#Space
Space Firm To Make Big Announcement. Somewhere in his lair, Michael Bay just coughed up blood and doesn’t know why.
The interwebs are all a-twitter (no pun intended… except it was totally intended) with excitement and speculation after a new company called Planetary Resources dropped a press release about an upcoming space venture that will ensure humanity’s continuing prosperity. They’re backed by a whole mess of people with deep pockets — Google and James Cameron, to name a few — and are going to lay down their proposal on April 24th.
Now, the press release itself is incredibly vague, and I’m guessing that was deliberate, but what can you expect from people who worked for the organization that told us Pluto was a planet and then went “Our bad. Might want to start thinking about some new mnemonic devices.”
Hit the jump to read the press release.
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Mysterious DARK REGIONS OF MARS Are Made Of Glass. Contemplate That Shizz.
10 Million square kilometers of northern lowlands on Mars are made up of glass. Volcanic glass. That fucking planet, man. Keeps paying dividens in awesomeness.
Most Detailed Picture Yet Of A STAR NURSEY BIRTHING Suns. Cosmic Awe
God bless the Hubble. For years it has been bringing us glorious snapshots of the glorious beyond. Stimulating the imagination while showing us what lies beyond the Big Blue Marble. This picture is no different. It is a look at 30 Doradus, which is “the brightest and most prolific star-forming region in our galactic neighborhood”. Hell yeah!
Video: Yesterday’s SOLAR FLARE In All Its Glory
Boom! Yesterday bore witness to a pretty friggin’ fantastic sunspot. I ain’t going to keep barking my gelantinous mind-mush.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Pilot Almost Crashes After Mistaking VENUS For An AIRPLANE. Common Mistake. Amirite.
Venus was brighter than a mofuckah’ outside a couple of nights ago. Prompted the girlfriend and me to stare in appreciation, as I waxed cosmic talking about (I’m sure she was bored) how “that’s really a planet up there” and “isn’t that fucking sick that it’s really real” and shit. I thought I was losing my cool, but this pilot one-upped me. Big time.
AURORAS Spotted On URANUS For First Time. Cue Puns.
Have you seen an aurora? I sure haven’t. My experience with them have been confined to Skyrim. Don’t get me wrong, those were gorgeous, I would just much prefer seeing one in person. Now, what could be more fantastic than that? Seeing one on a foreign planet.
ASTEROID That Killed DINOSAURS Might Create Life In Other Solar Systems. Paying It Forward ++
Here’s a potential happy ending to Jurassic Park. The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and thereby deprived me of my (don’t think about it logically you assholes) T. Rex that I ride around like a car could have seeded life throughout the rest of the galaxy.
Astronomers Find Evidence of STAR-KILLING Sandtorms. Guess ‘Episode I’ Anakin Was Right. Go Figure.
The cosmos is goddamn impressive for a variety of reasons. One of my favorite examples is its tremendous capacity for destruction. Marauding stars, black holes, and now this: sandstorms that rise up out of a star and friggin’ end it.
“Yuri’s Planet” Is Stunning Look At Earth
Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin was the first human to gaze upon the Grand Blue Marble we call home from space. He did so on this day way back in 1961, and in honor of the anniversary NASA has posted this picture. Damn, it’s a pretty one.
This SPACE PHOTO Has A Fox Fur, A Christmas Tree, And More.
The human mind is wonderful in its capacity for seeing familiar objects in the unfamiliar. NASA all claims we should be seeing a Christmas tree and a fox fur or some shit in this photo, but all I’m seeing is a vagina. Yes, a vagina. I’m sorry. I apologize. I see it. It glares at me.
