God Awful Things

http://media.skysurvey.org/openzoom.html Nothing more needs to be said.  

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This little ditty nearly sent me into the depression of distance that space can often do, but I stuck it out, and I’m glad I did.

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Hey, you remember back when we were just a hologram on the universes credit card? I know what you’re saying.. “That’s some insane shit! Like japanese insane!” and I would say.. “Well, they do have a hologram pop singer..” that’s right, not even real! Not mind blowing enough? Well lets get back to how we [...]

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So Stephen Hawkings new book came out, it’s called The Grand Design Here’s what Ol’ Steve (that’s what I call him) Hawkings has to say.. In The Grand Design we explain why, according to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence, or history, but rather that every possible history of the universe [...]

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I get the feeling that some people wouldn’t be happy with even this as their engagement ring.. “You would need a jeweller’s loupe the size of the Sun to grade this diamond,” says astronomer Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who led the team of researchers that discovered it.

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Video shot from a booster rocket. It doesn’t even look like anything is happening until about 1:54 when you realize what’s going on.. I’ll save the surprise. Also.. the moon is shrinking… bummer.

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Yall remember the Drake Equation? But what about in the MULTIVERSE?! There’s an equation for that! Over at the Technology Review they’ve got an article on just this. He begins by considering the total set of universes in the multiverse and defines the subset in which the parameters and fundamental constants are compatible with the [...]

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