Wrassles, Hobbits, and Sundries

I hate to come out here and steal the spotlight- just kidding, that’s totally my thing.

[the-quacken]

Watching LoTR with my dad

Sam: "That fellow's done nothing but stare at you since we arrived."

My dad: This place is called The PRANCING PONY, and there are only dudes here. Do the math, Sam.

[elementk2]

Studio Ghibli Posters - Jack Bloom

[cat-parlour]

[starlingheart]

Foot

[infernalhera]

The beans are growing nicely this year.

[wwefanatic91]

What in the hell is wrong with this dude? Actually no, what in the hell is wrong with me for loving this dude!? 

[the-quacken]

I just feel bad for people who arent in on the joke, ya know?

[ed-ingle]

[curvyisthenewblack]

Denise Bidot

[lambchopviking]

do you ever just cry because something is so beautiful

[hurricaneclouds]

when all of your knuckles crack except one so you have to try and convince yourself to be a sensible human being and resist the urge to break your own finger

[greglestrade]

100% Mycroft’s thought process. 

[curiouslyhigh]

[becausebirds]

It’s highly likely that birds are, in fact, everything.

[boundtothewater-blog]

She’s up all night to pet dogs I’m up all night to pet dogs We’re up all night to pet dogs We’re up all night to pet puppies

[highacetate]

[nonsensicalnoelle]

*heavy breathing*

[commander-cullen-deactivated201]

*HEAVY BREATHING*

[the-quacken]

I DESIRE THE THING

[mxjoyride]

just found out jerry lawler will no longer be doing commentary on raw.

[the-quacken]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[herelieslill-deactivated2022041]

while i think the current “Adam Rose feuds with an anthropomorphic bunny” angle is, like, Gobbledygooker-level awful, i will say that i have never supported anything as much as Adam Rose’s “I am the dark overlord of parties” heel turn

because “party time all the time" actually...

[sciencewords]

A lot of people have been mislead by a post that talks about the “lumpy” Earth, and unfortunately it seems that people genuinely believe the Earth is this shape. As one person pointed out, we have images of the Earth from space, and while it would be disingenuous to refer to it as a perfect sphere, it very much is spherical. A rudimentary reverse Google image search tells me that the image in the misleading post is a simulation of the Earth without water… which is just plain wrong.

In fact, the shape you’re seeing is a geoid, which is a simulation of what Earth would look like if you neglected the influence of anything other than rotation and gravity. A geoid is a dynamic equipotential surface, which means that every point on the surface has the same gravitational potential.

Since it was recently NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, this seems like a good opportunity to talk about a geoid that is something more than a context-less gif: the Potsdam Gravity Potato, pictured above. It’s the result of efforts by a group at Helmholtz Centre Potsdam to create a highly detailed map of the Earth’s gravitational field. Like in a heat map, red elevated levels indicate stronger gravitational effects, and depressed blue levels indicate that they’re lower. The potato-like shape occurs due to the Earth’s uneven gravitational field. This is why high places such as the Himalayas coincide with local maxima on the geoid—but of course not all maxima and minima are the result of noticeable physical features; the Earth has inhomogeneous variations in its density, which account for much of the gravitational difference.

For further reading, check out this article.

[lychgate]

i was getting so done with everyone that saw that post it was as bad as the extra chocolate piece gif

[virgyvirgil]

John Cena solemnly dancing alone in a suit to Gangnam Style.

[neilnevins-deactivated20240617]

[humble-army-wife]

This is exactly what snapchat was created for