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it’s been a while…

FACT OF THE DAY:  every time a child is born, the world’s population increases, and so does the earth’s mass, and therefore its gravitational force.  theoretically, there is a certain world population that would increase the earth’s gravity to the extent that the moon would collide into the earth

August 15th 1977: Wow! signal

On this day in 1977, a unusually strong radio signal was detected by the Big Ear Radio Observatory at Ohio State University, as part of the SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) project. The search for radio signals from alien civilisations began in earnest in the 1960s. In August 1977, a radio signal, originating from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, was detected as thirty times stronger than the average signal. It appeared to be artificial, as it was only heard on one of the observatory’s fifty channels, whereas natural signals cause static on all frequencies. The anomaly thus fit the criteria for an extraterrestrial radio signal, and so shocked SETI scientist Jerry Ehman that he circled it in red ink and wrote ‘Wow!’ next to it, thus giving the signal its name. The Wow! signal only lasted seventy-two seconds, and was never heard again, despite repeated searches. There have been multiple alternatives proposed to explain the signal, but it has never been adequately understood. In 2012, National Geographic and Arecibo Observatory beamed a response comprised of Twitter and video messages from Earth to the location of the Wow! signal, in the hope of contacting alien life.

11 y/o me: i want a tattoo of a key on the back of my neck to represent all the dark secrets i lock up inside

17 y/o me: i want a tattoo of a ufo on my ass to represent how its out of this world

What if aliens visited Earth during the Jurassic Period, found it to be occupied with a bunch of mean, giant lizards and thought “Well, fuck this planet” and never came back?

*blows kiss up to the sky (for the aliens)*

me at any given moment: casually scans sky for ufos