Tumbling down the rabbit portal

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Star Wars: Legion - Din Djarin & Grogu Box Art by Darren Tan

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The amazing digital art of Darren Tan

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Ahsoka Tano: Between Worlds by Darren Tan

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Star Wars: Mara Jade - Created by Oliver Wetter

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Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad

by =Virus-AC For CF2012 :)

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Why have I never seen this gifset?

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Felix Baumgartner freefall from the edge of the space - Red Bull Stratos ◼

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Wow. The view of the Milky Way from Mars is amazing. 

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The Warp Drive Could Become Science Fact

A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel — a concept popularized in television’s Star Trek — may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say.

A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light. A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre, however subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.

Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially bringing the idea back from the realm of science fiction into science.

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The Problem With The Big Bang Theory...

I’ve been meaning to post something about The Big Bang Theory for a while now but it’s taken me ‘till now to really understand what it is about the show that makes me uncomfortable. I’m not exactly a believer in the whole “only write about the things you like, don’t trash the things you don’t” trend which seems to be plaguing comments sections in negative articles lately, but I wanted to be able to really examine why I don’t like TBBT rather than just slagging it off. My main questions being - Why don’t I like this anymore? Why do I feel uncomfortable watching it? And why do I get so annoyed when I see people sing its praises online? The thing which really sparked this post was seeing a raft of comments on Facebook, below the last round of voting in Television Without Pity’s Tubey Awards, claiming The Big Bang Theory to be “the best comedy on TV”. This made me angry so instead of posting an impulsive comment calling out their bad taste which I’d probably regret later, I decided to really analyse why seeing comments like that made me so mad when previously, although I didn’t really love the show, I’d never considered myself as disliking The Big Bang Theory.

Hell, I even have season one on dvd, it’s sitting right between Battlestar Galactica and Bored To Death in my alphabetised collection.

And here, I think, is where my problem with The Big Bang Theory lies…

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*sigh* This.

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Slow Motion: Camera flash bulb shot at 1052 FPS [x]

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It's soo hypnotic.

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This is my earliest memory.

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With you there. My nan had the vhs’s and I just had them on repeat, along with Indiana Jones, whenever I was at hers or she was here. Which was most of the time.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Submitted by Unownknight7.

I’ve also been told that the sword glows blue, the same color as Luke’s saber at this point in the film, but there’s not a huge amount of visual information on that one.

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The same was in The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon. This is my own screenshot. :)

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Solving a Problem

So every once in a while, someone (or a couple of someones) will get it into their heads that it’d be cool to come visit us in real life by tracking down our addresses and knocking on our doors, or leaving presents on our doorstep or in our mail box. 

As harmless as that no doubt is, it is for some reason unsettling. A home is a private place and it’s weird to feel like the internet could at any time come rushing into it…it sort of alters how I feel about home in a way that I don’t particularly like. 

The problem is, while we can post on Tumblr and Twitter and even on videos that this isn’t a good idea, there will always be some people who don’t see those messages. 

There is a tremendous amount of Vlogbrothers content out there and no one’s expected to experience it all. So people will keep getting excited about the idea, not think it all the way through, and execute without considering what they’re really doing.

However, I do assume that roughly 100% of people will begin their quest by typing “Hank Green’s Address” into google…because that’s where you start, right?

So, the plan is simple, I’ve crated two pages at hankgreen.com with the same text explaining that visiting our houses is weird. I’m going to, right now, link to them with the text Hank Green’s Address and John Green’s Address. If people re-blog this and Google does it’s indexing job, then those should be the first results when people type those strings into Google.

It’ll take a while, but soon, the first thing someone will see when beginning their search is a nice note explaining the situation. Self-policing, YAY!

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The Starks fly in artist James Zapata’s awesome new Game of Thrones / Iron Man mash up illustration. Westeros is about to be changed forever…

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The Irony is Quite Stark by James Zapata (CGHUB) (Facebook) (Twitter)

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