Mankind is advanced technically. Man can build space stations, can assemble them in space, and ponders about landing on Mars, but the development of mankind itself seems to stagnate on stone age level.
Sigmund Jähn, the first German cosmonaut
Procrastinate! Procrastinate!
An infrared image of Jupiter taken with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Details are 300km wide. Infrared imaging of Jupiter allows astronomers to learn more about the depth of the clouds on the planet.
It’s true, our mere existence is a miracle.
The cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the cosmos stir us - there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
Weil die Nacht im Sterben lag verkünden wir den jüngsten Tag es wird kein Erbarmen geben lauft, lauft, lauft, LAUFT, LAUFT, LAUFT, UM EUER LEBEN!!!!
Rammstein, “Der Meister,” Herzeleid, 1995
It all started with a Big Bang...
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Actually, there is no reason either to go to your local theatre or to leave this galaxy for another one far away if you want to know what happened a long time ago in our universe. You can travel back in time and space to the microseconds following the Big Bang, with the answers found by DOE nuclear physicists working at our National Laboratories and universities.
The Big Bang
Everything we know in the universe – planets, people, stars, galaxies, gravity, matter and antimatter, energy and dark energy – all date from the cataclysmic Big Bang. While it was over in fractions of a second, a region of space the size of a single proton vastly expanded to form the beginnings of our universe.
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Art by Robert McCall.
“Star Wars: The Force Awakes” Characters As “Calvin And Hobbes” by Brian Kesinger
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