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http://plusalpha-glass.com/index.html
Artist Satoshi Tomizu creates small glass spheres that appear to be miniature solar systems or galaxies, in which planets made of opal are circling into spirals of colored glass and gold flakes.
Each piece includes a small glass loop allowing them to be transformed into a beautiful pendant.
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This tilt-shifted photo of the Endeavour shows the space shuttle leaving the atmosphere. 🙌🚀 (♻️: redditor mmokkp)
looks like a rocket powered flea
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There’s an astronaut in a gorilla suit floating around the International Space Station
We have no idea why this suit was deemed essential enough to send into zero gravity, or why Kelly himself found it personally important. But it’s kind of heartwarming to know that even astronauts on the ISS share the ability to keep completely useless and unwieldy items around the home.
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Every Photo From NASA’s Apollo Missions Are Now on Flickr
The Project Apollo Archive uploaded more than 10,000 high-resolution images the astronauts took during NASA’s Apollo Missions of the 1960s and 70s. The collection includes every never-seen-before photo shot with the Hasselblad cameras on the lunar surface, from Earth and lunar orbit, as well as during the journey between the two. All the photos are unprocessed versions of the original scans.
And they’re AMAZING.
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Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th
No guys you don’t understand.
The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.
So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.
This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.
That’s not sad, that’s awesome.
*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing
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