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Space Porn: Saturn totally impaling one its moons on its rings.
It’s all perspective, baby! That’s what I shout at the men and women recoiling from my advances at the local tavern. You could say I’m missing thirty teeth! Or you could say I have six! Perspective! Just like you should say that this picture is one of Saturn impaling its moon, Tethys. Or you could say it’s just a trick of the lens! That’s not the same? C’MON FUCK I HAVE SIX TEETH CUT ME SOME SLACK.
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NASA thinking about deep-sleep option for Mars crew
Goddamn! Sign me the fuck for going to Bradbury’s Bastion. Apparently NASA is thinking about a deep-sleep option for the crew heading to Mars. Which frankly is probably nothing. ‘Cause like I’m sure they’re thinking about a lot of options. But still. I’m going to pretend it’s happening. Always wanted to be on that cryo-sleep tip.
Check It. First color photo of Mars from India’s Orbiter
India’s Mars Orbiter is currently chilling, safely orbiting the Red Planet. Traveling the cosmic highways is done! Which means that it’s time to get the fuck down with the dirty stuff. Like sending us back gorgeous pictures.
Science-Wizards find water clouds outside the solar system for first time
Chalk this up as one of the many, many things I did not know about in this Universe. Apparently water clouds are rare as fuck on planets. Even within our solar system. But Astronomer-Shaman have found some outside the solar system. For the first time!
‘Interstellar’ IMAX TV Spot: 2014 goes 2001
Summer is over. My system has ingested about as much Guardians of the Galaxy as it can handle (and then some, five viewings!). This means that it is time for me to begin gazing into the Fall and Winter release schedule. A schedule that holds a movie particularly kind to my crotch: Interstellar. Here’s a new TV IMAX spot.
This image of the Lagoon Nebula is a whirlwind of glory
Behold! The goddamn Lagoon Nebula! Okay, okay. It’s behind the cut. But whatever. It’s here, lurking. And would you know, that Nebula ain’t fucking around. At the center of it are two goddamn funnel clouds, each half a light-year long. Which is impressive to me, but probably not to the Universe. ‘Cause the Universe is big. #PostPadding #Obviousness
Rosetta becomes first spacecraft to orbit a f**king comet!
After ten goddamn years of hurtling through The Expanse, the Rosetta spacecraft has become the first one to orbit a fucking comet. How goddamn gnarly is that! Space, mannn. *Bong rip.* Spaceee.
NASA intends to make oxygen from CO2 on Mars’ surface
Science-science-science-fiction up in this real (real?) world! NASA is strapping a fucking shitload of stuff onto their Mars 2020 rover. And one of them gadgets is MOXIE — a sumbitch’ that is intended to make oxygen from the CO2 is finds on the surface. Boom! Pow! Reality!
This is the first image of the Moon by a U.S. spacecraft. Neato.
This is the “first picture taken of the moon” by U.S. spacecraft. “First.” If you believe that, I got a fucking bridge to sell you. I have it on good authority that the U.S. has had a base on the Dark Side of the Moon since Teddy Roosevelt’s first administration. Studying the Martians. Preparing. Always preparing.
NASA: Testing laser-powered drill to explore Jupiter’s moon, Europa
How the fuck we going to explore Jupiter’s moon, Europa? Eh! It’s iced out as fuck! NASA got itself an idea of how to go about doing it, and it’s begun testing this idea. A fucking laser-powered drill.
