The Gotham I Have Created

Knowns: Timothy Drake-Wayne. 34. CEO of Wayne Enterprises. Unknowns: Former Robin, Former Red Robin, Current Batman

[snapiphany]

Teen Titans, Vol. 3, #18

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Batgirl 18

[liquidnight]

There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can’t take it anymore.

Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals (via liquidnight)

[studyofdemonology]

The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.

The Shining (Author’s Note), Stephen King (via studyofdemonology)

[cornflakepizza]

Vicki Vale notices the scars on Tim’s face and it reminds her of Bruce’s back.

[Gotham Gazette: Batman Alive?]

[stuff--n--things]

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside— remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.

Charles Bukowski (via stuff--n--things)

[michellescolfer]

[wilde4words]

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.

Haruki Murakami  (via wilde4words)

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Dominique McElligott

[dclayer-blog]

I mean, can you imagine - Gotham without the Batman?

Tim Drake (New Earth)

[joshbyard]

Tiny Solar-Powered GPS Trackers For All Your Domestic Surveillance Needs

Retrievor is GPS disk that’s barely more than an inch in diameter and less than a half-inch thick. Retrievor trackers are powered by tiny solar panels and can be set to very low power usage; so, in theory, they can operate indefinitely. There’s also a micro USB port for charging the batteries conventionally. Trackers can be viewed and controlled by web, Android, or iPhone apps.

Owning a Retrievor will cost $1.79 per month for each tracking device, presumably to offset operating costs. For extra fun with tracking, the Retrievor can be given parameters for alerts—a sort of virtual fence to work in. If the tracker (and, presumably, the person or thing it’s attached to) leaves the virtual fence, Retrievor will send text messages alerts. 

(via Put These Quarter-Sized GPS Trackers On Everything | Popular Science)

[joshbyard]

Researchers Using Cyborg Cockroaches to Map Collapsed Buildings, Other Inaccessible Spaces

After being released into the space of interest (say, a collapsed portion of a mall) the system directs the biobots in random directions, spreading out the swarm to cover as much area as possible. Once they are dispersed enough for the controller’s liking, the system directs the swarm to move in a straight line forward in whatever direction each cockroach happens to be facing. They are only to stop moving forward when they hit a wall or some other impassable object.

All roaches then track along the wall for a time, following its contours and giving operators some specific but out-of-context information about the space they’re exploring. Remember that these are totally unknown environments where GPS and other tools are useless.

Only by repeating the disperse-and-wall-follow pattern several times — and using a complex algorithm to assemble the individual wall segments — do we get anything like a sensible map. It’s not the quickest system in the world, nor the most accurate, but it could turn a two-hour hunt through wreckage into a quick trip along a known path.

A few cockroaches might die in the process, but insect are a lot more expendable than first responders. Trapped individuals might be able to press a button on the biobot to signal their presence, or the roaches themselves could be outfitted with appropriate sensors.

(via A swarm of cyborg insects used for mapping collapsed buildings | ExtremeTech)

[peasantbarbie]

Tim in Batman #629

[antisocial-butterfly-deactivate]

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than the atoms in your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about the universe: we are all stardust. You wouldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded because the elements (the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, all the things that matter for evolution) weren’t created at the beginning of time, they were created in stars. So forget Jesus. Stars died so you could live.

Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist (via antisocial-butterfly)

[turnislefthome]

After five months of being pre-ordered, my 3D printer just shipped! FUTURE. I’ve got big plans for this thing. Stay tuned.

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