Something new in the night sky, for the moment anyways.
Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers detected a small, comet-like object called 2006 SQ372, which is likely made of rock and ice. However, its orbit never brings it close enough to the sun for it to develop a tail. Its unusual orbit is an ellipse that is four times longer than it is wide, said University of Washington astronomer Andrew Becker, who led the discovery team.
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2006 SQ372 is beginning the return leg of a 22,500-year journey that will take it to a distance of 150 billion miles, nearly 1,600 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Scientists believe the object is only 50-100 kilometers (30-60 miles) across.
But did you hear about Pluto? Messed up right?
(via universe today)
The Internet is all about thoughts and memes coming round again. This sampling of color photos on the USA in the 1930s recently popped up in my FriendFeed. A little digging and it is discovered that Daily Kos focused on this first back in 2006.
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(via nonewbs, friendfeed, and daily kos)
conflicting technologies
Over the weekend the world lost two valued and talented entertainers. Forgive me for not wanting to acknowledge their passing earlier.
Clooney said: “The world just got a little less funny. He will be missed dearly.”
Brad Pitt, who also starred in the crime caper trilogy, added: “I lament the loss of a ferociously funny and hardcore family man. My thoughts are with Bernie’s wife Rhonda and their family. Bernie Mac, you are already missed.”
Samuel L. Jackson, who can be seen in comedy film Soul Men with Mac later this year, said he was “honoured” to have acted alongside the comedian.
(via the superficial, iwatchstuff, nzherald)
Over the weekend the world lost two valued and talented entertainers. Forgive me for not wanting to acknowledge their passing earlier.
…charts between 1969 and 1980. 1970’s The Isaac Hayes Movement and …To Be Continued were both hits, but it was 1971’s Shaft, the soundtrack to Gordon Parks’ blaxploitation film, that launched Hayes into the stratosphere. Shaft hit number one on both the pop and R&B charts, and won both Grammy and Academy Awards. Hayes’ performance of “Theme From Shaft” at the 1972 Oscars remains one of television’s most powerful musical moments.
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Stax A&R executive Collin Stanback told the Associated Press, ”Isaac Hayes embodies everything that’s soul music. When you think of soul music you think of Isaac Hayes — the expression … the sound and the creativity that goes along with it.”
(via pitchfork media, theme from shaft live 73 youtube)
who is the man that would risk his neck for brother man?
Sometime between May and August 2009, depending on launch dates, the booster stage for NASA’s LCROSS probe will deliberately crash into a permanently-shadowed lunar crater at 9,000 km/hr, producing an explosion equivalent to about 2,000 pounds of TNT (6.5 billion joules). The blast will jettison material out of the crater into broad daylight where astronomers can search the debris for signs of lunar water.
(via science@nasa)
You were a bit ahead on the timeline.
RIP.
Spider Jerusalem will be waiting for you in The Future. Once in The Future, there will be many lizards for eating and Russian cigarettes for after.
(via buzzfeed)
I was made aware of this piece of awesome a ways back from a fellow PnPer. It’s only now that I get a glimpse of what they were on about.
In all honesty, Mr Tarantino, I could do with you spending less time in front of the camera and more time behind it. The occasional voice will do nicely. Just stay away from the front of that lens.
(via iwatchstuff)
