Browsing the archives for the astronomy tag

“White Arrow” Size Of Texas Seen On Titan (Saturn’s Moon).

16 Aug, 2011 in Doodles, fnord by

What Does It All Mean, Basil? Which way is it pointing? I wish the picture had been taken from a better angle, but I see it. The Cassini Probe has given me many lovely picture posts, like this and this. This arrow shaped cloud is, alas, not directions to the party that the cool kids [...]

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Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s Badass Quote About Politicians, & What Really Matters.

1 Aug, 2011 in Doodles, fnord, wisdom by

Bring up all the fuckers and leave them Let them gasp out their last, loathsome lies into the vacuum Astronauts are badass. I mean real astronauts. The moon walkers. The Right Stuff folk. Buzz Aldrin is in his 80′s and he still kicks ass, when fucked with.

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Newly Discovered Planet Emits Strange Signal. Coolest SETI Win Ever?

12 Oct, 2010 in craziest shit ever, fnord, humor by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86zPFR4R0Ko”

Gliese is the Word Hail Ants I will keep this short, Youdopia. Apparently (above) received a signal from another planet.  Gliese 581g was recently discovered. The signal may be intelligent. Maybe not. If so, then refer to the picture below. Thank you. I , for one, welcome our alien overlords.

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The Earth and Moon As Seen From Mercury. Coolest Shit Ever.

23 Aug, 2010 in Coolest Shit Ever, Doodles, fnord by

Youdopia, that little doodle is a sweet pic of our little Earth, and our companion moon. It was shot from the orbit of Mercury. There is something so adorable about this simple arrangements of dots. I never knew that I would derive such pleasure from our Messenger probe around Mercury.  I had another beautiful image [...]

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Craziest Shit Ever: Galileo’s Mummified Finger On Display In Florence Museum

13 Jun, 2010 in craziest shit ever, fnord by

As you know, Youdopia, Galileo was one of the great minds of the Renaissance. What you may not know, and what I certainly did not know, is that Galileo’s fingers, thumb, and a toot of his, are on display. They have been for hundreds of years. Galileo died in 1642, in relative disgrace. He had [...]

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Coolest Shit Ever: The Known Universe In Six Minutes

19 Dec, 2009 in Coolest Shit Ever, fnord, wisdom by

Knock knock. Who’s There? Infinity. Infinity who? Infinity is pretty amazingly large. My dear Youdopia, one of the blogs I read daily, is The Daily Grail. This little video which is a zippity doo dah tour from Tibet to the edge of the cosmic horizon and back, was posted there. I just nicked it and [...]

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