Hey tumblr friends, in case I haven't told you lately, I have no idea what the FUCK half of you are on about and I WISH I didn't know what the rest of you are on about. Great work. Keep it up.
"I don't know half of you half as well as I'd like and I don't like half of you half as much as I should"
I believe that's what sir Bilbo Baggins said in that scene.
i think the second one is "I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve"
no you dont understand, i’m obsessed with him
no you dont understand i’m obsessed with him
The experiment demonstrates the fluidity and high viscosity of pitch, a derivative of tar that is the world's thickest known fluid and was once used for waterproofing boats.
Thomas Parnell, UQ's first Professor of Physics, created the experiment in 1927 to illustrate that everyday materials can exhibit quite surprising properties.
At room temperature pitch feels solid - even brittle - and can easily be shattered with a hammer. But, in fact, at room temperature the substance - which is 100 billion times more viscous than water - is actually fluid.
In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. He allowed the pitch to cool and settle for three years, and then in 1930 he cut the funnel's stem.
Since then, the pitch has slowly dripped out of the funnel - so slowly that it took eight years for the first drop to fall, and more than 40 years for another five to follow.
Now, 87 years after the funnel was cut, only nine drops have fallen - the last drop fell in April 2014 and we expect the next one to fall sometime in the 2020s.
The experiment was set up as a demonstration and is not kept under special environmental conditions - it's kept in a display cabinet - so the rate of flow of the pitch varies with seasonal changes in temperature.
The late Professor John Mainstone became the experiment's second custodian in 1961. He looked after the experiment for 52 years but, like his predecessor Professor Parnell, he passed away before seeing a drop fall.
- University of Queensland, Australia
I just kind of feel like the rise in "actually every Disney villain has a tragic and stupid backstory uwu" is both a symptom and cause of the increasing "both sides" narrative idk like..... "She killed puppies but it's because dogs killed her mom uwu" ???????????? People get attacked by dogs every year and don't kill puppies what the fuck is this ABSOLUTE false equivalency. Exact same vibes as centrist "both sides must have a point" bullshit.
Back to add; same vibes as the Bright movie, where it's like, "Yeah, everyone is racist to orcs, but the orcs did something really bad one time!" Same vibes as Kyle Ron where it's like, "Yeah, he's caused incalculable suffering, but his uncle was mean to him one time!" Just this endless conga line of, "Sure, these people have caused clearly unjustifiable suffering, but look how justified it is!" And it's? Not? You know it's not, right?
Can’t wait for Seminary where we watch Frollo be an incel for two hours in the name of the Lord because he was shunned by a pretty but ethnically non-specific woman in his youth
And let’s not forget Stomach, Hades’ backstory wherein all of his siblings pick on him within Kronos’ digestive tract while waiting for Zeus to Fight Dad™
Okay i love this but lore olympus is actually dope lol
anyone else get embarrassed when their self indulgent daydreams are like too self-indulgent? like oh jeez the telepaths are going to judge me
Sentences that explain like 70% of America
1. Doctor finds anecdotal evidence that people are passing kidney stones after riding on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World
2. Doctor makes 3-D model of kidney, complete with stones and urine (his own), takes it on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 60 times
3. “The stones passed 63.89 percent of the time while the kidneys were in the back of the car. When they were in the front, the passage rate was only 16.67 percent. That’s based on only 60 rides on a single coaster, and Wartinger guards his excitement in the journal article: ‘Preliminary study findings support the anecdotal evidence that a ride on a moderate-intensity roller coaster could benefit some patients with small kidney stones.’”
4. “Some rides are going to be more advantageous for some patients than other rides. So I wouldn’t say that the only ride that helps you pass stones is Big Thunder Mountain. That’s grossly inaccurate.”
5. “His advice for now: If you know you have a stone that’s smaller than five millimeters, riding a series of roller coasters could help you pass that stone before it gets to an obstructive size and either causes debilitating colic or requires a $10,000 procedure to try and break it up. And even once a stone is broken up using shock waves, tiny fragments and “dust” remain that need to be passed. The coaster could help with that, too.”
SCIENCE: IT WORKS
Update:
“In all, we used 174 kidney stones of varying shapes, sizes and weights to see if each model worked on the same ride and on two other roller coasters,” Wartinger said. “Big Thunder Mountain was the only one that worked. We tried Space Mountain and Aerosmith’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and both failed.”Wartinger went on to explain that these other rides are too fast and too violent with a G-force that pins the stone into the kidney and doesn’t allow it to pass.“The ideal coaster is rough and quick with some twists and turns, but no upside down or inverted movements,” he said.
I just love this because it’s HILARIOUS and yet also a perfect archetypal example of The Scientific Method:
1. Hypothesis
2. Experiment
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
6. GOTO 1 (the scientific method is iterative, don’t forget that part)
was this like… done in cooperation with disney management or did some random scientist go through bag check with a 3d printed kidney and a bottle of piss and start looking for big thunder mountain fastpasses
Of course, the researchers had to get permission from Disney World before bringing the model kidney onto the rides. “It was a little bit of luck,” Wartinger recalls. “We went to guest services, and we didn’t want them to wonder what was going on—two adult men riding the same ride again and again, carrying a backpack. We told them what our intent was, and it turned out that the manager that day was a guy who recently had a kidney stone. He called the ride manager and said, do whatever you can to help these guys, they’re trying to help people with kidney stones.”
that is beautiful.
