Kevin. New England. Some of my interests include sci-fi, sci-non-fi, music theory, humor, and Alaska (grew up there). My age makes me more or less a grandparent on tumblr, but I'm not really that old. Not yet, at least. But probably older than you. Just saying.
I started this blog with the intention of creating and capturing cool stuff I find. A scrapbook, if you will.
When I find good internets, I will make them happen here. Check back often for more internets.
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Difference in resolution in pictures of the Earth taken this month and in 1972
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This Is What Saturn Sounds Like →
Radio waves from said planet recorded by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, time compressed, and shifted down in frequency to an audible range.
you can hear malachi constant
i find it interesting how accurate the original Star Trek was in terms of their alien planet background ambiance sounds when compared to this recording.
Source: itsfullofstars
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Actual, bona fide application for a U.S. Astronaut →
Be advised, “frequent travel may be required.”
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Do you realize that the… bank bailout — that sum of money is greater than the entire 50-year running budget of NASA. And so when someone says ‘We don’t have enough money for this space program,’ I’m (saying) ‘No, it’s not that you don’t have enough money. It’s that the distribution of money that you’re spending is warped in some way, that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.’
…In the 60’s and 70’s, you didn’t have to go more than a week before there was an article in Life magazine — ‘The Home Of Tomorrow.’ ‘The City Of Tomorrow.’ ‘The Transportation Of Tomorrow.’ All that ended in the 1970’s after we stopped going to the Moon. It all ended. We stopped dreaming.
And so I worry that the decisions the Congress makes doesn’t factor in the consequences of those decisions on tomorrow. Tomorrow is gone — metaphoric tomorrow, not the literal tomorrow.
(Politicians) are playing for the quarterly report; they’re playing for the next election cycle. And that is mortgaging the actual future of this nation. The rest of the world just passes by.
Dr. NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON, reacting to space programs such as the James Webb Space Telescope — the successor to the Hubble — falling to budget cuts, on Real Time (via inothernews)
Could he be any more awesome?
Source: inothernews
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When Atlantis was towed back to the Orbiter Processing Facility, NASA played the Star Trek: Voyager theme to accompany the shuttle’s arrival. I love how our space program is so closely connected with Star Trek on a lot of levels.
Source: youtube.com
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What a NASA advertisement would look like if they had a social media marketing department. (by IRAQI999999)
Never get tired of this. When the music kicks in as the shuttle lifts off… epic.
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Amazing shot of the shuttle returning to Earth taken from the ISS. Never seen anything like this. Incredible.
Source: Los Angeles Times
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a world wide prank would end all wars.
hilarious.
Source: toptumbles.com
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Sigh…
omg a million hours later and you still make me weep justbeforesleep :o/
this country’s priorities are so out of fucking whack. it really makes me depressed sometimes.
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