multiverse determinism relativity time travel via wormholes paradoxes and so on

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Mars Express' High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) caught Phobos over Mars' limb on its orbit 7982, on March 26, 2010. The waviness of Mars in the background is a by-product of the line-scanning nature of HRSC. This photo was captured during one of two Phobos flyby seasons that happened last year; the other was in August. The March photos are now available to everyone via ESA's Planetary Science Archive.

ESA / DLR / FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

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Earth-Moon system imaged from the Cassini spacecraft, which is in orbit around Saturn.
A part of the 'The Day the Earth Smiled' event
The brighter dot is the one we're on.
edit:
And a wide angle shot from the same day
details here The Day the Earth Smiled: Sneak Preview (NASA Cassini Saturn Mission Images)

BBC News - Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'
This has been falsely reported for a while now.
INTERSTELLAR SPACE FUCKERS
INTERSTELLAR

Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly - that you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space, it can contemplate the meaning of infinity, and it can contemplate itself contemplating the meaning of infinity.
- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

I hope post-humans leave Voyager to go on it's travels

BOLIDES - Visualizing meteorites
Asteroids!

Every impact witnessed on Earth in under a minute

Tried ISON spotting a few days ago, no success. Doubtful on it being as bright as the moon but should be visible to the naked eye soon!
Does anyone remember seeing Halle-bopp in 1997?

https://www.youtube.com/user/setiinstitute/videos
7430 subscribers, fucking ridiculous.

Talk given last week by a guy searching for Dyson spheres, with Freeman Dyson in the hangout.

No, what is that? Tell me more please.

I attended a conference on xenophobia last year solely to see Freeman Dyson be an intellectual badass, but he didn't contribute anything to the panel discussion at all except a story involving his grandaughters with the moral essentially being "children are the future and thus very important."

It sucked.

Hale-Bopp instead of Halle, got mixed up with Halley's comet.


Comet Hale–Bopp was perhaps the most widely observed comet of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for many decades. It was visible to the naked eye for a record 18 months, twice as long as the previous record holder, the Great Comet of 1811.
Comet Hale?Bopp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yes I remember hearing about it, and I remember seeing it.

I also remember the cult members who performed a mass suicide because they thought the comet was an alien vessel that would take them to heaven.

Maybe it was/did?

I suppose I assumed (incorrectly) that we have evolved past the necessity of a sarcasm tag.

:(

I wondered the same thing myself as I wrote it.

The cult was called Heaven's Gate, and their leader looked pretty insane, though.

Marshall Applewhite was a genius. His name was even carried on through a Texas QB in the early 2000's I think, minus the Marshall, and add Major. The guy knew what was coming and decided to take the high road. Aliens are coming, and you can be the hammer or the nail. I prefer the hammer. (Troll)

8. Avoid sarcasm and facetious remarks.
Without the voice inflection and body language of personal communication these are easily misinterpreted. A sideways smile, :-), has become widely accepted on the net as an indication that "I'm only kidding". If you submit a satiric item without this symbol, no matter how obvious the satire is to you, do not be surprised if people take it seriously.

I know you were very young at the time, but...

Hopefully this clears everything up, son.

<3 u :-)

Maybe not the most memorable if you recall a fireball, I imagine you were playing with your asshole at the time.

But you're being sarcastic again with that, right?

Edit : Maybe not empathetic enough?
http://www.livescience.com/40258-emp...-children.html

What could be this years biggest meteor shower is this weekend,
I've been waiting 6 months for it but it's predicted to peak during daylight hours here.

Go lie in a :tomato: field late tomorrow night.
http://i.imgur.com/9ZMbGC4.png

Nice. Looks like I'm smack-ass in the middle of a "Good" zone.

2-4am Saturday morning for you ET folks.

All-new meteor shower: 5 things to know about Camelopardalid

I'll be arriving in Indy at 1 am. Nice.

The five biggest threats to human existence
The five biggest threats to human existence
May 29, 2014 by Anders Sandberg

I sat on my roof for 2 hours and saw one meteor last weekend. I'm not reading any links you post for a one week period as recompense.

I was there, it was complete bullshit.

Another RI talk on quantum biology.
Philip Ball explains how strange quantum effects take place in the messy world of biology, and how these are behind familiar biological phenomena such as smell, enzymes and bird's migration.
Q&A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlN6zVrUewM

“If a potato or rutabaga can utilize quantum coherence, it's likely our brains could have figured it out as well.” - Jack Tuszynski