke the last one. (Though, since that previous one was made of hematine beads and I still have all the beads, I might still be able to find a replacement string. Can’t do that now, though, because I don’t have the beads with me.)

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#asexuality #*sigh* #oh look an original post