Shitposts

Bottle rocket under ice

rad 

I’m pretty sure that the reason the ice fractured into six slices is the same reason snowflakes are often six sided and it has to do with the shape of a molecule of water and I just think that’s so freaking cool.

How would it even stay lit though?

!!!!! it IS actually because of the structure of water molecules! Water molecules are fuckin weird, as are lots of other liquid substance molecules, because theyre shaped like fuckin HEXAGONS! hexagons are those weird, six-sided shapes that re very sturdy, but they dont tend to sit very well when stacked together. thats why, when you fill up a glass of water to its full capacity, it can go OVER the brim a little and not spill over. It’s also why water beads.

anyway, so since water is essentially made up of a gazillion little hexagons, it tends to gather into larger hexagons as it shapes together. this is not visible unless the water is in a solid form, aka ice. when the water is split, it tends to crack around the established hexagons. that bottle rocket exploded in the PERFECT place to show this phenomenon and its geeking me out.

ALSO! the bottle rocket stays lit because the fuse was definitely waterproof and made with magnesium and an oxidizer of some sort. this means that they will burn underwater because they dont need the oxygen from the air to stay lit. thats so fucking weird isnt it. im tipsy and its the 4th of july. sorry for the science haha

Don’t you dare apologize for science

Reblogging for science, explosions, and cool hexagons!

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been on tumblr so long my text post is outdated…

reblog to kill your landlord with a sword

Uh my step mom actually had something to do with this in a way and it is an even more ridiculous story than that title even suggests

Story?

Sure!

So my step mom works for a local union and sometimes they get workers who are in a tough spot and need a little extra help financially. The union has an organization that handles their charitable monies and my step mom is one of the people that fields these calls and passes them on to that organization.

Now if im remembering the earlier parts of this story okay, one day she gets a call from a man who needs some help with bills like rent or something. They help him out, he's super grateful, job well done.

Now a couple weeks or months later, idk, they get another call from this man. He and his roommate are having some issues with their landlord, who lives in his own house on the property. Apparently the guy keeps barging into their rented place unannounced and drunk, belligerent, threatening them with crowbars and 2×4 and shit. The man, quite rightly, wants to get outta this. He's newly sober and stressful situations like this are Not Good for people going sober of any sort. So the union starts working with him to get him some other housing.

Someone else at the union gets this next update and passes it onto my step mother, who recounts it to me as I stand with my jaw to the floor in our living room.

So apparently on one fateful night this man in question was out of the house. And his roommate was home alone. And the landlord came barging in again.

Except this time he comes in holding a gun in one hand and a knife in the other, and a Michael Myers mask on to top it all off, and he's raving about how he's going to kill them all and then himself. Like he's totally lost it.

Now the roommate of our man is like actually factually scared for his life because this is quite a bit too far. And he now has to deal with this situation or he is likely going to die. So. He grabs a decorative anime sword of our man's off the wall and beheads* him.

Yep. With an anime katana. It's like one of those fake stories on tumblr. Except this actually goddamn happened.

* I am skeptical about that having been a beheading. This was not a honed sword, and not a practiced swordsman. However none of us have enough information to say it WASNT a beheading, full or not. And anyway the landlord was killed so it doesn't quite matter if he was mortally stabbed or not-so-cleanly beheaded.

Regardless! The man called us up to let the union know what happened, and they got him outta there ASAP. And the roommate was NOT charged because he was defending his life and there was a long history of them having to call the cops to get the landlord out of their place to prove such.

So uh there you go. And can I just say the whiplash that I had when seeing this post cross my dash was really something. I even screenshotted it and sent it to the house group chat and my step mother and dad started cackling in the other room because it is such a weirdly close to us story to see on this random site. Like please understand it wasn't even reported on in the news.

There you go! There's the story!

Wow, props to your step-mom and the union for getting him out. Hope he finds a better place to call home.

[image: screenshot of the headline and subtitle of the Willamette Week article linked below: "Prosecutors Decide Portland Man Committed No Crime by Killing His Landlord With a Sword. The landlord, armed with a hammer and pellet gun, had snuck into his rental property in a Michael Myers costume."]

reblog to support your local renters union in case you ever have to behead your landlord with a sword

Props to the guy who killed his landlord literally with a prop sword. Props.

Props to the guy who

killed his landlord literally

with a prop sword. Props.

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