Having a Time

The first ever outside investors to Neopets was in fact a group of scientologists, however they never actually influenced the content of the site (though there were apparently some attempts to add various concepts of scientology, which the actual Neopets team quickly shut down). Mainly they contributed to way the company itself was structured, and to how the site was marketed. However they did make ONE longstanding contribution to the site: the three scientology reps who would regularly visit the Neopets office to check on them would go on to inspire three villain NPCs on the site, who's whole deal was influencing people with promises of money and power to control major events from behind the scenes

you know, this delightful little guy? an image from 2017?

not only is it on the static cling page, it's also on the pages for static electricity, triboelectric effect, electric field, eletrostatics and electrostatic induction (and you can also find it on this user page captioned "my fav photo", which i thought was delightful, and way down on this user's page)!

it's full description on wikimedia also reads: "Styrofoam peanuts clinging to a cat's fur due to static electricity. The triboelectric effect causes an electrostatic charge to build up on the fur due to the cat's motions. The electric field of the charge causes polarization of the molecules of the styrofoam due to electrostatic induction, resulting in a slight attraction of the light plastic pieces to the charged fur. This effect is also the cause of static cling in clothes."

except, i left out the last bit. the last bit reads: "Image cropped losslessly from File:Cat and styrofoam – electrostatic charge (235112299).jpg using cropgtk"

now, this means this isn't the full image.... so what is the full image? it's this!

now, what i find really endearing about this photo, is that, while this file was uploaded to wikimedia in 2015 (as opposed to the cropped version being done in 2017), the original picture is actually from february 2006! you can see this in the summary!

the picture itself actually originates from flickr, and it has a DELIGHTFUL little description: