Friday Fun Blog: Working From Home (Forever) Edition

It’s time for the Friday Fun Blog! You know it, you love it, let’s get right into it.

On to the links!

-One Indian man became the envy of every person in the workforce ever, when after taking an earned leave from his position in India’s Central Public Works Department in December 1990, he never came back…and wasn’t fired until last week. Twenty-four years and one month of just straight kicking it while the rest of your friends and family slog along to work each morning.

Artists rendition of this man’s past 24 years.

–Obligatory Space Post(s) of the Week:

1. SpaceX, the awesome space company, has rescheduled their attempt to land a rocket on a floating platform to Saturday. You can watch it online if you like waking up at 4:30 A.M. ET, or if you’re up late on the West Coast from partying your face off.
2. Here’s two galaxies with supermassive black holes colliding. Thanks to NASA’s new Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), we get to see some badass images like this all the time. The NuSTAR telescope is designed to use X-Ray to peer through the dark clouds of gas and dust that surround a black hole to give us a better understanding of the complete and utter destructive force that will one day swallow all of us as we look on in hopelessness.

-We’re big proponents of teaching children to code, and getting young women interested in STEM. Code.org has announced that over 1 million women, and 1 million African-American and Hispanic students have signed up for their Code Studio. This is amazing news, and we congratulate Code.org for their continued efforts!

-Commercial drones have brought of panoramic views of beautiful vistas, wonderful angles of cities and many other abstract and unusual aerial views. But this is the first time a commercial drone may have captured absolute panic, as a kid jumps into freezing water to save his falling drone.

-Here’s a dude strapping fireworks to his ankles and then break dancing. That’s all that needs to be said.

-POOP SHIRT! POOP SHIRT! Someone took the smiling poop emoji and patterned it to make a beautiful poop shirt.

-Check out these aerial views of the United States’ massive prison systems. According to this article, there are more jails and prisons than colleges and universities in the US. USA! USA! USA!

-The NFL Playoffs resume this weekend, and one of the loudest stadiums is CenturyLink Field–home of the Seattle Seahawks—will be measured by geologists to see how loud the fabled ‘!2th Man’ gets. MAKE SOME NOISE!

-Experts, or what I like to call ‘mad scientists’, have finally developed an invisibility cloak. It’s a 3D, transmitting, multidirectional invisibility cloak that will one day allow pre-pubescent boys to sneak into the girls locker room. SCIENCE!

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