Rethinking History

[palandri]

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[palandri]

Deep Space 1 ion engine: JPL | Missions | Deep Space 1

 

[davidofmidnight]

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That's WHY they should be given playground duty!

 

[Guytronic]

IT IS 3 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Damn it...
3 minutes to midnight

 

[N_LaRUE]

IT IS 3 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Damn it...
3 minutes to midnight

I don't blame just leaders for this mess. We've let it happen.

 

[palandri]

Hubble's High-Definition Zoomable Panoramic View of the Andromeda Galaxy. This is pretty cool!

HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Hubble's High-Definition Panoramic View of the Andromeda Galaxy (01/05/2015) - Release Images

 

[Guytronic]

I don't blame just leaders for this mess. We've let it happen.

Been following the clock for a number of years.
I was wondering when it would move in light of the global happenings.

 

[palandri]

Watch Jumbo Asteroid Zip Past Earth

A mountain-size space rock will sail past Earth on Monday, offering stargazers a close look at an interplanetary pinball. Luckily, NASA says there is no risk of collision, but it will be a rare astronomically close encounter that backyard telescope owners can watch....

Watch Jumbo Asteroid Zip Past Earth

 

[N_LaRUE]

Been following the clock for a number of years.
I was wondering when it would move in light of the global happenings.

Though both climate change and nuclear weapons are a problem the simple reality is we live on a knife edge. Always had, always will. Mass extinction is just a mega asteroid away along with other possible 'events'

The issue that most people don't see is that we have an over simplified idea of our existence and have over exaggerated our importance. The human race could disappear tomorrow and there would be no one to mourn its passing. The world would keep moving about it's course to its destiny. Whether humans are on this rock or not is irrelevant.

If aliens were to stop by many years from that point they would probably only find traces of our existence and nothing more. Though why aliens would want to stop by this backwater of a solar system is anyone's guess.

 

[N_LaRUE]

I'll answer a question that many people have on their minds.

Why do humans exist?

Because pikaia gracilens survived the mass extinction of the Pre Cambrian.

I know that won't satisfy everyone but it's the best answer I can give you.

 

[palandri]

Powerful event

 

[palandri]

A can of regular Coke sinks in water, whereas a can of diet Coke does not. (from: Weird Things to Know)

 

[Guytronic]

One of these flies over our house Monday thru Friday around 4 p.m.
I wonder if the cameras are rolling?

(I shot this from the backyard using a Lumix digital camera with a 420 mm lens)

 

[palandri]

New space telescope would take better images than Hubble

Scientists are working on a new space telescope that could provide images up to 1,000 times sharper than those from the iconic Hubble.

New space telescope would take better images than Hubble - CBS News

 

[muneshyne21]

Mars Fossils? Curiosity Rover Team Questions Report on Potential Microbe Traces

Ooooh, let the fighting begin!

 

[palandri]

Inside the ISS with the lights off. They need someone to do cable dressing. What a mess.

 

[palandri]

Dream Fearlessly!

 

[palandri]

Looking back in time.

 

[N_LaRUE]

Looking back in time.

Now if we could only get some people to understand that concept...

 

[palandri]

Why can't you trust atoms?

Because they makeup everything