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America's favorite astrophysicist saw 'Interstellar' last night and live-tweeted his review.
TOO BAD, NEIL! If I disagree with your opinion on the plot, I will no longer believe anything about physics.
Congratulations, people who only see movies based on the recommendations of well-known scientists! All systems are officially a go for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar after Neil deGrasse Tyson, cosmologist, astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the recent Cosmos reboot, tweeted his (mostly positive) thoughts on the film while watching it.
In #Interstellar: Experience Einstein’s Relativity of Time as no other feature film has shown.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 10, 2014
In #Interstellar: Experience Einstein's Curvature of Space as no other feature film has shown.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 10, 2014
In #Interstellar: They explore a planet near a Black Hole. Personally, I’d stay as far the hell away from BlackHoles as I can
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 10, 2014
If anyone can remember all the way back to 2013, a little-known film named Gravity came out that would be remembered for a.) not containing any kind of realistic depiction of the force of Gravity, b.) giving rise to a killer joke at the Golden Globes about how George Clooney would rather float off into the void than spend time with a woman his own age, and c.) getting destroyed on Twitter by America's favorite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Mysteries of #Gravity: How Hubble (350mi up) ISS (230mi up) & a Chinese Space Station are all in sight lines of one another.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
DAAAAAMN.
In #Interstellar: The producers knew exactly how, why, & when you’d achieve zero-G in space.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 10, 2014
Interstellar fared much better than Gravity, on the science front at least.
In #Interstellar: You observe great Tidal Waves from great Tidal Forces, of magnitude that orbiting a Black Hole might create
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 10, 2014
In #Interstellar: Of the leading characters (all of whom are scientists or engineers) half are women. Just an FYI.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 10, 2014
In #Interstellar: Of the leading characters (all of whom are scientists or engineers) half are women. Just an FYI.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 10, 2014
Whether or not he's intentionally promoting the film, a lot of these things sound pretty cool.
In #Interstellar: They reprise the matched-rotation docking maneuver from "2001: A Space Odyssey," but they spin 100x faster.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 10, 2014
In #Interstellar: You enter a 3-Dimensional portal in space. Yes, you can fall in from any direction. Yes, it’s a Worm Hole.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 10, 2014
Traditional film reviewers have said that while the film's depictions of black holes and wormholes are indeed groundbreaking, the actual plot is a little corny and lame.
In #Interstellar, if you didn’t understand the physics, try Kip Thorne’s highly readable Bbook “The Science of Interstellar"
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 10, 2014
In #Interstellar, if you didn’t understand the plot, there is no published book to help you.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 10, 2014
In #Interstellar: On another planet, around another star, in another part of the galaxy, two guys get into a fist fight.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 10, 2014
But that's not why anyone goes to the movies, right? We're all just in it for the depictions of cutting-edge physics.
(by Johnny McNulty)
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Kid gets two pictures in the yearbook by convincing the school he was twins.
Just chew your gum. (Via reddit)
A man on reddit today posted a picture from his high school yearbook featuring twins Terry and Jerry Bell. The good twin, Terry Bell, wore a teal polo shirt and had a dorky haircut. The other was the bad twin, Jerry Bell, wearing a shirt with a not-very-school-appropriate "Cervesa with a smile."
But there are no twins.
There is just a Terry Bell, and according to redditor Dr_Martin_V_Nostrand, Terry went in for both the original school photo day and the makeup day. Dr. Martin writes, "He took a second photo on the secondary day for yearbook photos. Wore different clothes, wrote Jerry instead of Terry. They don't cross check the photo names with the enrollment records at my school apparently."
Apparently.
Dr. Martin says he isn't sure if Terry really meant to go into the yearbook as twins, or if his handwriting is just terrible (Terry Bell) and he took credit for the accident. Either way, Bell was apparently only getting his picture taken so that he could skip class, which is definitely the behavior you'd expect from the "bad twin."
Some commenters, disbelieving that there is only one Bell, noted that Terry's hair is different than Jerry's and that Terry appears to be heavier than his cooler twin. Dr. Martin explained, "He took the second picture on make-up picture day, which was a few weeks after the first one. He's a bigger guy, so I think it is his posture and maybe some different lighting that makes him look so different in the two."
And if anyone is thinking, "how did the school not realize that they didn't have these twins registered," Dr Martin has answer for that, too. "Our school was really bad with crime, drugs, violence, etc. So this wasn't really high on the list of things they were trying to prevent."
There it is. This is just some good old fashioned mischief while the rest of the school goes down in flames. Or, did Terry really have a brother named Jerry, and he was pranking everyone the rest of the time by pretending there was only one?
