I Officially Bow Down To The Artists Working At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Also, Thanks

Leap Day…Why Does It Exist?

Once every four years, an extra calendar day is added: a leap day. But why?

The reason for adding leap days to the calendar is to align the calendar year with the actual year – which is defined by the time it takes Earth to circle the sun. It is equal to 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds, or 365.24219 days.

If all calendar years contained exactly 365 days, they would drift from the actual year by about 1 day every 4 years. Eventually, July would occur during the northern hemisphere winter! Wouldn’t that be weird?

To correct (approximately), we add 1 day every 4 years…resulting in a leap year.

By making most years 365 days but every fourth year 366 days, the calendar year and the actual year remain more nearly in step.

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astrophile

(noun) Astrophile is known as a person who loves the stars and everything to do with astronomy. Consider them amateur astronomists.  (via wordsnquotes)

“Over a cyclone,” by  Andrei Sokolov

A still more glorious dawn awaits. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns. The rising of the Milky Way.

Carl Sagan

I was headhunted by a big pharmaceutical company. They're gonna pay me a buttload of money!

Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski, The Big Bang Theory

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Soylent Green is people!

Do not eat Soylent Green!

A movie with a message that was ahead of its time.

Is this Ellington Field in Houston? Because I know they mounted Space Shuttle Independence (NOT the one from Micheal Bay’s Armageddon) onto Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905 a few years back after they moved Explorer (NOT the one from Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity) to Houston and rechristened it with the name we all know today. Or this might just be one of the SCAs when they were very much in operation. This is still a cool picture.

One hell of a parking lot.

Two of my favorite movies.