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David Schleinkofer
“Perhaps Carl Sagan’s life’s work is just now bearing new fruit. He inspired enough of the Earth’s citizens to take our place in space seriously; to know and appreciate the fragility of our world; that we have so far avoided a nuclear weapon war; that we started thinking about the climate of Mars and especially the climate of Venus as compared with the climate of Earth; that his landmark television series is being updated and broadcast in new generations. There are more science websites today than ever in history; more science interest than in the last 30 years. Perhaps this new fruit will help us - dare I say it - change the world. Perhaps we’ve begun a new enlightened era of scientific discovery that will soon include people from everywhere. Although it has taken decades, Carl Sagan may yet save the world as we know it.” – Bill Nye The Science Guy speaking at The Library of Congress during ‘A Celebration of Carl Sagan’ to celebrate the official opening of the Seth MacFarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Archive to the public at the Library of Congress. [x]
Art by Robert McCall.
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan
I never gave anybody hell... I just told 'em the truth and they thought it was hell..
Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States of America
History is a journey. As we continue our journey, we think of those who traveled before us, and we see and hear again the echoes of our own past.
Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United Sates of America
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
#ScienceRocks
George Romanes – Scientist of the Day
George Romanes, a British physiologist and animal psychologist, was born May 20, 1848, when Charles Darwin was twelve years back from the Beagle voyage and two years into his long barnacle project.
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Mr. Sandman... Bring me a meme. Make it the dankest, that I've ever seen...
Yoooooo, fr tho! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Procrastinate! Procrastinate!
SCIENCE IS COMING.
In honor of the release of Game of Thrones Season 6 today, check out these amazing House designs made by students from the Albert Einstein Institute. Each Game of Thrones inspired sigil celebrates a different changing project in physics and space exploration.
House Hubble - Hubble Space Telescope
House ISS - International Space Station
House ITER - Nuclear Fusion Project
House LHC - Large Hadron Collider
House Curiosity - Mars Science Laboratory
House LISA - Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
House JWST - James Webb Space Telescope
House VLA - Very Large Array
I’m super torn because while I’m #teamradioforever, I’m also a lifelong #hubblehugger. I guess if I’m forced to chose, it might have to be House VLA.
- Summer
[HT Charee Peters]
A New Era: Conquering The Crossroads of Technology
“Flying cars. Transparent gadgets. 3D-printed replacement organs. Virtual reality. Nanobots.
On the surface, it seems like we’re finally entering the futuristic world that our parents say they were promised at the World’s Fair. Upon LIGO’s discovery of Einstein’s century-old proposal of the existence of gravitational waves, many are calling this a “new era” ofscience, astronomy, andspace exploration.
Every day, we’re bombarded with a LOT of news, including news about the latest and greatest in science and technology. Whether it’s a reusable rocket or the World’s Smallest 4K Camera, cancer-killing nanobots or Solar Roadways, the hyperloop or real hoverboards, it seems like we’re on the verge of achieving utopia.
So…
Where is all of this great stuff and why aren’t we there yet?” More at thedailycosmos.com.
He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful.
Tim Latimer, The Family of Blood
It’s true, our mere existence is a miracle.
A little brightness to aid your quest towards the weekend. Those poor S.O.B’s didn’t stand a chance.
A genius named Eleanor Lutz made a beautiful map of one interesting slice of Mars (based on this USGS map). She says:
Recently I’ve been really into old maps made by medieval explorers. I thought it would be fun to use their historical design style to illustrate our current adventures into unexplored territory. So here’s my hand-drawn topographic map of Mars, complete with official landmark names and rover landing sites.
Not only is it beautiful to look out - it’s fun to explore. I never new that Mars’ small craters are officially named after small earth towns - here, Lutz labels them and (in caps) indicates their home country on earth. The large craters bear the names of famous scientists.
I highly recommend heading over to http://tabletopwhale.com/ to check out the higher resolution version.
Me they shall feel while I am able to stand, and ’tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.
Sampson, Romeo and Juliet
Cool stuff
Check out this really great rare 1960s documentary (10-min) about @NASA engineers involvement in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
(hat tip to OnePerfectShot for finding this)
They just went full retard. NEVER GO FULL RETARD!
#getreal, Flat-Earthers.
The “Spider” during testing on the Apollo 9 mission.
“Ahem… What’s Cool?!?”
It all started with a Big Bang...
The origins of the universe
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Actually, there is no reason either to go to your local theatre or to leave this galaxy for another one far away if you want to know what happened a long time ago in our universe. You can travel back in time and space to the microseconds following the Big Bang, with the answers found by DOE nuclear physicists working at our National Laboratories and universities.
The Big Bang
Everything we know in the universe – planets, people, stars, galaxies, gravity, matter and antimatter, energy and dark energy – all date from the cataclysmic Big Bang. While it was over in fractions of a second, a region of space the size of a single proton vastly expanded to form the beginnings of our universe.
Keep reading
Sharpening up Jupiter
An infrared image of Jupiter taken with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Details are 300km wide. Infrared imaging of Jupiter allows astronomers to learn more about the depth of the clouds on the planet.