this is so sad. *dies*
My Best Friend is cheshcanOur 55 common interests are: alan cumming, androgyny, anne rice, bent, boys' thighs, brainslaves, brian eno, cuddling, david bowie, depeche mode, donovan leitch, drag queens, ellen degeneres, equality, ewan mcgregor, eyeliner, feather boas, garbage, gavin friday, glam rock, go-go boys, good omens, homoerotica, jess and chesh's queers, jhonen vasquez, johnny the homicidal maniac, jonathan rhys meyers, jude law, kill hannah, leopard print, lou reed, manic street preachers, mario kart, menswe@r, nancy boy, neil gaiman, nine inch nails, oscar wilde, placebo, queer as folk, reading, rocky horror picture show, run lola run, same-sex marriage, spacehog, stabbing westward, tim curry, titus, tori amos, trainspotting, trivial pursuit, u2, velvet goldmine, writing, zeldaWho is your best friend?
Created by macoto
AAAAAH THE QUIZ RESULT FROM HELL!!!!! I wonder how it guessed. :P
I didn't sleep today, but instead thoroughly cleaned the HELL out of my windows and we finally, FINALLY put up the godforsaken curtains. It's totally bright outside, but dark and gothy in here. I love it. Except they look like sad canvasy red tarps, so we might get another set and add it on. Then I'd have curtains and not just red sheets.
It works for now, however. Plans are being dreamt up in my head about how to rearrange my room. I'd draw an MS Paint picture for you, but it'd be too much trouble. I'll get it how I want it someday.
I kind of want an orange wall.
I'm thinking about getting my ears pierced for no good reason. I don't think you do things like body modification for a good reason. It's not like you can say, "This labret is SAVING KIDS IN AFRICA! And this tattoo of my best friend's parakeet eating a tree will save the polar ice caps from melting!"
Speaking of things melting, I rediscovered one of my astronomy books and read something awesome about the death of the sun that I will share with you all:
In essence, the Sun is a giant nuclear furnace. At its core, 655 million tons of hydrogen are fused into 650 million tons of helium every second, at a temperature of 15 million degrees C. The missing five million tons of matter are converted into 400 trillion trillion watts of energy in the process. After a tortuous trek lasting up to a million years, the core-generated energy works its way to the surface and is radiated into space, mostly as light. The Sun's steady energy output is crucial for life on Earth. An abrupt change of only a few percent in the Sun's production would vastly alter global climatic conditions. Apparently, the Sun has never had a serious power outage. However, it will not always be so. In five to six billion years, a major disruption is inevitable.
The midlife crisis will be triggered by a depletion of hydrogen at the core. Starved for fuel to stoke its nuclear furnace, the Sun will face an energy crunch. The thermonuclear reactions will then be transferred to a shell around the core, where hydrogen will still exist. The core will contract, which will heat up the surrounding layer of burning hydrogen, accelerating the reactions and producing more energy. Rather than dimming, the Sun will become brighter.
On Earth, an increase in temperature will register, perhaps only a fraction of a degree per year, but in time, the enhanced solar radiation will melt whatever ice remains in the polar icecaps and make the equatorial regions intolerable. The transition will be slow. If, for example, the process had begun at the time the Egyptians were constructing the pyramids, the changed would be detectable today by sensitive instruments but would otherwise go unnoticed. However, global climate alterations of disastrous proportions would loom several millennia in the future.
Over hundreds of centuries, escalating quantities of energy being pumped out of its core then begin to puff up the Sun like an inflating balloon. Its diameter doubles, triples, then quadruples. The energy output accelerates as the core becomes hot enough to burn helium, which fuses to carbon, forcing the outer regions even farther into surrounding space. In a few milllion years, the edge of the Sun reaches the innermost planet. Mercury has always been a dead cinder of a world, but at this point, its rocks vaporize in the heat. Temperatures above the boiling point of water now extinguish all remaining life on Earth. The oceans vaporize to form a stifling atmospheric blanket, augmented by the noxious output from volcanic activity induced by the rising surface temperatures.
