Ray of hope(lessness)

neophile
using this place as a dumping ground for my thoughts

[Ray of hope(lessness) @lotsofmatata]

Eid Mubarak!

[ahad @wiresandtrees]

stories under the crescent moon

[Ray of hope(lessness) @lotsofmatata]

❤️

[InspiroQuest @InspiroQuest]

The Wrong Train Theory

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[Ray of hope(lessness) @lotsofmatata]

mood

[Ray of hope(lessness) @lotsofmatata]

went through the awfully tedious process of unlocking my phone to setup Kali Nethunter, only to find out it has a hardware fault which prevents it from connecting to my computer

someone please kill me

[AHTISHAM @Whyshami_]

The urge to learn everything :)

[Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__]

hashtag winter mood

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Stars form inside nebulae made of hydrogen, helium, and dust. As gravity pulls material together, nuclear fusion ignites, and the star’s mass determines how it will evolve over millions or billions of years.

Low- and medium-mass stars expand into red giants and shed their outer layers, leaving behind white dwarfs. Extremely massive stars become red supergiants and end their lives in supernova explosions, ejecting material into space.

If the remaining core after a supernova exceeds about three times the Sun’s mass, gravity overwhelms all forces and collapses the core into a black hole.

Source: NASA – Stellar Evolution and Black Holes

[Mustafa @oprydai]

there’s a strange pattern you notice once you’ve built enough things:

the world isn’t held together by geniuses.
it’s held together by obsessed people who picked one weird corner of reality and refused to look away.

someone decided gears should mesh smoother.
someone decided antennas should be smaller.
someone decided metals should bend differently.
someone decided flight controllers shouldn’t drift.
someone decided compilers should stop being stupid.
someone decided batteries shouldn’t explode.

every “normal” object around you is a fossilized obsession.
a decade-long tunnel vision from some engineer you’ll never meet.

you want an edge?
find one tiny problem that bothers you more than it bothers anyone else.
then gnaw at it.

break it.
rebuild it.
live inside it.

civilization advances one fixation at a time.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

In zero gravity, a candle flame forms a small blue sphere instead of the familiar teardrop shape.
Without gravity, hot air doesn’t rise, so the flame no longer stretches upward.
Instead, gases spread evenly in all directions, creating a smooth, round flame.
This environment allows the fuel to burn more completely, which is why the flame appears blue and produces no soot.
The result is a calm, gentle orb of fire that behaves very differently from a candle flame on Earth.

[Defender of the Defender(s) @DefenderOfBasic]

this is why a lot of people suddenly get better at math when they learn how to code (they use coding as the language to do math in, which is much easier for them)

[Mustafa @oprydai]

the constant urge to learn everything

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

During a solar eclipse, the tiny spaces between tree leaves work like natural pinhole cameras. Each little opening casts its own crescent-shaped image of the eclipsed sun onto the ground.

Imagine seeing this thousands of years ago.