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dies I won't be able to reply to any asks, requests, tags for the next week since it's my final examination... wish me luck
“Why are you so salty all the time?” is the question.
and the answer of an awesome person shall be....
“Because it’s in my natrium.”
Hey, relax! We’re all fronds here in this post!
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Note: The captions for each photo are what they were named on the website where initially found and may or may not accurately describe the images.
Image credits (See captions for photo titles):
Green Palm Tree Near White Concrete Building - Jess Loiterton - Posted on August 21st, 2021
https://www.pexels.com/photo/beach-vacation-sand-hotel-9269096/
Photo of Fern Leaves - Ave Calvar Martinez - Posted on May 18th, 2020
https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-fern-leaves-4372485/
A Close-Up Shot of a Fern Plant - Dmitriy Ganin - Posted on April 29th, 2021
https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-close-up-shot-of-a-fern-plant-7694032/
Green Leaf Plant - Anna - Posted on March 23rd, 2020
https://www.pexels.com/photo/green-leaf-plant-3972650/
Brown Aquatic Plants in Close Up Photography - Kindel Media - Posted on July 21st, 2021
https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-aquatic-plants-in-close-up-photography-8849620/
Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care
Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck
they should let you get xrays and mris just cause. i wanna see what my skelinton looks like. i wanna see my organs and shit
PHYSICS APPRECIATION: CHERENKOV RADIATION
I'm a student, enthusiast and massive nerd, this is my best attempt at sharing all the awesome little secrets and tid bits, beyond your average high school science class. (It's cool I swear).
In a visit to Sizewell power station last year (highly reccomend), I learned that nuclear reactors don't glow the radioactive green we see in cartoons:
But rather a brilliant blue:
It's cause is simmilar to that of a sonic boom. Normally, matter can't accelerate past the speed of light, however, the speed of light in water, is much slower than the speed of light in a vacuum (around 75%). This means that, charged particles emitted during nuclear reactions, are able to exceed the speed of light in their medium (water), and things get weird.
Water is dielectric (able to be electrically polarised), so when charged paricles faster than the speed of light travel through it, its particles become polarised. In order to return to their ground state, the particles emit photons.
The photos travel as waves with high frequencies and short wavelengths (remember ROYGBIV?), which tend towards the blue/violet end of the visible light spectrum, hence the blue. (And perhaps even ultraviolet, which we can't see).
If anyone wants me to go more in depth, or if I've made any mistakes, please lmk!!
I love my dad. The way we are able to bounce off each other is something special. Just us. No one else. A little bubble forms as we discuss spacetime, black holes, God, and social life. As heavy as these topics are, doing them together is light. We laugh. A lot.
We go deeper and deeper into our questions about the universe. Space feels so infinitely vast, but with my dad, it's not so scary anymore. It's fun.
I love my dad :)
There are six people living in space right now. There are people printing prototypes of human organs, and people printing nanowire tissue that will bond with human flesh and the human electrical system. We’ve photographed the shadow of a single atom. We’ve got robot legs controlled by brainwaves. Explorers have just stood in the deepest unsubmerged place in the world, a cave more than two kilometres under Abkhazia. NASA are getting ready to launch three satellites the size of coffee mugs, that will be controllable by mobile phone apps. Here’s another angle on vintage space: Voyager 1 is more than 11 billion miles away, and it’s run off 64K of computing power and an eight-track tape deck. In the last ten years, we’ve discovered two previously unknown species of human. We can film eruptions on the surface of the sun, landings on Mars and even landings on Titan. Is all of this very boring to you? Because all this is happening right now, in this moment. Check the time on your phone, because this is the present time and these things are happening. The most basic mobile phone is in fact a communications devices that shames all of science fiction, all the wrist radios and handheld communicators. Captain Kirk had to tune his fucking communicator and it couldn’t text or take a photo that he could stick a nice Polaroid filter on. Science fiction didn’t see the mobile phone coming. It certainly didn’t see the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make amazing things happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards. That, by the way, is what Steve Jobs meant when he said that iPads were magical. The central metaphor is magic. And perhaps magic seems an odd thing to bring up here, but magic and fiction are deeply entangled, and you are all now present at a séance for the future. We are summoning it into the present. It’s here right now. It’s in the room with us. We live in the future. We live in the Science Fiction Condition, where we can see under atoms and across the world and across the methane lakes of Titan. Use the rear view mirror for its true purpose. If I were sitting next to you twenty-five years ago, and you heard a phone ring, and I took out a bar of glass and said, sorry, my phone just told me it’s got new video of a solar flare, you’d have me sectioned in a flash. Use the rear view mirror to imagine telling someone just twenty five years ago about GPS. This is the last generation in the Western world that will ever be lost. LifeStraws. Synthetic biology. Genetic sequencing. SARS was genetically sequenced within 48 hours of its identification. I’m not even touching the web, wifi, mobile broadband, cloud computing, electronic cigarettes… Understand that our present time is the furthest thing from banality. Reality as we know it is exploding with novelty every day. Not all of it’s good. It’s a strange and not entirely comfortable time to be alive. But I want you to feel the future as present in the room. I want you to understand, before you start the day here, that the invisible thing in the room is the felt presence of living in future time, not in the years behind us. To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better. Act like you live in the Science Fiction Condition. Act like you can do magic and hold séances for the future and build a brightness control for the sky. Act like you live in a place where you could walk into space if you wanted. Think big. And then make it better.
Warren Ellis - How To See The Future
(via blogarsay)
autism is when science
"With measurement errors negated, what remains is the real and exciting possibility we have misunderstood the universe"
A scientific breakdown of why October 1st is the only possible date for TZ's anniversary, please take a seat
October 1st, 2016
TZ are both in NYC between September 28th-October 1st
Tom leaves on October 2nd (is back by 4/10) to wrap HOCO
October 1st, 2017
Tom flies back to Canada after spending the weekend in LA with Z
Why did he fly back on the 1st if that's their actual anniversary, you ask? Because it was a Sunday and he was back shooting CW on Monday morning, case closed
October 1st, 2018
TZ spotted having dinner in Italy while shooting FFH, apparently alone
October 1st, 2021
Z is shooting Euphoria, but they spend the day together in LA, since Tom is only back in London by October 3rd/4th
Conclusion: their anniversary couldn't possibly be later than October 1st, since he leaves LA right after that
October 2022
They're both busy on 1/10 since Z is shooting Dune in Budapest and Tom is in NYC working
Z only has a couple of days off for PFW before going back to set, so they celebrate as soon as she's free
October 1st, 2023
TZ in Paris again, looking all cuddly
Tom only goes to Paris on October 1st even though Z arrived from LA a couple of days earlier = their anniversary couldn't possibly be before 1/10, because he would've arrived in Paris sooner
Conclusion: by process of elimination, their anniversary can only be on October 1st, thank you for coming to my ted talk