Part of the static seen on analog televisions is cosmic background radiation from the big bang.
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Beginner’s Guide for Caring for Curly Hair Tarantulas
Maintain a safe distance between pet tarantulas and other pets in the home, as well as young children who might mishandle them. The curly hair tarantula has a spherical body coated in long bristles with a little curl. That is why this species is named curly hair tarantula. While most of the bristles are deep brown to black, some are golden. This brings a bronze shine to the spider. Curly hair tarantulas are burrowing, ground-dwelling spiders native to Central America. These spiders are generally peaceful, resilient, and simple to care for, making them ideal for those new to tarantula pet ownership.
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Design Choices That Definitely Should Have Been Given More Thought
Human ingenuity is a great thing – it’s one of the core elements that has allowed us to become the dominant species on this planet.
Our propensity for tinkering, crafting, organizing, and beautifying is central to our existence.
But MAN, are we bad at it sometimes.
Just take these dangerous design fails, courtesy of Reddit.
15. The Bike Yike
I like the added touch of the little dividers on the side so you can’t even get around it.
This will probably work out just fine for bicycles… from dangerousdesign
14. The Non-Kick Kickball
P.E. used to be simple, now we’ve got THIS crap.
13. Bomb Packaging
I um…I’mma need a minute with this one.
Food aid packages and cluster bombs, both dropped on afghanistan in 2001 from dangerousdesign
12. The Death Ray
Thanks a lot, Lex Luthor!
This architect accidentally built a death ray that melts cars and fries eggs… again from dangerousdesign
11. Asbestos Snow
Roll around in the magic!
In the 1930s you could buy artificial snow made out of 100% asbestos from dangerousdesign
10. The Crushing Garage
A sign that you have too much money.
9. The Novelty Helmet
Yeah, I can dig it. All my seat belts are made of silly string.
Warning label inside a helmet I received when we rented 4-wheelers from dangerousdesign
8. The Wheel Stand
I’ve seen enough cartoons to know where this is going.
7. The Monopod
I’d like to think that someone who knows more about physics than me made sure this was sound, but I have my doubts.
6. The Cleansing Wheel
You don’t even need the airbag to deploy for this to go horribly – one slightly-too-quick brake pump and you’re in head wound city.
5. Stairway to H**l
I THOUGHT I TOLD THOSE DANG KIDS TO CLEAN UP THEIR ROCKS.
Staircase beautified with loose boulders and a broken pelvis from CrappyDesign
4. Yummy Bleach!
I mean, normal bleach! Definitely not cereal! But maybe cereal? Try it! No don’t! Look at the fuzzy boi!
3. The Playground
Check out the kid plummeting from five stories up.
2. Extra Seating
I guess it’s probably less dangerous than it looks as long as nobody tries to get over the railing?
Still. Terrifying.
Couldn’t get a good seat? Risk your life trying to watch the game! from dangerousdesign
1. A Relaxing Flight
There’s literally no way for this to go well.
Step out of a bathtub down a flight of stairs, anyone? from dangerousdesign
Yanno, I didn’t think I could get a career in product design, but now I’m thinking maybe it’s not all that hard.
What’s a dangerously designed thing you’ve seen?
Tell us in the comments.
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There Are More Than 600 Fly-In Neighborhoods in the U.S. Where You Can Park Your Plane in Your Own Driveway
A few years ago, I decided to treat my dad to an item on his bucket list.
He had always wanted to fly in a hot air balloon, but since my mom wasn’t interested in joining him, he didn’t expect it to happen.
Well, although I don’t much care for heights (or flying), I decided that I couldn’t let my dad miss out on such an adventure, so for his birthday I arranged a hot air balloon ride.
We went out to a rural part of the state where our balloon pilot lived and launched his balloons from his own front yard.
Even more amazing than that, there was a big grassy runway down the middle of his neighborhood, where all the families in the neighborhood could take off in their private planes!
I had never heard of such a thing, but apparently residential airparks, or fly-in communities, are actually more common than I would have ever imagined.
In fact, late last year, TikTok mom Sara Cormier, under the handle @TheSoulFamily posted a video about one such community near Cameron Park Airport in California, and it kind of blew the Internet’s mind.
