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Earth is in the solar system; the solar system is in our solar interstellar neighborhood; our solar interstellar neighborhood is in the Milky Way; the Milky Way is in our local galactic group; our local galactic group is in the Virgo supercluster; the Virgo supercluster is surrounded by other local superclusters, and those local superclusters are all we can observe in the Universe for now.

For additional perspective:

Consider our solar interstellar neighborhood for a moment (third in the chart). Do you realize how far apart the stars are from each other within that neighborhood? If our sun was a marble on Hollywood & Highland, our nearest neighboring star would be a marble in front of Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. And the second-nearest neighboring star would be in Alaska. (Something like that.)

(via Ancient Astronaut Theory)

Talking about it is healthy, regardless of what you’ve been told.

More on the topic here. And here.

harry potter spreadsheet notes j.k. rowling

On the handwritten spreadsheet, Rowling divided columns by chapter number, story timeline, chapter title, main plots and subplots.

Full story here.

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baskin robbins ice cream 31 flavors

Ice cream hasn’t tasted the same ever since they got rid of the vintage logo with the brown and pink polka dots on white background. And it will always taste better out of a cardboard container.

school glue bottle in honey dispenser rubber cement

Went to a screening/QA of this last week and can’t stop thinking about it. In theaters now. Throw it in your Netflix queue now so you don’t forget.

Includes a series intro by Rod Serling, followed by the classic ‘Where is Everybody?’ with its original non-Serling opening narration.

They forgot this one. Still my have.

Jeff Hanneman would be 50 today. He died last May. Here’s his 1986 masterpiece in its entirety, recognized by the masses as the greatest metal album of all time. Pure, surgical, uncompromising speed. Ten songs in under thirty minutes.

BTW, am I the only one who thinks that demon at the bottom right is the spitting image of me when I was fourteen?

A montage of every movie that’s won the VFX Oscar since the category was created in 1977. Star Wars kicks it off.