blankplanets:
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#rainbow #pretty things #(I make no claims regarding the Photoshop level of this picture) #(it’s pretty regardless)
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And it can only go up from here💕
tired: complaining about the dependent variable being on the x axis
wired: acknowledging that conventions are arbitrary and you can put whichever variable on whichever axis you feel like today because axis abolitionism you teapots
inspired: watch a sad movie to travel backwards in time
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#I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog
Ice mountains and methane grain dunes, on Pluto. It amazes me that we can see and think about the reality of this. @nasa @plymuni
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#Pluto #space #the power of science
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#lizard #adorable #thank you for letting us know
Average flag colour by latitude
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#flags #neat #(not sure how I would go about checking this in a reasonably efficient manner) #(seems plausible)
Blocking blood vessels by creating embolisms is, under most circumstances, very bad. But researchers are exploring ways to fight cancer by intentionally and strategically creating these blockages. In gas embolotherapy, researchers inject fluid droplets, which can carry chemotherapy drugs, into the bloodstream. Once they circulate into a cancerous tumor, they use ultrasound to vaporize the droplet and create a gas bubble. Those bubbles lodge inside the capillaries of the tumor, starving it of fresh blood and trapping the chemotherapy drugs inside. It’s a one-two punch to the cancer. Without blood flow, the cancer cells die, and, since the cancer-killing drugs get mostly trapped inside the tumor, patients may require lower dosages and endure fewer side effects. The technique is currently in animal testing, but hopefully it will be a valuable therapy for human patients in the future. (Image credit: Chemical & Engineering News; research credit: Y. Feng et al.; via AIP)
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#cancer #the power of science #I agree with Anomaly #(”nifty if it pans out”)
Buzzing a dwarf planet – @nasa’s flying the Dawn spaceship down to Ceres’ cratertops.
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#Ceres #space #the power of science
Using unwholesome language to keep your show wholesome
Awwwwwwww
As well as swearing, they also use brand names,
This must be the definition of chaotic good honestly
Honestly it would probably also help me stop crying if there was a lady standing next to me shouting “Nike! Adidas! Tastykake! Gucci! Google! Pringles! Fuck, I’m blanking shit shit shit fuck shit just keep swearing shit shit COMCAST”
me: *crying over croisants*
two british ladies: *chanting* CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
Pictured (an incomplete list): over a decade of diary entries, several years of dream journal, a few years of chat logs, copies of the comments I’ve left on blog posts (sadly incomplete, but far better than nothing), email archives for all three and a half of the email addresses I care about, tens of millions of words of fiction, a few hundred songs, a complete set of the Red Panda Adventures (including books and video comics), Wi-Fi maps for several cities I am relatively likely to find myself in, buggier and less-thorough Wi-Fi maps for the entirety of Canada and the United States, regular maps for every province/state I’m likely to visit in the normal course of events (Ontario, New York, Massachusetts), complete copies (including images) of several Tumblrs (including but not limited to mine), and the full text (but not images) of Wiktionary and Wikipedia.
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#I take great comfort in carrying my Useful Thing collection around with me all the time #and I have applied this same mindset to information #(the text portion of this post has been lying around in my drafts for so long that I’ve actually gotten a new smartphone since then) #((picture is of the new phone; taken using the old phone’s camera)) #(it’s still true it’s just that the portable version of my personal archive has a different physical embodiment now) #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now #(currently three; I plan to sell the old one soon to recoup most of what I spent on the new one) #proud citizen of The Future #oh look an original post #in a couple of days I’ll do the next backup and this post itself will become part of my archive #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers
Brinens and Things 