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Martin Wattenberg designed this Universe-style navigation system of works from the NASA collection.
Sounds like an Onion headline, right?
Totally brilliant fake NASA ad campaign by Matthew Spencer. Man, I love this!
The YouTube of science videos!
What if we colonized the red planet right in this spot?
Studying Dark Energy May Cause Universal Decay
Cosmologists claim that astronomers may have provided evidence that the universe may ultimately decay by the very act of observing dark energy, because by observing the Universe, we may be picking out one single "quantum state," and therefore forcing the system to change its configuration.
A team of researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey unveiled a newly completed map of Antarctica today that is expected to revolutionize research of the continent's frozen landscape. Also, it's beautiful.
"It's like the Terminator self-replicator machine or something," Summit says. "Machines are making the next-generation machines."
A very fine interactive international space exploration history timeline put together by the folks at Newsweek. Some favorites: Venera 1 (USSR, Venus), New Horizons (USA, Pluto).
Exactly what it sounds like.
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Archived From March 7, 2006
So you think the scientific world is one of cold, hard, facts and impassive objectivity, incapable of bringing tenderness and twee sentimentalism forth into the world? You think that NASA, that behemoth of a governmental organization, spends all its time censoring evolutionary scientists and fucking up stuff on the Hubble telescope? Well, you're right, for the most part!
Right now, however, you are wrong, because NASA has just extracted from the comet particle-embedded aerogel collected by Stardust spacecraft A HEART-SHAPED COMET GEM. The particle is made up of the silicate mineral forsterite, which can found on Earth in gemstones called peridot, but who cares because what a beautiful thing. Go hold hands and look at the stars.
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Comments (3):
wow... they kind of look like trippy crystal sharks teeth too...
Posted by james @ March 7, 2006 7:45 PM
thank you claire. i plan on doing just that. i'll even get on my kneez and pinch myself.
Posted by ashby @ March 7, 2006 5:46 PM