We Don’t Have Any Real Pictures Of The Milky Way Galaxy. Most Non-illustrated Images Of The Entire

Now You Know (Source)

Why Do We Dream?

PLEASE GOD THERE IS NOTHING I NEED MORE IN MY LIFE THAN A T-REX COOING LIKE A PIGEON

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The rings of Saturn, observed by the Cassini space probe on May 3, 2005.

(NASA)

THE 👏🏾 ALIENS 👏🏾 ARE 👏🏾 COMING 👏🏾 BINCH

A puzzling expected value

Pick a (uniformly) random real number from the unit interval [0,1] and repeat this until the sum of all chosen numbers exceeds 1. What is the expected number of real values you will pick?

The quite surprising answer is Eulers constant, e ≈ 2.71828.

A demonstration can be found on Wolfram MathWorld.

Slime mold was grown on an agar gel plate shaped like America and food sources were placed where America’s large cities are. 

The result? A possible look at how to best build public transportation. 

I just really like the idea of slime mold on a map of the US. It’s beautiful.

About 400 million years ago, before trees were common, the Earth was covered with giant mushrooms. Source