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According to Bored Panda, these residential airparks sprouted up after WWII because so many veterans had been trained as pilots during the war.
Flying enthusiasts flock to these communities, and because it’s super convenient, they don’t even have to store their planes at the airport–they actually have hangars right in their homes alongside car garages.
In her video, Sara shows how the streets of these neighborhoods are built wide enough so that the planes can actually just taxi right to the airport for take-off.
“Every road is ginormous. It’s almost as if you have no idea where you should even be driving.”
They’re so wide, in fact, that not only can a plane with a substantial wingspan drive down them, but there is room for cars to share the roads too.
Image credit: @TheSoulFamily via Bored Panda
Bored Panda further explains that there are over 600 such neighborhoods in the United States, and in neighborhoods like these:
The street signs and mailboxes are lower than normal so that the planes won’t knock them down with their wings, and the streets have names related to aviation, like Boeing Road.
I’m kind of obsessed with this now.
In her first video, which has been viewed almost 5 million times, Sara wasn’t lucky enough to catch a plane out on the road that day.
@thesoulfamily Have you seen a neighborhood like this? #aviation #airplane #airport #takeoff #hanger
But after one commenter asked her to try and get one on video, she was more than happy to oblige.
Check it out!
@thesoulfamily Reply to @kinmut here you go!
In addition to these plane videos, Sara also posts a lot of other wholesome content, like her sons giving food reviews and her own personal advice to parents hoping to adopt.
One of her boys wears a NASA hoodie pretty frequently, so I think maybe the aviation bug is contagious.
What do you think of these airport neighborhoods? Does it kind of make you want to move out to the country and learn to fly? Tell us in the comments!
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A Genetically Rare Chimera Kitten Was Rescued in Tennessee
I had a cat who seemed like he had two different personalities when I was growing up.
Sometimes he was sweet and cuddly, and other times he had the devil in him.
But last March a kitten was found in Nashville, Tennessee that really was essentially two different cats fused into one.
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Her name is Apricot, and though she hasn’t had a DNA test to prove it, her rescuers believe her to be what’s called a “chimera.”
Although “chimera” sounds more like a mythological monster than a sweet, cuddly, kitten, according to My Modern Met, Apricot is half tortoiseshell and half ginger tabby, while her brother is just an ordinary tortoiseshell.
She looks like two cats merged into one, and in fact, that’s exactly what she is. Apricot is a rare chimera cat, which means she was born with two sets of DNA. She’s the result of two embryos fusing together inside her mother’s womb. In other words, Apricot is technically two fraternal twins combined into one individual cat.
How amazing is that?
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Apricot was rescued along with her brother, Pretzel, from inside the wall of a newly constructed home.
When the mama cat didn’t return for them, the family contacted the Nashville Cat Rescue, who quickly placed them with Kiki, a cat foster mom who also happened to have two nursing females perfect for Apricot and Pretzel.
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Kiki fosters lots of cats, but she had never seen one quite like Apricot.
Even so, the kittens were made to feel right at home.
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The goal of Kiki and her partners at Nashville Cat Rescue is to stop the cycle of feral cats having litter after litter that need more and more homes to take care of them.
She cares for the cats (and some dogs, too!) until homes can be found, ensuring that the adult cats are spayed before they leave foster care.
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The end goal for Kiki is to find good homes to adopt the kitties, and that’s exactly what she did for Apricot and Pretzel.
They stayed with Kiki and their furry foster family for a little over two months before being adopted out to their forever home at the end of May.
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And if you’re heart broken that you didn’t get to be the one to adopt them–you can still buy a mug of the unique kitty, with proceeds going to support the continued care of all her feline friends.
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Have you ever seen anything cuter? Tell us in the comments!
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These Wedding Rules Went Viral on TikTok and There’s a Lot of Bride-(and Groom)-zilla Energy
I’ll never forget some advice that a family friend gave on a wedding day.
I say “a” wedding day, because we attended so many together that I can’t remember if it was first said on MY wedding day, or a friend’s, but he said, “No matter what happens, at the end of the day you’ll be married, and that’s the whole point.”
It’s so true, and yet something that is easily lost in all the excitement and stress of wedding prep, and I have repeated it to friends myself.
