Author: glubglubshrg

fuzzynecromancer:

legionofpotatoes:

wintergaydar:

kaleighbytheway:

mojave-red:

kaleighbytheway:

tilthat:

TIL, the unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation. A high-speed camera trained on the lid caught only one frame of it moving upward before it vanished—which means it was moving about 125,000 miles per hour

via reddit.com

I’m reblogging myself because I read the source. The lead scientist involved theorized that it was going fast enough that A) it would not have burnt up in our atmosphere, and B) it would not have been caught in Earth’s orbit. Essentially meaning, the first man made object launched into space was a manhole cover that’s still traveling the cosmic abyss.

That’s not true though because the V2 rocket was the first object that entered what is considered space. 

I did some research on the V2 just now. The V2 never left our atmosphere. So no, it didn’t make it to space. It made it into the upper levels of our atmosphere, almost into orbit. The manhole cover blew way past the V2s recorded height.

This is why the aliens won’t visit.

how nice to know that our legacy to the vast eternity of space consists of like three lost probes, elon musk’s car, and a sewer lid

Isn’t that kind of an accurate representation of this planet tho?

kawaiite-mage:

glumshoe:

docincredible:

glumshoe:

I used to wear a chainmail shirt to elementary school. The teachers never knew what to do about it because there was no section in our dress code forbidding medieval armor.

… Where does an elementary school child get access to an actual shirt of chainmail sized properly for them?

Growing up as a historical reenactor meant that my parents are friends with lots of people who make chainmail. My godsister received a real rapier in fourth or fifth grade, so our unsupervised outdoor playtime was… formative.

crtter:

zabam93:

crtter:

I was in 1st/2nd grade grade when the big Pokémon boom of the late 90s-early 00s happened. It was HUGE. Every kid was into it and we’d watch the show and play pretend and collect the cards and bring our game boys to school to trade Pokémon during recess. I was lucky to have supportive parents, but I remember how teachers and other adults would scoff and say how tired they were of Pokémon, how annoying and juvenile it was and how they couldn’t wait for us to “get over it already”. I might have been young, but I still remember how much these kinds of comments bummed me out. Why in the world are we being mean to little kids who like Fortnite

Why are you comparing pokemon to fortnite???

Because… Fortnite is very popular amongst children at the moment? And there are adults who dismiss it in the same way other adults did when Pokémon was big, calling it stupid, saying the dances are annoying, how much they can’t wait for the “fad to be over”, etc. It’s pretty much the same scenario.