whatshouldwecallgradschool:

if only i actually cared this much about my research…

Maybe?

ikenbot:

Mysterious Geologic Structure Seen from Space

Imaged Above: Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers snapped this photo of a lava crater in Mauritania from the International Space Station. Credit: ESA/NASA

A huge, copper-toned formation in West Africa dominates a mesmerizing photo taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers snapped this hypnotic image of the so-called Richat structure in Mauritania, as the space station flew over the Sahara Desert on the Atlantic Coast of West Africa. Erosion of the various rock layers created the ring-like features that make up the sprawling structure, but the origin of the Richat structure remains somewhat mysterious, geologists have said.

The photo shows Kuipers’ unique vantage point from the orbiting complex, which flies approximately 240 miles (386 kilometers) above the surface of the Earth. The image was taken on March 7 using a Nikon D2Xs camera, officials at the European Space Agency said in a statement.

That rockbandit article is a joke.  The writer says he thought it was an impact crater.  The only thing this structure has in common with an impact crater is that it’s circular.  The end.  It is pretty obviously either an eroded dome or a caldera.

It’s a gorgeous image of an amazing structure, however.  I just can’t sit by while people might go to that rockbandit article and think it was written by someone other than a moron.  I mean, they quote a 3-year-old (at the time of the article’s writing) paper, and never reference a single thing the paper mentions.  Given the author’s obviously rudimentary grasp on geology, I think it’s likely he didn’t even understand what he was quoting.  At the end of the article, he provides a diagram “for the reader’s benefit.”  The diagram has nothing to do with the structure, or anything said in the article at all.

/rant

Pretty picture, though.  Our planet is definitely beautiful.

elfierae:

wren-birdie-pretty-birdie:

caitthecursed:

phantasmik:

russiansushi:

gundamismydivision:

azndrummergirl:

matistama:

mariabloodwell:

theycallmefred:

chocolatecoveredoctopus:

bitchesloveamusama:

madds98:

the-epic-llama:

aimni:

“You have four seconds. Anyone still standing gets shot.”

LITERALLY ME LMAO

“I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.”

rfedwsghjrfedwhgfredyg HA!

“there’s a hell

of a good universe next door; let’s go”

pffft-

“The essence of grace is that God is for you.”

o

“Jazz Line”

What

“Can you stop watching TV for a moment?”

PERFECT

“She was strong and real and messed up and wickedly honest… just like her mother.”

Well okay then…

” I shouldn’t have said that.”

Yep, my life in a nutshell, seriously.

 ”co-ops may hold the key to a substantive compromise”

…. •_•

“If you continue to hate, you are entering into the same philosophy that began the war. You have to look forward at people and new times.”

DEAR LORD IT SOUNDS LIKE A GUNDAM MOVIE

I got the motive which is money, and the body which is dead.

….what

My humiliating victory over you is just water under the shattered bridge of your crushing defeat.

When eating an elephant take one at a time. 

What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all of the armies of Europe.

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

um, okay~

Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown, like the time she forced me to have sex with her in the little car, or the time she kept spraying me with the seltzer bottle until I obeyed her every command. Ethan and I would laugh and laugh at these tall tales, but I could tell deep down, he was wondering whether the leather clown was really real or not. And I would let him wonder.

Completely true.

spicyshimmy:

criminallyincompetent:

Electronic Arts (EA), maker of the highly popular Star Wars: The Old Republic video game - is the target of a boycott orchestrated by hateful anti-gay groups. Why? Because they had the courage to give players around the world the option of including a gay romance storyline in their interactive Star Wars game.

Right now, thousands of anti-gay letters are flooding Electronic Arts headquarters, threatening to push the company and its staff to the dark side (“Homos are ruining gaming!” wrote one boycotter. “I urge all parents to keep any EA games from their children to prevent them to be AIDS-spreading, Satan-loving scum,” wrote another). 

But we can do something about it - if we channel the force for good. Companies like Electronic Arts need to be rewarded when they do the right thing. And together we can help them stand their ground. Sign this urgent letter to Electronic Arts (EA) now, asking them to stay strong and resist the dark side. When 50,000 of us sign on, All Out members will make news by dressing as Star Wars characters and delivering your letters directly to Electronic Arts headquarters: 

www.allout.org/theforce

I don’t usually post things like this, but if there was ever going to be an exception, it’d be a Star Wars themed one.

use the tumblr force, we must. sign the petition, we shall.

Hahahaha! People who weren’t going to buy the game anyway are boycotting it! Hahahahahaha!

elfierae:

dontsaylulu:

say0ran:

ringir:

froggysan:

subject-delalala:

trollzio:

trollsmond:

chr0nicraid:

streetlighttraffic:

holding a cup a coffee from my toe and pondering about life and the universe.

I’m Commander Shepard and this is my favourite 24 hours on the Citadel

I’m Trollsmond Miles and…I’ll be strapped to the Animus all 24 hours. :D

I’m Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

Bitches gonna get laid.

I’m Sherlock Holmes

I’ll be playing my violin, stoking my skull, poking John and solving crimes just to avoid my head getting fried

it’ll be good

I’m Touko so yes

I shall spend my day beating up N in a ferris wheel and going off to kiss Bianca and Cheren and Touya get moar gym badges before I fight Team Plasma again.

It shall be fun

I would be doing piratey British things. 

I would be doing… American things. XD

WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO I’M MARTIN!

I’d first jerk off because I always wanted to know the feeling.

and than I’d fucking fuck Benedict Cumberbatch.

I’d be Dave Motherfuckin Strider…

hell yes.

What WOULDNT I do!

Probably go forward in time to figure out how to stay this way >3

cause hell yeah, but I’d totally make some ill beats, jack off, kick some ass, and just generally be the most fucking cool dork you’ve ever seen

My God… where to start?

You know, I think I’d just spend all day looking badass, and that is pretty much it.  Hopefully I can avoid getting eaten by a giant fucking wolf.