this-is-the-universe-caring

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

This is a neutral post

Feel free to stop here and rest before journeying to the posts below.

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

My cat gets really excited when I carry stuff. It doesn’t really matter what…

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

“suffering feels religious if you do it right” no shut up it doesn’t. my friends laughing in the kitchen while i make dinner feels religious. the sun on my face after a long winter feels religious.

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

NINE SELF-TAUGHT PEOPLE???

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

“My sister’s Aussie tries very hard to stay awake in the car”

(Source)

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

Beach day

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

don't mind me, i'm just about to use blaze as god intended

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

how do you remember all the recipes at starbucks? is it hard

rat under my starbucks hat does it for me

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

Ok but I LOVE how the prologue of Return of the King is a “dark reprise” of the prologue of Fellowship of the Ring—-

The opening of Fellowship of the Ring is “the story of the Ring, as told by Galadriel.”

The opening of Return of the King is “the story of the Ring, as told by Gollum.”

“The ring came to the creature Gollum, who took it deep into the tunnels of the Misty Mountains— and there, it consumed him.

vs

“Murderer, they called us. They cursed us and drove us away (....) we wept to be so alone.”

“The ring brought to Gollum unnatural long life.”

vs

“We forgot the taste of bread, the sound of trees, the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name.”

Galadriel ends her narration by saying “the time will soon come when hobbits will shape the fortunes of all” — and she’s right. By Return of the King, the elves are no longer the ones telling the story; instead, it opens on the story as told by a corrupted hobbit. Galadriel’s lofty detached narration is replaced by Gollum’s broken faltering attempts to explain what happened to him. Galadriel icily describes Gollum taking the Ring to the Misty Mountains; Gollum describes being violently driven away from his home, and weeping with loneliness.

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

As a lighting designer I love this whole convo.

Candle light has historically been so important to us. When we try to scientifically quantify the brightness of certain light sources (luminous intensity), we still use candles as a reference point. One of our basic units in lighting is a Candela (cd), which represents the brightness of roughly 1 candle and was at one point called candlepower. It's used to measure the light emitted from a source in a particular direction.

Since light travels out from a point in a sphere, we can do a bunch of math to figure out the total light a source emits in all directions, and is defined as a lumen which was historically derived from candela.

So for fun lets compare 1 light bulb to 1 candle. We know that 1 candela = 12.57 lumens which represents the output of 1 candle. A lot of modern led light bulbs in our house have an output of 800 lumens.

1 candle = 12.57 lumens

1 led light bulb = 800 lumens

800/12.57 = 63.64

1 light bulb = roughly 64 candles.

Imagine that. To get a room as bright as it is today you would need roughly 64 candles, and that's just to replace 1 light bulb.

Now look around your house at all the lights.

This is all super simplified physics of course, but it's a fun thing to explore. I think it really puts into perspective just how bright our modern world is!

Wikipedia is a pretty good intro to these concepts if your curious!

[this-is-the-universe-caring]

Lesbian moving service that