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ryandonato:

Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son 

Happy Father’s Day

Brooding Cityscapes by Jeremy Mann

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the-science-llama:

Rare footage of an Oarfish in the Wild
Video — Via DeepSeaNews

Of all bony fish, the oarfish, Regalecus glesne, is the longest.  It is suggested that oarfish can reach up to 15 meters (49 feet) in length but actual recorded lengths put them at still impressive 8 meters (26  feet).  Oarfish will often was ashore or caught by fishermen.  Yet, much like the giant squid, observations of oarfish alive in the wild are rare and video of them alive in the wild are even rarer. Until now.

wnycradiolab:

The periodic table gorgeously re-imagined, 1949-style.

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eventjoeproject:

The #Influence of Blue Prints ~>

beachw-ave:

padalikey:

Okay you know what? No. No. No. No. No. No.

People here on tumblr like to pretend they’re all ~*open minded*~ and no one’s racist or sexist or whatever but this is a fucking shitty thing to say.

Not all Christians are against homosexuality.

Not all Christians are against homosexuality.

Not all Christians are against homosexuality.

1. Not all Christians are against homosexuality.

• Not all Christians are against homosexuality.

It’s fucking disrespectful to use the Bible as a plate when that is sacred to some people. I don’t fucking give a rat’s ass if you’re not religious, you need to start fucking realising that religion isn’t inherently bad.

There are lots of Christians who are pro-LGBTQ or are LGBTQ themselves and you need to respect them as well and not lump an entire religion into the Westboro Baptist Church.

God I could have written all that better but I’m just so fucking pissed off right now I can’t even argue this.

THANK YOU SO MUCH

You know what, you’re completely right.  Not all Christians are against homosexuals.  This is a very good point to be made.

But if you look, the person in the original post never said he/she can’t get married because of Christians.  Regardless of how a person practices Christianity, it does not change the fact that the religion is homophobic.  And that is because homophobia is a theme in Christianity’s holy book.  Christianity is based on the Bible and to this day has that book as its foundation.  Getting back to the post and the subsequent comments, it’s irrelevant that some Christians are tolerant of homosexuals, because many aren’t (I’d even go so far to say the majority is intolerant).  The Bible’s influence on our culture and government is the primary reason why the marriage of homosexuals is prohibited in much of the United States.  That’s what op was saying.

And another comment on “It’s fucking disrespectful to use the Bible as a plate when that is sacred to some people.”  It may be disrespectful to the religion but not the people.  It doesn’t harm anyone at all.  The person is not using a Christian as a plate for his/her pizza.  Look at it this way, would you chastise a person for using Mein Kampf as a plate?  Most likely not.  Nazism was very much a religion to it’s followers.  (But hold on, isn’t Nazism worse than Christianity?  Oh please.  Judeo-Christian religions are historically violent, genocidal, homophobic, and misogynistic.  Millions of atrocities have been committed in the name of Jehovah.)   Regardless of how Christianity is practiced today, the Bible is still homophobic, etc.  Just like Mein Kampf.

The point is, op was making a statement.  It didn’t harm anyone.  Who cares how many Christians are butthurt over this?  This isn’t attacking Christians.  It’s attacking an ideology.  An ancient, bigoted system of belief. 

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sunshinerer:

STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT HAVING TO LEARN MATH IN SCHOOL, SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO HAVE TO USE IT EVERY DAY.

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amnhnyc:

Though many people might be quick to call this familiar-looking dinosaur a Brontosaurus, that’s actually a name that stems from a case of mistaken identity and has since been retired. Read the behind-the-scenes story of how this sauropod got its proper name here, and don’t forget to get your tickets to hear astrophysicist Mario Livio speak about other brilliant blunders at the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater on June 10 at 7pm. 

waltzchristophs:

flickeringmuse:

The Laws of Robotics

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

shadyperfection:

“They presume that, if the math is not coming easy, that therefore you’ll never learn it, and I meant it literally that math is the language of the universe and it’s like any other language, especially a language that does not share the Roman alphabet. So, for example, if you wanted to study chinese it looks completely intractable, at first.

And so, and you could ask the question, “How long does it take one to become fluent in Chinese if you are not Chinese, yourself?”

And so, it can take years and five years, almost 10 years if you never go to China. You go to China for maybe five years of intensive exposure and you’ve never done that with math. Imagine that level of exposure to math. What kind of fluency you will have at the other end of that pipeline?

So, at least give yourself the opportunity that any person learning a foreign language would give themselves, before you turn around and say you’re not good at math.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

ikenbot:

The Yukon’s Northern Lights

“My three favourite things in the world are mountains, aurora and snow.

In early 2012 I got all three of them in spades when I spent nine weeks in the frozen north of Canada’s Yukon Territory, thanks to the generosity of my hosts Andrea and Florian Lemphers.

With four cameras and dozens of lenses, tripods and a truck full of extreme cold weather gear, I journeyed across the Yukon and chased every gap in the clouds I could find.

Three terabytes and a long learning curve later, this video is short compilation of some of the best footage I captured during my aurora adventures.” — Phil Hart

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