January 2012
25 posts
“Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.”
– Carl Sagan (via discoverynews)
Carl Sagan's Ri Christmas Lectures 1977 →
project-argus:
Like a prequel to Cosmos, only with:
top hats,
tea time,
dances with proteins,
six-legged unicorns,
and Mars grabby hands.
You’ll like it, I think.
December 2011
113 posts
Watchitsfullofstars:
Seeing Equinoxes and Solstices from Space
Let's Weigh The Internet (Or Maybe Let's Not) -... →
jtotheizzoe:
Remember back when people were trying to figure out how much the internet weighs? All the masses of electrons and bits and storage and energy waves … all that? Some people said it was about the mass of a strawberry.
Robert Krulwich reminds us over at his blog on NPR that it doesn’t really matter what it weighs, since the weight of ideas is limitless, and infinitely powerful:
You...
“The atoms, the molecules in your body, are traceable to the crucibles in the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via weareallstarstuff)
Black Hole Sound Waves →
fuckyeahtheuniverse:
Sound waves 57 octaves lower than middle-C are rumbling away from a supermassive black hole in the Perseus cluster.
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found, for the first time, sound waves from a supermassive black hole. The “note” is the deepest ever detected from any object in our Universe. The tremendous amounts of energy carried by...
Black Hole Sound Waves →
fuckyeahtheuniverse:
Sound waves 57 octaves lower than middle-C are rumbling away from a supermassive black hole in the Perseus cluster.
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found, for the first time, sound waves from a supermassive black hole. The “note” is the deepest ever detected from any object in our Universe. The tremendous amounts of energy carried by...
Woohoo, the NDAA passed in the House!
anarchyagogo:
libertarians:
If you're looking for one CERN/Higgs... →
jtotheizzoe:
Theoretical physicist Matt Strassler is at CERN this week, and he has a huge list of background on the Higgs, why it’s important, and what he thinks is going to happen tomorrow.
Send reporters here for context and education.
