I immediately started humming the Katamari Damacy soundtrack
Oh my gosh.
As someone who looked at the interaction of microbes and hydrogen peroxide for her thesis work, I am laughing myself silly over this.
😲😲😲
An incredible view of the surface of Mars, taken two days ago.
You can almost feel like you're standing there—the sand shifting underfoot, the absolute silence, the unreal sensation of walking on a surface never before visited by a living creature.
(Also your suit is leaking, you'll die here)
Maybe it was a bad idea to fire all the government scientists who know how stuff like this works.
Some spectacular shots of red and green aurora australis (southern lights) taken on June 5th from the International Space Station by astronaut Jessica Meir. The ISS was at about 51˚ 12' South Latitude at the time, south of Australia.
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💦THE MEDICINE BUDDHA'S LOTUSES🪷
dew from a lotus-
plenty
for morning tea
蓮の露一つもあまる朝茶哉
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1819.
Trans. David Lanoue.
When his consort fell deathly sick in 680, Emperor Tenmu (天武天皇) ordered the construction of Yakushi-ji (薬師寺) as a prayer for her recovery.
Next Saturday, I'm giving a talk on Planets around other Suns at the St Louis Gateway Arch. If you're in the area, please come!
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We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.
Come learn from the Sky Ranger at Gateway Arch National Park in this free program, followed by star gazing with telescopes under the Arch.
Tired: They're painting the roses red
Wired: They're pouring hydrogen peroxide in the reflecting pool at a rate far far far too low to actually kill all that algae in there
Le voyageur/ The traveller - 1937 #artbots #magritte
Deep Space Network antenna mishap blamed on poor training and procedures
A NASA investigation blamed millions of dollars in damage to one of its largest Deep Space Network (DSN) antennas on poor training and procedures....
The Dept of Interior claims that the algae in the reflecting pool is left over from rarely used pipes
No.
Painting the pool dark blue means that it absorbs heat much faster than if it were a light color.
Warmer = faster algae growth
That's why you don't see black swimming pools
Science!
When EMI pulled funding on LIFE OF BRIAN days before shooting, the Pythons turned to a fan. George Harrison put up around £3 million of his own money to make the film, simply because he wanted to see it. Eric Idle called it "the world's most expensive cinema ticket."
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