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Compose Mail - plasmaborne. The Plasma Universe Wikipedia-like Encyclopedia) A galaxy choked with dust. One of the things I love about nearby galaxies is the incredible amount of detail we can get when we aim our best telescopes at them.
For proof, I offer this amazingly intricate Hubble portrait of Centaurus A: Isn’t that breathtaking? [Click to galactinate and see it in magnificent detail.] Cen A (as those of us in the know call it) is pretty close by as galaxies go, a mere 11 million light years distant. For scale, our own galaxy is 100,000 light years across, and Andromeda, the closest big spiral galaxy, is a hair under 3 million light years away. Cen A is a bit of a mess. Obviously, Cen A hasn’t been keeping up with the neighborhood association rulebook. In its defense, Cen A apparently suffered a recent collision with another galaxy, absorbing the intruder’s stars, gas, and dust.
Another cool thing about this image is the number of sub-images that went into it. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Related posts: Thunderbolts Project. Synopsis of The Electric Universe. “The most merciful thing in the world … is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents… The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality… That we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” - H.
P. Lovecraft In a broadly interdisciplinary inquiry such as this, communication itself can pose quite a challenge. Typically, the greatest difficulties in communication will occur when one is questioning something already “known” to be true. On matters of underlying principle, the confidence behind established ideas can be so high that discussion itself may seem quite senseless.
Given the extreme fragmentation of established science today it is difficult to imagine that the enterprise as a whole could ever “correlate all its contents. . ” - Wal Thornhill / David Talbott. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory — Enabling a World Powered by Fusion Energy. Plasma Images. Excerpted from the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science Special Issues on Images of Plasma Science, 1996, 1999; IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science Special Issues on Space Plasmas, 1986—2000.
200px-9dots.svg.png (PNG Image, 200x200 pixels) Sovereign Knowing - Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History Vol. 1. Most helpful customer reviews 507 of 571 people found the following review helpful.
"Liars" Too Harsh? By Ramelle Macoy"Liars" seems a harsh term to apply to professed Christians and until lately I had--admittedly without paying too much attention--assumed that Christian fundamentalists were engaged in wishful thinking and selective quotations when they complained about activist judges subverting both the Constitution and the clear intent of the Founding Fathers to establish a Christian government. But after reading Ms. Rodda's book I realize that there is something going on far beyond taking words out of context. 220 of 257 people found the following review helpful.
Liars for JesusBy Steven L. There has been a series of revisionist "history" books published since the end of WWII which give a "Christian" version of American history that attempts to paint the Founding Fathers and subsequent American culture in a way that is in agreement with contemporary Fundamentalism. Why? Therefore, Ms. New Sandy Bridge MacBook Airs and Mac Minis Will Launch Simultaneously With OS X Lion. Wondering just where in the hell those Sandy Bridge MacBook Airs with Thunderbolt are?
Sitting in a warehouse, just waiting for OS X Lion to go gold, according to the most recent report. Reports Apple Insider: [N]ew Thunderbolt-enabled Sandy Bridge MacBook Air models expected to go into production this month have been ready and waiting for some time, according to people familiar with the matter. But management is currently unwilling to usher the new models into the market with the current Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system.Instead, the Mac maker is said to be locked on waiting till it can image the new notebooks with a Gold Master build of Lion so that buyers are afforded the latest and greatest Apple experience. The MacBook Air’s not the only Mac waiting on Lion before it gets sent out to the Apple Store: new Mac Minis featuring Sandy Bridge innards and ThunderBolt ports are also in the same boat, as well as new Cinema Displays.
Related. Apple Used “Extreme And Mean” Math To Design iCloud’s Icon. Neat spot by Alam van Roemburg: the iCloud icon uses the Golden Ratio, which has been thought since the 16th Century to lead to pleasing, harmonious proportions in aesthetic design.
How do you use the Golden Ratio to design some harmonious icons? Let’s say you want to draw the perfect rectangle. iOS5 and iCloud on iPad 2 Hands on.
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