sexhaver:

one million, two hundred and seventy thousand results. one million, two hundred and seventy thousand instances of the exact phrase “babies with swag” are contained on the internet. on one million, two hundred and seventy thousand separate occasions, a real live human being has sat down at a keyboard or stared down at their smartphone and tapped out the words “babies with swag”. this is late capitalism. this is the Desert of the Real. this is the hypothetical Tenth Circle of Hell. what an incredible time to be alive

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Edinburgh, Scotland

It just snowed yesterday, and now I saw this =)

Chinese fishermen using fire to attract fish at night

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Gallery: Michael Benson’s Images From Space

first picture (on the top) : Benson stitched together a series of photographs taken from the International Space Station in 2010 to create this image of the moon reflecting off the Adriatic Sea between Italy and Croatia. The perspective is from the north looking south. Milan is to the lower right. Rome and Naples are visible as well.

2cnd picture (on the left): This image, a mosaic of photographs captured by the Cassini orbiter in 2006, shows the dark side of Saturn. The planet’s rings, made mainly of ice, are thousands of miles wide but only a mile deep; here they are shown from below. Sunlight filtering through the rings faintly illuminates Saturn’s lower hemisphere, while the upper one is brightly lit by sunlight reflected off the rings’s surface.

3rd picture (on the right): Members of ISS Expedition 30 took a series of short films as they orbited over the Indian Ocean in December 2011. They captured the rising Milky Way along with a passing comet. Benson used 20 frames to make this single image and then rotated it, so Earth’s horizon appears vertically. The comet can be seen as a faint streak just below the band of stars.

4rth picture :In January 2001, Cassini swept past Jupiter en route to Saturn. As it did, scientists directed the unmanned craft to take a series of photos, some of which captured the transit of the volcanic moon Io at Jupiter’s limb. Benson combined 27 frames into nine composites, which he then stitched together.

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Northern Lights over an Erupting Volcano

In April 2010, the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull spewed great ash clouds into the sky and caused enormous disruptions to air travel in Europe. The eruptions are best remembered for this inconvenience, but photographer James Appleton managed to capture the event in a different way. In the weeks before the disturbances, a vulcanologist friend of his alerted him to the unfolding volcanic drama, and Appleton travelled straight to the Icelandic mountain before it was closed off. Risking his life to battle extreme cold, high winds, and seismic activity, Appleton captured a rare but gorgeous scene: the glowing lava from an Eyjafjallajökull fissure with the Northern Lights—Aurora Borealis—overhead. These are two very different light sources, so “the photograph needed parts of the scene selectively blocked for sections of the exposure to balance the contrast,” Appleton recalls. “A Mars bar wrapper came in handy for this!”

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What is Quantum Physics?

Quantum physics is a branch of science that deals with discrete, indivisible units of energy called quanta as described by the Quantum Theory. There are five main ideas represented in Quantum Theory:

1. Energy is not continuous, but comes in small but discrete units. 
2. The elementary particles behave both like particles and like waves. 
3. The movement of these particles is inherently random. 
4. It is physically impossible to know both the position and the momentum of a particle at the same time. The more precisely one is known, the less precise the measurement of the other is
5. The atomic world is nothing like the world we live in.

While at a glance this may seem like just another strange theory, it contains many clues as to the fundamental nature of the universe and is more important then even relativity in the grand scheme of things (if any one thing at that level could be said to be more important then anything else). Furthermore, it describes the nature of the universe as being much different then the world we see. As Niels Bohr said, “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.”

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Bled Castle, Slovenia (by Pilar Azaña)

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What Skyrim Looks Like When You’re Running 100 Mods At Once

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The Solar System

I have the first one on a poster above my bed thanks to my dear Connor <3