I like the one where the apple escapes serious injury by being smooth and rounded so it just squeezes out from between them, and then THE MAGNETS HIT EACH OTHER SO HARD THERE ARE SPARKS AND CHUNKS BREAK OFFA THEM.
A rocker whose brains were definitely not fried. But, um, like, wow! That’s freaking amazing.
QUEEN RULES
man, wtf is it about Astrophysicists named Brian being in kickass bands?
everything turns into queen if left alone long enough. even, apparently, NASA.
Queen is like … the most overqualified band in history.
Brian May had a BS in Physics and had started his PhD but Queen was getting very famous so he put it on hold. He did go back and attained his PhD in Astrophysics in 2008.
John Deacon is a electrical engineer and would build custom equipment for the band.
Roger Taylor was in school to become a dentist but switched and got a BS in Biology instead.
Freddie Mercury had a degree in Art and Design. He he designed the Queen crest himself.
At dinner the other night, a Queen song came on and I said something about how happy it makes me to know that Brian May, having conquered the music world, returned to his first love: astrophysics.
The waiter, who only heard only the tail end of this as he came up to the table, immediately said “Are you talking about Brian May?” in a tone that indicated he was also very excited about Dr. May’s career in astrophysics.
Prediction is an industry, and its product is a persuasive set of hopes and fears that we’re trained or convinced to agree upon. It’s a confidence trick. And its product comes so thick and fast that, like a plothole in an action movie, we’re carried on past the obvious failures and the things that didn’t even make sense if we had more than five seconds to think about them. Videophones. We were told again and again that videophones were not only imminent, but that they made so much sense that they might as well already be here, they fit so well into our lives. Only nobody wanted to have to get dressed to answer the house phone. Or put make-up on, or shave. Videophones hit the social fabric and bounced off, and when video calls finally arrived, they were mostly relegated to business usage and long-distance relationship maintenance by appointment. The basic unit of communication has become, not video calls or even voice calls, but text messages.
Who saw that coming? The return of the telegram? Pretty much nobody. The industry of futurism is bad at the future.
Warren Ellis, “The Future is a Confidence Trick”
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Warren Ellis, “The Future is a Confidence Trick”
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NASA just flew the New Horizons spacecraft by Pluto. PLUTO.
We’re going to have HELLA pictures of Pluto very soon. P. L. U. T. O. Even more HELLA than the “teaser” picture right before the flyby:
LOOK AT THAT ADORABLE MOTHERFUCKER WITH A HEART ON IT AND EVERYTHING.
You know where that picture was taken from? 476,000 MILES AWAY (766,048 KILOMETERS) You know what the closest approach distance was for New Horizons? 7,800 MILES (12,600 KILOMETERS) FROM THE SURFACE OF PLUTO.
That’s right. That means YOU AINT EVEN SEEN SHIT YET, SON.
It took us over 9 years to get to our solar system buddy 31.9 AU away.
Do you know how far away an AU is? 93 MILLION GODDAMN MILES or 149.6 MILLION HOLY SHIT KILOMETERS. Multiplied by over 30. With a (dwarf) planet flying around in some CATAWAMPAS ASS orbit.
WE JUST HIT A DAMN NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK AS LARGE AS THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
Because of this distance, the New Horizons spacecraft will take 16 MONTHS to transfer all the data from the encounter back to Earth.
In conclusion:
GUESS WHAT KIDS
As IF New Horizons wasn’t cool enough, WE JUST RECEIVED WORD FROM THE SPACECRAFT that it is A-OKAY.
That means that the spacecraft sent us a message to say HEY EARTH SUP I PASSED PLUTO AND IT WAS AWESOME. And then that message traveled FOUR AND HALF HOURS through the vastness of our solar system to get to us. THAT ALL HAPPENED TODAY.
And the best part? New Horizons called home to the Mission Operations Manager. THAT’S RIGHT. It called home to MOM.
I see you NASA, you clever motherfuckers.
THE EXCITEMENT ISN’T OVER YET. Images come tomorrow!!!
STAY TUNED. SCIENCE ON.
Bonus: Swagtastic New Horizons Team
4 FOR YOU NEW HORIZONS. YOU GO, NEW HORIZONS.
PICS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN, NEWS HORIZONS.
Well, let me tell you, New Horizons delivered.
CHECK IT.
One of Pluto’s Moons: CHARON.
And the BIG BADDY ITSELF:
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over Pluto’s ICE MOUNTAINS, that may potentially be ICE VOLCANOS.
CRYOVOLCANOS.
NASA’s got even MORE shit to figure out because it looks like Pluto’s surface doesn’t have many CRATERS, which means it may be a lot younger.
YOUNGER? Okay great, what does that mean?
It means something’s active. Volcanism, migrating ice, latent heat from a possible INTERNAL OCEAN?!
Only time will tell…
Alright that’s all I got. Can’t wait to see what new things Pluto will tell us!!
Just think, you were tuned in when humanity explored a new world for the first time.
And that’s pretty fucking awesome.
The Nobel Prize-winning professor who said this:
“Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them, they cry.“
Scientists in Arizona have released a study in which they taught a small group of worms a memory, cryogenically froze them and brought them back from cryostasis. The results will have any sci-fi fan or Walt Disney conspiracy theorist excited.
This is what happens when a cat toutches a plasma ball.
ELECTRIC TOEBEANS
I BE CHARGING MAH REPULSORS!
DUDE!
WE FIGURED OUT SOME SHIT HERE IN 2015 WAY BETTER THAN THE “FLYING CAR” MALARKEY EVERYONE WHINES ABOUT
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