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Sat, 18 May 2013 00:41:57 -0400

ikoiako: Supernatural - Boys Quotes!

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:39:01 -0400

ikoiako:

Supernatural - Boys Quotes!

prompet: look at that plant what a good plant yes

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:35:51 -0400

prompet:

look at that plant what a good plant yes

honeyyoushouldseemeinacrown: superwholockthecomic: seblainespar...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:35:32 -0400

honeyyoushouldseemeinacrown:

superwholockthecomic:

seblainesparkles:

motherfuckingoakenshield:

we fly like paper

Oh god this is perfect.

this looks like an introduction for a reality tv show.

I want to believe that this is all actually what goes on in heaven when they’re not fighting wars with each other. XD

What used to go on when there was still a Heaven to go back to you mean

scinerds: Deep Canadian mine yields ancient water Scientists...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:34:59 -0400

scinerds:

Deep Canadian mine yields ancient water

Scientists working 2.4 kilometres below Earth’s surface in a Canadian mine have tapped a source of water that has remained isolated for at least a billion years. The researchers say they do not yet know whether anything has been living in it all this time, but the water contains high levels of methane and hydrogen — the right stuff to support life.

Micrometre-scale pockets in minerals billions of years old can hold water that was trapped during the minerals’ formation. But no source of free-flowing water passing through interconnected cracks or pores in Earth’s crust has previously been shown to have stayed isolated for more than tens of millions of years.

“We were expecting these fluids to be possibly tens, perhaps even hundreds of millions of years of age,” says Chris Ballentine, a geochemist at the University of Manchester, UK. He and his team carefully captured water flowing through fractures in the 2.7-billion-year-old sulphide deposits in a copper and zinc mine near Timmins, Ontario, ensuring that the water did not come into contact with mine air.

To date the water, the team used three lines of evidence, all based on the relative abundances of various isotopes of noble gases present in the water. The authors determined that the fluid could not have contacted Earth’s atmosphere — and so been at the planet’s surface — for at least 1 billion years, and possibly for as long as 2.64 billion years, not long after the rocks it flows through formed. The study appears today in Nature.

‘Extremely strange’

“The isotopic compositions that they see in these samples are extremely strange, and the preferred explanation in the article seems to me the most likely one,” says Pete Burnard, a geochemist at the Centre of Petrographic and Geochemical Research in Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France. “For the moment, I think we have to conclude that there are 1.5-billion-year-old fluids trapped in the crust.”

The findings are “doubly interesting”, Ballentine says, because the fluid carries the ingredients necessary to support life. The isolated water supply, he says, provides “secluded biomes, ecosystems, in which life, you can speculate, might have even originated”. His colleagues are now working to establish whether the water does harbour life.

The findings may also have implications for life on Mars, Ballentine says, though he acknowledges that the idea is speculative. The surface of Mars once held water and its rocks are chemically no different from those on Earth, he says. “There is no reason to think the same interconnected fluids systems do not exist there.”

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psychofactz: More Facts on Psychofacts :)

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:33:03 -0400

psychofactz:

More Facts on Psychofacts :)

darkheartsclub: sealprinceling: mypussysqueaky: that rifa: hi...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:31:48 -0400

darkheartsclub:

sealprinceling:

mypussysqueaky:

that rifa:

hipsterinatardis:

Fun fact: Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins decided secretly that they’d play Hook and Smee as a gay couple. When Spielberg, the director, found out, he was furious.

I just think it’s hilarious.

OH MY GOD

that is brilliant

omg I so hope that’s true.

best fucking movie ever

A woman can preach, a woman can work, a woman can fight. A...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:29:38 -0400

A woman can preach, a woman can work, a woman can fight. A woman can build, can rule, can conquer, can destroy just as much as a man can.

fuckyeahfeminists: thepleasureofthesierramadre: vicemag: 40-Ye...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:26:35 -0400

fuckyeahfeminists:

thepleasureofthesierramadre:

vicemag:

40-Year-Old American Bombs from the Laotian Secret War Still Cause Two Casualties a Week

Every day, Manixia Thor and her team of 20 women wake up knowing the jobs they have to go to could get them blown to smithereens. Unexploded American cluster bombs could detonate at any moment as they excavate dangerous areas of Laos with their metal detectors. Since the Laotian “Secret War” ended some 40 years ago, millions of these unexploded bombs lay dormant across the country, regularly maiming children and ruining or ending the lives of the thousands who accidentally set them off.

