I HAVE HIS FUKCING ADDRESS THANK YOU GOOGLE NOW I JUST NEED TO DO A FEASIBILITY CHECK
IT DOESN’T EXIST
ALSO WTF IS UP WITH THE MOVIE @hansbekhart is having your front door opening to a vacant? lot? a normal thing? because there’s not much street going on during the “end of the line” scene.
What, in this scene?
Not normal, but good history on the part of whoever set the shot that way. It looks like Steve lives in a rear tenement, the shittiest of the shitty options of tenement living. Tenements sometimes had a few buildings built onto a lot, and the ones in the back were the older, cheaper, shittier, smaller, less ventilated, more fatally hazard to your health ones.
You might pass through a courtyard or through the front tenement in order to get to your building.
Cute, right?
In each of these buildings there would’ve been literally a hundred or more people living there at any given time, often with more than ten people to each apartment. People didn’t live in these places long; Steve probably would’ve passed through a lot of these shitty places, growing up.
By the time Steve was born there’d been massive reforms to tenement living, mostly because of OG social justice warrior Jacob Riis, which did help put a halt to the crazy death rate and also gave us some oddities like windows that look into the other room.
BUT still a good chance Mrs Rogers might’ve contracted TB just from, like, the privies that still might’ve been hanging out in the yard or something.
So yeah, good history, showing that Steve definitely lived in a total shithole and is a crazy person for storing his house key where his literally hundreds of neighbors could totally break in and relieve him of whatever shitty belongings he had. Consistent characterization for the numbnuts who stored Fury’s flash drive in the super secret location of a vending machine, I guess.
Also yeah if you’re talking about Steve’s address from his cheating the draft file or whatever, that’s a total bullshit address. It’s like seven digits long, we don’t tend to do that.
i’m gonna give you a big fucking kiss one day.
i’m going with alameda avenue because it seems to also be fictional? this appeals to me.
So yeah, good history, showing that Steve definitely lived in a total shithole and is a crazy person for storing his house key where his literally hundreds of neighbors could totally break in and relieve him of whatever shitty belongings he had. Consistent characterization for the numbnuts who stored Fury’s flash drive in the super secret location of a vending machine, I guess.
This is 100% Steve Rogers, crazy person.
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One of the most fascinating figures of the 18th century was the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a composer, violinist, fencing champion and military hero whose fame spanned continents. That he was black, born in 1745 to a white planter and his slave mistress in Guadeloupe, not only shaped his life in France but has fed a growing interest in him today.
Though Saint-Georges’s life reads like a Hollywood screenplay, it was his musical talent that most interested Gabriel Banat, a concert violinist and musicologist whose biography, “The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow,” was published by Pendragon Press in 2006.
“He’s not a Mozart, but his innovative violin technique makes him a bridge between Italian virtuosos like Vivaldi and Locatelli and Beethoven in his violin writing,” Mr. Banat said in an interview in his home here. “He did a lot for the violin in bringing Italian virtuoso technique to the great masters.”
Saint-Georges, who died in 1799, wrote 14 violin concertos, 8 symphony concertantes and 5 operas, among other works.
Now retired, Mr. Banat, 81, has spent years researching and writing about Saint-Georges, who made music in the court of Marie Antoinette and went on to lead a regiment of black soldiers in the French Revolution.
Remember kids: Pluto is not a planet, WAS never a planet, and any acknowledgement of Pluto as a planet was an error of assumption
Fuckihg fight me right now viva la Pluto
F u c k you it was a clerical error!! The real ninth planet is out there but it’s not Pluto! Stop ruining science!!!!
A clerical error? Oh, no – the truth is far more absurd.
(Hold on, folks – this requires a bit of background.)
In a nutshell, since the late 19th Century, it had been suspected
that there was a ninth planet, based on apparent irregularities in the
orbit of Uranus. This as-yet-hypothetical planet, whose gravitational
influence would have accounted for those irregularities, was termed
“Planet X”.
The trouble is, nobody could find the thing, no matter how
hard they looked. That seemed to have changed in 1930, when a new moving
object was finally detected on the outskirts of the Solar system. When
word of this discovery got out, the media declared that Planet X had
been found, and the object was subsequently named “Pluto”.
However, there was a problem with the newly dubbed Pluto: its faint
albedo and lack of a visible disk suggested that it was much too small
to be Planet X. In fact, while school textbooks treated the matter as
resolved, the truth of the matter is that we had no idea what
Pluto was – we didn’t even know for sure whether it was a planet at
all, much less that it was Planet X. Though little reported-on by the
mainstream press, the search continued.
It wasn’t until 1992 that data from the Voyager flyby of
Neptune revealed that prior estimates of the masses of the outer planets
had been slightly out of whack. With the corrections enabled by Voyager, the apparent anomaly in Uranus’ orbit was proven to be a math error: there was no Planet X after all.
So what the hell was Pluto?
