A Simple Tailor

I have strong feelings about the future.

[futurescope]

Cheetah robot can jump over hurdles while running

The last software version of Cheetah enabled the four-legged robot to run and jump, untethered, across grass. Now MIT researchers have trained it to see and jump over hurdles as it runs autonomously. Damn.

Here’s the video with more details:

[via gizmodo]

[heartoftarg]

Here’s the prototype of the unstoppable chrome horror that will soon be chasing you and the other survivors through the ruins of what was once our human civilization.  Get used to the sound of that distinctive metal gallop across concrete, kids: it will be your only warning that it’s time to seal up the bunker before the hunting pack arrives.

[not-in-front-of-the-klingons]

*Knocks on door* Do you have some free time to talk about our lord and savior Jean-luc Picard?

[ponnearponfarponwhereveryouare]

*lifts up one mug of earl gray and another of coffee* Only if you also wish to talk of our lady and savior Kathryn Janeway.

[soidreamtiwasastarfleetcommander]

*crawls through your kitchen window with baseball gear* HAVE YOU HEARD THE GOOD NEWS OF THE EMISSARY OF THE PROPHETS, BENJAMIN SISKO

[oficinadodiabo-deactivated20231]

King Unicron

[heartoftarg]

This is a magical piece of history.

[digg]

This could be the international flag of planet Earth

Designed by Oskar Pernefeldt, this proposal for a flag that represents our entire planet could have a future on Mars.

Centered in the flag, seven rings form a flower – a symbol of the life on Earth. The rings are linked to each other, which represents how everything on our planet, directly or indirectly, are linked. The blue field represents water which is essential for life – also as the oceans cover most of our planet’s surface. The flower’s outer rings form a circle which could be seen as a symbol of Earth as a planet and the blue surface could represent the universe.

[bgaesop-deactivated20160701]

The inconsistent overlapping is driving me insane

[iguanamouth]

kept getting requests for gryphons so heres a bunch of them At Once

[heartoftarg]

These start wonderful, and just keep getting better as you go.

[astrologymarina]

[fatseux]

Summer goals 2k15.

[richist-deactivated20150511]

This is the most beautiful photoset I’ve seen this year

[heartoftarg]

This one’s for you, ingdamnit.

[alliterate-deactivated20120901]

Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.

Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.

Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said fuck that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).

Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

(via bansheewhale)

CECILIA PAYNE

(via beinghelpfuliskindofanewthing)

[kilmari]

I'm constantly pissed that I don't live in the star trek universe

[thealmostbear]

Hehe (Sheldon Comic)

[ds9vgrconfessions]

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[It upsets me that nobody from TNG or DS9 was a crew member on board Voyager. But at the same time I’m glad. It allowed us to have a completely separate crew, but I think the impact of being stranded would have been amplified if we had an established character with a history]

[heartoftarg]

Totally agreed. Broccoli would have been a terrific choice, naturally - I would have loved for him to be hanging out with B'elanna down in engineering.  But can you imagine if we had Nurse Ogawa in the sickbay with the Doctor, instead of Kes or Paris? Or what about Nog? How freaking delightful would it have been to have gotten Nog instead of Harry? 

[spatscolombo-deactivated2022030]

TAS, you and I have certainly had our ups and downs. But you just informed me that Amanda Grayson read her son—her Vulcan son—Lewis Carroll.

And the mental image of baby Spock coming home after a long day of regurgitating facts and theorems in his little logic isolation pod at Vulcan school, only to be totally short-circuited by the nonsense of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, is one of the best presents I’ve ever received.

So we’re okay now, TAS. We’re okay.

Amanda Grayson, A+ troll: you win at parenting and explain why Spock turned out to be such a delight. You are my hero.

[therealstartrekcaptions-deactiv]

next gen nyoom

(tos nyoom: x)

[captainbeverlycrusher]

[benjiscloset]

Relog if you feel like gender identity and sexual orientation should be taught about in public schools.

[antipocalypse]

PUNCHES REBLOG BUTTON

[heartoftarg]

One 40-min class, offered to every high school student, would save a lot of lives.

[logicgunn-deactivated20150625]

The thing about Jadzia Dax is that she was the epitome of what both Starfleet and the Federation stood for. She didn’t just abide by the values, she lived them.

She fully respected, and enjoyed, other cultures. She had genuine affection for the Ferengi, to her they weren’t the comic relief but a very fun people. She didn’t approve of the inherent misogyny of their culture, but she respected that it WAS a part of their culture and that it wasn’t her place try to change that.

She embraced the Klingon bloodthirst and energy, relished in it, fell in love with a Klingon warrior and brought out the best in him as an individual without shirking from his Klingon honour or duty.

She took on the best and forgave the worst, and did it all without loosing her own values and individuality. I’ve always felt that the characters of Star Trek tended to be a little on the smug side when it came to the quirkier races, and Jadzia embodied the genuine respect and cultural awareness without appropriation or cherry picking. I did see a little of this in Will Riker, but while he ate Gagh with ease, he still judged other species with his own as the starting point. To Jadzia, they are all valid states of being.

Perhaps it had something to do with the 8 lifetimes combined with the marvel that is Terry Farrell, but I would have liked to see a little of this in all of Star Trek’s Federation characters.

[dixieleota]

Ursula - member of Disney Villains Motorcycle Club.

[princessjem4]

Aww shit this is way too awesome 0.o

[country-toads-take-me-home]

heartoftarg yes or yes for halloween?

[heartoftarg]

Hell yes. You need a Hipster Ariel to ride on the back?

[flatandsassy]

Eventually the 20th Century History class at Starfleet Academy stops being a fringey elective and becomes a required course, and all the cadets are like “this is so irrelevant, why do we have to learn this” and anyone who’s been around for a while is like “there is an 812% chance that you will time travel to the 20th century during your Starfleet career”

"but the temporal prime directive" 

"At the very least you will get trapped a holodeck program based on the 20th century, and you will need to know all these weird idioms"

"But why is it only the 20th - "

"We don’t know why it’s only the 20th century we have a whole corps of scientists trying to figure out what’s happening with that it seriously makes no sense but in the meantime, knowing how to work a combustion engine is pretty much guaranteed to save your life so get the hell on that."

#maybe there will just be a 20th century truck #waiting for you in the delta quadrant