And this isn’t even the article, it’s a description of the article.
Category: Cosmology
Wow
Raw image from the Enceladus flyby
I get chills when I see this, along with an Also Sprach Zarathustra flashback.
One appropriately placed red exclamation mark can make all the difference.
Ferret vs. guitar. From I Can Has Cheezburger.
What the hell is the Voorwerp? Bonus, a font made o’ galaxies.
I’m just a speck
OOOOO. Autotune to the rescue.
Meaningless ranting about unverifiable incidents
I have had one precognitive dream in my life, that I recollect. Continue reading Meaningless ranting about unverifiable incidents
Black hole boogie num-nums
Those gamma ray bursts may be from a black hole chowing down on a rapidly rotating star.
This article is full of win
In so, so many ways. At least 8 dimensions, anyway.
Rounding up some unusual suspects
Really thought provoking article about the ‘institution’ of marriage by a gay writer in Seattle.
An 8 minute video about Medicare. For Americans, by Canadians. Rational, good tempered and funny in spots.
Adolf Hitler doesn’t like Avatar. The last line slew me. Three minutes or so long.
How come and for why hasn’t this extra solar planet burnt up? I suspect that they aren’t actually seeing what they are looking at properly.
How many dimensions did you say? Assistance in visualizing multiple dimensions. Brain so hurts.
Do the wave…. the gravity wave.
It’s unbelievable what people will get messed up over. Personal comment: It may reveal me to be a philistine, but I like Verdana. I don’t understand the issue. I just don’t.
Chrissie Hynde told meat eaters in her audience to fuck themselves. Mike and Jeff and I sat there with hot dogs in our tummies and just looked at each other. On the other hand, just to prove I’m at least TRYING to see the other person’s point of view, here’s a PETA press release about some of her animal activism. Hint: she doesn’t like McDonalds.
The New Miss Universe. Beautiful, and without a hint of distinction.
The Milky Way has rarely looked so beautiful.
That’s just MEAN. So why did I snicker?
Do it yourself Horrrrorrrr F/X. Shows Peter Jackson filming Bad Taste.
The difference between a man and a boy is that a man takes pictures of his toys.
“I’m an atheist because I’m efficient.” Or so you can infer from Bill Gates’ interview excerpts…
Jeff told me about this
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News for skywatchers
Here’s a link to how to see the planets visible with the naked eye this month.
And then my head exploded
SINCE I don’t know which of the two links I posted originally to this time stamp was a problem I’m taking them both down.
The first link was to an article by Marcus Chown – who, when I follow his google trail sounds like He Do the Science in Different Voices. If you google Marcus Chown Holographic, you will find the article.
Essentially, there is now a small amount of experimental support for the notion that everything we are, see, etc, is a holographic projection. Where string theory and quasars fits in with this I have no idea. I am just a meat machine, and my thinky thoughts sometimes are not well parsed.