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Dang I'm so lazy that I didn't do anything for the October month on my tumblr page, so you know what heres an assassin lost in modern ages AU (yes that's what I'm calling my AC headcannons now) this is also a bigbang reference as well cause I thought this scene was funny.
Enjoy =)
It was a crisp October night everyone in the house had pitched in to help decorate the house for Halloween, of course when the assassins in the house hold saw the strange decorations that Desmond, Shaun and rebecca were getting from the attic, some of them were quite confused at first. Altair was first to point this out and thought it was some kind of dark sorcery ritual, while Leonardo was more rational about it and thought it was for some kind of party maybe. Jacob being, well... Jacob agreed with Altair and thought it to be some spooky dark magic witch craft, trying to scare everyone into believing it. Kassandra and Desmond having to be the only ones out of the assassins family bloodline to knew more about the modern life explained that it was a holiday that people celebrated the first month of fall and explained that the tradition involved dress up as whatever you please and get treats for it.
It saddened Jacob when he learned that the treat part were for the kids, but his spirits came back strong when he learned that you could pull spooky pranks on people.
And so after all that mess Desmond, Jacob, and Rebecca decided to pull a spooky prank on Shaun when he got back from the store that night.
Shaun: *opeans the door* guys I'm home!
The house seems to be dark and Empty.
Shaun: hm? ... *tries to turn on the living room lights*
The lights don't turn on.
Shaun: odd... *starts walking into the kitchen to put the stuff down*
After putting the stuff was put away he heads up stairs to a dark and empty hallway that is usually bustling with assassins roaming the halls and the rooms that would normally have people in them seem empty and bare.
Shaun: ... oh, OH ok I get ha ha every funny it's Halloween, OoOo~ spooky~ ya nice try guys *starts walking* but it's gonna take more then a dark and dead silence hallway to scare me-
Unknown voice: ShaAaAUn~
Shaun: ...
Unknown voice: ShaAaAUn~
Shaun: *tries to turn on the hall lights*
The lights turn on for a second before the bulbs spark and shut off completely only having the empty rooms full of moonlight shine into the halls as a light scorce.
Shaun: ...
There was a ghostly moan in the wind, soon the sound of chains rattling followed by a witches cackle.
Shaun: *rolls his eyes* ha ha yes the Halloween foolery begins. *keeps walking but at a slow pace* A ghostly moan, rattling of chain, the witche's cackle. Trifecta! Haunted house cliches. Instead of AH I say yawn.
Unknown voice: ShAaAaAuN~
Shaun: *sees something dripping out of the walls*
The red unknown substance begins to drip from the once dry walls of the house hallway walls
Shaun: oh, the wall are dripping blood. Which looks nothing like it by the way! to wet to even possibly be considered blood! Tch- more like some children's water coloring set.
The blood soon forms into a five worded sentence. See you in hell Shaun
Shaun: see you in hell Shaun... The most frightening thing about that is the missing comma!
The out of no where a glowing neon green skeleton with glowing red eye comes flying out of no where towards Shaun.
Shaun: AH! *gasps* *starts panting* ok all right, *pants* that one was clever, *pants* skeleton with phosphorus on a zip line. *pants* come on out Merry Pranksters! Take a bow! *pants*
The lights turn back on and from around the corner Jacob, Desmond, and rebecca reveal themselves and give each other a hive fives and Pat's on the backs from each other as they walk and laugh towards Shaun.
Jacob:HAHA!
Desmond: HAHA!
Rebecca: you should've seen your face Shaun!
Shaun: yes there's nothing quite like slightly widen eyes of the mildly startled.
Desmond: Come on, Admit it we go you!
They walk into Shaun's room.
Shaun: please fright depends on an element of suprise the simple fact is because I am much smarter than you-
As shaun is talking Altair crawls out of Shaun's room vent with an oni mask covering his face and his hood up as usual, as he slowly begins to walk over behind shaun.
Shaun: and able to anticipate your actions it is highly unlikely that you three rubes could ever suprise me.
Altair is now 2 inches way from behind Shaun.
Rebecca: he's probably right.
Desmond: we can't beat him.
Jacob: he's just to smart.
Shaun: *smirks* assassins *turns around*
Altair: ...
Shaun: AAAHH!! *passes out*
Jacob: HAHA!
Desmond: HAHA!
Rebecca: HAHA!
Altair: *smirks and takes off the oni mask*
Desmond: ok who had money on faints!
Jacob: uh, I had pee his pants!
