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Brian Cox sees the Aurora - Wonders of the Solar System - Series 1 Episode 1 Preview - BBC Two (by BBC)
Currently watching. The universe is damn cool, curse my idiotic brain for not being good enough with maths to allow me going into physics/astronomy.
LEGO Travels To Jupiter On Board Space Probe
Three LEGO figurines are traveling to Jupiter, affixed to the space probe ‘Juno’. The models represent the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Roman god Jupiter, and the Roman goddess Juno.
Created by LEGO on a special commission from NASA, the three figures are composed of aluminum, created at a cost of about 5,000 USD each. special manufacturing was required to ensure that the figurines do not interfere with the spacecraft’s sensitive measurements and instruments.
‘Juno’ is expected to arrive on Jupiter July of 2016, where the solar-powered probe will collect information about the planet, its moons, and atmosphere over the course of one year. It is scheduled to launch aboard the unmanned ‘Atlas V’ rocket at 11:40 AM EDT on August 5th.
Truly awesome! The dedication that ensures that the LEGO people will survive, I’m in awe. And space wohooo! LEGO + space = best ever. I think they should have made the entire probe out of LEGOs but that might just be me.
Through the Wormhole: Blackholes
Even though I’ll probably get to experience it outside of this planet — my body is kind of a crapheap and as such not something people want to push into a spaceship — space is amazing. The shapes and how the nothingness, star dust, planets, galaxies, everything interact. There is this odd satisfaction of getting the mind blown in explainable ways.
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Click through to a rather spectacular illustration of our solar system. Seriously. Just do it.
My head is spinning :(
So amazing! I want a solar system sleeve tattoo!
4th july, space and moon (by Nn.)
As I mentioned earlier, or at least implied, whenever someone says USA, I think of NASA. Or Martin Sheen with suited entourage.
Mixed media, now you can’t come and say I don’t do requests.
we’re floating in space… (by Nn.)
Space angels, it’s like snow angels but a hell of a lot cooler.
have space suit (by Nn.) Annotations! It’s something I do far too little of. In a perfect world most things would come with lots of funny, useful and sometimes rather pointless annotations.
a vein of stars calling out my name (by Nn.)
To no-ones surprise, I spent the most of the time on the flames and the robot sidekick. Because I am male and that makes me 15 on the inside.
A Continuous Lean posted footage of the Apollo 11 launch. It is fascinating. I mean, it seems to me that almost the whole of creation is being set ablaze in this video. I couldn’t tell you if it has sound; it’s pretty mesmerizing without it, a nice thing with which to zone out watching after a particularly difficult math problem.
Being so close to Kennedy Space Center growing up, I think it is a given that I’d like this sort of thing even though I can’t understand a lick of space engineering or whatever the correct term may be. My dad did their advertising from the time I was about eight to eighteen, so I was required to be interested in it. Not that I really minded, of course! I have an astronomical globe, a lunar globe and a French lunar map in my room. Shoot.
One day I will watch a Shuttle launch live in person. At a safe distance though, being burnt to crisp is not a factor in those plans.
Lunar globe? Fuuuck. I want one. Both a real and one based on the Moon from Morrison/Stewart’s Seaguy.
Move boxes with comics to put them on a shelf often leads to less busy ways of spending time: i.e. reading said comics. This time one of them was Orbiter by Ellis/Doran which, of course, I had to reread right there on the spot. The spot being the floor. Cold floor, comic warm. So good, and that lead to me picking down Young & Adlard’s Astronauts In Trouble. (Please be kind to yourselves and pick up a hardcopy of this.)
Nothing makes me proclaim “we need to get out into space now damnit!” as much as comics. Movies are make-believe and books are too abstract. Comics though, they’re the real deal. They make the brain itch in that good way. The images are a bit like photos, they don’t lie (or so we’re told by ideological shrill merchants lying through their teeth) and the fact they these are made of ink instead of silver gelatin won’t change anything. At least, they shouldn’t. Don’t you dare to mock me, they are photographs but of dreams and not the eye. It’s true.
Truly true. Otherwise they wouldn’t make me jump up, press my hands against the glass of the window and stare towards the sky. As Warren Ellis himself wrote in the Orbiter foreword: “Because it’s too important a thing to allow it to die in the sky.” This is true about many things for me, and this is why I really really really love this medium. Mark my words: photograph of dreams.
Solar Eclipse Composite (via mentalfloss)
Space: it’s awesome. I’d love to be able to simulate this and the flares on the wall somehow. Sure it would look great in combination with the Astrostar.
vsep13: Poster by Ross Berens
“Sadly,” my walls are mostly covered with bookcases so I don’t have much space for posters. But damn, I wish I had this on the wall. Need to find a space for space! (Sorry.) I want all the posters. Especially this, Pluto and Mercury.
Yes, Pluto is still a planet!
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