Those words may stop a panic attack on the day, but they won’t necessarily stop most people from over-planning their perfect day, as evidenced by the recent TikTok trend #weddingrules where brides and grooms to be offered their list of rules, both silly and serious, for their special day.
This self-proclaimed Bridezilla offered a pretty standard list of rules that emerged as themes throughout the other videos.
@xoxoarshi yes I’m gonna be a bridezilla and no i don’t care because my wedding my way. #weddingrules #fyp #foryou
I didn’t know “Don’t wear white” needed to be said outside of Schitt’s Creek, but enough people listed it that apparently it does.
Even this girl who actually DID want kids at her wedding felt the need to say “no white.”
@_roseygirl #greenscreen my wedding rules pt.1 #weddingrules #fyp
And the “no kids” policy seems like the number one most divisive rule of wedding planning.
Personally, I can see it both ways, and I just think people shouldn’t be offended by the couple’s wishes.
It definitely wasn’t an across the board thing. Some people really do want kids at their wedding, especially if it’s kids that they know.
@yomrants tell me your wedding rules
#greenscreen #weddingrules #wedding #yomrants
But “no random plus ones” definitely emerged as a theme.
In addition to the standard set of rules, there are other no-brainers like turn off your cell phone and don’t show up late.
@that_emo_kid_izzy This is list 1/2 so tell me if you want see the rest #greenscreen #gaywedidng #weddingrules #myweddingmyrules #gay #girlinred #bi #trans
And a lot of people also stressed that in addition to not wearing white OR the bridal colors, you weren’t allowed to wear jeans.
If I recall, I may have actually explicitly told my uncle he WAS allowed to wear jeans, although it was 105 degrees the day I got married, so I’m a little surprised no one showed up in shorts.
@dalecsander Also be nice to the caterers #fyp #dalecsander #weddingrules
A distaste for the weird garter toss tradition was also pretty common, and individuals planned to avoid it for a variety of reasons.
Another theme that emerged was that people didn’t want long speeches and they especially didn’t want surprise announcements like other peoples’ engagements or pregnancies.
Again that just seems like common courtesy to me, but I guess sometimes it needs to be spelled out.
Unlike most people, this person doesn’t even want a bridal party.
(And she’s dead serious on the “no announcements” rule.)
@missyeah I woke up and chose unhappy family #weddingrules #weddingplanning #newlyengaged
Some people had very specific criteria, like this girl, who wants a flower wall for pictures (very cool idea), a sick Air B and B in the mountains (nice), and guests’ attire to follow a color scheme (maybe too far).
@mirandandersonphoto I still have so many more so like for pt 2 #weddingtiktok #weddingrules #weddingideasforyou #vancouver #fyp
Others responded to the viral hashtag, which has had over 61 million views, with silliness, like this guy who wants a One Direction themed wedding.
@williamsheats Y’all are all invited btw #weddingrules #foryou #onedirection #louistomlinson
This one is pretty ridiculous, but I like where she’s going with her first rule.
@reneecarrot #greenscreen #weddingrules #fyp #foryou #OverShareInYourUnderwear
And this girl doesn’t want to get married, she wants to get married in a Schitt’s Creek episode complete with Dan Levy.
@victoriagarrick4 *not me not even being engaged* #weddingrules #weddingruleschallenge
All in all, I’m mostly just glad TikTok wasn’t around when I got married.
Personally, unlike some users, I think wedding is for your family, not for you, and personally, I think everyone would be a lot happier if they just eloped.
What about you? What’s on your ideal wedding ‘must’ list? Tell us in the comments.
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Was This Person a Jerk For Telling Their Daughter She’s Getting What She Deserves? People Weighed In.
You deserve it!
Nobody ever wants to hear those words directed at them and now a dad is second-guessing what he said to his daughter.
He took to Reddit’s “Am I The A**hole?” page to see what readers there thought about what he said.
Let’s take a look.
AITA for telling my daughter that she’s getting what she deserves?
“I (58m) have two daughters. One from a previous marriage and another from my wife’s previous marriage. Both daughters are around the same age (think mid-twenties).
My daughter Allie has never gotten along with her stepsister Johanna. If Johanna invited Allie to a movie, Allie was suddenly super busy and had no time. If Johanna wanted to come with Allie to a party, Johanna wasn’t invited and there was no way she could bring her. She’d rip up Joanna’s things and would blame Johanna when she’d be grounded.
