I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious

@spacethievery

Nikita. I love Lost, deep sea cave diving, and shapeshifting. My hobbies include opening bottles of wine with a sabre, and losing at poker to everyone I meet. Except Ubair. Shame on you, Ubair. I also occasionally spend my life studying Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UQ. Shows you might find: Lost, The Office, Chris Lilley, Eddie Izzard, Blackbooks (& Dylan Moran), Arrested Development, Community, Parks and Recreation, Modern Family, The IT Crowd, and other posts I find interesting or the like ;).

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thekhooll-deactivated20210705

Soyuz

Blueprint of a Russian Soyuz rocket. Click here to view big..!

scanzen

omg this is beautiful

edit: this is BIG

catburger

Warning! The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

I got the feeling I had taken a wrong turn in my thesis research when it had to follow a disclaimer.

#spacecraft

geeksofdoom

spacethievery

Happy Holidays from the 90's!

Jimmy (PS Hayes) checks out the very holiday-appropriate ‘Mars Attacks’ one-shot from IDW Publishing

fntboyblue-deactivated20161021

spacethievery

Just the upcoming new Star Trek movie.

mothernaturenetwork

When we think of scientists and researchers, a passion for discovery, not a penchant for daredevil antics, is usually what comes to mind. Yet many a researcher has faced injury, illness and even death in the name of scientific breakthroughs. After all, when dissecting the mysteries of plague and plutonium, it doesn’t take much for things to go terribly wrong.

7 scientists killed by their own experiments

vicforprez

When we landed on the moon, that was the point where God should have come up and said hello. Because if you invent some creatures, put them on the blue one and they make it to the grey one, you turn up and fu**ing say well done.

Eddie Izzard

#eddie izzard

masterofkarateandfriendship

William Henry

#arrested development

itsokaytobesmart

Tom Stafford writes at Mind Hacks on the strange psychology of why Tetris is so damn addictive, and how it scratches some natural human tendencies to make order out of chaos.

Tetris holds our attention by continually creating unfinished tasks. Each action in the game allows us to solve part of the puzzle, filling up a row or rows completely so that they disappear, but is also just as likely to create new, unfinished work. A chain of these partial-solutions and newly triggered unsolved tasks can easily stretch to hours, each moment full of the same kind of satisfaction as scratching an itch.

It’s a game that some have said has the potency of an addictive drug, and affects the mind so significantly that it can be used in PTSD therapy. Check out the full story at the link above to learn more about the brain’s desire to focus around goals, and how Tetris exploits that for simple, satisfying fun.

And then when you’re done, make sure you check out this amazing fully-playable LED Tetris jack-o-lantern!!!!

the-colonels-ambrosia

#community

wolframalpha

Happy Halloween!

We’re celebrating in our own little way: with laminae.

btfreek

that 2SPOOKY gifset was going to be my only halloween-themed post, but once I got to “Assuming ‘jack o lantern face’ is a lamina” I couldn’t resist.

I ordered fish and chips tonight, and they forgot the fish…..You may or may not come home with fish. If your goal was to eat fish…… its a roll of the dice as to how your night turns out.

Review of the AC Fish and Chip Shop on True Local

#albany creek #tides inn

itsokaytobesmart

Nobel Prizes: Is there a secret formula to winning one?

BBC Future takes a look at the data, good and bad, of just what it takes to be a Nobel Prize winner. The gender column will likely be the most infuriating one.

(via BBC - Future)