jtotheizzoe: Please Reload Webpage In 31.69 Years To See Results Big universes. Big numbers. How do we make sense of billions? Our brains just aren’t wired to do it, although we’ve seen some pretty amazing ways that we measure stuff on those largest scales. A weatherman in Belgium has set up the Billion Second Clock. It will count up to 1,000,000,000 in seconds. Which will take 31.69 years. That’s a big number. (↬ Let’s count to one billion seconds, unfortunate use of Comic Sans at the link) High-res

jtotheizzoe:

Please Reload Webpage In 31.69 Years To See Results

Big universes. Big numbers. How do we make sense of billions? Our brains just aren’t wired to do it, although we’ve seen some pretty amazing ways that we measure stuff on those largest scales.

A weatherman in Belgium has set up the Billion Second Clock. It will count up to 1,000,000,000 in seconds. Which will take 31.69 years. That’s a big number.

(↬ Let’s count to one billion seconds, unfortunate use of Comic Sans at the link)

imwithkanye: Nick takes on Life. This is the best letter from a child I’ve read all day: Dear Milton Bradly, I think your new version of Life® game is unfair. On the board there is not one black person and you must get married to someone of the opposite sex and you can’t be gay or lesbin. ALso the girls are pink which is stereotypical for “the weaker sex” and the boy pegs are blue which is stereotypical for strengh there are many strong girls and weak boys. Also your game teaches little kids that if you have tons of money you are automaticly happy that is a lie. And you must buy a house which many people can’t afford, and you have a huge paying job. In other words your game is not really life.  written by Nick Packard age 9 High-res

imwithkanye:

Nick takes on Life. This is the best letter from a child I’ve read all day:

Dear Milton Bradly,

I think your new version of Life® game is unfair.

On the board there is not one black person and you must get married to someone of the opposite sex and you can’t be gay or lesbin. ALso the girls are pink which is stereotypical for “the weaker sex” and the boy pegs are blue which is stereotypical for strengh there are many strong girls and weak boys. Also your game teaches little kids that if you have tons of money you are automaticly happy that is a lie. And you must buy a house which many people can’t afford, and you have a huge paying job. In other words your game is not really life. 

written by Nick Packard age 9

New Mayan Calendars Discovered: World Isn’t Ending After All

The oldest-known version of the ancient Maya calendar has been discovered adorning a lavishly painted wall in the ruins of a city deep in the Guatemalan rainforest.

Four long numbers on the north wall of a ruined Mayan house relatin to the Maya calendar and computations about the moon, sun and possibly Venus and Mars are shown. The dates may stretch some 7,000 years into the future. (Via The Christian Science Monitor) 

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Trayvon Martin gun range targets sell out — because many ‘conservatives’ are really just assholes.

WKMG:

An unidentified entrepreneur admits he is trying to profit off Trayvon Martin’s death by selling gun range targets featuring the teen who’s death has sparked a nationwide controversy.

Although Martin’s face does not appear on the paper targets, they feature a hoodie with crosshairs aimed at the chest.  A bag of Skittles is tucked in the pocket and a hand is holding a can resembling iced tea. 

Martin purchased both items minutes before he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in February, according to police.

Zimmerman’s lawyer believes this sort of thing isn’t helping his client. “This is the highest level of disgust and the lowest level of civility,” says attorney Mark O’Mara. “It’s this type of hatred — that’s what this is, it’s hate-mongering — that’s going to make it more difficult to try this case.”

According to the report, the seller — a prick who wisely wishes to remain ananymous — says the targets “sold out in 2 days.”

There are a lot of real assholes out there.

If I ever see any racist fucker with one of those targets at a gun range, I can’t be held responsible for what happens after that.

If there is hell .. These fools are first

But we live in a post-racial society, y’all! People don’t get off on the thought of killing young Black teens anymore, no! This is just target practice! No racial motivation behind the popularity of the target at all, guys!

Excuse me while I go throw up in the trash.

(via holymotherofrowling)