don't panic

death cab for cutie is my favorite band and I really love the sky.

[sixpenceee]

All of space is completely silent

Sound waves need a medium to travel through. Since there is no atmosphere in space, space will always be eerily silent.

You may be asking how astronauts can talk to each other in space. Lucky for them, radio waves can travel through space. No problem there, Houston.

[da-da-sk]

Van Gogh letters

“The sadness will last forever.”

[sixpenceee]

Fingal’s Cave, Scotland

Located on the uninhabited island of Staffa, Fingal’s Cave has a unique, cathedral-like structure and hexagonal columns, according to the National Trust for Scotland. (Source)

[sixpenceee]

Alex the Parrot

Alex was a subject of scientific investigation in animal intelligence. Alex had a vocabulary of over 100 words, but was exceptional in that he appeared to have understanding of what he said.

For example, when Alex was shown an object and was asked about its shape, color, or material, he could label it correctly. He could understand that a key was a key no matter what its size or color, and could determine how the key was different from others. 

He asked what color he was, and learned “grey” after being told the answer six times. This made him the first and only non-human animal to have ever asked an existential question.

His last words to his caretaker was “You be good. I love you.” (Source)

[sixpenceee]

Maelstroms

These truly massive whirlpools form when conflicting tidal flows meet. The swirling vortex is powerful enough to pull in swimmers and small boats. The most powerful is Saltstraumen, located outside Norway.

[sixpenceee]

Mind twisting animation by David Szakaly.

[sixpenceee]

The Hardergrat is a 24 kilometer long ridgeline from Interlaken, to Brienz, Switzerland. The trail literally stays right on the edge of the ridge, sometimes it edges in places with the sides dropping away for over 1000 meters. It is considered a classic trail to do in a day.

[sixpenceee]

Fresh Start

Some animals have the ability to freeze solid during winter, thaw in the spring and remain perfectly healthy. 

(Source)

[sixpenceee]

The Wonders Of The Human Body 25,000,000 of your cells died while you read this sentence. It’s okay though, your body made more than 300 billion new ones today. (Source)

[hirxeth]

“Marla’s philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn’t.”

Fight Club (1999) dir. David Fincher

[sixpenceee]

Space Shuttle Endeavor crossing a highway in Los Angeles

(Source)

[sixpenceee]

Milky Way over Erupting Volcano

(Source)

[did-you-know]

There’s a massive chunk of the universe that’s nearly empty. The Great Void is a spheroid of space with very few galaxies that spans an area of 300 million light-years. It’s so big that if the Milky Way were in the center of it, “we wouldn’t have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s.” Source

[sixpenceee]

The Yoda Bat

In 2010, a tube-nosed fruit bat with an appearance reminiscent of the Star Wars Jedi Master Yoda was discovered in a remote rainforest. The bat, along with an orange spider and a yellow-spotted frog, is among a host of new species found in a region of Papua, New Guinea. More than 200 animals and plants were revealed for the first time after two months of surveying in the rugged and little-explored Nakanai and Muller mountain ranges that year. (Source) 

[sixpenceee]

Leratiomyces is a genus of mushroom-forming basidiomycetes. The blue leratiomyces below have only been recently found on Lord Howe Island and Northern Australia. (Source)

[sixpenceee]

New York City in February, 2015 

(Source)

[confirmance]

me to all my haters