Altair: *looks down at Shaun* hang on... looks like everyone's a winner.
I know it's a day late but still happy Halloween everyone I hope you guys stayed safe and healthy this year, hope to do something better then a headcanon next year but for now enjoy Desmond, Jacob, Altair and rebecca's Halloween prank on Shaun.
Modern au Viktor dressing like Sheldon
Soft Graystripe Warm Graystripe Little ball of FURR! Happy Graystripe Sleepy Graystripe Purrr purr purrrrr
*sheldon voice
Queen Elizabeth sleeps while I play bongos!!
every single channel is airing news of the queen's death except E4 which refuses to interrupt reruns of the big bang theory
Fan art cross over mock cover for The Big Gotham Theory starring Jim Parsons as the Joker
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Dark Energy?
Here’s the deal — the universe is expanding. Not only that, but it’s expanding faster and faster due to the presence of a mysterious substance scientists have named “dark energy.”
But before we get to dark energy, let’s first talk a bit about the expanding cosmos. It started with the big bang — when the universe started expanding from a hot, dense state about 13.8 billion years ago. Our universe has been getting bigger and bigger ever since. Nearly every galaxy we look at is zipping away from us, caught up in that expansion!
The expansion, though, is even weirder than you might imagine. Things aren’t actually moving away from each other. Instead, the space between them is getting larger.
Imagine that you and a friend were standing next to each other. Just standing there, but the floor between you was growing. You two aren’t technically moving, but you see each other moving away. That’s what’s happening with the galaxies (and everything else) in our cosmos ... in ALL directions!
Astronomers expected the expansion to slow down over time. Why? In a word: gravity. Anything that has mass or energy has gravity, and gravity tries to pull stuff together. Plus, it works over the longest distances. Even you, reading this, exert a gravitational tug on the farthest galaxy in the universe! It’s a tiny tug, but a tug nonetheless.
As the space between galaxies grows, gravity is trying to tug the galaxies back together — which should slow down the expansion. So, if we measure the distance of faraway galaxies over time, we should be able to detect if the universe's growth rate slows down.
But in 1998, a group of astronomers measured the distance and velocity of a number of galaxies using bright, exploding stars as their “yardstick.” They found out that the expansion was getting faster.
Not slowing down.
Speeding up.
⬆️ This graphic illustrates the history of our expanding universe. We do see some slowing down of the expansion (the uphill part of the graph, where the roller coaster is slowing down). However, at some point, dark energy overtakes gravity and the expansion speeds up (the downhill on the graph). It’s like our universe is on a giant roller coaster ride, but we’re not sure how steep the hill is!
Other researchers also started looking for signs of accelerated expansion. And they found it — everywhere. They saw it when they looked at individual stars. They saw it in large scale structures of the universe, like galaxies, galaxy groups and clusters. They even saw it when they looked at the cosmic microwave background (that’s what’s in this image), a "baby picture" of the universe from just a few hundred thousand years after the big bang.
If you thought the roller coaster was wild, hold on because things are about to get really weird.
Clearly, we were missing something. Gravity wasn’t the biggest influence on matter and energy across the largest scales of the universe. Something else was. The name we’ve given to that “something else” is dark energy.
We don’t know exactly what dark energy is, and we’ve never detected it directly. But we do know there is a lot of it. A lot. If you summed up all the “stuff” in the universe — normal matter (the stuff we can touch or observe directly), dark matter, and dark energy — dark energy would make up more than two-thirds of what is out there.
That’s a lot of our universe to have escaped detection!
Researchers have come up with a few dark energy possibilities. Einstein discarded an idea from his theory of general relativity about an intrinsic property of space itself. It could be that this bit of theory got dark energy right after all. Perhaps instead there is some strange kind of energy-fluid that fills space. It could even be that we need to tweak Einstein’s theory of gravity to work at the largest scales.
We’ll have to stay tuned as researchers work this out.
Our Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) — planned to launch in the mid-2020s — will be helping with the task of unraveling the mystery of dark energy. WFIRST will map the structure and distribution of matter throughout the cosmos and across cosmic time. It will also map the universe’s expansion and study galaxies from when the universe was a wee 2-billion-year-old up to today. Using these new data, researchers will learn more than we’ve ever known about dark energy. Perhaps even cracking open the case!
You can find out more about the history of dark energy and how a number of different pieces of observational evidence led to its discovery in our Cosmic Times series. And keep an eye on WFIRST to see how this mystery unfolds.
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