The labyrinth inside the elusive mind's eye.

Science :): Einstein’s letter to his young son

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:41:34 -0400

Science :): Einstein’s letter to his young son:

My dear Albert,

Yesterday I received your dear letter and was very happy with it. I was already afraid you wouldn’t write to me at all any more. You told me when I was in Zurich, that it is awkward for you when I come to Zurich. Therefore I think it is better if we get together in a different…

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"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:36:17 -0400

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys- to woo women- and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”

- N.H Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society (via creatingaquietmind)

sobossanova: I guess when this was taken, Johnny Cash had just...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:08:59 -0400

sobossanova:

I guess when this was taken, Johnny Cash had just dropped Acid with Hunter S Thompson at a party. Once tripping, Johnny found a cake and was discovered eating it in the bushes.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:56:47 -0400

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odditiesoflife: Montaña Mágica Lodge Deep in southern Chile...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:04:26 -0400

odditiesoflife:

Montaña Mágica Lodge

Deep in southern Chile lies the Montaña Mágica Lodge (Magic Mountain Lodge). An extraordinary hotel hidden in the center of a 300,000 acre private nature reserve. The small, 13 room hotel is built in the shape of a volcano that spews water instead of lava. The exterior is covered in rainforest moss and vines and its entrance is only accessible via a suspended, swinging rope bridge. The outdoor hot tubs are carved from the trunks of giant trees. The lodge is located in Los Rios which is within the stunning Huilo-Huilo Unesco biosphere reserve, 242 square miles of lush nature, filled with wildlife.

youcancallmepotter: 50you50me: An adorable desert fox walking...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:01:00 -0400

youcancallmepotter:

50you50me:

An adorable desert fox walking against the wind in Morocco.

#oh ym goodness #u go little friend follow your dreams

comedycentral: Good news, everyone! New episodes of Futurama...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:58:58 -0400

comedycentral:

Good news, everyone! New episodes of Futurama return tomorrow night at 10/9c with the one-hour season premiere!

In the meantime, click here for some preview clips and here to sneak a peek behind-the-scenes in our Countdown to Futurama.

spaceplasma: Comet plunge reveals solar secrets In December...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:58:27 -0400

spaceplasma:

Comet plunge reveals solar secrets

In December 2011, space telescopes witnessed an event that astonished astronomers. A comet plunged deep through the atmosphere of the Sun and survived.

Comets are reckoned to be pretty insubstantial things, despite their sometimes lengthy, spectacular tails. So this ball of rock and ice, called Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3), had been expected to break up and become vaporised in the encounter.

In fact the comet came out relatively unscathed, grew a fresh magnificent tail and became an impressive sight for astronauts on the International Space Station as well as on Earth.

Lovejoy’s close encounter has been extremely useful for solar scientists because it has allowed them to study a region deep within the Sun’s atmosphere, or corona, that is otherwise near impossible to observe.

Now views in the extreme-ultraviolet region of the spectrum from three solar spaceprobes have provided new information on the characteristics of the magnetic fields embedded in the region through which Comet Lovejoy passed.

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dancingnkd: Progress.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:41:48 -0400

dancingnkd:

Progress.

Midnight bike ride with Jordan.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:40:34 -0400

Midnight bike ride with Jordan.

gallowhill: Marilene Oliver - Dreamcatcher, 2009

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:46:21 -0400

gallowhill:

Marilene Oliver - Dreamcatcher, 2009

Might be applying for new jobs soon, need more hours.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:42:40 -0400

Might be applying for new jobs soon, need more hours.

spaceplasma: NASA Probe Gets Close Views of Large Saturn...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:16:47 -0400

The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm (false-color image)

False-color image of Saturn's north pole.

spaceplasma:

NASA Probe Gets Close Views of Large Saturn Hurricane

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole.

In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane’s eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane are traveling 330 mph(150 meters per second). The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon.

“We did a double take when we saw this vortex because it looks so much like a hurricane on Earth,” said Andrew Ingersoll, a Cassini imaging team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. “But there it is at Saturn, on a much larger scale, and it is somehow getting by on the small amounts of water vapor in Saturn’s hydrogen atmosphere.”

Scientists will be studying the hurricane to gain insight into hurricanes on Earth, which feed off warm ocean water. Although there is no body of water close to these clouds high in Saturn’s atmosphere, learning how these Saturnian storms use water vapor could tell scientists more about how terrestrial hurricanes are generated and sustained.

Both a terrestrial hurricane and Saturn’s north polar vortex have a central eye with no clouds or very low clouds. Other similar features include high clouds forming an eye wall, other high clouds spiraling around the eye, and a counter-clockwise spin in the northern hemisphere.

A major difference between the hurricanes is that the one on Saturn is much bigger than its counterparts on Earth and spins surprisingly fast. At Saturn, the wind in the eye wall blows more than four times faster than hurricane-force winds on Earth. Unlike terrestrial hurricanes, which tend to move, the Saturnian hurricane is locked onto the planet’s north pole. On Earth, hurricanes tend to drift northward because of the forces acting on the fast swirls of wind as the planet rotates. The one on Saturn does not drift and is already as far north as it can be.

“The polar hurricane has nowhere else to go, and that’s likely why it’s stuck at the pole,” said Kunio Sayanagi, a Cassini imaging team associate at Hampton University in Hampton, Va.

Scientists believe the massive storm has been churning for years. When Cassini arrived in the Saturn system in 2004, Saturn’s north pole was dark because the planet was in the middle of its north polar winter. During that time, the Cassini spacecraft’s composite infrared spectrometer and visual and infrared mapping spectrometer detected a great vortex, but a visible-light view had to wait for the passing of the equinox in August 2009. Only then did sunlight begin flooding Saturn’s northern hemisphere. The view required a change in the angle of Cassini’s orbits around Saturn so the spacecraft could see the poles.

“Such a stunning and mesmerizing view of the hurricane-like storm at the north pole is only possible because Cassini is on a sportier course, with orbits tilted to loop the spacecraft above and below Saturn’s equatorial plane,” said Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “You cannot see the polar regions very well from an equatorial orbit. Observing the planet from different vantage points reveals more about the cloud layers that cover the entirety of the planet.”

Cassini changes its orbital inclination for such an observing campaign only once every few years. Because the spacecraft uses flybys of Saturn’s moon Titan to change the angle of its orbit, the inclined trajectories require attentive oversight from navigators. The path requires careful planning years in advance and sticking very precisely to the planned itinerary to ensure enough propellant is available for the spacecraft to reach future planned orbits and encounters.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

foodchewer: religious views: booty

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:13:59 -0400

foodchewer:

religious views: booty

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