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Reblogged vaspider
Yes, Superman saving cats from trees
ABSOLUTELY NAILED IT
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The Ring: If I had a quarter for every time a hobbit picked me up, Iβd have two quarters.Β The Ring: Which isnβt a lot, but itβs weird that it happened twice.
Of all the bearers of Sauronβs ring, 4 of them were hobbits.
I was wrong. Itβs 5. Not 4
The lineage of ring bearers is as follows.
- Sauron.
- Isildur
- Deagol
- SmΓ©agol
- Bilbo
- Frodo
- Samwise
I love how Deagol counts as a ring bearer even though he had it in his possession for all of like five seconds
He held it for the rest of of his life!
[Image description: Tweet by @banalplay saying βbut something happened then that the ring did not intend. it was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a hobbit, the same fuckin thing that just had it for like 500 years.β End Image Description.] Link to original here. Otherwise reblogging for the final rb there, which made me cackle.
From the ringβs perspective:
1. Home, the finger of my creator and other self.
2. Well, I donβt like it but I can work with this. Cause some trouble, get some revenge, find my way home, this is fine.
3. What the fuck is you?
4. Right personality, wrong species, I donβt know what you are but I hate you and I donβt know why youβre so resistant to my powers.
5. NO NO NO there are goblins everywhere how did I find another one of THESE horrible things. This oneβs even more resistant than the last one and also disgustingly nice. I suffer.
6. Listen, Iβll cooperate, just get me the fuck out of this hellhole full of small cheerful people my power doesnβt work on properly. No, not like that. I hate you. Please stop.Β
7. FUCK
8. (Frodo again) I still hate you with every molecule of my mortal form but at least youβre not number seven. Think Iβm starting to get through finally.Β
9. (Smeagol again) YES itβs you I actually missed you now get me back to the Master and NO FUCK NO I HATE YOOOOUUUUUβ¦. *fzt*Β
pmmeyourrenamon
you CHAIN The One Ring?! you chain it like the prisoner?! oh! OH! trauma! deep psychological trauma for hobbits for One Thousand Years!
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willypetegk
Reblogged cowboyabunga
Anonymous asked:
Is spider silk being as strong as steel another lie from childhood? Bc you're able to break it pretty easily on accident. Genuinely asking.
spider silk IS actually significantly stronger pound-for-pound than the same amount of steel, but only in one direction! and coincidentally, it's the same exact direction that got a bunch of people killed in a submersible last month.
see, when people talk about the "strength" of spider silk versus steel, they're specifically talking about tensile strength:
which is specifically the measure of the strength of a material when two forces are pulling at it from the ends, like when a steel cable is holding up a bridge support, or crane cargo:
or like when a strand of silk is supporting the entire spider.
that's tensile strength, baby!
but there's another type of strength that's very important to take into consideration when you're actually building things like bridges and submersibles, and spider silk and similar materials like carbon fiber are absolutely garbage at it! and that's compressive strength.
this is basically the inverse of tensile strength, where instead of being yanked at from both ends, the forces are crushing inwards at the material from both directions instead.
you can expect to see these kinds of forces involved in road surfaces, vehicle engines, and again, submersibles.
now steel and its more competent cousin titanium are fucking GREAT at compressive strength! the harder the outside forces are compressing them, the stronger the metals get.
NOT TODAY, FUCKERS
but strand-based materials like spider silk and, again, carbon fiber, are fucking garbage at this. they can take a certain amount of pressure, but each round with compressive forces snaps some of the strands that makes up the material! and those don't grow back, so basically you're just gradually reducing your poor overstressed carbon-fiber hull into a completely useless shell of shattered thread fragments over time as the strands of fiber that actually give it strength die off one by one.
and eventually, something's gotta give! and then people die about it.
this is why, even though spider silk IS stronger than steel in one specific way, we're never going to stop using steel in industrial applications and switch over to spider silk or carbon fiber full time. these materials all have their areas of use, and steel just covers a wider base of applications.
and don't even get me started on shear strength. we'll be here all damn day.
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"Surprisingly this is not an American creation."
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mordrediscariot
gettinge forciblye ouſted from mine medæval booke clubbe after we reade le morte darþur and i ſay þat ſir lancelot did noþing wronge
mordrediscariot
lgbtunis
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The thing with statistics - via
an-gremlin
Numbers donβt lie but people can sure as fuck pick and choose the numbers they give you and phrase things to make them sound like they mean things they donβt
learn fucking stats or at least how they can hurt
As a wise man once said: There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
alphacygni-8
Especially the lies, guys.
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the intricate ritual of fighting back to back against an enemy horde w someone
angelwormwood
the intimacy of knowing your partnerβs moves and combat style so well that you adapt your own to complement it so that you form a more effective team in battle
angelwormwood
the romanticism of passionately kissing your battle partner when the fighting is over while youβre both still covered in dirt and gore and surrounded by smoking rubble and the corpses of your enemies
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coisasdetere
Filipino artist, Gregory Halili, carves intricate skulls into mother of pearl shells.
Iβm actually losing it over this, this is gorgeous. I have been staring at this for ages marvelling at the inclusion of pretty accurate sutures. Itβs a SKULL in a SHELL, Iβm obsessed 10/10
Reblogged cowboyabunga
happy new year finally sherlock holmes and dracula can legally fuck and no one can do anything about itΒ
Reblogged boggmann
some artists complain about having a very skewed like-reblog ratio for their art, and yeah it definitely sucks, but sometimes i also find it VERY funny to see what skews the ratio the hardest. i for one get a strange kick out of seeing my rarepair crackship art have a 4:1, 5:1, or even 6:1 ratio, not because i don't want more reblogs, but because i'm kind of obsessed with the implications. you're too bashful and embarrassed to put it on your blog, but i know. i see the red hearts in my activity. i know your unspoken cringe that you keep so well-hidden under your blog's tranquil surface...
Reblogged crikarikabrika
yall are a little too good at replicating the old tumblr fandom posts please stop i feel like a veteran on the fourth of july
Reblogged darkangel63
Maybe if he was a little less fuckable we wouldnβt be in this mess
If AO3 had a slogan
Reblogged chaos--themralds
there's a chinese brake manufacturer called Dickass and racers like to chant Dickass
uh yeah, lemme get the Dickass Brembo
No dick butt memes?Β Really?
Reblogged chaos--themralds
since nobody is sourcing anything to do with the sub, here it is. this one is also true
Reblogged pocket-deer-boy
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