Friday Fun Blog: Gravity Waves Edition

It’s time once again for the greatest time waster in the world—The Friday Fun Blog! As always, we’re brought to you by Dave & Buster’s (eventually we actually will be). Sit back, relax and let us deliver you our favorite links of the week!

On to the links!

In the most terrifying news of the week, there’s a church in London that is run exclusively by clowns. And not “clowns” in the sense of “Look at these clowns and their religion,” I mean actual honest-to-God CLOWNS. Painted faces, red noses, oversized shoes and everything. My only wish is that when they do communion, instead of taking a sip from a chalice they just squirt grape juice into your mouth via lapel flower. I feel like it would be really hard for me to take the message seriously when the preacher has a permanent smile drawn on his face. Is the sad clown the one who talks about the “hellfire and brimstone”? Instead of the tale of Jesus multiplying bread and fish, is it just a clown pulling out an endless silk ribbon?

How many disciples can fit into a clown car? Can I keep the clown-based religious jokes coming? Of course I can. I feel like it’d be really weird having to go to confession with a clown named Bubbles telling you to do 12 Hail Mary’s. For real though, this is terrifying and totally not what the article is about, but I’m not going to pass up the chance to make clown-based religious jokes. Actually, it’s a gathering of clowns from all around the world, honoring the death of Joseph Grimaldi, the “godfather of clowning” who died in 1837.

Here’s a really awesome video courtesy of Sploid about drone racers “free-falling” their drones down the skyscrapers in Dubai. They are flying them parallel to the sides of some of the biggest and tallest skyscrapers in the world, and it gives you a huge sense of free falling.

Sure, you can do pretty cool tricks on your motorcycle, Motorcycle Guy, but can you do those tricks on a MOPED? No? Because these guys can, and it’s awesome.

Let’s get a little adult here: have you ever had a fling and then immediately regretted it? Sure you did; we all have. At the time, you thought it was the worst thing in the world, but looking back, it probably didn’t have a lasting effect on you in the overall story of your life. Well, tell that to ancient humans, because they had flings with Neanderthals and it seriously messed us up.

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Researchers say that a number of diseases and ailments can be traced back to us doing some sexy mingling with Neanderthals 50,000 years ago in caves in Europe. Or Africa. Or wherever. So the next time you’re feeling depressed because you’re lonely, blame your ancient ancestors for Netflix and Chilling with Neanderthals.

Obligatory Space Post of the Week: A bunch of years ago, Einstein theorized that there was a force called gravitational waves that distorted space and time after an event—like, say, a collision of two black holes, or a giant explosion that happens to create the entirety of everything we know. People were like, “Yeah, cool, bro, we’ll look into it (actual quote),” and then kinda put it on the backburner for a number of years. Well, they found them after looking at the collision of two black holes. Gravitational waves aren’t distorted by matter like light waves are, so they carry information of how they were created. Check out the words of people who can actually explain it way better than I can.

That’s it for this week! See you next time!