Beyond the bounds of Earth
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Wow.
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I know. We can not just imagine that image—we can make that image real. It gives me shivers.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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All of this is very cool!
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Dance of the earth and Venus around the sun.
https://youtu.be/ZqFH-n7QTCU
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Dance of the earth and Venus around the sun.
https://youtu.be/ZqFH-n7QTCU
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Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.
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Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.
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Very cool!
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Oooooh, that's lovely!
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A visualisation of a slice of the Laniakea supercluster in which resides our own Milky Way, showing individual galaxies as white dots and their movement by white threads. The region contains 100 million billion stars.
Read all about it here: https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astron ... ace-cosmos (I've forgotten how to embed)
Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.
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Ooooooh.
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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End
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Wow. Just wow!
(And, looking at Impy's post above, I'm struck anew with the thought that all of that looks like a heart. )
(And, looking at Impy's post above, I'm struck anew with the thought that all of that looks like a heart. )
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Lali, maybe we live in the heart of a giant being? That kinda blows my mind.
Somewhere out there, there's a kidney and a bowel.
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Somewhere out there, there's a kidney and a bowel.
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That's exactly what I was thinking! We are part of the heart of the universe, which is part of a giant being—God, perhaps? (And God could be defined in so many ways.)