Bees, please!

To celebrate the fact that the EU (European Union) just voted to ban the use of harmful pesticides that has been killing bees, I've decided to post these

EXCITING FACTS ABOUT BEES!!!

- Bees can’t see red.

To bees, red looks like black. As such, honeybees won’t go to a purely red flower.

- The drones, or males, only have one purpose in life:

to mate with the queen. And when they climax during sex, their testicles explode and they die.

- A hive needs about 60 pounds of honey to get through the winter.

Any less and they’ll starve. For hives that are being kept by humans, they usually produce about 120 pounds of honey during the summer so we get half the fruits of their labors.

- Undeveloped female bees

do all the real work.

- Honeybees never sleep,

and honey never spoils.

SAVE THE BEES!

Anger

"Anger as soon as fed is dead --
'tis starving makes it fat."

Emily Dickenson

10 Things I've Learned Thus Far.

1) Bra's and shoes should be removed upon entry to your home. Unless accompanied by acquaintances or strangers.
2) Shaving your legs only needs to happen once a week. Otherwise you're probably wasting some time.
3) Don't be afraid to stand out. It's a good thing to not fit in sometimes.
4) Your inactions affect your future. Making a bad decision IS as bad as choosing not to do something you feel is right.
5) Never say no to a gift from a child.
6) Creation feels better than destruction. Not to say destruction isn't needed. But when you have paint, or flour, or whatever up to your elbows, it feels awesome.
7) Never apologize for a hobby. Just figure out why it helps.
8) Eat avacados as much as possible. They are awesome.
9) USE frustration. Don't accept it.
10) Everything is an experiment. It's ok if they don't all work out.

Sunshine

My favorite movie is called Sunshine. It's about the future, when our sun is starting to die. It's oxygen is slowly running out, doomed to supernova, demolishing all planets and life forms, potentially leaving a black hole in its wake.
The story is about a group of astronauts who go on a suicide mission to try and refuel the sun, carrying tons of oxygen through space. This mission takes years and years to complete, intentionally flying directly towards the sun, hopefully to save our solar system from certain death.

Over the years, some of the people become obsessed and overwhelmed by the magnitude of what they are doing. And the Sun drives them completely insane. Something so real and present throughout all of human existence...something so grounded in our lives, ...but we can't even look directly at it. So some of these men start staring at the sun (in a room with protective glass). They start staring... with more awe, wonder and obsession... than any human being has experienced. They began completely obsessing over this "God," this mighty thing that gives life and takes it away. This mass that we base all of our time on, all of our existence is played out in front of... and they had to fly directly into it. Head first. Piercing the only real God human beings have ever had with the hopes of saving it.

The name of their space ship is the Icarus 2. Icarus 1 disappeared and was assumed to have failed their mission.
Icarus is the name of the Greek god who was made wings of wax and feathers, but was warned not to fly too close to the sun. He ignored the advice, and drowned in the sea after his wings melted.

The men who go insane on the way to the Sun try to destroy everything. They believed they were sent from God to stop it, so that they can finally die and go to heaven, and escape the pain and despair of life. They think by destroying the only hope humanity has, that when everyone finally dies, that they will step away from the fear and distress of existence.

There were ones who chose NOT to stare at the Sun, and chose to focus solely on their duty to the earth, and not their duty to themselves or their fears. They were the ones who focused past the imminent death that awaited them. They remembered that when they actually touched the Sun, that it would create life. Not destroy it. In return for their sacrifice, they would witness something no other human could possibly dream of seeing: the creation.

"When a Stellar Bomb is triggered, very little will happen at first -and then a spark, will pop into existence, and it will hang for an instant, hovering in space and then, it will split into two, and those will split again, and again, and again... detonation beyond all imaging - the big bang on a small scale. - A new star born out of a dying one... I think it will be beautiful... No, I'm not scared."


They used their lives to create more life. And their fear of death vanished.