prepare for victory candescence

deliciouslyunrelated: Moshi moshi Robin desu

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:37:29 +0100

deliciouslyunrelated:

Moshi moshi Robin desu

phototoartguy: Brahminy Kite. By Orange Leaf

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:46:29 +0100

phototoartguy:

Brahminy Kite.

By Orange Leaf

No worries!! Work’s pretty casual about phones when...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:36:06 +0100

No worries!! Work’s pretty casual about phones when it’s quiet (my manager’s right here seeing me on my phone) but I guess writing many stories might be pushing it

I can’t even do THAT. My job is to stand @ admissions and...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:13:30 +0100

I can’t even do THAT. My job is to stand @ admissions and answer questions before anyone gets to the desk, but it’s quiet since there’s no tours running anymore today. Just standing. Standing for hours. “Hello, there are no tours left today,” I say. The people smile and nod, they inspect the prices. They turn back to me. “When is the next tour?”, they ask. I jump on their feet and scream unintelligibly. Then the next customer comes in

I’m p much surplus to requirements at work today. It is boring. I am bored. Send me messages....

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:04:25 +0100

I’m p much surplus to requirements at work today. It is boring. I am bored. Send me messages. I implore you. Give me prompts & I will write tiny absurd stories 4 u when no one is looking. Bespoke. Free of charge.

I am. so bored. You don’t know how bored.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 12:55:49 +0100

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Sat, 18 May 2013 11:04:46 +0100

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Sat, 18 May 2013 09:14:10 +0100

nightmareloki: newvagabond: Omfg. OH MY GOD

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:23:15 +0100

nightmareloki:

newvagabond:

Omfg.

OH MY GOD

claydols: the first person to give birth musta been like HOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:33:01 +0100

claydols:

the first person to give birth musta been like HOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

future-drama: Architect Walter Jonas’s Intrapolis, 1962

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:42:18 +0100

future-drama:

Architect Walter Jonas’s Intrapolis, 1962

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Sat, 18 May 2013 01:51:15 +0100

spriteknight: Nice shoes man. B| It’s not like I forgot how his...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:10:04 +0100

spriteknight:

Nice shoes man. B|

It’s not like I forgot how his god tier design looks like. Nope, not me. He just LOVES these shoes. Can’t argue with the coolkid, can I?

And btw guys! Long time no see dear tumblr! Big thanks to TeaMage who motivated me to make this speedpaint. Thanks, bro. Hope I can make more of these… shitty pics? Aww just joking, speedpaints are THE BEST. See ya.

funnywildlife: 2010_ac_macklbp1 by Wellsman2010 on...

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:19:10 +0100

funnywildlife:

2010_ac_macklbp1 by Wellsman2010 on Flickr.

Vibrant Scarlet Macaw

okayamelia: “my real name is…. matt smith.” the doctor takes off his jacket and bowtie to reveal...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:31:05 +0100

okayamelia:

“my real name is…. matt smith.”

the doctor takes off his jacket and bowtie to reveal his real self. he has been a human actor all along. the fourth wall is broken. the fandom is in chaos.

tigerhazard: oh my god

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:01:19 +0100

tigerhazard:

oh my god

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Fri, 17 May 2013 18:27:56 +0100

3go: jetgreguar: adimals: spaceplasma: NASA Probe Gets Close...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:37:24 +0100

The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm (false-color image)

False-color image of Saturn's north pole.

3go:

jetgreguar:

adimals:

spaceplasma:

NASA Probe Gets Close Views of Large Saturn Hurricane

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole.

In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane’s eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane are traveling 330 mph(150 meters per second). The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon.

“We did a double take when we saw this vortex because it looks so much like a hurricane on Earth,” said Andrew Ingersoll, a Cassini imaging team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. “But there it is at Saturn, on a much larger scale, and it is somehow getting by on the small amounts of water vapor in Saturn’s hydrogen atmosphere.”

Scientists will be studying the hurricane to gain insight into hurricanes on Earth, which feed off warm ocean water. Although there is no body of water close to these clouds high in Saturn’s atmosphere, learning how these Saturnian storms use water vapor could tell scientists more about how terrestrial hurricanes are generated and sustained.

Both a terrestrial hurricane and Saturn’s north polar vortex have a central eye with no clouds or very low clouds. Other similar features include high clouds forming an eye wall, other high clouds spiraling around the eye, and a counter-clockwise spin in the northern hemisphere.

A major difference between the hurricanes is that the one on Saturn is much bigger than its counterparts on Earth and spins surprisingly fast. At Saturn, the wind in the eye wall blows more than four times faster than hurricane-force winds on Earth. Unlike terrestrial hurricanes, which tend to move, the Saturnian hurricane is locked onto the planet’s north pole. On Earth, hurricanes tend to drift northward because of the forces acting on the fast swirls of wind as the planet rotates. The one on Saturn does not drift and is already as far north as it can be.

“The polar hurricane has nowhere else to go, and that’s likely why it’s stuck at the pole,” said Kunio Sayanagi, a Cassini imaging team associate at Hampton University in Hampton, Va.

Scientists believe the massive storm has been churning for years. When Cassini arrived in the Saturn system in 2004, Saturn’s north pole was dark because the planet was in the middle of its north polar winter. During that time, the Cassini spacecraft’s composite infrared spectrometer and visual and infrared mapping spectrometer detected a great vortex, but a visible-light view had to wait for the passing of the equinox in August 2009. Only then did sunlight begin flooding Saturn’s northern hemisphere. The view required a change in the angle of Cassini’s orbits around Saturn so the spacecraft could see the poles.

“Such a stunning and mesmerizing view of the hurricane-like storm at the north pole is only possible because Cassini is on a sportier course, with orbits tilted to loop the spacecraft above and below Saturn’s equatorial plane,” said Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “You cannot see the polar regions very well from an equatorial orbit. Observing the planet from different vantage points reveals more about the cloud layers that cover the entirety of the planet.”

Cassini changes its orbital inclination for such an observing campaign only once every few years. Because the spacecraft uses flybys of Saturn’s moon Titan to change the angle of its orbit, the inclined trajectories require attentive oversight from navigators. The path requires careful planning years in advance and sticking very precisely to the planned itinerary to ensure enough propellant is available for the spacecraft to reach future planned orbits and encounters.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

SPACE IS FUCKING COOL

this is so incredible

THIRD IMPACT

kvothetheraving: I’ve always felt that the Doctor would have a...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:46:28 +0100

kvothetheraving:

I’ve always felt that the Doctor would have a large conservatory stashed away somewhere. After all, he’s got to get his fresh fruits and veggies somewhere (but no pears, naturally)! The windows would filter out the harmful cosmic rays and only let in a reasonable amount of starlight, so one could sit in between the plants and gaze out upon a beautiful starscape (such as the 30 Doradus star-forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, pictured here).

(The conservatory is the MacMillan Bloedel Conservatory, photographed by Nathan Bauman. This is allowed under personal, noncommercial use. The Hubble Space Telescope photo of the 30 Doradus region is free for public usage.)

cat doesn’t want to get out of nice warm bath [x]

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:55:32 +0100

cat doesn’t want to get out of nice warm bath [x]