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christinetheastrophysicist: 4C+29.30: Black Hole Powered Jets...

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:56:29 +0100

4C+29.30: Black Hole Powered Jets Plow Into Galaxy

This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical light obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (gold) and radio waves from the NSF’s Very Large Array (pink).

This multi-wavelength view shows 4C+29.30, a galaxy located some 850 million light years from Earth. The radio emission comes from two jets of particles that are speeding at millions of miles per hour away from a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. The estimated mass of the black hole is about 100 million times the mass of our Sun. The ends of the jets show larger areas of radio emission located outside the galaxy.

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Sat, 25 May 2013 10:55:47 +0100

"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:17:36 +0100

““We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.””

- Buckminster Fuller
I really needed to read this. —TO (via tobia)

Modest Mouse would make australopithecus all angsty

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:40:57 +0100

Modest Mouse would make australopithecus all angsty

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Tue, 21 May 2013 23:39:33 +0100

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fouettes-and-jetes: andrewbreitel: Best street graffiti I’ve...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:36:05 +0100

fouettes-and-jetes:

andrewbreitel:

Best street graffiti I’ve ever seen

holy mother of god, ive never seen art that has related to me so much in my life, praise the person who created this.

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once i had a breakdown and cried into my pillow and this...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:34:29 +0100

once i had a breakdown and cried into my pillow and this happened and i feel like this is an accurate representation of my current mental state

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Tue, 21 May 2013 21:29:32 +0100

wildcat2030: Though he never actually crossed it, the Greek...

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:38:22 +0100

wildcat2030:

Though he never actually crossed it, the Greek mathematician Pythagoras is sometimes credited with having first conceived of the Equator, calculating its location on the Earth’s sphere more than four centuries before the birth of Christ. Aristotle, who never stepped over it either and knew nothing about the landscape surrounding it, pictured the equatorial region as a land so hot that no one could survive there: the ‘Torrid Zone’. For the Greeks, the inhabited world to the north — what they called the oikumene — existed opposite an uncharted region called the antipodes. The two areas were cut off from one another by the Equator, an imaginary line often depicted as a ring of fire populated by mythical creatures. (via Kurt Hollander - The Equator)

iamunabletofindone: because it’s one of the best tweets i’ve...

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:12:15 +0100

iamunabletofindone:

because it’s one of the best tweets i’ve ever seen

treebeard-the-anarchist: andallthatjazzandstuff: whoa, this...

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:04:28 +0100

treebeard-the-anarchist:

andallthatjazzandstuff:

whoa, this almost made me cry. My thoughts exactly…if you wanna be average - do all these things.

never.

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blinkanditsover: Can’t ask the people that did die I suppose

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:42:10 +0100

blinkanditsover:

Can’t ask the people that did die I suppose

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