Cthulu Calling

"There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy". ~H.P. Lovecraft

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Fast-Spinning Magnetic Star Has Strange Glitch | Space.com

One of the strongest magnets in the universe, a magnetar, is unexpectedly capable of a strange new kind of glitch — a mysterious, unexplained drop in speed, researchers say.

Unraveling what briefly put the brakes on this powerhouse’s spin could help shed light on states of matter that scientists currently are not able to recreate in labs, scientists added.

Magnetars are a type of neutron star, which is the core of a massive star that devoured all its fuel, collapsed under its own weight and then exploded as a supernova. Magnetars are also often thought of as the most powerful magnets in the cosmos, with magnetic fields up to approximately 5,000 trillion times that of the Earth’s. Astronomers have discovered less than two dozen magnetars so far. 

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There’s something wonderful about Marvin Bileck’s minimal illustrations for All About the Stars.  

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tumblr has defiled my sense of humor and now I’m on this new tier of humor that no one in real life understands

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This is an incredibly strange question. Hmm. The notion that the human body is a depiction of the universe is right—on a grander scale, humans are essentially a collection of atoms that are part of the universe and have manifested into beings with consciousness (this is a whole other study in itself—neuroscience, cognition, etc, etc). 

The thing about “cures” for the human body is different though. We get sick because our biological order has to fight the entropy of the universe. No matter what sentient life forms exist, the battle is always with the idea that energy becomes more disorganized. In our world, on the Earth that we live in, the human-centric, carbon-based, four-limbed chimpanzees that we are, death is inscribed as soon as we are born. Here are some pre-determined factors from the top of my head: free radicals, reactive chemistry, cancer, telomeres, and infections—these are the reasons why we age and get sick. It’s a physical problem.

But I don’t think we can look to the universe as a way of discovering cures. The universe has no business aligning itself with the human culture. We think that because we are a part of it that it has a responsibility or an answer to our growing problems. But we aren’t perfect creatures, nor do we have the privilege to be. We are just the lucky result of atomic configurations. There’s always give and takes, much like for a reaction, there’s always an opposite and equal reaction—if we want to live in a disordered universe, we must succumb to its reality.

The point is, we must look at ourselves to discover the cure for ourselves. The universe is there for us to ponder upon, to ask about our beginnings, and to find the transcendental truths or physical laws that may explain our thirst for knowledge. Sicknesses and disease is a separate thing. It’s a byproduct of reactions. And in order to combat it, we have to look at the reactions itself. 

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These are great!

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Check out @nationgoneawol's Tweet:

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Greatest Speech Ever Made Charlie Chaplin The Gre…:

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Here’s a gif of Bill Nye eating a twinkie.

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Spaceman via Modcult

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Fifty Shades of Fluorine: Hydrofluoric Acid

"We could be good together, you know," Hydrogen whispered to Fluorine. "I can give you what you want," he continued gesturing to his one electron.

"And what do you want?" Fluorine asked nervously.

"I want to cause pain, Fluorine. I want to create a dangerous acid with you that will slowly burn through human flesh and destroy nerve endings. I want them to suffer for everything they’ve done to me."

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"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments." ~Jim Morrison

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Wenn ich lesen, dann vergesse ich alles um mich herrum. Esse nicht, trinke nicht. Das Buch hat mich gefesselt und ich vergesse die Zeit. Es ist fast wie verliebt sein.

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Ich liebe diese.

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Right in the fucking feels

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Your face when your friends make plans and don't invite you.

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What the fuck did you think would happen ?

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see how the hammer slowly turns toward the woman at the end? i think what happened is these two were arguing and the hammer got so mad it slammed itself against the wall and the woman is shocked because hammer has never gotten this angry before and hammer’s just like don’t fuck with me woman i will nail you

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Everything about this post is great.