sarkos:

turner-d-century:

wabisabiforrobots:

pulpflesh:

Captain Future

Cover art mainly by Earle K. Bergey

AUTOMATIC REBLOG!

Captain Future is a science fictional hero pulp character originally published in self-titled American pulp magazines during the 1940s and early 50s.

WIZARD OF SCIENCE

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lifeinthearctic:

regibean:

When patients were committed to the Willard Asylum for the Insane in Upstate New York, they arrived with a suitcase packed with all of the possessions they thought they needed for their time inside.
Most never left. The mental hospital had an average stay of nearly 30 years. When patients died, they were buried in nameless graves across the street of the asylum. Their suitcases, with all their worldly possessions, were locked in an attic and forgotten.
In 1995, an employee of the mental hospital discovered the suitcases, 400 of them. They date from 1910 to 1960.
Now, photographer Jon Crispin is cataloging each suitcase and opening a window into the lives – and the minds – of the people deemed too unwell to be allowed in society.

this is fantastic…

Amazing

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staceythinx:

This was the state of space debris in 2008 according to the European Space Operations Centre. The amount of space debris has now become so large that it is threatening economically vital orbital regions

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Cosmopolis:

“There’s a poem I read in which a rat becomes the unit of currency.”
 “Yes. That would be interesting,” Chin said.
 “Yes. That would impact the world economy.”
 “The name alone. Better than the dong or the kwacha.”
“The name says everything.”
 “Yes. The rat,” Chin said.
 “Yes. The rat closed lower today against the euro.”
“Yes. There is growing concern that the Russian rat will be devalued.”
 “White rats. Think about that.”
 “Yes. Pregnant rats.”
 “Yes. Major sell-off of pregnant Russian rats.”
“Britain converts to the rat,” Chin said.
said.
 “Yes. Joins trend to universal currency.”
“Yes. U.S. establishes rat standard.”
 “Yes. Every U.S. dollar redeemable for rat.”
“Dead rats.”
 “Yes. Stockpiling of dead rats called global health menace.

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