Have you wondered, how deep down the gravity well are we in? Me neither. But this xkcd comic let us know:
It turns out it is a really good picture of what a “gravity well” is, which has to do with the amount of speed, thereby energy needed to climb out of the well and prevent yourself from clawing at the wall and falling. Now you know how come you need a giant rocket to get out of this really deep well we call Earth. Of course, compared to the giant planets and the gargantuan sun, Earth’s well is nothing. Falling into Jupiter must make one heck of a nasty experience…
Recently, I found a blog of a 16 years old girl set out to become the youngest soloer to circumnavigate the Earth. Yikes, that takes dedication. The closest thing to an adventure I have come to is traversing Hyrule in Legend of Zelda, which is only a videogame. I know, sad. The other interesting thing to note in the About page:
Anything outdoors and on the water, camping, the beach, reading, cooking, weather, fencing, dingy sailing, boat design and CHOCOLATE!
See that? She upped me by capping chocolate. That already makes this blog the second best in the world.
Also, me, being a science guy (especially astronomy), has another thing of interest (thanks to Universe Today) is this entry:
I’m not much of an Astronomer but with all this talk of meteor showers last night, I was keeping an extra good eye out and did see the most amazing shooting star. It was so bright and big that I was actually a bit spooked before realizing what it was. But I can’t tell you what I wished for though!
Bright and big… Hmm… Was the meteor as cool as this?
I, having nothing of interest, think there are a few links I think you would like:
Planet Icosahedron: Basically, it is like a planet globe, but instead, it is a icosahedron (duh). Anyways, the images for them have been created by the various spacecrafts that have been near the planets. Very neat stuff. (via skepchick)
Can it be? Finally, a visible evidence of dark matter? It is possible, although we have to wait for the results, so don’t get your hopes up. ^_^ (via Cosmic Variance)
Cool astrnomy picture of ISS going in front of the moon. ’nuff said.
Hubble found a large dusty galaxy with an ethereal X (via universe today). Badastrnomy has a detailed analysis of it, if you like those kind of stuffs.
Oh, and the Planetary Society Blog posted this cool interaction between the moons of Saturn:
That’s right, I have a post linked in the carnival. Yay! I took my first baby step towards blogosphere domination. ^_^ Now, competition for blogosphere domination is tough, so I don’t know if I will make it. Of course, you should go and see all the other enlightening posts too, and they are probably better than mine.
Firstly, a blogroll, I found a good blog dedicated to challenging global warming denialism.
A lot of time, I hear people comparing science to religion. I don’t think science is a religion, and this person explains it perfectly. (hat tip primate diaries)
Also, can you believe it? Oprahtalks about Denmark, its really good social situation, and the fact that atheism might not be that bad.
Finally, there is the infuriating situation in Nigeria in which the rise of evangelical Christian is causing a witch hunt, specifically, children. Absolutely unfuckingbelieveable. What time period is this, the 13th century? Whatever happened to reality and the following lesson: you can’t trust a religious leader? Because like always, they are trying brainwash people in order to advance themselves, and they don’t care how they do it. Really, religion being a good force in the world. People always tell me that morality comes from God. It makes a stupid little difference if you believe in a god or not, if you are a piece of crap of a human being, you are a piece of crap, and I don’t care what you believe or how much it hurts your feelings. These sort of things is the reason why I care so much about rationality, skepticism, and reality. If you know what is real, you know what is harmful, and what is not, you are aware that doing certain things won’t do anything. You are able to navigate the world in the most beneficial way possible. You don’t use the stupid argument that superstition comforts you. Comfort my ass, if you want comfort for the expense of everyone else, then such comfort is not worth it. The following video, oh I love it so much. The news analyst explains precisely why we need to explain things based in facts, why education and science is important in curbing superstition, and stresses the importance that we base our actions on what is real! Especially, he points to the fact that having beliefs that are not true, you enable such mode of uncritical thinking, which spreads like a virus, reaching moronic people who in turn brainwash others. We need more analysts like him who are able to defend skepticism and reality like that. So, credits to Cenk.
Another episode of Mr. Deity has arrived, and this one is in one of the top funniest out of all episodes. It also guest star one of my favorite blogger as the science advisor.
If you don’t get the banana joke in the end, you should watch the creationist video below from the banana man (warning: the following video has absolutely no logic at all, side effects include cerebral hemorrage and apoptosis):
I love videogame musics, even the old ones. So naturally, I found myself searching for people playing videogame soundtracks in piano, which I have shown in this blog before. Recently, I found another really good one. It is from Star Fox back in the N64/playstation era. It used to be one of my favorite games, and I replayed it a lot. One of the soundtrack I really liked is the Star Fox boss battle theme, which is one of my favorite videogame and boss battle music ever. As you can see, she plays the extremely difficult piece very faithfully:
Comparison:
Now, I really want that sheet music, even if I will suck at it. ^_^
Oh, and if you check out her blog, she plays a whole lot more great videogame music.
Apparently, it is an anniversary of the invension of barcodes. So that is google written in binary language. You know, 0110011… Black represents one number, and white represents another number. And a collection of 0s and 1s form whatever you want to write, whether be it numbers, letters, or symbols. The bars have gone a long way, haven’t they? They are now in every single product imaginable, and it makes for a faster shopping experience. So hey, why not recognize its invention, eh?
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