When They Saw Me In My Space Suit And The Parachute Dragging Alongside As I Walked, They Started To Back

When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space. And I must find a telephone to call Moscow.

Yuri Gagarin,

the first human to travel to space; upon re-entry Gagarin landed 280 kilometers away from the intended landing site, to the surprise of a farmer and his daughter who watched him fall from the sky (via whats-out-there)

HELLO FELLOW CITIZENS I AM A CITIZEN JUST LIKE YOU DEFINITELY NOT AN ALIEN NOW TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADERS

(via currentboat)

This whole page is fantastic.

Among my favorites are:

Bohemic acid, named by Dr. Netter for the opera La Boheme... which isn’t that crazy until you discover that a bunch of its isolated components were then named by Dr. Netter’s team after several of the main characters in the show.

Buckminsterfullerene, because I will never not be amused by how unwieldy that name is.

Pikachurin because it showed up in Osmosis Jones before it was discovered.  

Arsole, because when it’s fused with benzene it becomes benzarsole (poor ben...).

dfs

DAMN, because DAMN.

BARF, because i have a juvenile sense of humor.

DEADCAT, because there’s more than one way to skin it.

Magic acid, because, as we all know, science is witchcraft.

FOOF, because it sounds funny.

Greatest Wiki Page Of All Time

Not a fake fact, but possibly the funniest anything ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_with_unusual_names#Sounding_like_vulgarisms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_with_unusual_names#Related_to_sex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_with_unusual_names#Related_to_body_.28mal.29functions

My favorite is “Rhamnetin“

Crick: *can't find Watson at a crowded party* this calls for drastic measures

Crick: *uses hands as megaphone* WE SHOULD HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED ROSALIND FRANKLINS CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR SOLVING OF THE STRUCTURE OF DNA!

Watson: *from other side of the room* whAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY???

Crick: There he is

somebody once trolled me, successfully rickroll’d me

Scientist hashtags and memes are some of the best stuff on the internet.

Scientists celebrate the weird world of animal genitalia with #junkoff

It's the latest hilarious (and educational) hashtag to come out of Twitter's scientific community.

Explore the beautiful and terrifying world of animal genitalia–in pictures posted by scientists on Twitter. Science journalist Rachel Feltman has collected a few favorites in this Washington Post article, but follow the #junkoff tag for more bizarre private parts from the natural world…

I kept taking about The Martian on my other blog, but I'm too excited to keep it on just one of them. If you like science and fun stories, read The Martian by Andy Weir; you will not regret it.