The telescope is definitely a clue.

very brief “micro-naps” throughout the day

Well, shit. Can we just nuke it instead then?

I've watched it at least half a dozen times. I guess I have to give it credit for its pacing; it's totally ridiculous, but there's plenty of totally ridiculous sci-fi movies I wouldn't ever sit through again.

I first saw this as a kid in an art house theater and was blown away. I only rediscovered it in my twenties when search engines improved beyond earlier "directories/portals" like Altavista. And I bought it on VHS, the only format it was available in at the time, because I didn't want it to "slip away" again. I…

Ah, I wanted more! Out to the size of nebulas, black holes, galaxies, and so on...

That's a great video (in spite of its cheesiness). And I can look past the "aware" part, because he says "as though it was aware", which to me just sounds like he's dumbing it down to laymen's terms. I wouldn't expect the rest of the video to go any further down that narrative road exploring electrons' innate…

Curious, how do you know a patron's naivete towards ingredients means a good chance of getting stiffed? I've certainly asked about ingredients before (not potatoes mind you, dear lord), I can imagine my parents doing the same, and I'd say we're pretty generous with waitstaff. Did you sense they were from out of town,…

Many gifs to choose from here as well, but I'll just add a favorite.

"AGGH, welcome to Waffle House!"

I've watched that on Netflix several times now. The effects are laughably bad, but the story's compelling enough to forgive them.

Yes, and yes. I don't keep up with zoos' facilities on the whole, but this guy seems to be pretty well occupied.

There's probably video evidence out there to the contrary, but at least for now and within this context, I wholeheartedly agree.

Dude, THINK. You're almost there...

Neither to anthropomorphize nor to condone zoos in any way, but this guy seems to be genuinely enjoying himself.

This is the closest I've seen to a good demonstration of the illusion at work; I wasn't buying any of that monitor brightness/angle hooey, it's not like people have been so severely, perceptually handicapped by those differences before. But that said, just as you said, the one on the left is still very much pale blue.…

I was thinking the same thing. The chances of striking upon an optical illusion this powerful and divisive purely by accident are one in a million. She could've just as easily posted the photo without comment, everyone would've silently appreciated the white&gold/black&blue dress in their heads, and moved on without…

Here's another good mindblower(?) I read about a few days ago — the Hubble Deep Field. A photo from the Hubble telescope of an arc of sky "equivalent in angular size to a 65 mm tennis ball at a distance of 100 metres", which was found to contain 3,000 galaxies. Seriously, galaxies. I, as they say, can't even.

You think that's good, you oughta try chocolate milk without the milk.