Aerogel, also know as frozen smoke, is the world’s lowest density solid, clocking in at 96% air. If you hold a small piece in your hand, it’s practically impossible to either see or feel, but if you poke it, it’s like styrofoam. It supports up to 4,000 times its own weight and can withstand a direct blast from two pounds of dynamite. It’s also the best insulator in existence.
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I’m so very jealous of people who can write fantasy series. You know, the kind with 27 kings, where all of the characters call themselves ‘I am John, son of lord smith’ or whatever. The kind where there are maps across the first few pages of the book and a separate index of mythical creatures in the back. Where the characters are so complex that you can tell there are obviously hundreds of pages of backstory that you will never read.
God. I wish I could have an idea like Tolkien or Rowling or George R. R. Martin had so that I could have my own world. I want an idea so real that I felt compelled to draw maps of kingdoms, cover my walls with character sketches and write it all down in hundreds of hundreds of pages.
And the worst part is that I know there is an idea out there. Someone else will just get to it first.
swear to god henry IV looks like a little shit in every single one of his paintings
look at this asshole
look at him
god damn it henry
GOD DAMN IT STOP LOOKING SO SASSY YOU FRENCH FUCK
HENRY
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