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ilovecharts:

An overwhelming bunch of interesting recession charts from the great team over at theatlantic

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inothernews:

It costs $800, but Celestron’s new Sky Prodigy telescope has the location of 4,000 celestial bodies programmed into an onboard computer, so… it’s very much worth it.

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ilovecharts:

Cat vs. internet

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fuckyeahtheuniverse:

Look closely! The International Space Station in front of a full moon.

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itsfullofstars:

Solar Eclipse Tomorrow: Europe to See Crescent Sunrise?

The moon will appear to take a bite out of the sun tomorrow during the first of four partial solar eclipses slated to happen in 2011. Sky-watchers across most of continental Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia will be able to see the celestial event.

Solar eclipses occur when Earth, the moon, and the sun are aligned so that—as seen from Earth—the moon appears to cover all or part of the sun’s disk.

Above, a partial solar eclipse, seen over Taipei, Taiwan, last January.

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thepopcorn:

las matematicas no mienten

nunca

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I only know the bird. Eternal shame.

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shootingstarsandfallendreams:

:) the inconvenient truth is it’s true :)

I love pie charts.

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proofmathisbeautiful:

Watching Google destroy Cr-48 laptops for fun can’t have been easy for any of you, but it turns out that the wily geeks of Mountain View had a clandestine purpose to their malevolence after all. An equation, scribbled out in old school chalk in the background of one scene, attracted the attention of a Sylvain Zimmer, who, together with a group of like-minded geeks, set about trying to solve it and discover its meaning. A full day’s worth of cryptographic work later, Sylvain was left with a set of numbers he was able to convert into letters, which in turned spelled out “speed and destroy.” Appending goo.gl, Google’s URL shortener, to the front of those words got him to a screen congratulating him for being “first to figure out our MENSA-certified puzzle” and promising to send him a Cr-48 laptop as his prize. Kudos to Sylvain… and to Google for being such irrepressible geeks.

[Engadget]

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