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Dream Machine makers Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville, photographed by Herman Leonard, Paris 1960

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brucesterling:

*Old people, in big cities, unable to see the sky for the urban glare

The results support the idea that primitive life might have possibly arisen on the icy moon. Scientists say that places where water and rock interact are important for the development of life; for example, it’s possible life began on Earth in bubbling vents on our sea floor.

Prior to the new study, Ganymede’s rocky sea bottom was thought to be coated with ice, not liquid – a problem for the emergence of life. The “club sandwich” findings suggest otherwise: the first layer on top of the rocky core might be salty water.

“This is good news for Ganymede,” said Vance. “Its ocean is huge, with enormous pressures, so it was thought that dense ice had to form at the bottom of the ocean. When we added salts to our models, we came up with liquids dense enough to sink to the sea floor.”

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The results can be applied to exoplanets too, planets that circle stars beyond our sun. Some super-Earths, rocky planets more massive than Earth, have been proposed as “water worlds” covered in oceans. Could they have life? Vance and his team think laboratory experiments and more detailed modeling of exotic oceans might help find answers.

Ganymede is one of five moons in our solar system thought to support vast oceans beneath icy crusts. The other moons are Jupiter’s Europa and Callisto and Saturn’s Titan and Enceladus.

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A Dumbo Octopus (Grimpoteuthis sp.) seen by a NOAA Ocean Explorer team from a deep sea submersible near the Many Mounds Area of the West Florida Escarpment in the Gulf of Mexico.

(via: NOAA Ocean Explorer)

It’s like it’s got a floofy skirt. :3

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Beautiful photo of the BICEP2 telescope, used to detect cosmic inflation, at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station.

(via The Echo of Creation – Astronomers Hear the B of the Big Bang | Inside the Science Museum)

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A wall painting in the tomb of Djehutihotep clearly shows a person standing on the front of the pulled sledge and pouring water over the sand just in front of it.

Besides revealing something about the ancient Egyptians, the results are also interesting for modern-day applications. We still do not fully understand the behaviour of granular material like sand. Granular materials are, however, very common. Other examples are asphalt, concrete and coal. The research results could therefore be useful for examining how to optimise the transport and processing of granular material, which at present accounts for about ten percent of the worldwide energy consumption.

Ancient Egyptians transported pyramid stones over wet sand