The Sun's expansion will continue for millions of years until the Earth's sky is almost filled by the deep red distended globe with a glowing heart -- the engine of the doomsday scenario -- only partly concealed by the bloated outer layers. At this stage, the Sun is a full-fledged red-giant star, thousands of times its original brightness. Earth might survive the holocaust, but only as a frazzled chunk of slag. What happens next is less certain, but theory suggests that the immense energy flow from the red giant acts as a stellar wind, ejecting a steady stream of dust and gas that eventually amounts to ten percent or more of the star's mass.
Finally, 100 million years after the crisis began, the energy-producing core of the red giant will exhaust its nuclear fuels and collapse into a dense lump - a white dwarf - a stellar corpse radiating white-hot light from the intense heat of compression. The white dwarf will have roughly three-quarters of the Sun's original mass compressed into a body the size of Earth, its atoms crushed by gravity to a state where atomic nuclei swim in a dense sea of electrons. A teaspoonful of white-dwarf material weighs about five tons. Many other stars have already met the same fate; hundreds of white dwarfs have been discovered within a few dozen light-years of the Sun.
During its formation, the white dwarf produces a blast of stellar wind even more energetic than the wind that emerged from the red giant. This has a snowplow effect, pushing the previously expelled material into a discrete bubble about a light-year across. Like the filament in a lightbulb, the dwarf's radiation lights up the surrounding gas, creating a sphere-, doughnut- or butterfly-shaped cloud called a planetary nebula that can be seen for thousands of light-years - the star's last gasp.
The white dwarf that will represent the Sun's senile old age will drift among the stars in the same path it followed around the galaxy in its more robust youth. To the cinder that was once Earth, if it still exists, the new white-dwarf Sun will be a dazzling celestial diamond shedding a twilight-level glow, but virtually no heat, on a frozen wasteland. Over 30 billion years or so, the Sun will slowly cool, like a dying ember, until it no longer radiates energy.
The final corpse of the Sun will be a black dwarf about the size of Earth and 200,000 times its mass.
I love Neil Gaiman to pieces. I'm reading Smoke and Mirrors. Short story collections rock; you should all go read it. NOW, peons.
Smeg's head is going to explode soon if I don't stop playing so much Tori Amos. "I i i e e? That could be the title of ANY of her songs. Why is that one special?!"
J?
Created by macoto
AAAAAH THE QUIZ RESULT FROM HELL!!!!! I wonder how it guessed. :P
I didn't sleep today, but instead thoroughly cleaned the HELL out of my windows and we finally, FINALLY put up the godforsaken curtains. It's totally bright outside, but dark and gothy in here. I love it. Except they look like sad canvasy red tarps, so we might get another set and add it on. Then I'd have curtains and not just red sheets.
It works for now, however. Plans are being dreamt up in my head about how to rearrange my room. I'd draw an MS Paint picture for you, but it'd be too much trouble. I'll get it how I want it someday.
I kind of want an orange wall.
I'm thinking about getting my ears pierced for no good reason. I don't think you do things like body modification for a good reason. It's not like you can say, "This labret is SAVING KIDS IN AFRICA! And this tattoo of my best friend's parakeet eating a tree will save the polar ice caps from melting!"
Speaking of things melting, I rediscovered one of my astronomy books and read something awesome about the death of the sun that I will share with you all:
In essence, the Sun is a giant nuclear furnace. At its core, 655 million tons of hydrogen are fused into 650 million tons of helium every second, at a temperature of 15 million degrees C. The missing five million tons of matter are converted into 400 trillion trillion watts of energy in the process. After a tortuous trek lasting up to a million years, the core-generated energy works its way to the surface and is radiated into space, mostly as light. The Sun's steady energy output is crucial for life on Earth. An abrupt change of only a few percent in the Sun's production would vastly alter global climatic conditions. Apparently, the Sun has never had a serious power outage. However, it will not always be so. In five to six billion years, a major disruption is inevitable.
