I design baby satellites and other space gadgets like electromagnetic structures. I also make the sci-fi webcomic November Shift and am an unabashed coffee junkie. I love Mass Effect. Oh, and I like to skate and shoot things. (Avatar by ~mrgid!)
The world’s most powerful artificial tornado is part of the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Though popular enough with visitors that the staff will bring out smoke generators to make it visible, the tornado was not built as an attraction - It’s actually part of the building’s fire protection system. The modern open design of the museum meant that conventional smoke removal systems were inadequate. Instead vorticity is generated in the central lobby with 144 wall-mounted jets. The angular velocity created by the jets is strongest at the middle, in the vortex core, due to conservation of angular momentum - exactly the way a spinning ice skater speeds up by pulling his arms in. The core of the vortex is a low pressure area, which draws outside air toward it - this is how the tornado pulls in smoke when there is a fire. The fan on the ceiling provides the pressure draw necessary for the smoke to be pulled up and out of the building at a supposed rate of 4 tons per minute. See the tornado in action here. (Photo credit: Mercedes-Benz Passion; submitted by Ivan)
This Monday’s One Bun: Spock bunny! A little logical luvvie.
I’ll be GIVING HIM AWAY Tuesday morning, and if you want a crack at him, reblog to enter (◕‿◕✿). To keep an eye on future One Buns, follow Stitchnik
*made by > The Stitchy Button <, purveyor of fandom bunnies and dolls*
spock bunny!!!!
Meryl Davis & Charlie White Samson and Delilah (2008-2009)
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Alejandro Guijarro photographs the chalkboards of some of the brightest minds in quantum physics for his continuing series Momentum. He went to research facilities like CERN and many of the top universities in the world to find them.
this is cool.
This scene will forever give me shivers
THE most underrated scene in the entire movie. It was perfect. And do you know how often I see gif sets of it? This is the second one I’ve seen since the movie came out (It’s been over 5 months, now).
So let’s just pause for a moment from reblogging gifs of Tony’s sass, Loki’s sex appeal, or Bruce’s fluffiness and just appreciate this nameless, old, German guy and how, even though he knew he would probably die, he stood up to a tyrant to prove that the human race wouldn’t give up their freedom so easily.
emily why the fuck you think it necessary to give me these feels
Seeing as that took place in Germany, think that there’s no better place that that scene could have taken place. Givin’ the time frame, he or his parents could have easily lived through WWII. They bowed to a tyrant once; Never again.
Learn from your elders people- let him be an example.Friendly reminder that he implied that he was a Holocaust survivor.
Poor Germany; the biggest thing it’s remembered for is its worst failing.
one of the best parts of the movie tbh
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Lux’s Iron Man Giveaway [lux-laterna.tumblr.com]
The scoop:
So basically, for the release of IM3, I’m doing a giveaway. All you have to do is reblog this, and you’re entered for the grand prize. One person will be randomly chosen for that, and then out of everyone else, 3 others will randomly chosen for those. However, being the comic book nerd I am, I still want to know why you entered. If you get chosen and are just like “because I love RDJ so much omgasldkfjsa he’s just perf,” well, I need more than that. Tony Stark is generally an asshole, so if that’s why you love him, that’s what I want to hear. Why do /you/ love Iron Man, whether it be in the movies, or comic books - this is why you love/love to hate the genius behind the red and gold suit. That’s just for the grand prize though, so don’t worry. If you win one of the other three, knock your socks off. Still want to hear why you love or love to hate Tony Stark, but it won’t determine anything.
Again, reblog, and you’re in.
DEADLINE: JUNE 22nd {and will require 50,000 notes to be closed} GP winner will be contacted by the night of the 24th, and the others by June 30.
Rock on, and good luck, and get rebloggin.
{also, because these are fun, this won’t be the last giveaway I have}
Why do I love Tony Stark? He’s like the ultimate engineer, the technical genius who like many engineers has problems relating to others, dealing with fame and family and friends and love and loss and luxury in ways that are non-optimal and often completely disconnected with reality and societal assumptions. He’s both a role model and a warning, a dream to live up to with vices and flaws that we check ourselves for every day on the road to success. That’s (only part of) why I love Tony Stark.
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my dad sent these to me and said, “Look at our chalkboard in the break room!”
how in the fuck
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After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic,
Please come to the gate immediately.
Well—one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there.
An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress,
Just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly.
Help, said the flight service person. Talk to her. What is her
Problem? we told her the flight was going to be four hours late and she
Did this.
I put my arm around her and spoke to her haltingly.
Shu dow-a, shu- biduck habibti, stani stani schway, min fadlick,
Sho bit se-wee?
The minute she heard any words she knew—however poorly used—
She stopped crying.
She thought our flight had been canceled entirely.
She needed to be in El Paso for some major medical treatment the
Following day. I said no, no, we’re fine, you’ll get there, just late,
Who is picking you up? Let’s call him and tell him.
We called her son and I spoke with him in English.
I told him I would stay with his mother till we got on the plane and
Would ride next to her—Southwest.
She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it.
Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and
Found out of course they had ten shared friends.
Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian
Poets I know and let them chat with her. This all took up about 2 hours.
She was laughing a lot by then. Telling about her life. Answering
Questions.
She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookies—little powdered
Sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts—out of her bag—
And was offering them to all the women at the gate.
To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a
Sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the traveler from California,
The lovely woman from Laredo—we were all covered with the same
Powdered sugar. And smiling. There are no better cookies.
And then the airline broke out the free beverages from huge coolers—
Non-alcoholic—and the two little girls for our flight, one African
American, one Mexican American—ran around serving us all apple juice
And lemonade and they were covered with powdered sugar too.
And I noticed my new best friend—by now we were holding hands—
Had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing,
With green furry leaves. Such an old country traveling tradition. Always
Carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.
And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought,
This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.
Not a single person in this gate—once the crying of confusion stopped
—has seemed apprehensive about any other person.
They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women too.
This can still happen anywhere.
Not everything is lost.
—Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but that’s as it should be. (via oliviacirce)
Not going to lie. This got me veklempt.
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Beautiful.
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Stanley, Pumpkin, and Marlboro have all gotten so tall (today top, a month ago middle, last July bottom)!
