We tweeted this instead of posting it yesterday, because we didn’t have it in us to publish a photo of a Dead Flying Cat.

And then we saw the video.

Cats away! Artist turns his dead pet into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car [Daily Mail UK, via @LuxMentis]

Soon as we can get the fucking ignition to turn, we’ll tell you.

Among other things, our guest columnist doesn’t realize that the clever “.tt” domain is owned by Trinidad and Tobago, which we imagine is located somewhere in Amercia.

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We hadn’t understood, until we watched this, how easy it is to measure distant stars: You start with a known quantity, and a few steps later, you’re applying that to the how much a star’s light shifts into the red spectrum by the time it reaches us.

The same would apply, we think, to somebody’s distance from reality, although we suspect that, like the galaxy, the distance increases each time it’s measured — so much so that some people can fairly be said not to exist in our universe at all.

[via Sully]

(using fingers to indicate triangular shape) SMELL SMELL SMELL GOOD NEW NEW NEW slice drink MATCH SPARKLER (thrown in air) STARS STARS STARS

— Horse ebooks (@Horse_ebooks) June 1, 2012

You should know, if you don’t yet, that @Horse_ebooks is an automated spam account. But to cover its tracks, it tweets random non-spam to fool the automated spamhunters. Most days there’s a gem or two in the stream. And then, every once in awhile, your patience is richly rewarded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BGkOKVMUU

We imagine we’re supposed to be impressed by 1) Sliding into a parking spot with less than six inches to spare, 2) Japanese drivers subverting the stereotype, and 3) Minis being good for something besides subway chases. But it strikes us that if you’re going to declare a world record for “parallel parking”, one of the conditions needs to be that you’re free to leave.

[via Nerdist]

NASA imagines Earth’s night sky four beeeeeelion years from now, when Andromeda Strains comes crashing into the Milky Way. If it’s any solace, by then we’ll all be fried to a crisp by the Sun anyway.

NASA Predicts Our Galaxy Will Collide With Another In 4 Billion Years [TPM]