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Posted 30 Май 2012 at 22:41

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brunobooty:

jasonofsuburbia:

tamralewallen:

brogod:

Personal Beliefs: you’re doing it right.

this is so awesome

so much yes

Omg

Posted 30 Май 2012 at 22:33

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I’m very pleased with all the Hiddleston on my dash.

Posted 30 Май 2012 at 20:55

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He called and we just chatted for half an hour before he went to bed. =)) Back to studying.

Posted 30 Май 2012 at 03:21

Reblog if you love Tom Hiddleston

(Источник: summerhooligan из блога boyastronomer)

Posted 30 Май 2012 at 00:35

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FACK

Lost the first soccer game of the season, 5-2. But it was 5 on 4 and they had substitutes, plus our team was full of n00bs like me. We fucking pwnd, if you ask me. Once we find another player, we’ll rule the court. (Yes, court. It’s indoor soccer.) MY GOD, 30 MINUTES OF CONSTANT BACK AND FORTH RUNNING IS BRUTAL.

But go us! =D My shin hurts, my thigh hurts, I’m sweaty as fook, and I feel awesomeee. Time to shower and study all night for an exam tomorrow.

Posted 30 Май 2012 at 00:07

ikenbot:

Triton: The Outer Most Ocean in The Solar System
A new day dawns on Triton. It’s going to be a cold one, much like the last. And the one before that… and every day since the moon settled into its present orbit around Neptune. Even the volcanoes here spew out cold gases and liquid water rather than hot magma. But below the frigid surface, which registers a temperature of -235 °C, there’s something more clement: a liquid ocean.
At first glance, Triton seems to be just another icy moon – a featureless, barren world spinning around Neptune, the outermost planet of our solar system. But Triton is different.
For one thing, it orbits Neptune backwards, moving in the opposite direction to Neptune’s rotation. It’s the only large moon in the solar system to do so. Satellites can’t form in these “retrograde” orbits, so Triton must have begun life elsewhere before being captured by the gas giant. It looks a lot like Pluto, and probably came from the same place – the inner edge of the Kuiper Belt, close to Neptune.
The Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Triton in 1989, sending back images of the moon’s frozen surface. They revealed signs of cryovolcanism – the eruption of subsurface liquids which quickly freeze when exposed to the cold of the outer solar system. As such, Triton joins a short list of worlds in the solar system known to be geologically active.
Its surface ice is unique, too: largely composed of nitrogen, with some cantaloupe-textured terrain, and a polar cap of frozen methane.
Continue..

Posted 29 Май 2012 at 22:04

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Posted 29 Май 2012 at 22:02

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the-star-stuff:

The Greatest Mysteries of the Planets
Mercury
Mercury is notoriously difficult to study, thanks to its proximity to the scorching hot and blindingly bright sun. Thus, mysteries abound. For example, Mercury has a giant core — perhaps because its outer, lighter layers got brushed off by planetary collisions long ago, but scientists aren’t sure. It also has a magnetic field and an atmosphere, both of unknown origin. In fact, the little planet leaks a steady stream of atmospheric particles, suggesting its atmosphere is somehow constantly regenerated.
Venus
Planetary scientists are still working out the details of how a once-earthlike Venus gradually morphed into the hellishly hot planet shrouded in a thick blanket of toxic gases we see today. But a bigger mystery regarding Earth’s “evil twin” is why the planet’s atmosphere swirls around it 60 times faster than the sphere spins itself; and speaking of Venus’ spin, no one knows why it goes counter-clockwise unlike all the other inner planets, such that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
Earth
You might think we’d have nailed down the major bullet points about our home planet’s structure and formation, but in fact, big zingers remain. We don’t know, for example, how all this water got here, and we’re uncertain about the nature of Earth’s core, which, strangely, transmits seismic waves faster in one direction than the other. Our beloved satellite has big bogglers, too. While most scientists think the moon formed from a chunk of Earth that got knocked off during an ancient impact, the theory has a hole: the theoretical impactor, dubbed Theia, should have left a residue with distinctive characteristics, but it has not been detected.
Mars
The Red Planet, now frigid, barren and seemingly deserted, spent its first 500 million or billion years as warm, wet and geologically dynamic. Scientists don’t know why it changed so drastically for the worse. They also wonder whether a more vibrant Mars once harbored life, and if it did, whether any bacteria-like Martian organisms managed to adapt to the harsher environs that took over, and are still eking out an existence there.
Jupiter
Like a carefully dyed Easter egg, Jupiter is girded by lighter-hued bands called zones and darker bands called belts. But are these stripes merely surface features overlaying a uniform inner ball of gas, or are the zones and belts actually the tops of concentric cylinders that make up the planet? Whole stripes have been known to disappear without a trace; one vanished in May 2010 that was twice as wide as Earth; why? Other surface decors, such as the swirling vortex known as the Great Red Spot, are equally as mysterious: What power source drives their turbulent motion?
Saturn
For four centuries, astronomers have contemplated Saturn’s eye-popping rings, but none of their attempts to explain the beautiful features have ever seemed quite right. The rings could have formed from the icy remnants of a bygone moon, or from a passing comet torn to shreds by the planet’s gravity; they could be relatively young at just a few hundred million years old, or they might date back to the birth of Saturn more than four billion years ago. We just don’t know. We’re also yet to nail down the dynamics of giant storms and jet streams on the ringed planet’s surface, as well as the dynamics of its rotation.
Uranus
Planets are expected to radiate heat leftover inside them from their fiery formation process, but puzzlingly, Uranus radiates little or no heat into space. Perhaps the seventh planet’s heat got unleashed during some cosmic smash-up in the distant past. (That collision could also have caused the planet’s strange sideways spin.) Or, maybe Uranus somehow self-insulates, keeping all its heat trapped inside.
Neptune
Astronomers had expected Neptune to be a weatherless, featureless world in deep freeze. Instead, Voyager 2’s flyby in 1989 — the only close look we’ve ever gotten of this 3-billion-mile-away planet — revealed a turbulent atmosphere with lighter cloud ripples and raging storms. Surprisingly, the fastest winds ever recorded in the solar system whirl on Neptune, up around 1,300 miles (about 2,100 kilometers) per hour. Driving this activity appears to be Neptune’s internal heat, but as the farthest planet from the sun (farthest, that is, ever since the more-distant Pluto was kicked off the planet list in 2006), why does it hold so much heat?

Posted 29 Май 2012 at 21:59

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saintsagan:

Photo by Annie Druyan, on back of The Dragons of Eden

Posted 29 Май 2012 at 18:05

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Lmao. I believe he had the best birthday ever. Besides the fact that he told me so, I already knew. And he loved my video! =3 I sang the Adventure Time theme song for him, lol.

Posted 29 Май 2012 at 05:04

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Posted 29 Май 2012 at 01:30

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Posted 29 Май 2012 at 01:10

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minstreloffire:

little-black-bear:

Did I ever mention I fucking love visual poetry? Because I fucking love visual poetry.

THIS IS SO COOL

Posted 29 Май 2012 at 01:01

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O__O

I made a video. Of me playing guitar. And singing. And I’m going to send it to my friend as his birthday present since he’s in California now. Omgshihopehelikesit. lolol

Posted 29 Май 2012 at 00:57

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