Planet Travel Posters Sets Mars & Venus by Ron Guyatt
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The Project:
Space tourism is still a long ways off, but it’s not hard to imagine that someday, tourists will visit the natural geological landmarks of other worlds much like they tour the Grand Canyon, Mount Everest or Ayers Rock. Each of these great tourist destinations needs a classic retro travel poster to entice visitors. Until the day people settle off world and make their own destinations many of these may be the places that people will want to travel too. I hope that these posters can inspire people to think beyond our world to the limitless possibilities of the Universe.
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I want to go to there. And there. An there.
I propose we add the Geysers of Enceladus and the Great Crater of Mimas to the itinerary.
Alpacas are so much fucking cuter then llamas.
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YOU FORGOT THE FOLLOWING POINTS:
- LLAMAS HAVE BIG ASS TEETH TO RIP OUT YOUR FUCKING THROAT
- ALPACAS HAVE FUZZY LIPS TO NUZZLE YOU GENTLY TO SLEEP
- LLAMAS WILL CHARGE AFTER YOU IF THEY SMELL FOOD AND FEAR
- ALPACAS AMBLE ALONG LIKE THE WORLD IS MADE OF GUMDROPS
- LLAMAS ARE THE FUCKING DEVIL INCARNATE
- ALPACAS ARE NOT THE FUCKING DEVIL INCARNATE
This has been the most informative post I’ve seen on Tumblr.
Yes, they’re cuter. But, look at that fucking llama. He may not be ADORABLEASDFGHJKL, but he is one regal looking motherfucker.
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Vaccine infographic.
Credit: Leon Farrant
Source: How Vaccines Have Changed Our World In One Graphic, Forbes.
Academic Men Explain Things to Me: Small victories in the molecular biology lab
A few years ago, during a masters course in molecular genetics, there was a male PhD student in our lab who was full of helpful explanations of why everything myself and another female MSc student did was slightly wrong. From our experimental technique to our makeup application - he had plenty of…
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Oh SNAP!
baileyeverywhere tagged this “go home richard dawkins”. That’s usually how I feel about Dawkins. We need more Sagans, Feynmans, and deGrasse Tysons. We need fewer Dawkins, Hitchens, etc.
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5 Worst Typos of History
On its own, it is a wonder, but viewed in isolation its complexity and very existence is inexplicable. Darwin’s genius was to see that the existence of something as magnificent as a blade of grass can be understood, but only in the context of its interaction with other living things and, crucially, its evolutionary history. A physicist might say it is a four-dimensional structure, with both spatial and temporal extent, and it is simply impossible to comprehend the existence of such a structure in a universe governed by the simple laws of physics if its history is ignored.
And whilst you are contemplating the humble majesty of a blade of grass, with a spatial extent of a few centimeters but stretching back in the temporal direction for almost a third of the age of the Universe, pause for a moment to consider the viewer, because what is true of the blade of grass is also true for you. You share the same basic biochemistry, all the way down to the detail of proton waterfalls, and ATP, and much of the same genetic history, carefully documented in your DNA. This is because you share the same common ancestor. You are all related. You were once the same.
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Brian Cox channels Richard Feynman in this reminder that viewing science through any single lens is an incomplete view of its magnificence. In other words, physics is beautiful, but it’s a periscope view of life’s majesty.
From his new book to accompany the BBC series, Wonders of Life.
via Brain Pickings
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
Coccolithophores are microscopic algae that first appeared 220 million years ago, and flourished during the cretaceous period. They produce peculiar plates called cocoliths out of calcium carbonate, and incorporate them into their shells. As they die and sink to the ocean floor, they remove carbon from the atmosphere and produce chalk. This biological activity is an important regulator of the global carbon cycle.
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