Belphegor’s Prime

1000000000000066600000000000001

Dude, fuck this. Belphegor’s Prime is the most Satanic number I’ve ever seen. WHY is this nowhere to be found in Event Horizon?

Belphegor’s Prime is a Palindromic Prime Number, which means it’s a number greater than 1 that cannot be wholly divided by any other number besides 1 and itself, AND reads the same backwards and forwards, like race car (BLAH BLAH BLAH)

The kicker is the 666 smushed in between 2 sets of 13 zeros. Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Belphegor is one of the Seven Princes of Hell and the demon of inventiveness. He’s the prince of Vanity and Sloth and seduces people by suggesting ingenious inventions will make them rich.

And then theres Belphegor, a blackened death metal band from Salzburg, Austria

 

There’s the big dipper, there’s Orion’s belt, and there, little Jimmy, is a Supernova

So astronomers recently caught sight of a supernova that is closer to earth than any seen before (about 21 million light years away). And they saw it reeeally really close to the beginning of the explosion. Pretty cool.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory saw it first, causing the astronomical community to scramble as many telescopes as possible together, including the Hubble. 

“At a mere 21 million light-years from Earth, a relatively small distance by astronomical standards, the supernova is still getting brighter, and might even be visible with good binoculars in ten days’ time, appearing brighter than any other supernova of its type in the last 30 years.”

They say the best time to see this exploding star will be just after evening twilight in the Northern hemisphere in a week or so. We’ll need dark skies and a good pair of binoculars, although a small telescope would be even better.

Can’t wait to see those trippy pics. Or I’ll just watch Supernova. 

OMG WTF

Learn how the northern lights are formed in less than 5 minutes

The Case of the Missing Alien

So the dude who was the alien in Alien walked off the set after the movie was finished and disafuckinpeared. 

“In 1978, Bolaji Badejo, a graphic design student who was spotted in a bar and chosen to play a monster role due to his immense 6”10 height and slender frame, left Shepperton Studios after his last day of shooting and apparently never resurfaced again. Despite playing the titular monster in some of its most pivotal scenes [corridor Alien shots, Lambert/Parker death, Narcissus finale – other stuntmen portrayed the more physical stunts], Badejo features in no Alien retrospective documentary, other than in glimpses of him in archve footage. Unlike Predator creature actor Kevin Peter Hall, Bolaji was not an actor, and has not enjoyed the cult status of the late Hall. Bolaji Badejo has simply disappeared.”

‘Bolaji was about seven feet tall and looked like he came from a different universe anyway, and they made up this Alien suit for him. Ridley was very careful not to have him standing around, drinking tea with us during breaks and because he was kept apart from us and we never chatted, when it came to seeing him as this creature during a scene, it was electrifying. It didn’t feel that we were acting scared at all.’
Sigourney Weaver, Daily Mail interview, 2010.

Follow the link for an article about him

(via Strange Shapes: Under the Skin: Finding Bolaji Badejo)