I was struck by the light time from Earth and the fact that just the goddamn Milky Way galaxy is HUGE. It makes me feel better about the fact that all the explorations in Star Trek were only in "the galaxy" and not the rest of the universe. The galaxy is big!
Simon: Captain... why did you come back for us? Mal: You're on my crew. Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back? Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Polter-Cow - Dec 18, 2009 10:20:20 am PST #4240 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Calli - Dec 18, 2009 10:21:58 am PST #4241 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The Ultimate Zoom-out
Very nifty. I think this would make a great meditation device.
WindSparrow - Dec 18, 2009 10:22:05 am PST #4242 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Jilli should definitely collect a comfortable living just for showing up.
I kinda wish I were something so superlatively that I could qualify for that as well.
Gudanov - Dec 18, 2009 10:37:23 am PST #4243 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I was struck by the light time from Earth and the fact that just the goddamn Milky Way galaxy is HUGE.
Cosmic distances are so vast it's hard to comprehend.
The closest star other than the sun is 4 ly away. Flying on the Concorde (1,400 mph cruise) it would take 1.9 million years to get there. The disk of the Milky Way is about 1,000 ly thick, and about 100,000 ly in diameter.
I can say that stuff empirically, but I really can't mentally grasp that kind of distance.
WindSparrow - Dec 18, 2009 10:43:24 am PST #4244 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Glad the ~ma worked for you, meara.
Much ~ma for Matt.
Jessica - Dec 18, 2009 10:58:01 am PST #4245 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Cosmic distances are so vast it's hard to comprehend.
The Universe is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, mind-bogglingly big it is. You may think it's a long walk down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen...
askye - Dec 18, 2009 11:00:41 am PST #4246 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Lily and Emeline are so big! and so is Emaryn and I love that she's reading the orange version of Harriet the Spy.
I am tired of not feeling well and not having any energy and being in pain and stuff. I do have some news, I went to see urologist and they did a little test that showed my bladder isn't emptying properly so now they are going to do a cystoscopy on Jan 11 to check out everything.
On the other hand I'm a INFP.
-t - Dec 18, 2009 11:03:13 am PST #4247 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I am glad you are getting answers, askye, though I wish the part where you aren't in pain anymore would come a little faster.
Love Jess's italics
JZ - Dec 18, 2009 11:07:15 am PST #4248 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Glamcookie - Dec 18, 2009 11:10:23 am PST #4249 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Well, shit. My dad's flight got cancelled so he'll be taking another flight out tomorrow morning (hopefully). My mom's flight got delayed to where she may not make her connecting flight in Atlanta, so who knows what will happen there.
My dad said my niece drew a picture for him to bring that has two people holding hands and says Brenna (niece) and Shane. How adorable is that?