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What is human existence? It turns out it’s pretty simple: We are dead stars, looking back up at the sky.

Michelle Thaller, NASA American astronomer and Research scientist (via fyp-science)

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Pony Reinhardt

(via A Collision of Flora, Fauna, and the Cosmic in Tattoos by Pony Reinhardt | Colossal)

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Link to their tumblr.

sadillite

Departing Twitter employee…..you’re doing amazing sweetie

mythopoeticlicense

Not all heroes wear capes

whim--z

*slow clap w/ tears in my eyes*

#trump #donald j trump #president donald j trump

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sipnsyphe

Nope.

chandrar-nalaar

when your teacher is trying to teach you how to cast fireball

gservator

+3 to Intellect

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If anybody’s wondering what’s happening here, this clip made it onto Outrageous Acts of Science, and they explained that this teacher was demonstrating the Leidenfrost effect, which is basically when you place a droplet of a liquid on a surface that’s far hotter than its boiling point. The part of the drop touching the hot surface turns into vapor and forms a cushion that the rest of the drop rests on top of, which causes it to skid across the floor so quickly. The substance the teacher uses in the video is liquid methane. But methane has a really low boiling point. Like, about −160 °C low. So once it touches the comparatively hot floor, the Leidenfrost effect comes into play, and it slides across the floor. The issue is though, methane is colorless, so you can’t normally see it. Thankfully (in this demonstration), methane is also very flammable, so he sets it on fire before dumping it onto the floor so you can see it as it moves. Definitely a cooler demonstration of the Leidenfrost effect than dropping a little water in a hot pan. Or hotter, if you like puns.

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THANKS FOR EXPLANATION SCIENTIFIC SIDE OF TUMBLR

valeria2067

“Teaching is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” W.B.Yeats

#science #chaotic good #fire #pyrotechnics

ernmark

Just learned about garden path sentences.

They’re basically a literary prank– the sentence starts out in such a way that you think you know where it’s going, but the way it ends completely changes the meaning while still being a complete and logical sentence. Usually it deals with double meanings, or with words that can be multiple parts of speech, like nouns and verbs or nouns and adjectives.

So we get gems like

The old man the boat. (The old people are manning the boat)

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. (The apartment complex is home to both married and single soldiers, plus their families)

The prime number few. (People who are excellent are few in number.)

The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississipi. (The cotton that clothing is made of)

The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. (As in he ducks out of his responsibilities)

We painted the wall with cracks. (The cracked wall is the one that was pained.)