#Space
Virgin Has Opened The First Commercial Spaceport. Mars, I Come To Thee!
Richard Branson has opened the first commercial fucking spaceport in the solar system. Galaxy? Maybe. Universe? Of course not! They probe me and laugh! Oh, they laugh. No seriously though, this is pretty fucking sweet.
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Comets Almost Ended Life On August 12th, 1883. Time Traveling Morgan Freeman Saved Us.
According to new findings, a wild gang of Earth-fucking comets almost ended life on our Fair Blue Marble. There was no Bruce Willis to stave disaster, but rather chance. Or the Hand of Zeus, if you swing that way.
Scientists Working On Tractor Beam To Save Astronauts Floating Away. Awesome.
My main concern when I’m outside my spaceship harvesting tilium is the threat of solar radiation. However, I’m also pretty worried that I’m going to float the fuck away. Freeze to death in the horrors of deep space. Scientists got my back though. They’re working on something to save my dumb floating away ass.
Galactic Trance! Stare Into The Eyes of NGC 2467, Feel The Nausea.
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Stare deeply into the eyes of NGC 2467. Stare into them and feel the universal glory, the nausea of existing in such a realm! It beckons you to understand. But you cannot. I cannot. We are mud-men-ape-brains.
Needle Galaxy Gets Tilted, Rough Weekend Mucho Galactic Crunk.
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…what am I saying? You type so many headlines and all of a sudden everything/nothing starts making sense to you. Anyways! Check out the fucking Needle Galaxy, as viewed from Earth. Son of a bitch apparently kicks it like Bernie on the weekends.
Or something.
Titan Gets A Sexy Infrared Close-Up. Cassini, You Pimp.
Check out this super bombad picture of Titan taken by Cassini back in August. You can see surface detail of the lovely rock, and it’s all thanks to the powers of infrared.
Uranus’ Tilt Is From A Double-Whupping Upside Its Head.
Astronomi-wizards have long been trying to figure out why Uranus is tilted over on its side. Late night partying? Existential vertigo? Or perhaps a comet-based beat down. By not one, but two rough riders.
Saturn’s Rings Cast Sexy Halo Atop His Head.
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Check out this picture of Saturn and its rings as captured by Cassini. Man, that Cassini is legit. So many delicious pictures. Anyways, did you know you can measure the passage of time on Saturn by the shadows its rings cast? I didn’t either.
Solar Storm Ejaculates Plasma Blast Larger Than Earth. G’damn.
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The Sun is one petulant sumbitch these days. There’s storms afoot and the such and so forth. Yeah, I’m rambling. Anyways, there was recently a plasma burst that was bigger than the Earth. This is both amazing and not surprising.
Gamers Discover Two New Planets Using Browser Game. Cyeah!
Gamers are fucking holding it down. When we’re not cracking crazy ass protein thingies that I don’t really understand using Foldit, apparently we’re finding planets. Earth-like ones.