(by Myka Fox)
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The Seattle Seahawks' live mascot landed majestically on a fan's head on Sunday.
Personal fowl.
Anyone following the NFL this season knows the Seattle Seahawks don't look like the same team that won last year's Super Bowl. Their defense hasn't been able to stop the run, the offense is turning the ball over, and there have been several reported locker room issues. On Sunday, even the team's live mascot had trouble following the playbook. During the pre-game festivities, the hawk named Taima was supposed to fly a simple pattern around the stands before returning to his trainer on the field. Instead, he called an audible and landed on fan's head.
The Seahawks were able to beat the Giants, despite the terrible start to the game. And as bad as Taima's performance was, it wasn't even close to being the most embarrassing football play of the weekend.
(by Jonathan Corbett)
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Lasting legacy.
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For his season finale, John Oliver shoots salmon at Tom Hanks, Jon Stewart, R2D2, Rachael Ray, pretty much everyone in show business.
She handled it like the pro that she is.
On last night's season finale of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver featured a new technology that helps salmon complete their upstream swim-to-spawn ritual, called The Salmon Cannon. It's a big tube that shoots salmon up in the air over hard-to-surmount dams and other obstructions. Apparently, this invention was necessary.
Sensing that this would be a hell of a way to wrap up his first season, Oliver built his own Salmon Cannon and took aim at nearly every famous head in this galaxy, and in galaxies far, far away.
(by Bob Powers)
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Children's princess wand has a hidden picture of a girl slitting her wrist.
With a name like Evil Stick, it has to be good. (Via WHIO)
When you are buying products at the dollar store, you don't expect to find name brand items, which is why a person might not notice that this pink plastic princess wand is called "Evil stick."
The last time someone offered me an evil stick, it did not have such pleasant packaging.
The cardboard this wand is set on displays smiling Anime cartoon characters and the promise that the wand will "send out wonderful music." What the packaging fails to indicate is that when you pull back the silver foil on the toy's face, it reveals a picture of a girl taking a giant kitchen knife to her bloody wrists.
This lil' gal has herself a new profile pic! (Via WHIO)
Despite the fact that the packaging recommends this toy for "ages 3 and up," Ohio mom Nicole Allen bought this for her 2-year-old daughter. Her daughter quickly removed the foil to find the picture of a girl who would look more comfortable lurking in a Hot Topic than displayed on a wand.
Store owner Amar Moustafa told WHIO-TV that Allen should have noticed the name of the toy and inspected it before giving it to her daughter. He also thinks its a fine toy for older kids. Like, age 5.
My guess is he had no idea what he was selling.
This story inspires me. Imagine the clever elf in Santa's shop, putting this toy together, thinking about that special girl or boy receiving this gift who will never ever be able to sleep with the lights off again.
(by Myka Fox)
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A woman baked life-size versions of Jennifer Lawrence and Peter Dinklage out of delicious cake.
Can you guess which person is not made of cake?
You think that there's no way that you can possibly love Jennifer Lawrence or Peter Dinklage more than you already do, don't you? But there's one very important question that you didn't ask yourself: what if they were made out of cake?
You now officially have less gravitas than a pastry product. (via)
These two sculptures—crafted from sponge cake consisting of something in the neighborhood of 150 eggs, 22 pounds of flour and 132 pounds of icing, each—were submitted to the Cake International competition in the United Kingdom by Lara Clarke of Tasty Cakes bakery in Brownhills, England.
Yet another leaked photo. (via)
It apparently took Clarke more than two months to create the cake figures, so they're probably not the freshest desserts you can dunk into your coffee. But, on the other hand, Lawrence's height, waist and bust measurements are spot-on. Use that information as you will.
Fun fact: In actuality, Tyrion Lannister is played by a pile of Mint Oreos. (via)
Unfortunately, the sculpture of Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen didn't make it back from the competition in one piece. "Don't worry," Clarke wrote on Facebook, "the cake won't go to waste, it's going to be broken up and put in the forest for all the local wildlife." Just like all those kids in The Hunger Games.
Possible 'Hunger Games: Mocking Jay' spoiler. (via)
(by Dennis DiClaudio)
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This dog wants an out-of-reach tater tot more than you've ever wanted anything in your life.
Who would leave one Tater Tot?
Argus the Vizsla wants this tater tot so badly he can taste it. Or at least smell it. And anyone who's experienced the singular goodness that is Tater Tots know they smell and taste delicious. Argus tries everything he can think of to get to it—pawing, sniffing, even gracefully sliding past it a few times on the slippery counter as if attempting to coax the potato treat into following him. No luck. The YouTube description says the banging sounds you hear is Argus moving a barstool in order to get at a frying pan to lick. But the Tater Tot keeps pulling him back.
