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Rainbow Road FTW!! Who can do the trick where you jump off the...

Rainbow Road FTW!!

Who can do the trick where you jump off the road right past the finish line? Major cheat status right there ;) Only do it if I really feel like being a dick. hahaha.

Proud member :P

Proud member :P

Cat's Eye Hubble Remix  Explanation: Staring across...

Cat's Eye Hubble Remix 

Explanation: Staring across interstellar space, the alluring Cat's Eye Nebula lies three thousand light-years from Earth. One of the most famous planetary nebulae in the sky, the Cat's Eye (NGC 6543) is over half a light-year across and represents a final, brief yet glorious phase in the life of a sun-like star. This nebula's dying central star may have produced the simple, outer pattern of dusty concentric shells by shrugging off outer layers in a series of regular convulsions. But the formation of the beautiful, more complex inner structures is not well understood. Here, Hubble Space Telescope archival image data has been reprocessed to create another look the cosmic cat's eye. Compared to well-known Hubble pictures, the alternative processing strives to sharpen and improve the visiblility of details in light and dark areas of the nebula and also applies a more complex color palette. Of course, gazing into the Cat's Eye, astronomers may well be seeing the fate of our Sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution … in about 5 billion years.

Credit & Copyright: Vicent Peris (OAUV / PTeam), MAST, STScI, AURA, NASA

Thanks to those of you who saw my post earlier today and liked...

Thanks to those of you who saw my post earlier today and liked their page. I'm pretty stoked that I got them around 30 likes :)
I don't know who is running this page, but I've never seen so much writing in explaining a particular astronomical phenomenon. These guys have definitely become a favorite. You've gotta check out their most recent post on the Dumbbell Nebula. The detail is superb.

The Amazing Side to the Universe

Messier-27 – The Dumbbell Nebula: Wide-View I (via The Amazing...

Messier-27 – The Dumbbell Nebula: Wide-View I

(via The Amazing Side to the Universe/fb)

Also known as NGC-6853 (Type: Planetary Nebula — Constellation: Vulpecula — Distance: 1,000-1,250 light years — Radius: ~2.5 light years / Features: Central White Dwarf Remnant)

Image Credit to: Bill Snyder (Bill Snyder Photography)

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Just bought another book. Someone stop me!! Or don’t… I picked up, Six Easy Pieces, by...

Just bought another book. Someone stop me!! Or don’t… I picked up, Six Easy Pieces, by...

This is what religion can do to people, folks.

This is what religion can do to people, folks.

sagansense: World's Biggest' Particle Accelerator To Be 32km...

sagansense:

World's Biggest' Particle Accelerator To Be 32km Long

The International Linear Collider?!?! This is incredible! Kind of a random site to have posted this, but I'm sure this will picked up. Wowwwwwwwww

London, Jun 9:  

CERN scientists have upped the ante on the search of dark matter and are planning to build the world's biggest and most expensive particle accelerator — stretching up to a vast 32 kilometres.

The machine will surpass the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the particle accelerator that has a circumference of 27 km and was used in the hunt for the Higgs boson, the 'God particle' that gives matter its mass and whose discovery was announced last year.

The International Linear Collider (ILC), will smash subatomic particles together with such force that it could reveal evidence for new forms of matter and extra dimensions of space, The Sunday Times reported.

Some scientists are even calling it Einstein's telescope, because it would reveal why the physicist's equations work as they do.

The European launch at CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Geneva, this Wednesday will announce plans to build the particle accelerator and include a lecture by Brian Cox, the TV physicist, in the hope the project will inspire the same global fascination as CERN's hunt for the Higgs.

"The LHC is a very noisy machine. For every billion collisions we get just one Higgs boson. The ILC is a precision instrument designed as a Higgs factory," Lyn Evans, CERN's project leader for the ILC, said.

"It will produce millions of them, so we can study them properly and see if there is just one or several, as some theories predict," Evans said.

The ILC would comprise two giant 'guns', one accelerating electrons and the other particles of anti-matter called positrons to near-light speeds before smashing them together.

Evans said the new machine would complement the LHC, which has "many more years of life".

"The next enormous prizes for these machines is finding dark matter, which makes up most of the mass in the universe but so far has never been seen," he said.

The machine will most certainly be built in Japan. The country is so keen to host the machine that it will put up half the 8 billion pounds cost — much of which would be spent drilling the huge underground tunnels needed to house it, the paper reported.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/worlds-biggest-particle-accelerator-to-be-32-km-long/article4797348.ece

via astrodidact

Been waiting for this to show up with some images ;) AHHHHHHH FUCK YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Posting for the church boards, not the caption. No one is going...

Posting for the church boards, not the caption. No one is going to hell because it doesn't exist. ;)

Richard Feynman - Nature of Nature

Richard Feynman - Nature of Nature

This Week In Science(via I fucking love science/fb) Primate:...

This Week In Science(via I fucking love science/fb)

Primate: http://bit.ly/14qG2AS
Bionic eye: http://bit.ly/1beCthA
Triceratops: http://huff.to/1b0tctj
Helicopter: http://bit.ly/183RCWH
Galaxy: http://bit.ly/137jgv4
Moon: http://bit.ly/11xT7Hz

And the winner for best yearbook caption goes to this kid!!!

And the winner for best yearbook caption goes to this kid!!!

hahahahahaha. I love this.

hahahahahaha. I love this.

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GAME OF THRONES

Season finale tonight!!!! Def gonna have some withdrawals but at least Dexter is back on in three...

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I am just WAITING for the day when it's announced that Ray...

I am just WAITING for the day when it's announced that Ray Comfort is a fake troll and the person running the page is Ricky Gervais. I'm waiting!!! LMFAO

This motherfucker Comfort cannot be serious.