#January2014
Behold! This is the deepest into space we’ve looked!
I’m kind of skeptical that this is actually the furthest we’ve seen into space. You know? I ain’t taking anything away from you, Hubble. You’re wonderful. I just suspect that such a news story is laden with unspoken caveats up the ass. But whatever. Let’s just appreciate the beauty together. Hold my hand. Hold it!
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SPACE PORN: Behold the Star Cluster that wowed the Romans
Check out M7! This glorious star cluster is so gods-damned bright that the Romans were capable of seeing it in the night sky. So yeah! Drop down and get your learn on about the collection of about 100 stars that wowed the hair off of Ptolemy’s nips.
Hubble finds EVIDENCE OF CLOUDS on a distant planet. Good looks, telescope.
Hubble ain’t fucking around. Despite not being designed to detect clouds and shit in the atmosphere, the plucky son of a bitch is doing it anyways! Oh wow! Oh fuck! How did the telescope pull off such a feat?
Hit the jump to find out! Big market tease! 2014! Fuck yeahhh.
Watch: NASA robot combines OCULUS RIFT + KINECT. Future rules, brah.
NASA ain’t letting the upcoming Robot Apocalypse dissuade them from utilizing current technologies. Until it strikes, of course. Then they’ll just be paste like the rest of us. Until that happens though, they’re doing jazzy things like combining the both the Oculus Rift and XB1’s Kinect. For great justice. Or great…science?
Astronauts installing live version of GOOGLE EARTH on the ISS. All Seeing Eye++
Astronauts on the ISS are installing what they’re calling a “live” version of Google on the ISS. Whatever could go wrong with this? Besides — you know. The inevitable Robotic Uprising of 2014. Jesus Christ. We’ve given them a perfect perch from where they will be able to monitor the human labor camps, building their 50 foot tall robo-bodies.
ASTRONOMERS discover first EXOMOON. Maybe.
Well, I had no idea. No! Idea! That we weren’t already in the exomoon game. Just sort of figured that all those exoplanets we were spotting had their own luna-esque buddies.
Space Porn: Star-Forming Region IC 471 tickles me pink.
‘Cause it’s pink! Ya see! You can be tickled pink! By this star-forming region. Oh whatever. Now that you mention it, (I know you didn’t mention it) where does that phrase come from? Tickled to the point of blushing? Man — that seems like fucking assault. Or is it battery? Whatever! Whatever!
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Nolan’s ‘INTERSTELLAR’ Teaser Trailer: Dare to Dream Again
There is very little in the way of footage in the first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Instead we have Matthew McConaughey with a table-setting monologue about humanity’s loss of dreaming. Though I find this to be a pretty insular view, and would be more fairly applied to the governments of the world (who used the space race far more as cold war maneuvering than genuine desire to explore) than us individuals who populate the Blue Marble. Whatever. Look at me. Blah, blah, blah.
Astronomers (maybe) see GEYSER OF WATER ON EUROPA!
Europa squirts! Europa erupts! Astronomers have known that Europa has liquid water underneath its surface. Check. Known. However, there has never been direct evidence of said water. Until now.
Opinions Vary: Trolling Aliens
Although it is oftentimes bogged down by its own insular squabbling on this planet, humankind has a fascinating propensity to be open-minded about the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere. The unbelievable vastness of the universe coupled with the strangeness of our potentially singular existence within it seems to make many hesitant to commit to the conviction that we are alone. Rather, it’s more understandable to long for others to be with us. After all, if there’s a whole lot of life here, then surely it can conceivably happen somewhere else. And while some believe that here and elsewhere have already mixed and intelligent life forms have visited from afar to our pale blue dot, most supporters hold that there’s a better chance that aliens exist just outside our celestial periphery and will continue to do so until a future time when, with the assistance of technological and even social advancements, we might at last meet. But even without the realistic prospects of such a superior tomorrow in our sight, there remains a genuine willingness to take the necessary steps to get there, to reach out in the hope that we can commence a cosmic dialogue with anyone or anything that might be receptive to a human how-do-you-do.
