May 2012
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SpaceX Successfully Launches Toward ISS →
This is just immensely exciting. After NASA’s problems with its original vision spanning, let’s face it, the last few decades, the rise of commercial space exploration is a new flame of hope. I’m an eternal optimist, so excitement for humanity and its future rarely wanes, but it’s operations like this which edge that optimism closer to reality.
Whatever happens down here,...
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50/50
Just watched this film and it was an absolute revelation. Human, funny, sad (gotta admit, I was crying there a few times. Luckily the really teary bits occurred when my housemate went to the shops so I had time to re-man after it happened) and ludicrously uplifting.
Characters all executed brilliantly, and even though Seth Rogen is basically Seth Rogen again, he really ties the whole thing...
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Do Scientists Pray? →
This is quite wonderful. A correspondence between a little girl and Einstein on prayer. Found via Reddit, like most of my internet experience these days.
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Anonymous asked: A saltine is a brand/type of cracker.
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April 2012
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Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable...
– Carl Jung (via gotyousohigh)
Regarding superhero films
One thing I always find myself asking: do these supervillains who horribly transform themselves to better embody their evil just not care about getting laid ever again? Are they not thinking, ‘yeah ultimate power’s pretty ace, but is it appreciably better than sex?’ If I were hugely evil with the power to transform myself into an agent of power, this would be a big psychological...
The Greatest Text of All Time
Received this text at half one last night from my friend, Si. I think everyone can agree, it is magnificent.
simon mccormack: G’day cobber brett, here we need to get a fair Dinkum cobber worrer fair dinkum, jackaroo tallywacker. You fucking cut my ear off mate, slash the old chop, chop…worra…
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There once was a dude named Charlie,
Whose poems, they didn’t rhyme.
Also he never finished anything and his timing was off.
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I didn't really want to do anything today.
And what I actually achieved was counter-productive. So I guess I out-did my expectations.
Missioning from Sheffield to Gloucester to be told to go back to Sheffield: not the best use of nine hours.
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