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fetch
you can never trust that girl when she’s wearing her lab coat.
helium
i hope people don’t expect me to do a comic about every element of the periodic table. chemistry jokes are hard.
ancient
it’s easy to think of the ancient egyptians as living at the dawn of civilisation and ourselves as living closer to the end of it, but on a universal scale, we are still the ancient egyptians.
also if you’re baffled by how long 100 trillion years is and want me to put it into perspective: imagine 1 trillion years. now multiply that by 100. there.
cloud watching
kinda stretching it with those last few clouds there sedna.
double sunset
this is my favourite random factoid about mercury. on most planets the sun moves from east to west, then venus decides to be different and has the sun move from west to east, and then mercury comes along and says “¿porque no los dos?” and makes the sun do a whole reverse parking manoeuvre and then carry on like it was nothing.
i should probably mention that this happens over the course of about 8 earth days and there’s no atmosphere for the sun to light up orange, so it would probably also be the most boring sunset in the solar system, but somehow i don’t think sedna would mind.
700,000 hours
one day i was talking with an old friend on the phone when out of the blue he mentioned we live for less than 1 million hours and i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it ever since, so naturally i figured i’d impart some of this existential dread on all of you folks. i’m pretty sure i’ve already spent at least 1/700th of my existence playing rome: total war.
neighbours
remember kids, stalking is totally okay as long as you do it in a cute way.
mosasaurus
(i got mosasaurus and mesosaurus confused more times than i care to admit while writing this comic)
so i’m gonna be that guy and remind you that mosasaurus is not technically a dinosaur. it’s a reptile. just because something’s big and died 66 million years ago doesn’t make it a dinosaur. still, that doesn’t make it any less cool. it’s like a cross between an eel and a crocodile, and three great white sharks long.
hopefully one day in the distant future humanity will successfully bring back both the mosasaurus and the megalodon and organise the fight of the century. would it be neccessary? no. would you watch it? yes.
ankylosaurus
ankylosaurus is essentially the super-heavy tank of the dinosaur world. everyone wants to either ride one or watch it pummel a t-rex in the face with its club.
also just to confuse you a little, ankylosaurus is a genus within the family ‘ankylosauridae’ (members are called ankylosaurids), which is within the suborder ‘ankylosauria’ (members are called ankylosaurs). got all that? good. there will be a test later so don’t you dare forget it.
ankylosaurs are a diverse group of armoured dinosaurs, many of which don’t have a club on the end of their tail (e.g. nodosaurus). it just happens that our clubbed boy ankylosaurus was discovered first (in 1906), so both the family and the suborder got stuck with the name.