starships final from bironic on Vimeo.

[tdpossum]

PASSWORD:  STARSHIPS

One of the best fanvids I’ve ever seen.

[sophiagratia]

And when she says ‘one of the best […] EVER’ (emphasis mine), lemme tell ya: it’s really, really true.

[goddessofcheese]

hey

hey you there

following me

stop

stop what you’re doing

and watch

[whimsicalspecks]

W A T C H   T H E   T H I N G

[quakerhobbit]

If you haven’t seen this, your life is about to get so much better. If you have, I assume you will watch it again because it is impossible to watch this video too many times. Watch it NOW.

[triflesandparsnips]

This is, hands down, my favorite fanvid.

I send this thing to people who don’t know fanvids, and they love it.

[triflesandparsnips]

reblogging myself because every day should be Rewatch Starships Day

[gramina]

This was glorious.

[zillah975]

always reblog Starships

[tygermama]

^^^^ always reblog Starships

[saathi1013]

always

[tereshkova2001]

I can now sometimes watch this without crying but only sometimes.
Also recommended: the black and white remix version with classic golden age SF.

[tariqk]

video: (first chord comes in)

me: (presses the queue button)

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

All the time

[cutestationery]

PetitePinkBoutique on etsy

[fuckyeahbritisholdschoolgaming]

The Beacon at Enon Tor from IMAGINE 1, April 1983. Mike Brunton & Graeme Morris.

[infinitemachine]

Alex Schröder gives some good advice on designing a dungeon for your RPG.  

Let me provide some context: I like short dungeons. These dungeons would all make good candidates for theOne Page Dungeon Contest even if they’re usually a lot less sophisticated compared to other entries. I think this is important: if you’re not planning on publishing your dungeon, don’t use published dungeons for comparison.

This is why my dungeons are shorter, the map is cruder, the key is terse.

[swordandbackpack]

When I proposed a collaboration to @betterlegends on a One Page Dungeon, he responded by surprising me with the first image here, a drawing to serve as a writing prompt. It was so evocative, the idea for our eventual entry came to me in a flash and I started furiously scribbling. After lots of back and forth (and lots of cutting and editing on my part), we eventually came up with the final version of “Druid’s Rest at the Giant’s Rift” that you see in the second image. I love working with that dude…

[unflatteringcatselfies]

She was just sleeping like this.

[retrocgads]

USA 1995

[ruspeach]

SOUND: http://www.ruspeach.com/en/news/10754/

Некоторые жуки имеют необычную технику питья. К примеру, намибский жук, который живет в пустыне, каждое утро совершает тяжелый путь на верхушку песчаной дюны, где он направляет свое тело против ветра, выпрямляет задние ноги и опускает голову. Капельки тумана, идущего с моря, постепенно собираются на его спине, а затем стекают в рот жуку.

Some bugs have unusual way of drinking. For example, a head-stander beetle which lives in the Namib desert, every morning makes a difficult way on a top of a sandy dune where he directs the body against the wind, straightens his hind legs and hangs the head. Droplets of the fog going from the sea are gradually gathered on his back, and then flow down in a mouth of a bug.

пример [primèr] - example
голова [galavà] - head
тяжёлый [tizhòlyj] - hard, heavy

www.ruspeach.com

wired.com

Want to Live on Mars? You’ll Need to Make Some Martian Bricks

Scientists are working to transform Martian regolith into a radiation-shielding construction material.

[scinerds]

Settlements on Mars remain a long way off. Even after science figures out how to get there, making something light enough to carry to the Red Planet yet strong enough to withstand the perils of space is no picnic—just ask the folks making that inflatable habitat that didn’t inflate. But perhaps everyone’s been approaching this the wrong way. Rather than schlepping stuff to Mars, why not use materials that are already there?

That’s exactly what Eugene Aquino, Richard Kiefer, and Robert Orwoll hope to do. The chemists are working on turning Martian regolith (aka dirt) into bricks astronauts could use as building materials and radiation shields.

People have proposed using planetary resources like ice before, but regolith has a lot to recommend it. It is plentiful, for one, and easy to work with. Kiefer worked on a NASA experiment with lunar regolith 16 years ago. “That proved that you could take regolith and a polymeric material and make something that you could turn into a habitat—using only a microwave oven,” he says.