What If the Sun Disappeared Right Now?

We are learning that the YouTube comments section is populated by humorless prats who take themselves way too seriously. 

Here we enjoy conjecture and flights of fancy. Also, disaster scenarios.

If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb In The Marianas Trench (Just Fantasy, no...

We truly hope that people can enjoy this bit of disaster fantasy without resorting to the sort of inane comments found on YouTube about how this is not pure science. Because, after all, this blog is committed to pure science and contains no fantasy at all.

We admit that reading the comments on YouTube is a very bad idea.

It's A Different World

My eleven year old niece created a profile on Woozworld, which I'd never heard of before.

My sister and I monitor the kids' (niece and nephew) online activities pretty closely at this stage. This sort of thing is always harmless fun on the surface, but there are opportunities for bullying and also for creeps pretending to be kids to try and gain the trust of actual kids.

It's certainly a different world now than it was when I was eleven. I'm 48 years old. To eleven year old me, making friends via computer would have sounded like science fiction. At that age, I was into Star Wars pretty big time. I also liked the original Battlestar Galactica and I loved watching Star Trek reruns too. Having my own computer would have seemed as fantastic an idea as many of the stories on those shows to me at eleven.

~DJ Thalia~

The Retirement of the Space Shuttle Atlantis

Sci fi fans! Science geeks! True scientists! This is for me--er--for you! For you and me.

Like a lot of kids, I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. But my inability to ride on anything that goes around, and around, and around, and around (Ugh! I'm getting sick!) at speeds faster than a merry go round or ferris wheel means that dream was never meant to be.

I'll just stick to the confines of my home world and look out at the Universe from my deck through my trusty little telescope that my mom and pops (rest in peace, Daddy) bought me for my birthday in 1989. Still have it, never have seen reason to upgrade it.

A date to the planetarium? My fave! (Yes, Dylan, if you're reading this, that could be taken as a hint!)

Of course I still love hunkering down on a cold day with a cup of cocoa and a bowl of popcorn and watching my favorite sci fi movies and television shows. Because space is the final frontier, and it's fun to boldly go where no queer has gone before!

Allon-sy!

Amazons: The Ladies and the River

Etymology Gal explains how the Amazon River got its name, and gives us a little history of the warrior women.

There are a lot of Axe Man groupies in this video!

In modern times, "Amazon" is often used to describe a strong female who is probably larger than the average woman. 

In a scenario from our Crazy Fanfic Mashup blog, Bill Hudson says of Ellen Ripley:

""Don't tell her I said this or she'll probably kick my ass, but even though she's this tough Amazon woman who could stomp someone's head in if she needed to, she's one of the most totally vulnerable people I've ever met."

Ellen Ripley (portrayed by Sigourney Weaver) is around six feet tall, which is much taller than the average woman. The character is a reluctant warrior who would really rather be left alone to live her life in peace, as opposed to a character such as Xena the Warrior Princess, who seeks action, adventure, and ass-kicking.

Little bit of fangirl geekage for y'all there!

I hope you've been enjoying these Word Nerd videos. I've enjoyed sharing them.

Lily

 

 

The Being, the Whole Being, and Nothing But the Being

I previously mentioned this film in this post, and featured the trailer. Now I'm gonna give you the whole thing.

You wanna watch with me? Okay, but you need to bring your own popcorn!

Oh Shit!

Some doofus made the mistake of supplying this cake at the wedding of Ellen Ripley and Dwayne Hicks. (If you don't know, Google it. I refuse to make it easy. Then go say a thousand Hail Marys and hit yourself--hard--as penance for your sins.) They flipped out and blasted it with flame throwers and grenades.

(Because yeah, Bitches, that's a couple that should have been together. That third movie never happened. One of the characters was just suffering from the ill effects of a piece of undigested space meat loaf.)

Thanks to Cthulhu Hand Luke for sharing this picture.

Rest in Peace, Ray Bradbury

He now belongs to the ages. Rest in peace, good Sir.