I'm 30 And I Like My Little Pony: FiM (Fandom Is Magnificent)

Let's continue to reach for the stars.

"A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11. They knew that humans had walked on the moon. They knew the names of Armstrong and Aldrin and Collins. They wanted to know who was visiting the moon these days." - Carl Sagan After traveling four days and more than 238,900 miles, the Lunar Module Eagle began its descent to the surface of the Moon. Very early on, however, it became clear to Aldrin and Armstrong that their telemetry was incorrect as they recognized lunar landmarks were being passed too early. At approximately 6,000 miles above the surface, numerous guidance computer program alarms distracted the crew as they communicated with flight controllers. Mission Control engineers soon reassured the Eagle to continue with the descent as it was determined that their system was being overloaded with extra tasks not necessary to land on the Moon. After looking out of the window a few moments later, Armstrong was forced to take semi-manual control as he noticed that the navigational systems were guiding them towards an area comprised of boulders and an uneven landing surface. This manual override would require Aldrin to call out velocity and altitude data before landing fuel ran out. After a somewhat frantic period, the Lunar Module safely landed on the moon on July 20th, 1969 — with about 25 seconds of fuel remaining. As an estimated 600 million people watched, Neil Armstrong became the first ambassador of the planet Earth to walk on another world. For over 2.5 hours, he and Buzz Aldrin captured the imagination of our species as they performed various scientific and geological experiments. Along with planting an American flag, a commemorative plaque marking this monumental human achievement was mounted to the Apollo 11 Lunar Module — and remains as a relic of humanity’s first journey on the Moon. “We came in peace for all mankind. That statement really to me was a very symbolic one — not just of our mission, but of the entire Apollo effort.” - Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Apollo 11 was arguably our most exciting adventure, and over the span of three years, NASA sent a total of 12 astronauts to explore the Moon. However, not since 1972 have human beings been beyond low-Earth orbit. Please watch our video, The Spirit of Apollo, and consider what raising the NASA budget will once again do for our society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G6jhUznonU

YAY! ACTUAL PONY RELATED HYPE FOR ME!

Sunset Shimmer is finally front and center where she belongs! And those outfits look jarring in the ugly promo art, but they always look better in the actual art style. So I won’t be able to properly judge till I see them, but this actually looks like it’ll turn out interesting!

Again, what sounds like a dumb concept looks like it’ll turn into an actual good idea with them! And the fandom will FINALLY have an actual canon Shadow Bolts team that do more than turn into whisps of smoke or make a good Nightmare Night costume.

Color me hyped~ This is what I’ve been waiting to see <3

Resistance is futile, embrace the cuteness.

Noel is amused by my feeble attempts to move her out of the way

How to Cut Down a Tree in the Korean DMZ —- Operation Paul Bunyan, 1976.

Perhaps the most heavily armed border in the world, the Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as a buffer between South Korea (backed by the Unites States) and the militaristic regime of North Korea.  Created in 1953 at the end of the Korean War, the demilitarized zone is a 4 km neutral area where neither side can deploy significant military forces.  When the DMZ was created in 1953, a small sapling grew in the UN Command side of a region near the town of Panmunjom.  By the mid 1970’s that sapling had grown into a large 100 ft tall poplar tree which blocked the view between UN lines and a small checkpoint guarding a bridge which led to the North Korean side of the DMZ.  Because of this blindspot it was not uncommon for North Korean soldiers to enter the DMZ and attempt to abduct American and South Korean guards.

On August 18th, 1976 UN Command decided that the blindspot had to be removed after an incident led to US soldiers being held captive at gunpoint.  Five South Korean soldiers and a dozen US troops entered the zone to trim the the poplar tree.  The team was armed only with axes and machetes as firearms are forbidden in the DMZ.  As the team began trimming the tree, a delegation from the North Korean side arrived with 35 soldiers armed with axes, clubs, and crowbars.  The commander of the North Korean force was Lt. Pak Chul, an officer notorious for stirring up trouble on the DMZ.  Lt. Pak ordered the team to cease their trimming, claiming the tree had been planted by the Great Leader Kim il Sung and was under his care.  When the tree trimming team refused to stop, the North Koreans attacked leading to a 30 second scuffle.  By the time UN forces had chased off the North Koreans, Capt. Arthur Bonifas had been bludgeoned to death and Lt. Mark Barrett was mortally wounded.

In response to the attack which killed two American officers, UN Command decided that the tree would be completely removed with the aid of overwhelming force.  Called “Operation Paul Bunyan”, the operation was about more than just cutting down a tree in the DMZ, it was specifically designed to intimidate North Korea. Two eight man teams of US combat engineers entered the DMZ armed with industrial chainsaws to cut down the tree.  They were escorted by a 64 man team of South Korean special forces, all hand to hand combat experts and all armed with clubs, swords, and spears.  

Elsewhere larger forces where martialing. Aircraft squadrons were deployed all over South Korea, running tactical patrols near the DMZ. The USS Midway aircraft carrier task force dropped anchor in the sea of Japan, prepared to launch bomber strikes on North Korea within a minutes notice. Tens of thousands of American and South Korean troops were placed on high alert, ready to fend off a full scale attack across the DMZ. Another 12,000 American soldiers and 1,800 Marines were also shipped from Japan to South Korea to aid in the effort. American and South Korean forces were preparing for war, and it seemed they were about to go to war over a 100 foot poplar tree in the middle of nowhere.

On August 21st, 1976 Operation Paul Bunyan commenced and the American/South Korean team entered the DMZ to cut down the poplar tree.  On the North Korean side stood the infamous Lt. Pak and 200 men, who entered the DMZ with assault rifles and machine guns in blatant violation of DMZ rules.  As the team began cutting down the poplar tree the North Koreans began to advance, but immediately halted when 7 Cobra attack helicopters appeared on the UN side, ready to swoop in to the aid of the tree cutting team.  Supporting them was a flight of B-52 bombers and squadrons of F-4 Phantoms, prepared to strike if the North Koreans dared try anything.  The North Koreans watched in silence as the team felled the tree in 42 minutes.  A 20 ft tall stump was deliberately left standing.  

In the end the incident did not lead to full scale war.  Today tensions along the DMZ continue as relations between the US and North Korea continue to degrade.

Don’t just accept the new Terms of Service

Tumblr’s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. There’s probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)

OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:

Realise how the ‘OK’ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If you’re like me, you’re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.

My tip? DONT. Instead click on ‘Manage Options’ right next to it:

Now you’ll see this page:

Still pretty harmless, right? That ‘Accept’ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like ‘Manage Options’ or something in english) and you’ll get to this page:

Now that’s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to ‘off’, because I’m jealously guarding my personal information and don’t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like we’re done! But wait: There’s a SHOW option.

When we click on that one, what we will get is this:

A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if you’d just clicked ‘OK’ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. They’re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesn’t want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.

(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)

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He's asking a for some separe nuts.

He just walked up to me and stood up http://cute-overload.tumblr.com source: http://imgur.com/r/aww/hsBU1dz

Palestinian woman collects gas bombs fired by Israeli Army. She grows flowers in them.

A Palestinian woman waters dozens of plants near her desert home, each growing from used tear gas canisters collected in years of clashes with Israeli soldiers.

What a wonderful message she is spreading to the world, lets make it viral, must share with your friends and family!

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