'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The @ sign is cool, but the plain spirals are gorgeous.
I really liked a lot of her stuff.
I am laughing at the idea of buying the @@ earrings as a talisman for dealing with my boss.
I'm thinking I could use them as my own personal evil eye - warding off evil with a shake of my head...
Icepocalyple didn't happen here yesterday, though we did get snow in the morning. I can report that Yak Trax are awesome, though. Thanks for that Theo and aurelia, I think.
Off to face the world again.
I'm a little startled I didn't buy any of her earrings. They are gorgeous. And Jesse, I think the @s would definitely work for you.
Hell, for any of us.
I love those earrings. And all of her stuff, actually.
That site is very dangerous, I think.
That little bear is very cute, but he doesn't look too happy with hanging in a sock. But still...baby animals, I am your ho.
ita, why the earrings restraint??
And Amy, is S begging you for her own sewing machine now?
Izzard Star Wars skit with Legos: [link]
Izzard Star Wars skit with Legos: [link]
Heh. Emmett and I watch those about once a week.
Ah fuck - now where am I gonna put my stuff?
The Sun will vaporise the Earth unless we can change our orbit
New calculations by University of Sussex astronomers predict that the Earth will be swallowed up by the Sun in about 7.6 billion years unless the Earth's orbit can be altered.
Dr Robert Smith, Emeritus Reader in Astronomy, said his team previously calculated that the Earth would escape ultimate destruction, although be battered and burnt to a cinder. But this did not take into account the effect of the drag caused by the outer atmosphere of the dying Sun.
He says: "We showed previously that, as the Sun expanded, it would lose mass in the form of a strong wind, much more powerful than the current solar wind. This would reduce the gravitational pull of the Sun on the Earth, allowing the Earth's orbit to move outwards, ahead of the expanding Sun.
"If that were the only effect the Earth would indeed escape final destruction. However, the tenuous outer atmosphere of the Sun extends a long way beyond its visible surface, and it turns out the Earth would actually be orbiting within these very low density outer layers. The drag caused by this low-density gas is enough to cause the Earth to drift inwards, and finally to be captured and vaporised by the Sun."
Robert Smith? I think there's a joke in here somewhere... maybe he should title his paper "Disintegration."
Teppy!
Cool t-shirts, etc. from the Semicolon Appreciation Society
From the Dictionary Evangelist
Heh. I knew about those a couple of days ago, but I couldn't say anything until it was public in Dictionary Evangelist's blog. My only dilemma is which shirt to get.
I think if something vaguely resembling humanity is still around in 7.6 billion years, the world being burned up by the sun's red giant phase will be a problem on the order of "honey, you need to change the smoke detector batteries again."