Allons-y!

Exactly what I’m talking about! You guys are on point

The fact that my 1.5yo has hit me in the face in temper/out of excitement more times than I can count makes me wonder how Johnathan and Martha Kent never had their faces caved in by a baby Superman.

646: Tiger 

2005: i hate 4Kids

2015: i fricking love 4Kids

THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS IS SEARCHED FOR THIS CLIP AND I COULDNT FIND IT THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME

get this out of mY FACE 

OH FUCK OFF

Electron microscope video of a needle on a vinyl record.

H O W 

like you can tell me all you want how the sound is stored in the grooves but fucking H O W 

HOW DOES THAT GET INTO THE NEEDLE

HOW ARE THE VIBRATIONS TURNED INTO MUSIC THAT YOU CAN HEAR???

H O W

The vibrations aren’t “turned into” music, they are music. When vibrations occur inside your inner ear, your brain processes this as sound.

The grooves in a record are an analogy for these vibrations, a method of remembering them so that they can be recreated later on. 

Put your hand on a speaker while loud music is playing and you’ll feel the vibrations. Those are exactly the same vibrations happening inside your ear when you hear the music. 

But how do you capture that? 

Take a surface that vibrates strongly when a sound is played, like the skin of a drumhead for example. Connect that surface to a little tool - when sound causes the surface to vibrate, the tool digs a little bit into some wax, leaving behind a pattern that matches - in proportion - the vibrations of the surface caused by the sound. This is your analogy (hence: analog music). 

Now, when there’s no sound playing, you run that little tool back over the pattern. This causes the skin to vibrate again, this time in response to the tool running over the pattern instead of because of an external sound. The vibrations should match, proportionally, the original vibrations of the music.. and thus these new vibrations, if you were to amplify them, would be a recreation or “recording” of the original music. 

That’s oversimplified of course and things have changed a lot since the days of wax, but that is very basically how the process of recording music worked at first, and the general idea of how sound gets from a groove in a record into your brain. 

(reblogging for Disparition commentary) 

Thank you Science side of tumblr

I hugely appreciate people taking to the time explain stuff like this, as it helps put an end to the “wow, science is magic!” trope that’s become far too common.

In short, an analog record is FROZEN SOUND.

This is cool! I used to get so confused about cardboard records because how did they work like the plastic ones? But now I understand!

Do CDs work the same way?

GREEN BOY

WONDERFUL MOSSY LOOKING BOY

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He literally looks like a khajiit in oblivion

Pawb

oh, shit

wheres the video of the Danish news reporter and the car falling into the lake behind him and he goes “Oh!… shit. Okay.”

No, seriously though, in Norse mythology this was the fist sign of Ragnarok, aka the Final Godly Beatdown Warmageddon.

are we finally getting a REAL apocalypse I’m getting real tired of being let down

#SHAN WHERE IS THAT PIC OF LOKI YOU EDITED #THE ONE WHERE HE’S READY TO PARTY  

hope ur ready to ragnarok and roll

Isn’t Thor: Ragnarok coming out this year? Plot twist of all plot twists: the prophetic Ragnarok was actually referring to the marvel movie.

Okay, reblogging for that last one.

Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy…

So I was going into the Bee and Barb in Riften and somehow a Novice Conjurer spawned right in the middle of the inn, and Sam Guevenne aka the daedric prince Sanguine in disguise was there and…

…he summoned a dremora, the dremora killed the conjurer and then it just…sat down at the bar and started drinking?? And everyone else is just like ‘meh, just some drunk guy summoning daedra in the middle of an inn, nothing out of the norm here’ lmao

Sanguine you’re too much sometimes…

Marigolds Koloman Moser - 1909

Batman: Gotham Adventures #26

Omg Bruce, pick up a baby carrier or make a sling out of Robin’s cape or something.

@edithbach

OK but this… THIS right here is motherfucking Batman. Not Captain Angry Nihilist screaming randian bollocks at Morally Ambiguous Superman in the rain, not some motherfucker who runs people over with the batmobile because he doesn’t give a fuck. THIS is Batman, this right here. A man who experienced soul-rending, awful loss in his life and decided to dedicate it to saving as many people as he possibly could from experiencing the same pain.

Batman would hold a baby as best he could, and graciously accept advice when someone told him he was doing it wrong. Batman would ask Alfred for advice on the baby bottle. Because it’s not about him, it’s about doing the best he can to help anyone who needs it. 

@elvensemi

I think one of the funniest things I’ve accidentally taught my parrot is yelling “WHAT?” The best part is that if he says something weird and and someone else says “what???” he usually repeats what he just said. Like just now, I was cooking in the kitchen and he heard me boiling water so he asked “you wanna noodle?” but I couldn’t quite hear him so I yelled “WHAT” and he repeated “you wanna noodle?”

Mostly he just likes yelling it, though.

Less funny things I’ve accidentally taught my parrot:

@cat-birb

borf borf i am crocodoggo borf

Laugh rule

so this just happened