The midlife crisis will be triggered by a depletion of hydrogen at the core. Starved for fuel to stoke its nuclear furnace, the Sun will face an energy crunch. The thermonuclear reactions will then be transferred to a shell around the core, where hydrogen will still exist. The core will contract, which will heat up the surrounding layer of burning hydrogen, accelerating the reactions and producing more energy. Rather than dimming, the Sun will become brighter.
On Earth, an increase in temperature will register, perhaps only a fraction of a degree per year, but in time, the enhanced solar radiation will melt whatever ice remains in the polar icecaps and make the equatorial regions intolerable. The transition will be slow. If, for example, the process had begun at the time the Egyptians were constructing the pyramids, the changed would be detectable today by sensitive instruments but would otherwise go unnoticed. However, global climate alterations of disastrous proportions would loom several millennia in the future.
Over hundreds of centuries, escalating quantities of energy being pumped out of its core then begin to puff up the Sun like an inflating balloon. Its diameter doubles, triples, then quadruples. The energy output accelerates as the core becomes hot enough to burn helium, which fuses to carbon, forcing the outer regions even farther into surrounding space. In a few milllion years, the edge of the Sun reaches the innermost planet. Mercury has always been a dead cinder of a world, but at this point, its rocks vaporize in the heat. Temperatures above the boiling point of water now extinguish all remaining life on Earth. The oceans vaporize to form a stifling atmospheric blanket, augmented by the noxious output from volcanic activity induced by the rising surface temperatures.
The Sun's expansion will continue for millions of years until the Earth's sky is almost filled by the deep red distended globe with a glowing heart -- the engine of the doomsday scenario -- only partly concealed by the bloated outer layers. At this stage, the Sun is a full-fledged red-giant star, thousands of times its original brightness. Earth might survive the holocaust, but only as a frazzled chunk of slag. What happens next is less certain, but theory suggests that the immense energy flow from the red giant acts as a stellar wind, ejecting a steady stream of dust and gas that eventually amounts to ten percent or more of the star's mass.
Finally, 100 million years after the crisis began, the energy-producing core of the red giant will exhaust its nuclear fuels and collapse into a dense lump - a white dwarf - a stellar corpse radiating white-hot light from the intense heat of compression. The white dwarf will have roughly three-quarters of the Sun's original mass compressed into a body the size of Earth, its atoms crushed by gravity to a state where atomic nuclei swim in a dense sea of electrons. A teaspoonful of white-dwarf material weighs about five tons. Many other stars have already met the same fate; hundreds of white dwarfs have been discovered within a few dozen light-years of the Sun.
During its formation, the white dwarf produces a blast of stellar wind even more energetic than the wind that emerged from the red giant. This has a snowplow effect, pushing the previously expelled material into a discrete bubble about a light-year across. Like the filament in a lightbulb, the dwarf's radiation lights up the surrounding gas, creating a sphere-, doughnut- or butterfly-shaped cloud called a planetary nebula that can be seen for thousands of light-years - the star's last gasp.
The white dwarf that will represent the Sun's senile old age will drift among the stars in the same path it followed around the galaxy in its more robust youth. To the cinder that was once Earth, if it still exists, the new white-dwarf Sun will be a dazzling celestial diamond shedding a twilight-level glow, but virtually no heat, on a frozen wasteland. Over 30 billion years or so, the Sun will slowly cool, like a dying ember, until it no longer radiates energy.
The final corpse of the Sun will be a black dwarf about the size of Earth and 200,000 times its mass.
I love Neil Gaiman to pieces. I'm reading Smoke and Mirrors. Short story collections rock; you should all go read it. NOW, peons.
Smeg's head is going to explode soon if I don't stop playing so much Tori Amos. "I i i e e? That could be the title of ANY of her songs. Why is that one special?!"
J?