Here’s The Orbital Period Of Our Solar System’s 8 Major Planets (how Long It Takes Each To Travel

This is fucking insane! However, haters are haters, no matter who is/was/will be our president.

#StopHomophobia

The Core Members of International Rescue

Iron in the Butterfly Nebula : Can stars, like caterpillars, transform themselves into butterflies? No, but in the case of the Butterfly Nebula – it sure looks like it. Though its wingspan covers over 3 light-years and its estimated surface temperature exceeds 200,000 degrees, C, the dying central star of NGC 6302, the featured planetary nebula, has become exceptionally hot, shining brightly in visible and ultraviolet light but hidden from direct view by a dense torus of dust. This sharp close-up was recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope and is reprocessed here to show off the remarkable details of the complex planetary nebula, highlighting in particular light emitted by iron, shown in red. NGC 6302 lies about 4,000 light-years away in the arachnologically correct constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). Planetary nebulas evolve from outer atmospheres of stars like our Sun, but usually fade in about 20,000 years. via NASA

If you named your boys after biscuits instead of astronauts, what would they all be called?

“You asked for it…”

Biscotti:

Gingernut:

Coconut Cookie:

Party ring:

Baby Rusk:

And finally, Rich Mr T:

What's a quasar? Is it a science thingy?

“A quasar, or, uh, quasi-stellar radio source as they’re more properly called, are types of Active Galactic Nuclei.” John begins to explain with a smile, “The Tracy Quasar, that is, my quasar, is one of them. AGN’s are extremely luminous and so the first signs of it were an abnormally high redshift source of electromagnetic energy on my screens, that is, uh, a load of radio waves and visible light appeared. It’s something similar to what stars emit, but my readouts were showing very broad emission lines; unlike any known from actual stars, so I knew it was something special from the moment I first pointed my telescope at it.” He laughs.

“Quasar’s are normally caused by collisions of galaxies, with the galaxies’ central black holes merging to form either a supermassive black hole or a binary black hole system.” The spaceman goes on, flicking up a diagram and shifting the data around meaningfully. “So, here, look; the Tracy Quasar is essentially a really super compact region in the centre of a massive galaxy, that surrounds one of these central supermassive black holes. See? Its size is something like ten thousand times the radius of an ordinary enclosed black hole. The energy emitted from such a quasar derives from mass that’s falling onto what we call the accretion disc around the black hole.”

“The primary star of the Tracy Quasar, that is, the largest solar body in the galaxy, is the LucilleX10-37.” John’s expression changes; softening into warm and fond as he mentions his mother’s star. “She’s got a small cluster of satellites; asteroids and exo-planets that have been named after my brothers and Father.”

“I have books written on the subject,” He adds, “though the I’m not sure whether the eponymof the S-TracyX607 has ever used my book for anything but a doorstop…”

Ole Henrik Skjelstad Guardians of the Lake

“Hello there…we come in peace”

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Why do I make things harder for myself by writing out everything longhand, and then typing up everything I've written?

#NotMyPresident

The electoral college does not vote until December 19th. We have 40 days.

What does this mean?

Right now, the presidential election results are only a PROJECTION of the election outcome. They are PRELIMINARY RESULTS. A candidate still needs to earn 270 electoral votes to win. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, which means that more than 50% of the voters wanted her for president. The electoral college shouldn’t guarantee an override of the public’s opinion– and it doesn’t have to.

There are 21 states that do NOT restrict which candidate the electors vote for. Out of these 21, Hillary lost the following:

As you can see, these states are worth 166 electoral votes. As it currently stands, Hillary Clinton is projected to receive 232 votes. Trump is projected to win 306. This means that 37 votes need to be taken away from Trump to bring him down to 269. Hillary Clinton needs 38 votes ADDED to win 270. These electoral voters can also abstain, which means that they can refuse to vote for either candidate. If 37 of the voters within these states abstain then no candidate will have reached the required 270. In this case, the vote would be taken to the House.

Trump won Pennsylvania, a state that typically votes blue, by less than 100,000 votes. While it is highly unlikely to get all 20 electoral voters to cross party lines and vote democrat, it also isn’t impossible to convince a few of them to be “faithless electors.” We only need to convince 38 out of the 166. That is 23%. There are SIXTEEN states we need to focus our attention on.

A move like this would be unprecedented. However, as we all saw on November 8th, odds don’t guarantee reality. Trump had a less than 20% chance of winning, yet given the circumstances, enough people came together and made it happen. We can make this happen. 

Ask yourself this: What do we have left to lose? We can stay complacent and accept that this country will be run by a racist, sexist, islamophobic, homophobic, ablest bigot, or we can at least try. 

How?

SPREAD THE WORD. Trend #NotMyPresident to let people know that we do not accept being led by a man who does not care about our wellbeing. Email your professors, email the dean of your colleges. The last thing a university wants is negative press. Millenials can take a stand, but that doesn’t mean we have to be the only ones. Church-led events helped bring a lot of disillusioned voters to the polls. Spread the word in any way possible, whether it be on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or even in person. Stage a peaceful protest. Hand out flyers. Let the people around you know that you don’t accept this man as your leader when he won’t even accept you as a citizen with your designated rights.

These 166 people need to face the consequences of electing this man. 

Do this for the people who couldn’t vote. Do this for the people who live in the very real fear of being deported. Do this for the people who will have to face the rise in hate crimes. Do this for the people who have a very real possibility of losing their rights. Do this for the people who will no longer be able to afford necessities. 

The photo I used when writing Regina in I Never Told You What I Do For A Living - Katie McGrath.

And a picture of my new tattoo for 5 Years clean of Self-harm