Due to Western involvement in foreign coup d’états, alleged third-party funding of rebel uprisings, and diplomatic meetings behind closed doors, history has seen many wars fought in a way that could be considered secret. Few secret wars, however, laid and continue to lay siege to a native population like the Secret War in Laos—an undeclared state of conflict so brutal that it gave Laos the official title of being history’s most bombed country.

For nine years, from 1964 to 1973, the US government dropped over two million tons of cluster bombs and other heavy artillery on Laos. They did all this to help the Royal Lao Government (RLG) combat the far-left communist rebel group Pathet Lao, whose members were trying to, and eventually succeeded in, overthrowing them and taking control of the country.

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there’s a really good documentary from a few years back about this called “bomb harvest”

omg.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 00:25:12 -0400

I wanna know what people assume about me because of my tumblr.

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:25:01 -0400

Put an assumption in my ask. I’ll confirm or dispute it. I’m not gonna be mean or anything, I’m just very interested.

magicalnaturetour: Yosemite Valley at Night - The mist on the...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:16:05 -0400

magicalnaturetour:

Yosemite Valley at Night - The mist on the valley floor reflects car lights driving through. Yosemite National Park, USA. (Phil Hawkins/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest) via Big Picture

aiwa-sensei: anglofile: aiwa-sensei: All three together now....

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:14:20 -0400

aiwa-sensei:

anglofile:

aiwa-sensei:

All three together now. Because why not :)

Geniuses and Champions

Thinkers and Fighters

Drama Queens and Not-so-dramatic-but-kinda-bamf-and-someting-with-guns-people.

…. (:-_-)

Might I suggest for Mycroft and Lestrade calling it Law and Order?

Oooo, I like it! :D

hiddlestalker: medicalschool: White Blood Cell chasing and...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:13:22 -0400

hiddlestalker:

medicalschool:

White Blood Cell chasing and consuming a Bacterial Organism through a process called Phagocytosis

one way or another i’m gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha

ordonian-hero: taho-gitwick: Have a slightly confused Link...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:11:14 -0400

ordonian-hero:

taho-gitwick:

Have a slightly confused Link with some cats. They were definitely one of my favourite parts of the game. :D

(open in a new tab for fullview!)

Cat: burmew

Link: sorry what?

hiddlestalker: elysionsprincess: vanehsensei: slenderlock: singarequiem: techno4tomcats: People...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:07:44 -0400

hiddlestalker:

elysionsprincess:

vanehsensei:

slenderlock:

singarequiem:

techno4tomcats:

People are insane on this product review of a banana slicer

No seriously

oh my fucking god

OH MY GOD I REBLOGGED THIS BEFORE I READ THE COMMENTS AND
HOLY FUCK

I CAN’T BREATHE

“I tried the banana slicer and found it unacceptable. As shown in the picture, the slices is curved from left to right. All of my bananas are bent the other way.”

omG

#this post is BANANAS

lagerthan: Two decades full of nothing but monsters and crime...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:58:25 -0400

lagerthan:

Two decades full of nothing but monsters and crime scenes;

There is nothing I would undo so much as things I wish would wake up forgotten. [x]

peashooter85: Deluxe Factory Panel Scene Engraved Winchester...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:57:08 -0400

peashooter85:

Deluxe Factory Panel Scene Engraved Winchester Model 1887 Lever-Action Shotgun, one of only five produced.

Estimated Value: $35,000 - $55,000

Contrary to Popular Belief...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:55:40 -0400

thescienceofjohnlock:

averypotterseniorfeels:

bbc-booknerd12888:

I do not watch Sherlock just to see Benedict Cumberbatch

I am not going to see Star Trek Into Darkness for the same reason

I do not watch Doctor Who just to see David Tennant

I do not watch The Avengers movies just to see Tom Hiddleston

I do not watch the Iron Man movies just to see RDJ

I do not watch anything just for hot guys

I can still appreciate that they are really hot

ineffableboyfriends: There’s this human who comes to sit beside...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:53:59 -0400

ineffableboyfriends:

There’s this human who comes to sit beside the bank once a week. He always looks cold. Maybe this scarf will help…although I hope he doesn’t mind that it’s wet. I like the way his face changes when he smiles. I think I would like to see him smile more often.