euclase:

Finished!

Honeybees, drawn in PS. Someone asked why lions, and I have a list, but it’s a big list. Go google lions in mythology. :3

iggy-b:

aporeticelenchus:

Dear Internet:

I thought you should know that this happened. In case you didn’t already.

No, I’m not sure what to say about it either.

Marvel you clever bastards

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pretendy:

Some perspective

Light travels at a speed of 299,792,458 metres per second exactly. No matter how fast you, or the light source is traveling, go try measuring it and you’ll find that this is exactly the case.

At this speed, it takes light:

• 18 milliseconds to travel between London and New York
• 0.13 seconds to circumnavigate the equator of the Earth
• 1.4 seconds to travel to us from the Moon
• 8.4 minutes to travel from the Sun
• 4.15 hours to travel from the Sun to Neptune, the most remote planet in the Solar System
• 17 hours to travel to the current location of Voyager 1, the farthest man made object from Earth
• ~0.8 years to travel from us to the Oort Cloud, a hypothesised spherical cloud of icy comets centered around the Sun, which marks the boundary of the solar system
• 4.2 years to travel to us from Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Sun.
• 1,100 years to travel to us from the centre of our own galaxy, the Milky Way
• 100,000 years to travel across the whole disc of the galaxy itself
• 2.5 million years to travel to us from the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest neighbour
• 110 million years to travel across the Virgo Supercluster, our small, local little corner of the universe

After this it stops making sense to say “a distance x”, as the expansion of the universe warps our perception of distance on these immense timescales. Therefore, when you hear radio static, 1% of that is said not to originate from a place, but rather a time, roughly 13.5 billion years ago - the cosmic microwave background from the time of recombination at the dawn of the universe.

TL;DR: The universe is big.

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Few quick changes to this wonderful piece. First and foremost, light travels that fast in a vacuum only. Through a medium light can vary drastically, hence why we can see such wonderful things as rainbows due to refraction and the like. As space as we know it is a good vacuum, but not total vacuum when within the galactic plane, that number could be a tad high. Hooray galactic mediums? Hell, that’s not even starting to touch on quantum physics (which can get REALLY fun on this matter)

Proxima Centauri is ~4.24 ly away, no sense rounding there as people may think they’ll arrive sooner! If… they got their info from a Tumblr post that is.

By center of the galaxy, did you mean center of the galactic plane? Because from the best calculations so far, galactic center is ~27,000±1,000 ly away.

Semantically, the heliosphere is a better medium to measure the edge of the solar system as that’s where the solar winds are slowed considerably by the interstellar medium before being halted essentially in total. True, the distance to the edge of the heliosheath is only some 100 AU at its closest point (hypothetically anywho) but then again the Voyager probes still haven’t passed through the entire heliosphere.

13.72±0.12 billion years ago, then shave off approximately 380,000 years for the background radiation.

And as for just how big the universe is, it would take ~46 billion years to get from one end of the observable universe of earth to the other. That’s thanks to expansion, and the fact that light is being cast back towards us even as those objects are, well, expanding away from us. And that’s just the observable universe, there’s some hypothesis out there that put the size of the universe into hundreds of billions of light years thanks to expansion, the high end I think placed the total size of the universe at around 900 billion light years.

/donerambling

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casinthetardis:

#’give matt smith the olympic torch’ they said #’it’ll be fun’ they said #’holy fucking shit we have to rebuild Cardiff’ they said

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did-you-kno:

Source

They need Naga to hiss in Korra thanks to this. Just cause.

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viria:

…my eyyeeeeeeessss

well, we all know where she got this from, don’t we? Zuko has always seemed to be a gentle flower, haha

thesheepenthusiast:

Apologies to the hunger games.

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thankyouhousemd:

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