As the marketing machine for the Ender’s Game movie ramps up (like you, I saw several commercials during some of my favorite shows this week), LGBT advocates such as the group Geeks Out are urging you to Skip Ender’s Game because it the invention of a bigoted anti-LGBT advocate and racist who has used the money he made off the story to spread hate and intolerance.
Reblog. Spread the word.
they’re even organizing awesome parties to go to instead!
I’m not saying you guys shouldn’t see this movie but seriously please don’t see this movie.
If you wanna see the movie THAT BADLY (I’ll admit even without the writer being a horrible human being I have little to no interest in seeing it) just torrent or download it. Seriously, don’t give this guy any more money to further spread his bigoted influence
There’s better scifi out there to enjoy than Ender’s Game (stuff that isn’t, ya know, produced by bigots.)
it’s really important to me that people boycott this movie because there is a very good chance that money from it will be used to harm me personally and all of my LGBT friends and siblings
if you want to see it please at the very least do not give your money to it & download online
people intentionally hurt me frequently and i do not like the idea of others unintentionally giving their money to my oppression so if my followers could reblog this to get the word out that would be cool
If you don’t want to see Ender’s Game because Orson Scott Card is a piece of human garbage, I support you 100%!! But just so you know, he’s not making ANY money off of ticket sales. He also had no input in the film other than (obv) writing the book.
a mother piping plover on massachusetts’s plum island plumps her feathers to provide warmth and protection to an increasing plurality of her chicks, giving new meaning to the phrase “a bird in the bosom”. photo by michael milicia
My favourite thing is when people say “The U S of A”. My second favourite thing is when you run so fast that your legs turn into cartoony wheels. My third favourite thing is myself.
(via treyner-blog)
Finally! A black hole that you can visit and survive!
Want a trip through a black hole without having to experience that pesky death? You’re in luck. There’s a special kind of black hole that’s not just survivable, but might get you to another time, or another universe.
Black holes are, traditionally, the scariest things in the universe. Huge, mysterious, inescapable, they wander through the universe and eat everything that gets too close. “Too close” is defined by their event horizon. This is the point at which they go dark, because it requires so much energy to escape them that not even light can get away. Since not even a photon can cross the barrier, no event that happens inside the horizon can ever have an effect on people outside.
Unless, something very odd was going on in the center of the black hole. Most black holes spin - this is something that was discovered way back in the 1960s by physicist Roy Kerr. It wasn’t exactly a shock, because most of the material that collapses into a black hole was already spinning. Sometimes, however, the spin on Kerr black holes goes a little above and beyond. Ever spun a glass of water, or soda bottle, so that the liquid inside swirls? Sometimes, if you spin it enough, the liquid actually parts, leaving a clear center and a spinning ring of water around it. The same kind of thing can happen in Kerr black holes. Instead of a singularity at the center, there’s a ring. And you can go through the open portion of that ring without touching the gravitational crush.
What’s on the other side? A lot of people have wondered. Some people think that these kind of black holes might be our key to time travel. They might be wormholes that let us hop between different points of the universe. Or they might be portals to different universes entirely. First we’ll have to find a few, and then we’ll need a few volunteers to go through. Preferably ones that haven’t seen Event Horizon.
Top Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Second Image: Dana Berry/NASA
Via NASA, Astrophysics Spectator, Discovery.
OMG I WAS THINK ABOUT BLACK HOLES TODAY
(via kidsbop)
THIS IS SO COOL
This story is from a comic called Beasts of Burden, written by Evan Dorkin and illustrated by Jill Thompson. It’s about a group of animals who investigate paranormal mysteries in their home town and it’s really cute and spooky. You should check it out!
(via crystalgardian)
spike from buffy the vampire slayer makes my insides feel funny
i can’t go to bed because whenever i go in the room my roommate starts yelling at me in sleepy, medicated gibberish and i can’t fucking Handle It
