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The First Millisecond Of A Nuclear Explosion: Photo From Tests Performed in Nevada 1952
Fascinating to think that even though this is the first millisecond of the explosion, the majority of the nuclear reaction powering the explosion has already been over for much of that millisecond. All the 'work' takes place over just 5-10 microseconds, the next 990 microseconds until this picture is taken are just coasting.
Japanese scientists have created transparent and flexible solar panels from 2D materials. Learn more: https://phys.org/news/2017-09-semi-transparent-flexible-solar-cells-atomically.html [Comic via Facebook/Einsteinsmama]
Cheetah in flowerbed by © Mariska Vermij-van Dijk
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please stop calling Black children who have different interests and tastes white
it’s damaging and alienating
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I know you come home with the same worry that clouds your mind every night. I know you are aching, and breaking, trying to hold onto the little hope that remains. I know you’re lost and confused, the doubt flooding your veins. But my darling, you weren’t born to be sure. You weren’t born to have it all figured out. You weren’t born to fit a mould. You were born to explore, to seek and to find. You are here to love, to hurt, to heal, not to be confined. You are here to create your own life, to not conform to a timeline. You are here to be 18, and dancing under the moonlight, drunk on cheap wine. You are here to be 25, to climb mountains and to swim oceans. You are here to be 40, to wake up rich in love, and be comforted by this through the everyday commotion. And you are here to be 60, to tell your story of a wild life lived. You are here for so much more than a job, a relationship or a degree. You are here to appreciate the wonders of the world and to make memories. You cannot tell me that age is important when the atoms that made you have taken billions of years to form you. So, to Hell with anyone who restricts you with their timelines. You are here, breathe in, and breathe out. You will figure it out and you will be fine.
a reminder to my 18 year old self, and anyone else who is lost and unsure. (via wordsnquotes)
Space can be a harsh place indeed.
Sherwin B. Nuland, in his 1994 best-seller, “How We Die,” wrote, “Modern dying takes place in the modern hospital, where it can be hidden, cleansed of its organic blight, and finally packaged for modern burial.” Doughty’s goal is to end our deliberate estrangement from the dead body. The conventional funeral industry has given people the impression that death is an emergency. “But death is not an emergency,” Doughty said. “Death is the opposite of an emergency. Look at the person who died—all that stress and pain is gone from them. And now that stress and pain can be gone from you.”
In 1863, Louisa May Alcott, who served as a nurse during the Civil War, wrote of an encounter with the body of a soldier whom she had tended until death. “The lovely expression which so often beautifies dead faces, soon replaced the marks of pain,” Alcott wrote. “I longed for those who loved him best to see him when half an hour’s acquaintance with Death had made them friends.”
But Doughty has found that spending time around dead bodies has helped her accept her own mortality. Working at a crematory led her to a realization: “O.K., this is going to be me—so this body is, so I shall be one day.” She explained, “If you have that opportunity with your family or community to come around the body, it is not only good to honor the dead person—they probably don’t really care—but it’s for you, too.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/30/our-bodies-ourselves
lol how do these people even exist
Parents should drown children before they let them read the Harry Potter books because of gay character Dumbledore, an extreme right-wing pastor has said. “For tens of millions of parents it would be better that a millstone be hung around their neck and they be drowned at the bottom of the sea.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxMS3KNPa38
Not me but, this gold had to be shared:
“As devout gay atheists, my partner and I absolutely respect the catholic book of stories and fables: we smoke a joint before going to bed at night. After all, the book of fables tells us that, ‘should men lie with other men, they should be stoned.’”
Very Large Telescope (VLT) finds hottest and most massive touching Double Star
VFTS 352 is composed of two very hot, bright and massive stars that orbit each other in little more than a day. The centres of the stars are separated by just 12 million kilometres. In fact, the stars are so close that their surfaces overlap and a bridge has formed between them. In the case of VFTS 352, both stars in the system are of almost identical size. Material is, therefore, not sucked from one to another, but instead may be shared. The component stars of VFTS 352 are estimated to be sharing about 30 per cent of their material.
Such a system is very rare because this phase in the life of the stars is short, making it difficult to catch them in the act. Because the stars are so close together, astronomers think that strong tidal forces lead to enhanced mixing of the material in the stellar interiors.
Extreme stars like the two components of VFTS 352, play a key role in the evolution of galaxies and are thought to be the main producers of elements such as oxygen.
Anyone who says they’ve never held bigoted beliefs is 100% a liar. We get older and we learn better and we grow more understanding of the world around us. Social justice is not a contest of perfection. It’s a process of growth. That has been completely lost on this community in the past two years.
"... So we can say that faith with only one member is called a madman, a faith with only a few members is a cult, and faith with a significant number of followers is a religion."
Once there was a president who warned the world about conduct his government would not tolerate. And when this “red line” was crossed, or seemed to be, he took the US to war. Though this might sound like America’s involvement in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Belgrade, or Libya, and what may yet become a wider war in Syria, this story began 50 years ago, on 4 August 1964.
That was when Lyndon Johnson interrupted TV broadcasts shortly before midnight to announce that two US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had come under fire in international waters, and that in response to what the president described as this “unprovoked” attack, “air action is now in execution” against “facilities in North Vietnam which have been used in these hostile operations”.
The Americans launched 64 bombing sorties, destroying an oil depot, a coal mine and a significant portion of the North Vietnamese navy. Three days later, both houses of Congress passed a joint resolution authorising “the president, as commander-in-chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the US and to prevent further aggression”. Within three years the US would have 500,000 soldiers in Vietnam. Even today, the Gulf of Tonkin resolution remains the template for presidential war-making.
There's a book "Crack Cocaine Blues" that provides a lot of factual evidence and testimonials that the CIA and other government agencies were heavily involved in introducing crack to the inner city. Which neatly coincided with the scare tactics of inner city drug crime and addiction, which of course led to the Drug War escalation, which then led to the high incarceration and felony rates of primarily black males, which is sort of a neat outcome for those who may have wished for another means to carry out legalized segregation and subjugation of the black population. Another book "The New Jim Crowe" also outlines how the criminal justice system has delivered exactly that impact.
Whether there was a conspiracy or not it's certainly "coincidental" that a flood of a highly addictive drug into the mostly minority populated inner cities was also met with a drastic escalation of policing of this drug, particularly the sentencing disparity of crack compared to cocaine, which is essentially the same chemical only prepared differently, the difference of course being the user and seller populations...
Soulo Ho3 - Tribute to the Black Lip Pastor