This is right up there with taping vibrators to constipated tortoises after vets reported that driving them down bumpy roads seemed to help last-ditch patients.
Wait, what???????
https://nerdbot.com/2021/01/09/new-pill-bottles-for-shaky-hands-will-help-people-with-parkinsons/
This makes me cry, actually.
Just to add on. Libraries in many cities have 3d printers you can use that charge you only the price of materials. So if you can't wait for the shipping from the engineers, try your local library.
Humanity at its best 🤗
More of my favorite animated sequences from various shows/movies.
Ultraluminary - Over the Moon
Sharptooth Attack - The Land Before Time
Third Date - HTTYD The Hidden World
"I am Moana!" - Moana
Dreams to Dream - An American Tail Fievel goes West
Spirit and Rain - Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron
Furby Attack - Mitchels vs the Machines
Just cant wait to be King - The Lion King
Into the Unknown - Frozen 2
This is a basic summary of yesterday’s events. It is important that word of what’s going on gets out and spreads because the Cuban government is tying to silence and isolate Cuba from the rest of the world. I am begging you to read and reblog this.
Yesterday, Cubans took to the streets and started to protest against the government, the Castro regime, and the current president, Miguel Diaz-Canel. Do not be fooled by the word president, Canel was not elected by the people, he was placed into power by people who were already in power. Cuba isn’t a democracy, it’s a dictatorship.
The protests started in San Antonio, and they spread to every province in Cuba. People, all kinds of people, were out there in the streets protesting against the dictatorship all day. They faced off against police officers and the military, these protestors were unarmed. These unarmed protestors were beaten and arrested right there in the street, and shots are heard to have been fired. There are videos of Cuban protestors being shot at by the police, and these are the kind of videos that the government doesn’t want you to see. A child was killed. As of right now, I know of a 13 year old child who was out there protesting, and the police murdered him right there. They don’t care who they have to hurt, they just want Cuba to be silenced. Younger children have probably also died at the hands of the police yesterday, and I wouldn’t know about it. They say that there’s a massacre happening over there right now, but I don’t know the exact number of people who’ve died.
Protestors have thrown rocks at the police, they’ve overturned police cars and dumped garbage cans on top of them. Protestors are out there, filming everything to try and get the word out, outsiders need to see what’s happening. These same people are having their phones ripped out of their hands, these same people are being dragged away by the police and being beaten and arrested right there.
Any Cuban person with any sort of influence, mainly Cuban singers, who have been seen supporting the protests have been arrested in an attempt to have the protests die out.
5 people that I know of where killed by the police in Santiago de Cuba.
Later into the night, the government shut down electricity everywhere in Cuba and most access has been cut off in an attempt to silence them from speaking out about this. As far as I know, the people continued to protest late into the night anyways.
These protests are important because Cubans have spent 62 years without nothing. There’s barely any food on the table, not enough to feed one person, much less a family. The people have been starving for 62 years. There aren’t any clothes, not nice clothes anyways, most people have been using the same clothes over and over for the last however many years because they simply can not afford to buy new clothes. There’s barely any electricity or internet access everywhere, and those who do have those privileges are now being silenced by the government. There isn’t even any medicine! So many Cubans have died because of medical incompetency, they died because there’s no medicine. My aunt’s mother died this year because there was no medicine, because Cuban doctors didn’t have the proper tools to actually help her. Covid has been mismanaged terribly in Cuba, 6,000 cases daily, and those are the numbers that we know of, who knows how many it actually is. My aunt died in the hospital because of this. And nobody in Cuba knows much of the outside world because Cubans don’t have access to the outside world. The government controls everything in Cuba, from the press to the internet service. The only things that you can see there are the things that government wants you to see. You have no freedom of speech there. If you so much as dare to say anything bad about that government, you will be thrown in jail. They torture you in that jail. You have no freedom in Cuba. These protests are important because Cubans deserve justice. These protests are important because Cubans deserve freedom.
The world needs to see what’s happening in Cuba, do not turn a blind eye. You want to help us? This is how. Stay informed and spread information, the government wants to silence Cuba, the government doesn’t want the world to see this, so we will make the world see this. Please, stay informed.
There are the hashtags #soscuba and #cubapalacalle that you can use to spread information and stay informed. On my blog, you can use the hashtags #patria y vida and #cuba protests to see more of my posts on this. Please, spread the word in whatever way you can and do not let Cuba be silenced.
Mutals, SB this please. I’m begging you.
This is the polar opposite to “there isnt a single encouraging word on that screen”
It looks like we might not get it until 2022, but the cast is Stacked!
This will be a Netflix production and not to be confused with Disney’s own CGI/live-action remake directed by Robert Zemeckis and set to premiere on Disney+
[video: a seal emerges from a hole in the ice to breathe. It yells “Ah! Woo!” then sinks back down]
The ahh was so much deeper and the woo so much softer than i could have expected i love it
@maybewren do you like funny animal noises
