So there’s supposed to be this amazing meteor shower tonight, but it’s raining and cloudy where I am and I’m pretty disappointed. I’ll have to watch the live stream.
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I should never have downloaded NASA’s Eyes. Now all I want to do is watch planets and galaxies all day.
Nor should I have checked out Experience Curiosity. Now I wanna cruise all over Mars.
Or the website where you can see the ISS (International Space Station) orbiting Earth in real time.
And yes, I linked all of those because I want everyone to join in the “oooh, shiny planets and galaxies!” :D
@geometrynerd, @ultranos
What’s in a Name? Gaming Names Reveal Lots About the Player’s Personality
What’s in a name? In the case of the usernames of video gamers, a remarkable amount of information about their real world personalities, according to research by psychologists at the University of York.
The research is in Computers in Human Behavior. (full open access)
NASA is Planning to Capture an Asteroid and Put it in Orbit Around the Moon
NASA is planning a mission that will visit a large asteroid and redirect a large portion of it into a stable orbit around the Moon. From there, we can study it at our leisure. http://futurism.com/videos/nasa-planning-capture-asteroid-put-orbit-around-moon/
Before US astronaut Scott Kelly returned from his year-long mission aboard the International Space Station, he shared photos of his very last sunrise in space.
I think you need to see the full photos, in all their glory:
Source
So there’s this physics journal that uses math and science to discuss the realities of fictional universes in a super legit, peer-reviewed manner?
And they did a thing on Frozen?
Combining research on the film?
With info on how water works and stuff?
Then applied math and chemistry (and other things in which I am not especially well versed) to reach this conclusion:
So.
Rosemary Johnson was a promising violinist and member of the Welsh National Opera Orchestra when she was involved in a devastating car crash 27 years ago. The accident left her in a coma for seven months, and the resulting brain damage has robbed her of most of her ability to talk and move.
But thanks to new software that reads people’s brain waves, Johnson has been able to compose music for the first time since 1988, and has had the chance to have it played to her in real time by a professional string quartet.
“It was really very moving,” Eduardo Miranda from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research at Plymouth University in the UK, told The Telegraph.
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