I made a new character, and there is a new quest in the introduction that makes you have a dream, was pretty cool to watch
Nice.
I… wha…
WHEN DID THEY ADD THIS?! O.O
And which racial intro is it? All of them?
What is a Pulsar?
It is predicted that supernovae triggered by stars that do not have enough mass for their cores to form black holes will result in neutron stars.
Neutron stars are small (about 20km across), rotate rapidly and are incredibly dense. They are mostly made of neutrons that formed as electrons combined with protons in the atomic nuclei of the dying stars’ collapsing cores. Their powerful magnetic fields lead to radio pulses that can be detected on the Earth each time they rotate. These objects are known as pulsars when the pulses can be detected on the Earth.1
History
The British astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars while completing her PhD at Cambridge University in the late 1960s. Using a radio telescope designed by her adviser Anthony Hewish and Martin Ryle (both men later shared a Nobel prize for their work), Bell Burnell found strange radio pulses coming from a single point in the sky.
After a period of confusion about what was causing the pulses, Bell Burnell and her colleagues confirmed that pulsars, as the sources of pulses came to be known, are emitted by rapidly spinning neutron stars.2
Known Pulsars
The Vela Pulsar (watch here)
The Crab Pulsar
47 Tucanae
Bonus: Pulsar Sounds (Listen Here)
1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/universe/sights/pulsars
2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/universe/scientists/jocelyn_bell_burnell
Datak and Pol eat Bulgur Ashkan, a traditional Castithan dish. Bulgur is a real Earth grain and is used in Tabbuleh. Ashkan can be made out of a variety of grains, most of them unavailable on Earth. However, a terraformed version of Bulgur Ashkan tastes remarkably similar to the kind they had on…
Have I mentioned how cool the worldbuilding on this show is? Cus it is.
Why aren’t more people freaking out about the new Venezuelan labor law?
You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?
It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift
holy shit!
WAIT THIS IS AMAZING
damn, look at all the terrible things socialists are doing to venezuelans
Don’t they technically already get wages in the form of their share of w/e the working spouse brings home?
And its not as if the money to pay these wages comes from thin air. I’d figure my family’s tax dollars would be better served going towards the house work *we* do. By, you know, lowering the rates and just letting us keep our money in the first place.
