Siberian salamanders have compounds in their blood that enable them to survive temperatures of -45°C(-49F). They can stay frozen solid for years before thawing and reviving as good as new. (Wild Russia - NDR)
this is really cool and the description is serious and educational and I am just sitting here watching this gif and SQUEALING every time it opens its mouth
Shadows of the Sun.
This gives you an idea of what SDO will see on June 5-6, 2012. It’s not long now, only ~20 days away!
Roight. So. Sunrise here, 6 June, will be 4:00 UT. East of me (after a bit, admittedly) is a fecking huge body of water, i.e., horizon of 0˚ elevation. I just might be able to pull this off. :)
(via uraniaproject)
(Source: factsaboutqueers)
> write essay
: Command unknown.
> combine words and paper
: You do not have the necessary stat levels to accomplish that task.
> why the fuck not? I was able to do that spell just a couple weeks ago!!
: Perhaps your stat levels have decreased in the intervening 16.8 days.
> what stats are necessary for combine words and paper
: You might try increasing your Willpower.
> how the hell do I do that?
: Question not understood. Please rephrase.
> how do I increase willpower?
: That information is not available to players.
> facepalm
: Command unknown.
> sdvkls;aawe/s
: Command unknown.
> write sentence The date of Sulla’s abdication from the dictatorship has been debated for many decades.
: That sentence looks kind of stupid. Are you sure you want to write it? Y/N
> you’re right it does look really lame. how about we just give it a miss
: Command unknown. Are you sure you want to write that sentence? Y/N
> n
: Sentence erased.
[Many procrastinations later]
> write sentence The festival of Quinquatrus Minusculae is significant because … err
: That sentence is incomplete. Are you sure you want to write it? Y/N
> n
: Sentence erased.
> you know, what if I just dictated all this? it isn’t as dumb when I’m talking to myself as when I’m writing
: Command unknown.
> begin dictation
: You do not possess the Staff of Dictation.
> oh fuck you
: Command unknown.
> shut up
: …
> think
: You think.
> get alcohol from bag of holding
: Why would you want to do that?
> because alcohol lowers inhibitions thus letting us get through this damn essay without being all judgemental about it
: Ok … .
> just shut up and get it
: Command unknown.
> GET ALCOHOL FROM BAG OF HOLDING AND DON’T BE A SMARTASS ABOUT IT THIS TIME
: You get Alcohol from Bag of Holding, dislodging a Fanfiction in the process.
> fuck you
: Copulation skillset not researched.
> roll eyes
: You roll your eyes.
> read fanfic
: You read a Fanfiction.
> ok why do you criticize my writing but not my decision to read fanfic?
: Command unknown.
> yeah I can see that
: Command unknown.
> read another fanfic
: You read another Fanfiction.
> consider writing a fanfic
: That sounds like a fine idea. Or rather, it would, if your writing were not so revoltingly terrible.
> shut up
: …
> write sentence The old — Hotel lay about twelve miles outside of the town.
: Are you sure you want to leave the Hotel unnamed? Y/N
> well since I can’t come up with a name for it just now but don’t want to let that hold me up, let’s just call it good and move on
: Command unknown. Are you sure you want to leave the Hotel unnamed? Y/N
> y
: Sentence written.
[One paragraph later]
: Congratulations! You have gained 1 level in Writing!
> woah hold up. how the hell did that happen?
: You wrote, of your own free will, a paragraph that was not full of suckiness.
> So if I just keep writing, say, this fic, I will be able to write my essay easily?
: No. You will still have to improve your Willpower stat.
> damn it
: Object unspecified. Damn what?
> cancel last command
: Command ‘damn’ cancelled.
> sigh
: What? What did I do?
> nothing. everything
: Paradox detected.
> STOP! ABORT PARADOX
: Paradox aborted.
> whew
: You breathe a sigh of relief.
> write text adventure about writing an essay
: You do not know enough about Writing an Essay to write a Text Adventure about that.
> write text adventure about procrastinating on an essay
: That would get recursive. You don’t want that, do you?
> oh, yeah. I guess you’re right
: See. I told you so.
> write essay
: Command still unknown, but, in the interests of a brief and satisfying ending: Essay written.
: You have acquired 1 Essay.
Image description: The really great part is the commentary by an extra below, but for form’s sake: a greyscale illustrated (sort of a charcoal style? I’m not very artistic) comic, three panels, reenacting the Stuttgart scene in The Avengers.
PANEL 1: Loki addressing the crowd: “Is this not your natural state? It’s the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. You were made to be ruled.”
PANEL 2: Loki in closeup: “In the end, you will always kneel.”
PANEL 3: Two men and a woman in the front row of the crowd, all kneeling. Dark-haired bespectacled guy: “Wovon zur Hölle redet der?” Light-haired tuxedo guy: “Scheisse, ich hab keine Ahnung.” Translated in yellow font below: “The fuck is he going on about?” ” - Fuck if I know.”
WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I KEPT IMAGINING WHILE I WAS WATCHING THE MOVIE.
100% serious. The three I tagged were the most common, but there was a few ”kindergarten”s here and there as well. One girl really did know German, and she was utterly baffled by what was going on.
this is the best story
Oh my god I’m dying… It’s just the mental image… a crazy alien has just stabbed a man in his eye (sort of) and people run away screaming “OKTOBERFEST!” canlskcjanscjkna send help kslnckasnc
This is officially the best thing ever. I’d like subtitles for the screaming on the DVD, plz.
(Source: yesimheretoo)
(via beautiful-portals)
No Leo
I spent the entire week surfing the internet. No procasto.
XXXXD I imagine the circumstance of you saying ‘no procrasto’ would be like that one awkward episode where a character who is canonically queer in source material is given a pointless het DEI in some Safe For Young Impressionable Minds American TV show. Only their canon queer partner is still there under the guise of Really Good Friend (no homo!).
So you’d be doing all your silly things on the internet exactly like you do when you have a paper due and then there would be some poorly written dialogue revealing that by the by OF COURSE you are only doing these silly internet things because you are a responsible student and yes you have a very developed and responsible relationship with your homework (despite the fact that we never see you doing your homework convincingly on screen in a timely fashion) and no OF COURSE you have never written/read a fanfic to distract yourself from REAL WORK - i mean, internet fun is all well and good, but Work Always Comes First, right kids? no procrasto! (Not that this show has anything against procrastinators, it’s just we think that the complex realities of doing homework are just too complex and confusing and potentially dangerous for Impressionable Young Minds.)
Outed. ;D
I spent the entire week surfing the internet. No procasto.
Especially when they find acoustically significant places right next to the library windows to start up cooing.
