Chances are, none of us will live long enough to travel to a planet in another star system. But at least, we can gaze upon dozens of exoplanets right now — thanks to official artworks created by NASA and some of the world's greatest high-tech observatories. Check out our favorite official exoplanet art below.
    
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I like these caberet-style Game of Thrones posters for a couple reasons: 1) They celebrate the unsung plot devices of Westeros, from the magical incendiary Wildfire to the best steel in the land. 2) They make me imagine a far future where Westeros reaches 19th century technology and culture.
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Darendukeslol
Darendukeshahahahahahaahhahahaahhahha
DarendukesThat cop is all "shit shit unlock the car let me in!"
DarendukesI'm so glad someone made this.
DarendukesSurprisingly not in America.
Who hasn't done this before: Early Monday morning, a teenager allegedly got drunk as hell, put a flower pot on his head, grabbed a chainsaw, and tried to rob a 7-Eleven.
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DarendukesDouble Gold!
For the first time, an Alpine skiing event at the Olympics has ended in a tie. On Wednesday, Dominique Gisin of Switzerland and Tina Maze of Slovenia both made it through Sochi's women's downhill course in exactly 1 minute and 41.57 seconds. Adding to the historic moment: Maze is the first Slovenian to win a gold medal at a winter Olympics.
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DarendukesOmg this is amazing! The spinning! The framerate! The hertz! The pig!
For some reason, skydivers decided to toss (or maybe accidentally dropped) a perfectly good GoPro camera from their plane. Eight months later, Mia Munselle found the camera, which had recorded its dizzying and amazing descent into a fenced-in mud pit, where a pig tried to eat it.
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Darendukes"ERFF HUNGRY!!! ERFF WANT EAT KARZ!!!"
Eight vehicles, including two Corvette ZR1s, were swallowed by a sinkhole opening up under the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky this morning.
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DarendukesSorry for the long post, but I had to share for the 'cat headbutting' fact.
DarendukesThose two guys by the door are scared shitless.
Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7PmzdINGZk
DarendukesThis is kinda funny.
DarendukesEncouraging, to say the least...
You know when you're driving along an elevated highway and you think, man, what would happen if I drove through the guardrail, action-movie style? No? You don't know that? Well. If you were wondering: This is what would happen to your car.
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DarendukesHappened in Beaumont, Texas.
And I love that they let the guy go because he didn't technically do anything wrong.
Imagine driving down the street on a lovely Saturday afternoon when you look over and there, standing on the side of the road, is a man dressed as a banana, holding an AK-47 with a 50-round magazine attached.
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Darendukes"The villagers do not have toilets in their homes. They go out in the open or forest areas to answer nature's call. In this scenario it is difficult to give protection to each and every villager. We have advised them to move in groups."
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Snakes in toilets got nuthin' on this.
Heads up if you're planning on traveling to northern India soon: A single tiger has reportedly killed at least 10 people in the region over the past seven weeks.
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DarendukesDAMMIT!
The man behind the George Zimmerman-DMX fight announced that he has cancelled the bout. Earlier today, Damon Feldman revealed on Twitter that he made the decision to forego "a lot of money" because people's feelings mean more to him than money.
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Darendukeslol
This past December, Skimbles the cat sat perched on his owner's table, just yawning and doing cat things, when something caught his eye by the window. Skimbles thought about it and then leapt, making it... about two inches before crashing to the ground. Better luck next time, Skimbles.
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DarendukesSo excited for this!
Also, the guy who plays Jaime Lannister sounds nothing like his character. Surprising.
As you probably knew, the fourth season of Game of Thrones starts April 6. Which characters will live? Which will die? Who knows! (We do). To promote the new season, HBO posted this 15-minute preview and behind-the-scenes look online last night. Enjoy!
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Darendukes"Police seized 1,000 marijuana plants, 27 weapons – including a GRENADE LAUNCHER, and 9,000 rounds of ammunition."
McGruff rules.
Do you guys remember McGruff? He used to say "take a bite out of crime." He used to come to your school in a trench coat, and would-be hardened criminals were scared that day! Nothing says "stop downloading music illegally" like a talking bloodhound.
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DarendukesNow there's a headline you don't read everyday.
A man was electrocuted to death on Saturday when he accidentally touched a powerline while trying to post pictures of a sunset to Facebook.
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Darendukeslol
Perhaps it was really a lesson on Beckett-like absurdism in our modern political culture. Perhaps it was just a moronic dipshit with 1.5 brain cells and a Radio Shack catalog. Whatever the explanation, the accidental boom in a suicide-bombing class made for good copy in today's Times:
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