the-science-llama:

If Earth Had Rings

First off, they would be really pretty to look at. They would also dominate the sky in both night and day at exactly the same place as they would never rise nor set. And at night you would see the Earth’s shadow swing across the rings, like in the 4th photo here.

However, life would be very different on Earth if this were the case. Nocturnal animals would have a hard time being nocturnal, as the light reflecting from the rings would illuminate the night.

Because we are closer to the Sun than Saturn is, the rings would be more rocky than ice, making them less bright but still pretty bright. In fact, you would see far less stars at night (living anywhere other than the equator or the arctic circle) because of the light pollution and not to mention ruin most meteor showers because of that.

During the day the rings would block sunlight in certain regions of the planet creating wild weather cycles and effecting plant life as well. So basically, they would be definitely pretty to look at but they would also make a whole lot of things screwy.

Illustrations by Ron Miller // io9
— Click the photos for captions

japcoregalore:

that’s a pretty, pretty, pretty good dress. 

itallbeganwhen:

This is so fucking rude. It’s people like this why girls have insecurities issues. if you weigh 100 pounds and want to wear yoga pants go ahead. If you weight 210 pounds and you want to yoga pants be my guest. I hate facebook. 

whatnycusedtobe:

once i was having a sleepover and it was like three in the morning and my friend just says ‘what if there was a store just for food?’ 

then three minutes later she blurted out ‘grocery store’ 

(Source: aprilfuckingdwyer)

luciawestwick:

Just Robert Downey Jr driving his Iron man in the sky.

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a-mad-girl-with-a-blog:

natured:

I was standing in line at dairy queen and I saw an elderly lady crying because she didn’t have enough money to pay for her small blizzard, so I bought her a large and helped her out to her car, and she cried and said ” I hope God made someone just for you out in the world so that they can treat you as special as you are” and I am sobbing right now.

wow this this just….oh my god wow this is pretty touching

wuuuuutever:

THIS

(Source: lesleypowers)

kingofbear:

when someone says their eyes change colour

abarestorytotell:

if you think i’m ugly now you should have seen me in 2009

(Source: encourage)

thefrogman:

The first casualty of the buyout.