Author: m1k3y

sci-universe:

This artist’s concept shows a tiny planetary system. It’s so compact that it’s more like Jupiter and its moons than a star and its planets. Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler mission and ground-based telescopes have confirmed that the system, called KOI-961, hosts the three smallest exoplanets known so far to orbit a star other than our sun. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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We’re working to shorten production times for you, but we’re still bound by the laws of physics. We don’t have replicators, teleportation, or delivery drones just yet!

From Winter Review Qualifiers at the Lego Cuusoo blog (via frankie-roberto)
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A fine suite of plates demonstrating the Muggletonian sect’s geocentric astronomical theory, which refuted the Newtonian standpoint.

Isaac Frost, a scientist and author (with his brother) ofThe Works of J. Reeve and L. Muggleton (1832) was a practicing Muggletonian, the religious sect founded in the aftermath of the English Civil War by two cousins who claimed themselves to be the “two witnesses” mentioned in the Book of Revelations. 

The plates, first issued under the title Two Systems of Astronomy, illustrate the “The Newtonian System of the Universe”, and “The System According to the Holy Scipture”, the text caption on plate 6 reading “This diagram will show that if the Earth revolves round the sun, as the Solar System states, then it will necessarily follow, that the Earth will differ in its position with the sun and any given fixed star on its equator, every day throughout the whole year. Now consider it is so. If it is not so, then it will make much in favor of the Holy Scriptures, that the Sun revolves round the Earth.”

They were presumably circulated amongst members of the Muggletonian sect (which, due to a rule on not proselytizing, remained small until the last member died in 1979) and therefore printed in limited numbers. Printed by George Baxter, using his patented colour oil technique, they were originally unrecorded by Baxter’s first bibliographer Courtney Lewis.

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reptilianprince: “what do you look for in a girl” decalcified pineal gland

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Mars may be an alien world, but if you went there and looked up at the night sky you’d see something that might surprise you: the stars would look exactly the same. The distance between the Earth and Mars isn’t nearly enough to change the perspective on the much more distant stars. You’d see all the familiar constellations, the Big Dipper and Orion and the Milky Way. The only difference in the sky, other than the sharp brilliance of everything seen through such thin air, would be that “extra” evening or morning star and its little companion.

You would look at that spark, and you would know you weren’t alone.

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Aldous Huxley’s contribution to the COSMIC ANTHROPOLOGICAL TOOLKIT (by m1k3y)

“Not only is the material universe larger and stranger than we used to give it any credit for, but the mental universe is also larger and stranger than we give it credit for. We carry about inside skulls an extraordinary world, a visionary world, a mystical world…”

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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