SCIENCE
i’ve said it once and i’ll say it again: if you ever say you don’t like science, you just aren’t learning it right
SPECIAL BEAM CANNON
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Okay my phone loaded this wrong and used a gif from another post and it was Doctor Grant from Jurassic Park running away from a Tom Hiddleston velociraptor and I didn’t question the comments as much as I probably should have.
Salvador Dali taking his Anteater for a walk, Paris 1969.
this mother fucker
had an ant eater.
After seeing this for the thousandth time, I’m quite sure I’ll never amount to this level of awesome.
Literally my favourite picture.
Literally nothing.
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Sand, under a 250x microscope
file under things that make me want to cry about the magnificence of the world
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PLEASE HOLD FOR SCIENCE
YOUR CALL WILL BE PROCESSED IN THE ORDER IN WHICH IT WAS RECEIVED.
Hey, check out this header I made for Gwen’s new Roxy!Mom blog!
(I did the ‘shopping. Text is 100% hers. I know, I know, it’s surprising that for once I wasn’t the one to call for SCIENCE.)
Base image is from This Island Earth.
So I blogged the rest of my recent Portland trip on my personal blog, but I wanted to post this one here to show off this awesome mad science invention. This is an actual yarn baller that was running at Knit Purl, a Portland yarn store. You can’t really see it, but the yarn is running from the big spinning thing to the smaller one. The angle of the ball post ensures the perfect alternating diagonal wrapping pattern on the yarn ball. The big complicated-looking scaffolding contraption in front is just a freely rotating wheel; there’s a little motor on the ball end that’s driving it via the yarn, much like the drive chain on a bicycle.
Aren’t contraptions awesome?
meddlingGeminiform: Shit, Fish made a chainsword?
meddlingGeminiform: The second I turn my back…
healthierScowl: :-)
healthierScowl: A while ago.
healthierScowl: Halloween, I think.
meddlingGeminiform: Terrified now.
healthierScowl: :D
healthierScowl: It’s fine. He’s too busy playing with fire to bother with swords right now.
healthierScowl: Until he combines the two.
meddlingGeminiform: Hm.
meddlingGeminiform: Not reassured.
healthierScowl: That’s probably for the best.
oh my GOD FUCKING DIRKF NAJD KANAYA
I actually know someone who made one of these. For real. Here, watch them attack a pumpkin with it:
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slow motion lightning.
holy shit
this is so fucking cool
it’s like someone fractured the sky, then cracked it right in half, letting the other side shine right through.
This is incredible.
Also, note the closed-ish loop up top that glows brightly even before the lightning hits the ground, and how it still glows independently of the main trunk afterwards. I assume this is a some sort of secondary inter-cloud circuit, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen something like that before.
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What a flying wind turbine looks like (in a time lapse photo).
Look at this shit! It’s a giant kite that makes electricity!
Reblogging for SCIENCE.
And also because it gives me an excuse to link to this comic.
if you’re ever thinking that your hometown is more interesting than boston,
remember that two million gallons of molasses once flooded our streets and injured or killed nearly two hundred people
My apartment in the North End had molasses damage in the basement.
I’m reminded of the Great Seattle syrup spill of 1947, in which local business magnate Ivar Haglund, The Prince of Corn, rushed out to the spill site equipped with pancakes and hip waders. Thankfully there were no casualties.
puddingcannonstudios replied to your post:You are just a classy, creative, awesome person and I love it.
Oh, gosh. :D Thank you, anon, that is awfully sweet of you, but you might knock classy off that equation if you saw me after a couple of drinks, convinced that my purpose on earth is to drunkenly explain cell biology to an equally inebriated individual.
I’m not even a cell biologist, anon.
…oddly enough, I was attempting the exact same thing this past Friday night.
So how’d that work out for you?
I refer you to this graph:
Tea Chemistry Set by Art Lebedev
Adorned with a traditional Gzhel pattern, this ceramic chemistry set has been repurposed as a Russian tea set. The best kind of science is the type you can drink.
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Professor Brainley owns 14 sets, a cumulative 12 of which have been broken by various lab hijinx over the years.
…wait, shit, I blew up the lab.
I, uh…guess make that 14 broken.
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If I were casting for BRAIN COMICS: THE MOVIE, and for some reason Groucho Marx was unavailable, I would totally cast this guy instead.
(Kate Bush - Cloudbusting)