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“You ask if we can still be friends. I explain how a honeybee does not dream kissing the mouth of a flower and then settle for its leaves.”

— Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers (via rupikaurpoems)

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dont worry if u see a dark winged figure on ur roof. thats me. im just chillin and making sure that u and ur home are safe

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Czech photographer Miloslav Druckmüller from the Brno University of Technology reveals the awesome beauty of the solar corona with these amazing composite images that he created by using 47 photos taken during a total solar eclipse.

To achieve the crystal clear effect the shots are comprised from some 40+ photos taken with two different lenses. Additional clarity was achieved due to the incredibly remote location chosen to view the eclipse from, a pier just outside the Enewetak Radiological Observatory on the Marshall Islands, smack dab in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You can see several more images from the project at Druckmüller’s website and don’t miss this much higher resolution version including some 209 stars.

[via Colossal]

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In case you were having a bad day, here’s a photo of Nichelle Nichols covered in tribbles.

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✨ѕqυιѕну✨

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From therandomslimes on instagram!

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BXVUkACAiI9/

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Remember today: Nagasaki 長崎市, 1945, August 9th, 11-02 AM

A pile of rubble from a destroyed Buddhist Temple in Nagasaki, Japan, 24 Sep 1945 - Photographer Lynn P. Walker, Jr.

Source United States National Archives

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French covers from Murakami Haruki 村上 春樹 books

- Sekai no owari & Hard-boiled Wonderland 世界の終わりとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド (La fin des temps) - Japan - Points French edition - 1985

- Noruwei no mori ノルウェイの森 (La ballade de l'impossible) - Japan - 10/18 French edition - 1987

- The Strange Library (L'étrange bibliothèque) - Japan - 10/18 French edition - 2008

- Nemuri 眠り (Sommeil) - Japan - 10/18 French edition - 1989

- Pan'ya saishūgeki パン屋再襲撃 (Les attaques de la boulangerie) - Japan - 10/18 French edition - 1985

- Hitsuji o meguru bōken 羊をめぐる冒険 (La Course au mouton sauvage) - Japan - Points French edition - 1982

- Umibe no Kafuka 海辺のカフカ (Kafka sur le rivage) - Japan - 10/18 French edition - 2002

- Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi 国境の南、太陽の西 (Au sud de la frontière, à l'ouest du soleil) - Japan - 10/18 French edition - 1992

- Mekurayanagi to, nemuru onna めくらやなぎと、眠る女 (Saules aveugles, femme endormie) - Japan - 10/18 French edition - 1983

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Best thing i’ve seen today

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am i the only person not affected by generalized positivity… like post it notes in bathrooms that say ‘you’re beautiful’ or posts that are like ‘smile! you are a beautiful sunshine flower!’ i’m just like … okay…

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Why Magical Girls Are Never Attacked During A Tranformation

As some of you might already have guessed, I’m a fan of Japanese girl idols. One of the many, many idol groups in existence today in Japan is NMB48, a Osaka-based spin-off group of the (in)famous AKB48. NMB has a weekly show that’s surprisingly entertaining as well as educational called NMB to Manabu-kun, in which the members of NMB and a few comedians listen to guest lectures by experts in various fields.

Back on May 15th, the theme of the episode was pataphysics/the science of sci-fi. One of the topics of the lecture held by university professor Yanagita Rikao was the age-old question of “WHY ARE MAGICAL GIRLS NEVER ATTACKED WHILE TRANSFORMING???”

This was his answer, based on the magical girl series Futari wa Pretty Cure.

Question: The transformation scenes in Pretty Cure are very long, so why don’t the bad guys attack the girls in the meantime?

“Even when I was little, I was thinking ‘Hey! Attack them now!’”

“I found this odd as well, so I watched the transformation scene many times. And what I noticed is, when the Pretty Cures yell ‘Dual Aurora Wave!’ and transform, a rainbow-colored column of light shoots up from the ground, going BOOM!”

“And then the Pretty Cures levitate, and go up into the air. Based on this, I believe the protagonists of Pretty Cure are being held up in the air by the power of light.”

“When we think of light, we usually think it heats up things or lights up things. But in reality, light has the power to hold up things as well.”

“When the sun is beating down on us in the summer, the human body is being pressed downwards by the sun beams with a force of 2/100,000g.”

“But this is only about a one-hundred of the weight of a mosquito, so no matter how hot it is, we don’t feel that sunlight is heavy.”

“So that means the light holding them up must be extremely strong. If we assume that the two Pretty Cures each weigh about 45kg and do some calculations…”

“It means the light during the transformation must have the energy of 2,100,000,000kW per 1m2.”

“While the entirety of power that Japan is capable of generating is only 100,000,000kW.”

“So they’re using 21 TIMES the amount of energy the whole of Japan can generate.”

“So what would happen if a bad guy jumped in to try to sabotage their transformation?”

“He would EVAPORATE INSTANTLY.”

“DEATH AWAITS ANYONE WHO DARES TO DISRUPT A PRETTY CURE TRANSFORMATION.”

“So this means the best thing to do would be to transform close to any bad guys.”

“Yes. They are the strongest while they transform, and are practically invincible.”

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