Just the run of the mill petty teenager bullstink. Johanna was a good sport and always seemed to take things on the chin. Her explanation was always that “sisters fight”. Until about maybe three or four summers ago Allie was home from college and was going through a rough breakup that was causing her grades to tank which put her on academic probation.
Allie was upset and was taking it out on everyone, especially Johanna. My wife and I told her to cut it out and she seemed to catch on that her behavior wasn’t gonna be accepted.
Come to find out after Allie leaves to go back to college that she’d completely destroyed Johanna’s scrapbook with pictures of her dad and destroyed a lot of the shirts she had left of his. Johanna didn’t make a stink about it in front of us but that night the house stunk of E6000 and mod podge.
You could guess what she spent the night doing. After that incident Johanna had completely given up on Allie. Allie has a birthday coming up, Johanna wouldn’t even sign the card. Allie is in town for the weekend, unless it’s a holiday or family event, Johanna wasn’t there. And honestly we didn’t blame her.
Now the issue is that Allie wants Johanna to let things go and let bygones be bygones. Johanna is getting married soon, and Allie wants an invite. It was brought up this past week at a family dinner (Johanna and her fiance as well as their son attended/Allie and her wife and two girls attended as well).
Allie brought up how the kids were the same age and how it’d be cool after the wedding if the kids could hang out. Allie also asked what she should wear to Johanna’s wedding and if she’d be a bridesmaid. Johanna pretty much laid it out for Allie that she wasn’t coming and that the kids wouldn’t be seeing each other outside of family events.
The night was pretty tense afterwards and I asked Johanna if there was any way she could forgive Allie. She said she wanted nothing to do with her and I told her I fully understand that she carries a lot of hurt from how Allie treated her. Allie came to me after Johanna left and pretty much begged me to convince Johanna to move past things.
I told her that had she been a more considerate and kind person back then that maybe she’d have a chance at a relationship with her stepsister. I told her that she made her bed and she needs to lay in it. She said I’m a a-hole and that any good father would want to see his kids reunite.
AITA for telling her she deserves this?”
And here’s how folks reacted on Reddit.
This reader said, quite simply, that everyone except Johanna SUCKS in this situation. Ouch…
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Another person agreed and thinks that Allie needs to make peace with her sister.
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This individual said that these actions were simply sadistic. Thoughts on this comment?
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And finally, this reader pointed out that this isn’t the first time this has happened and that the dad seems to let Allie do whatever the hell she pleases. Not cool!
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Was this dad too harsh?
Or were his actions justified?
Speak up in the comments and let us know what you think!
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This is Why Our Hair Often Gets Darker as We Age
If you look at photos of yourself as a toddler, or even as a kid heading off to elementary school, you might always be a little surprised to see how white-blond your hair used to be. It’s not true for everyone, of course, but there are a good number of people who were towheaded kids who grew up to be teenagers or young adults with medium to dark hair.
Why does this happen? Is it a function of age alone? If you’re curious and looking for answers, keep reading!
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Scientists believe our hair color shifts due to changes in the way we produce melanin – the natural pigments responsible for the color of our hair, eyes, and skin. There are two types of common melanin, one called eumelanin, which determines how dark our hair is, and pheomelanin, which controls how warm the color is.
The amounts and ratios are controlled by your genes, and live in the cells that sit at the bottom of each hair follicle on your head.
It turns out that hormones play a role, too, and they can activate or deactivate certain genes at different times in your life. Puberty is a common time when previously latent genes activate, creating more eumelanin than ever before and darkening your hair.
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This is also likely the cause of graying hair at other times in our lives when hormones are shifting, like when we’re entering middle or old age. Those melanocytes at the ends of our hair are tired and older, too, and don’t regenerate as quickly or produce as much color.
While we’re on the subject of gray or white hair, does stress really exacerbate the process?
Asking for me, who never had a gray hair until her children were born!
Scientists agree that big stresses can speed up the process, but it’s not due to those melanocytes getting older with natural age. Physical or psychological trauma, extreme illness, hormonal fluctuations, etc can cause our hair to fall out, and if we’re in or past middle age, there’s just a good chance it will grow back gray.
