Until The Lion Learns How To Write, Every Story Will Glorify The Hunter.

There are an infinite number of mes writing this, and an infinite number of yous reading it

According to the current standard model of cosmology, the observable universe – containing all the billions of galaxies and trillions upon trillions of stars – is just one of an infinite number of universes existing side-by-side, like soap bubbles in a foam.

Because they are infinite, every possible history must have played out. But more than that, the number of possible histories is finite, because there have been a finite number of events with a finite number of outcomes. The number is huge, but it is finite. So this exact event, where this author writes these words and you read them, must have happened an infinite number of times.

Even more amazingly, we can work out how far away our nearest doppelganger is. It is, to put it mildly, a large distance: 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 28 meters. That number, in case you were wondering, is one followed by 10 billion billion billion zeroes

Before you change the world, change yourself

Yesterday I as clever, so i wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Set Fire To The Lithium

When your casual kayaking trip suddenly turns into an Indiana Jones movie. (New Zealand)

We all are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars

Mark Twain

Name them all? 😍 @guntrends 📷 @buffalodiller

Zodiac Word Games

Aries: Defenestration- (n.) The act of throwing someone out a window.

Taurus: Petrichor- (n.) The smell of earth after rain.

Gemini: Facetious- (adj.) Trying to appear amusing, witty &/or intelligent at an inappropriate time, when it would be better to be serious.

Cancer: Mangata- (n.) The reflection of the moon on water.

Leo: Panache- (n.) Flamboyant confidence of style or manner, a certain flair.

Virgo: Psithurism- (n.) The sound of rustling leaves.

Libra: Raxeira - (n.) Line drawn by the sunlight on the floor as it filters through the window.

Scorpio: Opia - (n.) The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Sagittarius: Eleutheromania- (n.) The intense desire for freedom.

Capricorn: Atrabilious-(adj.) Gloomy, morose, melancholy.

Aquarius: Iconoclast- (n.) One who breaks stereotypes.

Pisces: Hypnagogic- (adj.) Relating to the state immediately before falling asleep.

In their newest video, the Slow Mo Guys recreated one of my favorite effects: vibration-driven droplet ejection. For this, they use a Chinese spouting bowl, which has handles that the player rubs after partially filling the bowl with water. By rubbing, a user excites a vibrational mode in the bowl. Watch the GIFs above and you can actually see the bowl deforming steadily back and forth. This is the fundamental mode, and it’s the same kind of vibration you’d get from, say, ringing a bell. 

Without a high-speed camera, the bowl’s vibration is pretty hard to see, but it’s readily apparent from the water’s behavior in the bowl. In the video, Gav and Dan comment that the ripples (actually Faraday waves) on the water always start from the same four spots. That’s a direct result of the bowl’s movement; we see the waves starting from the points where the bowl is moving the most, the antinodes. In theory, at least, you could see different generation points if you manage to excite one of the bowl’s higher harmonics. The best part, of course, is that, once the vibration has reached a high enough amplitude, the droplets spontaneously start jumping from the water surface! (Video and image credits: The Slow Mo Guys; submitted by effyeah-artandfilm)

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