When Rockstar First Released Grand Theft Auto, They Actually Paid Reviewers To Negatively Review The

200 IQ meme

seriously dude, no one likes your ponytail and stop calling my your son

when your bully tries to shove you in a locker but you finger gun and say “nah” before walking away

i cant believe that actually worked

Watch Mercury Transit the Sun on Nov. 11

On Nov. 11, Earthlings will be treated to a rare cosmic event — a Mercury transit.

For about five and a half hours on Monday, Nov. 11 — from about 7:35 a.m. EST to 1:04 p.m. EST — Mercury will be visible from Earth as a tiny black dot crawling across the face of the Sun. This is a transit and it happens when Mercury lines up just right between the Sun and Earth.

Mercury transits happen about 13 times a century. Though it takes Mercury only about 88 days to zip around the Sun, its orbit is tilted, so it’s relatively rare for the Sun, Mercury and Earth to line up perfectly. The next Mercury transit isn’t until 2032 — and in the U.S., the next opportunity to catch a Mercury transit is in 2049!

How to watch

Our Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite, or SDO, will provide near-real time views of the transit. SDO keeps a constant eye on the Sun from its position in orbit around Earth to monitor and study the Sun’s changes, putting it in the front row for many eclipses and transits.

Visit mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov to tune in!

Our Solar Dynamics Observatory also saw Mercury transit the Sun in 2016.

If you’re thinking of watching the transit from the ground, keep in mind that it is never safe to look directly at the Sun. Even with solar viewing glasses, Mercury is too small to be easily seen with the unaided eye. Your local astronomy club may have an opportunity to see the transit using specialized, properly-filtered solar telescopes — but remember that you cannot use a regular telescope or binoculars in conjunction with solar viewing glasses.

Transits in other star systems

Transiting planets outside our solar system are a key part of how we look for exoplanets.

Our Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is NASA’s latest planet-hunter, observing the sky for new worlds in our cosmic neighborhood. TESS searches for these exoplanets, planets orbiting other stars, by using its four cameras to scan nearly the whole sky one section at a time. It monitors the brightness of stars for periodic dips caused by planets transiting those stars.

This is similar to Mercury’s transit across the Sun, but light-years away in other solar systems! So far, TESS has discovered 29 confirmed exoplanets using transits — with over 1,000 more candidates being studied by scientists!

Discover more transit and eclipse science at nasa.gov/transit, and tune in on Monday, Nov. 11, at mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov.

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shoutout

to my mom who could carry me and find her way through the woods when i was fourteen

I need a girl that I can talk to at 3AM about aliens and conspiracy theories.

don’t you just hate

when your dads best friend in college is just a major cheese head from wisconsin and hits on your mom??

no?

just me? cool

things i believe:

aliens exist

ghosts are real

demons walk the earth

witches live among

magic in general

an afterlife

jeff goldbloom is immortal

moth man

things i don’t believe:

creepy guys with ponytails who want to buy my mom things “just to be nice”

that the earth is square

pixies are tiny

cats can y’all to deer

i want to have more ghost friends, but a lot of times they’re just problematic.

i’m like, hey, let’s hang out!

and they’re like

let’s take over the fucking planet

like, no dude we’re not gonna do that