Eventually, it was determined that Pluto had less than 0.2% of its
initially estimated mass, and that its appearance near the predicted
position of Planet X’s orbit was just a bizarre coincidence. In spite of
this, it retained its provisional planetary status; it had already captured the public’s imagination, and the fact that Pluto
was the only “planet” to have been discovered by an American created
enormous political pressure against classifying it as anything else.
This would remain the status quo until the discovery of additional
outer-Solar-system objects as large or larger than Pluto in the mid 00s –
most notably Eris – forced the classification issue to be resolved.
TL/DR version: Pluto was never uncontroversially classified as a
planet in the first place. It just happened to coincidentally be near
the orbit of a hypothetical ninth planet that was later proven not to
exist, and sort of inherited the planetary status of its phantom sibling
on a provisional basis due to a combination of institutional inertia
and politics.
(As icing on the cake, at the time of this posting, early 2016, there’s new – albeit controversial – evidence that there really is a mysterious ninth planet lurking out there. Note, however, that this conjecture is based on a completely different set of anomalies from the ones that led to the Planet X hypothesis.)
Boring answer, did you say? AU CONTRAIRE, MON PETIT BERYLLIUM ATOM.
Of all the charts and tables and organizational tools for keeping information straight that mankind has invented, none is more impressive or more inspired than the Periodic Table of the Elements.
You might think of it as some tool of the devil that you had to memorize or study, and of which you have no fond memories. But the Table? IS AMAZING. The table is genius. The table is a work of inspired predictive power that boggles the mind.
Why is the Table so cool? Well, for a number of reasons.
As you may know, the Table was devised in 1869 by a scientist named Dmitry Mendeleev. At the time, scientists were trying to find ways to order the elements. Mostly they were trying to use atomic mass to put them in order. That didn’t really work. Mendeleev’s amazing insight (and it was amazing…I can’t imagine how he thought of it, it was pretty counterintuitive) was to group the elements in rows and columns based solely on his empirical observations of recurring chemical properties like melting points, bonding affinities, electronegativity, etc. These properties seemed to cluster and group the elements in ways that Mendeleev noticed and used for his table.
Cool as that is, it didn’t stop there. It became clear to Mendeleev that there were holes in the table where he suspected that other elements existed. And he was right. The holes in the table pointed the way for chemists to discover the missing elements. So the Table not only organized the existing elements, it actually predicted and helped discover elements that were not known at the time.
But there’s still more coolness to come. In 1869 no one had the first damned clue about atomic structure. Orbitals, subshells, electrons…it was all unknown. But as our understanding of atomic structure became more sophisticated, it became clear that Mendeleev’s table was actually organized based on atomic structure. Each new row (they’re called periods in the table) represents a new energy level. As you go left to right across the groups (what the columns are called in the table), you’re filling up each subshell with electrons until when you get to the far right, the noble gases, the level is filled and you jump up to the next period and the next energy level.
So Mendeleev, having no knowledge of subatomic structure and using purely observations of the elements’ physical characteristics, designed a table that actually revealed the way atoms are put together.
I find that pretty damned amazing.
Incidentally if you like this answer and want to reblog it, I c&p’d it from a post I wrote about the table ages ago. That one isn’t an Ask so it might be nicer to reblog.
OKAY SO DO YOU REMEMBER IN LOONEY TUNES WHENEVER BUGS BUNNY AND DAFFY DUCK WERE ABOUT TO GET IN A FIGHT, AND THEY JUST KEPT POINTING BIGGER AND BIGGER WEAPONS AT ONE ANOTHER UNTIL FINALLY BUGS WAS POINTING A GUN YOU COULD SEE FROM SPACE, AND HE FIRES IT AT DAFFY AND AFTERWARDS HIS BEAK IS ON BACKWARDS AND HE’S LIKE “I THINK YOU KNOW THIS MEANS WAR”
NOW IMAGINE THAT, EXCEPT IT LASTS 50 YEARS, DAFFY AND BUGS BOTH HAVE GUNS THAT IF FIRED WILL ERADICATE ALL LIFE ON EARTH INCLUDING BOTH OF THEM, AND AT THE END OF IT NEITHER OF THEM ACTUALLY EVER PULLED THE TRIGGER BECAUSE DAFFY PASSED OUT.
ALSO IMAGINE THAT THEY WERE BOTH TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD AND EVERY COUNTRY DAFFY TRIED TO TAKE OVER, BUGS WOULD POUR TONS OF MONEY AND WEAPONS INTO TRAINING MILITANTS TO USE TACTICS WE WOULD TODAY CALL “TERRORISM” IN ORDER TO BREAK DAFFY’S CONTROL, ESSENTIALLY TEARING COUNTRIES APART IN ORDER TO SETTLE THEIR DICK-MEASURING CONTEST BY PROXY. ALSO, ONE OF THE MILITANTS BUGS TRAINED WAS LITERALLY OSAMA BIN LADEN.
