What Tickles Your Fancy?

imsaari:

Prong horns can run 60 fucking miles per hour for forty minutes straight. If you don’t think that’s the tightest shit then you don’t appreciate what’s in this world.

"Even modest improvements in the social, economic, and political problems that our global civilization now faces could release enormous resources, both material and human, for other goals. There’s plenty of housework to be done here on Earth, and our commitment to it must be steadfast. But we’re the kind of species that needs a frontier - for fundamental biological reasons. Every time humanity stretches itself and turns a new corner, it receives a jolt of productive vitality that can carry it for centuries. There’s a new world next door. And we know how to get there."

- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (via perscientiamlibertas)

(via wildcat2030)

pathologicalfunction:

twocubes:

So, the euler spiral! It’s the big one at the top. It’s traced out by the parametric equations written under it.

I thought something interesting would happen if I replaced the cosine and the sine with the derivatives of the parameterizations of various other curves, and then this happened.

(The animated parts are pretty neat to stare at when you’re high :) )

(via culturerevo)