Holyfuckingshit this it amazing

What's funny is that some months ago a was fantasizing about humans having the ability to create a time-lapse of earth from the beginning of its life to present time. This is not that, however it is a couple of days of earth spinning and you can see the aurora borealis which is still awe inspiring.

Catchy Song+Typography=Win

Mark Hamill & Harrison Ford interview from 1980

this guy is awesome. (NSFW)

Furthest Picture of Earth Ever Taken.

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if you haven't already read the caption on the picture above, that image was taken in 1990 (on valentines day actually) by the voyager 1 space craft and is the furthest picture of earth ever taken. period. it also has a quote by Carl Edward Sagan who was an astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist and a hero of mine and many others. it was his idea to have the voyager turn towards earth and take that photo as it says nearly 4 billion miles away since the spacecrafts primary mission had been completed. Our entire planet takes up just .12 pixels. the sun is just off camera so thats why you see those large lens flare type streaks there, one of which dominates our little insignificant planet.

look at this picture and try to really understand what you're looking at. the shit is from a 4 BILLION mile vantage. in other words, if each mile represented 1 year back in time, it would go back to when LIFE STARTED ON EARTH. It would only be around 500,000 years old. 4 billion miles is like going around earths equator over 146,000 times.

Keeping those insane distances in mind it's crazy to think about how little those miles mean on a cosmological scale. I mean, light could travel four times further IN A SINGLE DAY. It took us 13 years. thirteenfuckingyears! and in that amount of time light could go 76 trillion miles. thats just incredible but still pathetic because the closet galaxy to us is 14 quintillion miles away or in other words 150,000 times further.

what im getting at here is that space is huge. That picture up there was taken from unimaginably far away from here and it's nothing but an insignificant micrometer in the grand scheme of things and that is fuggin sweeeeet.

stream of mind (just exploring my thoughts)

sometimes i like to put my hands over my eyes and instead of thinking that i'm looking at my eyelids, or just not seeing anything, i like to pretend im looking waaayy out somewhere in space. somewhere millions of light years away.

i love space and astronomy. the cosmos. i love science i love existence. i love nature. i love awe. i love things that are infinitesimal. i love things that are infinite. i love evolution. i love matter and energy, things with incredible mass and i love the massless. i love technology. i love design. i love innovation. i love questions. i love answers. i love curiosity. i love beauty. i love art. i love expression. i love pointless blog posts. i love doing things for me. i love understanding. i love numbers. i love happiness. i love time. i love the like minded. i love thinking. i love exploration. i love discovery. i love truth. i love light. i love sound. . . . i love you.

More science: Scientist discover missing link in cell mitosis!

First off, I only post things from science daily if they're at least an interesting story. But most of them are major discoveries/developments that have the power to change the world, and I don't mean that in any gay ass spiritual way. They could literally change the fucking world, and this is one of those discoveries:

source: "ScienceDaily (July 26, 2010) — A major discovery, led by researchers from The George Washington University Medical Center, promises to revolutionize the way scientists think about key aspects of cellular lifecycle and offers a new avenue for cancer researchers to explore in their quest to one day slow down the progression of cancer.

The discovery furthers the science world's understanding of what happens during the fundamental process of mitosis, when cells divide. The article was published in the current issue of The Journal ofCell Biology.

"This represents a crucial moment when the division of genetic material is still equally distributed. An even exchange is critical for stable genetic changes," said Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D., chair of the GW Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. In mitosis, cells begin to divide and genetic material coalesces around separate poles to form new cells. If all goes well that material is evenly distributed and two genetically identical "daughter cells" are formed. If something goes awry, however, it can result in the cascading production of aberrant cells with unequal and less ordered DNA and possibly cancer."