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So, even though it appears the stress is the actual cause, it’s more of an indirect bad guy.
There you have it! The next time you’re wondering what happened to your blond little boy now that he’s going into middle school and getting darker hair by the week, or yank out another gray gettin ready in the morning, you can at least know which body part to blame.
You’re welcome!
What do you think about this info? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
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Mars Isn’t as Red as You Might Think
Mars is called “The Red Planet” because of the way the surface shows up a rusty color in the images we get from the many NASA probes and expeditions we’ve been lucky to successfully launch.
What if I told you, though, that’s it’s really just the dirt – that the redness of the planet is actually only a few millimeters thick?
The close tie between Mars and the color red is nothing new; in Sanskrit, the word for ‘red’ and ‘Mars’ are literally one and the same. In Egyptian, too, the word for the planet means “red one,” and even with all of the great photographs we have now, all we see is red everywhere we look.
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The red is likely the result of dust particles in Mars atmosphere, which is much thinner than the one on Earth and allows for greater absorption at short optical wavelengths than at longer ones.
It also allows larger dust particles to scatter longer-wavelength light more efficiently.
The dust on Mars is high in reflectivity, represents bright soil deposits, and is rich in iron – which is to say, it contains large amounts of ferric oxides.
The most common type of dust is made from nano-crystalline red hematite, and is made up of small enough particles that the rapid Martian winds have no trouble sweeping large amounts of it around and even up into the atmosphere.
They also continually sweep over the surface, changing the landscape and features in both color and shape on a regular basis.
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Then two scientists, one of whom was Carl Sagan, figured out why – the red layer we see on Mars’ surface is just a thin dusting of, well, dust and sand. It easily travels short distances, moving from higher to lower elevations or staying on like elevations, and is often blown off areas with steeper slopes onto flatter ones, changing the brightness of the color briefly.
The layer of dust that gives Mars its color, then, is only a few millimeters thick – even at its thickest, in the Tharsis region, it’s only around 7 feet deep.
More recent expeditions involving landers and rovers on Mars have proved, of course, that the red of Mars isn’t uniform at all, with much of the planet appearing more orange or even a butterscotch yellow up close and personal, with rocks and other deposits showing up an average brown, tan, or gray upon closer inspection.
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If we could wave a magic wand and calm the planet’s atmosphere for long periods of time that dust would settle, and all of those other colors would be visible across the planet, much the way that blues and greens and whites dominate images of Earth from outer space.
Scientists are still looking to figure out the process by which those red hematite particles form, and in big enough quantities to turn the far away pictures red in the first place.
Which means that Mars will probably forever remain the red planet, because it’s the only color that reaches our eyes.
Until, of course, we have the opportunity to relocate there ourselves. Then, we’ll be able to see all of Mars’ true colors for ourselves.
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Here’s More Proof That Micromanaging Bosses Never Come Out Ahead
If you’re a manager, you already know there are all manner of employees out there. Especially when you’re managing in food service or a minimum-wage industry, your people run the gamut from teens who are learning a first job to people who are willing to do just the bare minimum in order to get that paycheck.
So, when you nab a teenager who is company-minded and willing to stay for the long haul, most managers know to treat that person like the star employee they are.
That’s not what happened in this story, though, which stars a kid who had been working at a pizza place for 5 years, 4 of them in management, and continues on the same way even as he tackles a full University schedule.
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Then one night, he overheard the general manager telling a manager-in-training they could leave early, even though s/he was supposed to close so that OP could leave by midnight and make it to an early class.
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The GM said no problem, the manager-in-training could leave and OP could just leave at the regular time and he would finish up the next day.
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OP did exactly as he was told, but there was quite the mess left for the next day – something the GM was apparently not expecting (probably because he never did any of the work).
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The GM reprimanded OP, even though he’d only done as he’d been told, and suspended him for two weeks.
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Realizing what he had done, he called him on a Friday night and demanded that he come in to work because there was no on else to cover the shift.
Then he turned in his notice and was never scheduled again – though he did learn that the GM himself had to cover 18-20 hour shifts in his absence.
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Sometimes you have to know when to walk away from a job that just doesn’t appreciate you.
And if you’re a manager like this guy, you spend a lot of time regretting the ones that get away.
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