inothernews:

MAY THE BRICKS BE WITH YOU  A scale model of an X-Wing fighter, made from more than five million Lego bricks, went on display in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday.  It’s 11 feet tall, 43 feet long and 44 feet wide, it’s the largest Lego model ever built.  Coming soon: a life-size Lego Jar Jar Binks to ruin everything.  (Photo: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP-Getty via The Telegraph)

kirkeh:

spindlebug:

sweet-bitsy:

breanieswordvomit:

caffeinated-zombie:

So, in the middle of everything today, we ran across a hellaciously distressed momma mallard and a bunch of her baby ducks that had fallen down a sewer grate. Another guy was already trying to fish them out, so my friend and I called animal control before we tried to fish the rest of them out. When Animal Control got there, we had all of them out and the mother duck quacking very happily. I was surprised - none of us got snapped at or hurt. I was even holding onto a bag at one point that had all of them in it and she just watched me. 

I love how the duck is perched on the guy’s butt

I’M SO HAPPY

AH GOSH this has made me so happy
what wonderful people

It’s like she understood they were helping ;;

colchrishadfield:

Working with Adam and Jamie was fun! Mutual moustache appreciation.

elennare:

Astronauts Chris Hadfield and Catherine Coleman perform ‘Ride On’, a tribute to pioneer astronaut Sally Ride.

ruinedchildhood:

rape—princess:

Nailed it.

photogrphygirl:

Thunderbirds IMG_2350 by raddox on Flickr.

thinkaboutelephants:

Ammonite

Septa detail in an ammonite.

Septa are the walls of the chambers of the shell. They were filled with seawater or air to change elevation. 

The process of fossilization is done through mineral replacement. Pyrite can replace the septa of an ammonite, as seen above. This ammonite is likely to have been treated with bismuth, causing the rainbow color of the crystals. 

rollership:

My dad got a house for 10,000 dollars 20 years later it was worth 400,000.