Author: codemageddon

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Viktoria Modesta

Self-described “bionic girl” and pop artist. Hell yes forever.

are we not gonna talk about the fact that the music video these gifs are from, and the song that plays in it, is essentially a giant “fuck you” to society’s views of “disabled people are broken/useless/should be pitied”? or the fact that she WILLINGLY CHOSE to have her leg amputated? [due to medical reasons, there were other options presented to her, but again she said “fuck it” and chose the amputation because that was the safest option in her opinion, and she never once lets this decision hinder her or change anything about her.] Or how she has teamed up with the Alternative Limb Project who not only supplies her with these downright masterful prosthetic limbs but also helps other amputees afford such limbs for themselves? And helps said amputees express themselves and be creative with their newfound limbs? [fyi, the glowy leg is NOT cgi, that is 100% real, LED powered prosthesis. Fuck yeah engineering, baybee!]

Viktoria Modesta is quite possibly the greatest thing to happen to pop music and maybe even modern society as a whole, because she is literally proving that disabled people are not broken, they are not weak; they are strong, can put “normal” abled bodied people in their place, and look downright amazing while doing so. She is an inspiration and if you don’t think that is incredible then get the fuck away from me, you are not worth anyone’s time.

the-movemnt:

Mayor Bill de Blasio said NYC will sue if Donald Trump goes forward with Muslim registry

  • On Monday, de Blasio told the anti-hate rally audience at Cooper Union Hall that the city will sue Trump if the proposed Muslim registry database comes to fruition.
  • The “Muslim registry” is reportedly being talked about with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach
  • It would require Muslims to register their name in a database for tracking purposes.
  • De Blasio, appearing with numerous influential faith and community leaders in NYC, also stood up for various communities in his remarks.

follow @the-movemnt

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He’s laying the groundwork for restricted access to the presidency.

He’s only going to let those who will write what he wants speak to his administration.

We’re only going to be reading and watching propaganda and expect real journalists to be starved out, fired, sued and smeared by the remaining press.

We already have laws on the books that make it illegal for journalists/cameras to go on farms to investigate how unsanitary they are, and their human rights and animal cruelty violations. How much easier will it be to concoct some “threat to national security” that necessitates restricted access to government?

Update: The New York Times said they didn’t even know the meeting with Trump was cancelled until they saw his tweet this morning. “We did not change the ground rules and made no attempt to.”

https://twitter.com/cliffordlevy/status/801033638938898432

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“If a Cat mutates from Radiation, will they suddenly have 18 Half-Lives? Because that would be Rad.”

#Fallout

i dont play fall out but THATS NOT HOW HALF LIVES WORK

I don’t either but KITTY IN GOGGLES

by the end of the 9th half life there will be 1/512th left of Cat. imagine that

Well as Doc Brown Cat would say…

“Entropy just isn’t what it used to be.”

“That’s heavy.  Like radioactive isotopes.”

We really should do more science jokes. At least periodically.

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So, I’ve been pulled over a few times in my life. Not many, but a few. And I’ve also been in a couple of cars that got pulled over. And let me tell you, if you were actually doing something wrong, the officer doesn’t make any small talk, just straight into “I clocked you doing 70 in a 55.” The only time I’ve ever gotten the “do you know why I pulled you over?” was the time when I wasn’t doing anything wrong, and I got let go even though he insisted to the end that I was doing 87 in a 70 (white privilege at work).

“Do you know why I pulled you over?” is a trap. It means there’s a good chance the officer doesn’t actually have a good reason to ticket you, and is trying to get you to waive your 5th Amendment rights and incriminate yourself. If you make a guess, that’s a confession of guilt.

But there’s another trap, that I’ve heard of but haven’t yet experienced. It’s “do you know how fast you were going?” With that one, they’re hoping you’ll say no, because then they can name whatever speed they want – you just said you didn’t know how fast you were going, if you deny the speed they name then you’re lying to them.

Oh, I’ve had that one. Go with “yes.” Don’t give them a number, just say “Yes.” Then they still have to offer a number and you can deny it without contradicting yourself. They could just ask you, at that point, but that’s suspiciously similar to saying they don’t know, and they tend to avoid doing that.

IT’s Official: NASA’s Peer-Reviewed EM Drive Paper Has Finally Been Published

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I’m serious

Okay so this is one of the WEIRDEST FUCKING THINGS humanity has stumbled upon in science and it gives me a nerd boner that can be seen from Alpha Centauri.

  1. As far as we can tell, this fucking thing generates reactionless thrust. Let that shit sink in: The EM Drive does not require fuel. Only electrical power.
  2. It might be warping space. Emphasis on might because nobody fucking knows right now.
  3. Okay I know I said it already but AS FAR AS WE CAN TELL THIS IS A !!REACTIONLESS!! !!THRUST!! !!DEVICE!! you have no idea just how goddamn amazing that is

mark my words this fucking thing is going to REVOLUTIONIZE the design of satellites and scientific probes

and just think of the potential it might have if its thrust increases proportionately to the power fed into it

THIS IS FUKCIN HUGE MY DUDES

Reblogging this just to restate how fucking huge this is.

Imagine you blow air into a balloon and tie it off. Then when you untie it, you let the balloon go and it flies all over the place. This is how propulsion works. This is what Newton’s Third Law is based on. That the air is coming out and pushing the balloon forward.

The EM drive is moving forward when the balloon is still tied off at the end.

I heard about this theorized not some time ago and thought it was amazing!

The fact that it’s been thoroughly peer-reviewed and still stands up is nothing short of absolutely astounding.

This device works, and no one is quite sure how or WHY it does. It defies our current understanding of why physics work the way the way they do. Which mean basically means that we need to re-evaluate and refine our laws of physics because we have discovered empirical evidence that we’ve got something wrong. And trying to fix our math to accurately describe the universe is going lead to new discoveries about the fundamental nature of reality. IT’S MIND BLOWING.

Not to mention this device itself, if we can elaborate and expand on it, will change how we do propulsion. This might the next stage of propulsion technology. To the people a few decades in the future, combustion engine propulsion technology will seem as silly, outdated, and quaint as steam propulsion or horse-drawn carriages seem to us.

THE FUTURE APPROACHES.

god I’m such a nerd

This is hugely important stuff.

A lot of reports on this thing talk about how it “breaks the laws of physics,” but this is an inaccurate oversimplification. The reality of it is much more profound. If this thing indeed works, and the results we’ve gotten thus far can’t be explained by some sort of experimental error, it will redefine our understanding of physics. In other words, the laws of physics aren’t being “broken,” we’ve just been wrong about physics the entire time.

so what you’re saying is maybe we get long distance space travel before we go extinct of our own stupidity

*insert excited nerdy babbling here*

There’s still a lot of work to be done to eliminate the possibility of any outside interference or mundane errors, but this is a huge step towards either proving or disproving whether or not it actually works. I’m seeing articles from September suggesting that there are plans to test it in space.

IT’s Official: NASA’s Peer-Reviewed EM Drive Paper Has Finally Been Published