He Is Gone

Battered Earth

A new study published by NASA researchers seems to confirm that 4-4.5 billion years ago almost the entire planet was showered in an intense bombardment of giant asteroids.

This period would’ve effected the whole planet, essentially melting the surface into molten rock multiple times over, boiling any water oceans into a steam-atmosphere and dramatically altering the geological landscape.

(Image credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI)

I was laughing so hard that’s why it’s so blurry, but I still kind of like it? I miss these guys and our late night adventures.

MBTI is not:

An excuse to not work on improvement of personal weaknesses. 

A theory with any valid connection to astrology. 

A reason not to befriend someone of a different type. 

An excuse for any action whatsoever. 

A set of rules/stereotypes that limits your career options. 

A personality test based on four letters. 

 MBTI is: 

A method of understanding personal strengths and weaknesses. 

A tool to help understand and get along with others of different personalities. 

Based on cognitive functions, not the four letters alone. 

Something some of us have a lot of fun doing.

We need people who don’t ask us to become different for their own acceptance and terms of approval. We need people, and we need to be the people who give others the permission to sit in their own skins and not be afraid. That’s the best gift you are ever going to give someone— the permission to feel safe in their own skin. To feel worthy. To feel like they are enough.

Hannah Brencher (via shammyb)

I think I’ve just leveled up with my video editing skills. Anyone else like experimental industrial noise music? Tbh this was inspired by the 1972 film Solaris by danceswithcircles http://ift.tt/1jgzIY6

friend: I don't particularly like Sappho's poetry--

me: But you will lie dead, nor will there be any memory of you, now or in the future, for you will have no share in the Pierian roses, but invisible, in the house of Hades, you will wander to and fro, fluttering with the shadowy ghosts,

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

This analysis book was published in 1970. At some point in its life before I purchased it last summer (a life which spanned 18 years before I was even born, by the way), it was owned by someone who read every page, and wrote enthusiastic comments in the margins next to particularly thrilling conclusions to proofs. I love this subject, and I share every sentiment with this unknown stranger. I too love the drama of confusion and the triumph of understanding, and I love sharing that experience with this person with whom I have a rare and important commonality. Wherever you are book-commenting analysis enthusiast, I think the world of you. I hope you have a happy life full of abstract mathematics.

This is what happens when Two Black Holes Collide.

This is the animation of the final stages of a merger between two black holes. What is particularly interesting about this animation is that it highlights a phenomenon known as Gravitational Lensing.

What is Gravitational Lensing?

Mass bends Light. What? 

Yeah, mass can bend Light. The gravitational field of a really massive object is super strong. And this causes light rays passing close to that object to be bent and refocused somewhere else.

The more massive the object, the stronger its gravitational field and hence the greater the bending of light rays - just like using denser materials to make optical lenses results in a greater amount of refraction.

Here’s an animation showing a black hole going past a background galaxy.

This effect is one of the predictions of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity 

PC: cfhtlens, Urbane Legend