I Only Recently Started Considering Using Tumblr More, As Its Funny And I Like A Site Where You Can Just

as you apparently cant bookmark posts, i will rb this because its just so funny

How to Curse a Geologist

- May all your volcanoes remain dormant, unchanging and utterly boring.

- May every interesting rock and mineral elude you.

- May your field work yield nothing but unlayered mud and sunburns.

- May all your seismographic sensors mysteriously break in the middle of winter

- May your rock hammer fall in a crevice in the rock never to be retrieved again

- May your geophysical computer models yield nothing but unintelligible chaos

- May all your maps and research notes be eaten by mountain goats

pearls are RIDICULOUS because you think you know what a pearl looks like, you can envision it in your head, it's just a simple little white dot, but then all of THESE exist also

...such a versatile calcified bodily fluid

“Neutron stars are the densest form of matter currently known, with about 1.4 times the mass of the sun packed into a radius of just six miles. A teaspoon of neutron star material would weight 10 million tons.”

— Priyamvada Natarajan

.......NASA has a tumblr? oh boy

Condor Agate

the study group could survive at euphoria high but the euphoria kids couldn’t survive at greendale

Get excited, fronds, because it’s the most tentacular time of the year—Cephalopod Week starts tomorrow! During the next eight days we’ll be diving deep to answer the question “what is a cephalopod?” So tune in each day to learn why we’re suckers for cephs.

Lithium added to water creates an explosion | source                          

What Are The Hottest Stars In The Universe?

"The highest stellar temperatures, however, are achieved by Wolf-Rayet stars. Destined for cataclysmic supernovae, Wolf-Rayet stars are fusing the heaviest elements. They’re highly evolved, luminous, and surrounded by ejecta. The hottest one measures ~210,000 K; the hottest known star."

If you took as much mass as you could to build the most massive star you could, you'd cap out at about 50,000 K. If you let the core contract and heat up, the outer layers get blown out to greater distances, causing the overall temperature to drop. But somehow, there are three ways to beat that temperature limit, and there are three classes of stars that do it.

So who gets the hottest, and why? Is it white dwarfs, Wolf-Rayet stars, or neutron stars? Come find out the answer today!