Pray for silence

Pray for silence

Darkness consumes us all

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did-you-kno:

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smithsonianlibraries:

The Greenland Whale from Whales by Robert Hamilton (1843)
What Mr. Hamilton had to say:

Bulky as the whale is, and clumsy as it appears to be, it might be imagined that all its motions must be sluggish, and its greatest exertions productive of no great celerity. The fact, however, is the reverse. A whale extended motionless at the surface of the sea, can sink, in the space of five or six seconds, beyond the reach of its human enemies. Its velocity along the surface, and in other directions, is the same. I have observed, says Scorseby, a whale descending, after I had harpooned it, to the depth of about one-fourth of a mile, with the average velocity of seven or eight miles an hour. The usual rate, however, at which these whales swim, when on their passage from one situation to another, seldom exceeds four miles an hour. They are capable, however, for the space of a few minutes, of darting through the water with the velocity of the fastest ship under sail; and of ascending with such rapidity, as to leap entirely out of the water. This feat they sometimes perform apparently as an amusement, to the high admiration of the distant spectator; but to the no small terror of the inexperienced fisher. Sometimes the whales throw themselves into a perpendicular position, with their heads downwards, and moving their tremendous tails on high in the air, beat the water with awful violence, which, cracking like a whip, resounds to the distance of two or three miles; the sea is thrown into foam, and the air filled with vapours. This performance is denominated “lob-tailing.” (p83-84)

kiranwearsscienceblues:

thedoctorwillsaveme:

pigfarts-is-on-vulcan:

I forgot about this, but back during Christmas Break, I put Star Trek in front of my cat to see what he would do. To my surprise, he actually did watch it. However, he only seemed mildly entertained - that is, until Scotty started talking. Then my cat actually paused the episode and stared at him. He just stared at Scotty and wouldn’t let me press play for, like, four or five minutes. After that, he watched for a while, but gradually lost interest and started dozing, only looking up when he heard Scotty’s voice.

Can someone please explain to me why my cat loves Scotty so much? Was James Doohan secretly some sort of magical cat whisperer? What is this?

oh

my

god

i think your cat has a crush

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oh.

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thinsiqnificant:

canadumb:

*ducts tapes my laptop together*

*duct tapes my life together*

isnt that what i said

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damnafrica-wuthappened:

ginger ale kitkats

green tea kitkats

potato kitkats

vegetable kitkats!!!

corn kitkats

soy sauce kitkats?!!?!

sweet potato kitkats

watermelon kitkats

are you telling me i could have a varied meal that consists entirely of kitkats

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emaskies:

by

Strider parallels

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marvelentertainment:

MARVEL PANEL OF THE DAY

From: Heroes for Hire (2010) #11

She’s a ninja. Enough said.

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awesomephilia:

The officer thought he had an arrest but it didn’t pan out

shop-cute:

Mad Cat Backpack (Choose Color)
$29.99

jaredpadackles:

sirthomasoftardis:

#DALEKS DO NOT NEED DOORS #DALEKS CREATE THEIR OWN DOORS

RENOVATE!

taikova:

extra sherlock doodles

scienceisbeauty:

Here Albert Einstein gave birth the four papers known as the Annus Mirabilis papers:
On a Heuristic Point of View about the Creation and Conversion of Light (Photoelectric effect, Nobel Prize in Physics 1921)
Investigations on the theory of Brownian Movement
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (Special relativity)
Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content? (in which is deduced the famous Mass–energy equivalence equation E = mc2.)
Not bad huh?
By Dsmntl (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons

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