I love coming across a novel gif, more so if it’s a space related one.
Sure, it’s not even remotely attempting to be to scale, but it can’t, so why try and pretend.
Still, there’s plenty to learn from these small scale animations, the order of the planets, how the inner planets circle the sun more times than the further out ones. Great little animation, and worthy of a few moments entertainment.
ps.. The planets all align around every 5200 years ! Just in case you were wondering, The next one is due in May 6, 2492 ! Mark it down in your calendar so you don’t forget :)
What? Yes. Can you?
Can someone explain to me what homestuck is?
since my red/blue gay quiz got popular, here’s one for every color of the rainbow. as a note: i have synesthesia and this is based off of my perception of each color based on that. it’s not about the aesthetic so much as what the color itself means.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
— Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
touch is a primal language, like thought, or pain. we learn it before we can walk - being held by our parents, shoved by other children, licked by friendly animals. it is our first interface into the world around us, our first way to communicate.
Sullen were we in the sweet air, that is gladdened by the Sun, carrying lazy smoke within our hearts; now lie we sullen here in the black mire.
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
“Wilson’s theory supposed that the sun is composed of a solid, dark globe surrounded by three atmospheres.” The story of the stars. A descriptive astronomy. 1884. Internet archive