We've all experienced what the poor guy is going through. Whether it was a dream job we didn't land, an unrequited love, or a potato nugget just beyond our grasp. One redditor was so moved by Argus' longing he created an animated tribute.
(via Thund3rbolt)
Don't feel sad for Argus. His owner says he received the Tater Top once he stopped struggling to reach it. So typical. Also, the collar isn't to shock him. It's on a low setting to gently remind him not to do things like paw at the counter for food and lick pans. So gently, it appears, that Argus isn't bothered by it at all.
(by Jonathan Corbett)
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After spending 9 years in a puppy mill, this rescue dog got to roll on a soft bed for the very first time.
Can you feel it? The sweet static electricity of freedom?
Yeah, it may be Monday, and yeah, your employer probably isn't giving you Veteran's Day off, but this is your weekly reminder that things could be worse. Specifically, you could have spent 60% of your natural lifespan trapped in a wire cage, forced to give birth endlessly for a puppy mill. That's the backstory of Delilah here, who fortunately has been rescued by the National Mill Dog Rescue organization, and can now experience the wonder of fluff for the first time.
It's not even an amazing bed. It's a pretty standard dog bed. Think about how excited you are to get into your bed after being away for a week, though. Now imagine you've never been in a bed, period. Pretty exciting stuff. If that's the kind of thing you'd like other dogs to experience, consider donating to National Mill Dog Rescue.
Or, if almost unbearably cute, feel-good animal videos are your thing, check out this tomcat who took it upon himself to act as a guide for his blind dog friend.
(by Johnny McNulty)
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Have you ever seen someone tweet something and thought, "Oh dear, this isn't going to end well at all."
Go ahead. Meme me! http://t.co/uM3KSji8or#CosbyMemepic.twitter.com/9PbpQqz33X
— Bill Cosby (@BillCosby) November 10, 2014
I'm imagining his publicity team running in slow motion, screaming "Noooooo!"
It's embarrassing enough when you ask to be the subject of a meme. It's like trying to give yourself a nickname. Just sort of desperate.
But when when all of your Google alerts are connected to the Internet suddenly being alive with your serial rape accusations, maybe wait a little while before actually creating a tool to let people write stuff on pictures of your face!
Looks like your memes have to gain approval before the Cos uploads it. While the more direct "I rape people" lines are probably being dumped by the poor social media intern who's been assigned the delete button, if you're subtle enough, you can still get through. Like this one!
The mystery behind Cosby's fashions revealed! #CosbyMemepic.twitter.com/dgGJuBbSXx
— Myka Fox (@MykaFox) November 10, 2014
(by Bob Powers)
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Eat it, parrots. This bird can mimic laser beams.
It can also imitate Dr. Evil saying "friggin' laser beams," but it doesn't feel like it right now.
Yeah, that's right, shove it where the sun don't shine, parrots. Get in the back of the line, mockingbirds. Just shut up already, ravens! None of y'all have anything on the wondrous and kind of creepy lyrebird, so named because its mimicking abilities are so fly (see what I did there?) that it can imitate musical instruments (a lyre is a harp-type-thing). Oh yeah, and sound effects. Like laser beams. It can imitate PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING IT HEARS. Which, in the case of this video, includes lots of other animals and at least one toy laser gun.
Did I mention they can also imitate traffic noises and chainsaws?
Michael Winslow is an amateur compared to Mother Nature.
Oh, wow, your dog can warble along with jazz? Aren't you just so special.
(by Johnny McNulty)
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The manager at a Chick-fil-A made a list of words his employees were no longer allowed to say.
Sounds like someone has 3hunnid sticks up his ass.
Eric is the manager at a Chick-fil-A, and according to redditor Mausar, he got fed up with the way his employees spoke and posted the list above of banned words. This list made me feel old as the hills; I think I understood the term "bae" and the reference to Ebola (good to know today's youth are staying up to date on current events!).
I did manage to find out what a few of these phrases mean using the resourcefulness and ability to google that come with age! Mausar explains "I'm legally blind" is a reference to this video. Apparently 0-100 is a reference to this Drake song. "About a week ago"? Comes from this song. Here's the clip from the movie Friday that explains the phrase "Bye Felicia." "On fleek"? Here, in this important Vine about eyebrows.
So now you're down with the lingo. Except I'm pretty sure no one says "lingo" anymore.
(by Shira Rachel Danan)
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