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  • December 7th, 2012 12:20am

    discoverynews:

    Apollo Veteran: Skip Asteroid, Go to the Moon: It’s 40 years to the day that the final mission to the moon launched. Discovery News speaks with Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist Harrison “Jack” Schmitt about where he thinks the Earth’s only satellite came from and why he thinks a NASA manned asteroid mission is a mistake.

    “I think an asteroid is a diversion, if the ultimate goal is to get to Mars, you have a satellite only three days away that has a great deal of science as well as resources. The science of the moon has just been scratched. We’ve hardly explored the moon.” — Schmitt

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  • December 6th, 2012 11:13pm

    You have to remember, in the entire history of the universe, you’re the only you that has ever existed. Only you see the world the way you see the world. We want to know how you see it. It might be so beautiful, so different, that it changes everything.

    — Grant Morrison, 2008 (via deantrippe)

  • December 6th, 2012 9:55pm

    I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things but I’m not absolutely sure of anything and on many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little but if I can’t figure it out then I go onto something else but I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things. By being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it is as far as I can tell, possibly. But it doesn’t frighten me.

    —

    – Richard Feynman.

    I love this man. One of the most brilliant men of our time since Einstein, Feynman saw through the educational system, explored the world in a more rational, skeptical way by interacting with the natural world & testing his knowledge & skepticism through experiment.

    Once he realized the cause & effect of his contributions to science, more specifically – to the disastrous aftermath of the atomic bomb – he completely swore off the military industry in despise of their actual motives.

    His life was well lived as a successful scientist, educator, husband, father, friend. He is succeeded only by those whom he’s inspired & educated through the benchmarks & platforms he established in physics (& science in general) for future generations of all fields.

    (via sagansense)

  • December 6th, 2012 9:52pm

    ivuckovic:

    from the “Barbarella” comic strip by Jean-Claude Forest. 1966 (US translated) – original published in France 1962, V-Magazine; published as a book in ‘64 – this is a full page, minimal color, Barb + robo sex… awww yeeahh

    I love everything about this.

  • December 6th, 2012 9:33pm

    “Police want to question him about the fatal shooting of Gregory Viant Faull, who was shot to death in early November on the Belize island where both men lived.”

    Shot to death in a fatal shooting? Are you serious? You’re writing an article for Yahoo and you write like that?

    “McAfee went on the run last month after officials tried to question him about the killing of Faull, who was shot to death in early November.”

    You already said that…