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Ooo.. how very stalkery of you. I approve. xd

I saw a shirt in Hot Topic a couple weeks ago... I believe the wording was something like, "Are you stalking me? 'Cause that would be swell..."

I almost had to buy it, but didn't really have the money at the time. xd

Sounds like a fun shirt. I have a shirt(wearing it now actually) that says "Nothing to Wear"

Ooo.. how very stalkery of you. I approve. xd

Aww.. but... wait! Stalkerness is good, but if you slink away, I can't talk to you...!

Q) Will the earth's interior ever cool off completely? — J.T. Leeson, Franklin, TN
A) Yes, but probably not before the sun becomes a red giant and swallows our planet, about ten billion years from now. In the meantime, things will get gnarly here on Earth Island. According to Paul Asimow, a professor of geology and geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, the earth's outer core—a layer of liquid iron surrounding the solid inner core—is cooling and solidifying every year. Since the dynamo effect caused by the core's movement gives the earth its magnetic field, that field will eventually be gone. This is bad news for humans, because the field repels intense radiation from the sun that, if unimpeded, would cause skyrocketing cancer rates. Another dire consequence: The globe's upper mantle will cool and harden, making magma generation almost impossible, which in turn will lock up plate tectonics and put an end to volcanoes and earthquakes. That may sound good, but it's awful: Without these processes, new continental crust will stop forming and the continents will erode into the sea. Eventually, the entire earth will be covered with water. "Yes, the news is ultimately bad," says Asimow, not so soothingly. "But you already knew that."