Artist’s website, via INSIDE THE FROZEN MAMMOTH.
May 12th, 2009
May 8th, 2009
Weird NASA Video
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April 24th, 2009
April 21st, 2009
RIP JG Ballard
JG Ballard has passed away. A truly visionary author of the apocalyptic.
Here’s an obit, via posthuman blues.
Some book covers.
From rick mcgrath’s ballard site, via feuilleton.
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Myriahedral Map Projections
Apologies for the two weeks absence folks! Unfortunately, work got in the way, but I’ll do my best not to let that happen again. I’ve got a video from next nature to show y’all:
What interests me here is less the ideology behind this project (constructing a map of that doesn’t privilege certain areas) and more the algorithms for translating a three-dimensional object into a two-dimensional plane without losing any data.
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April 3rd, 2009
Map of the Nearby Universe
The most detailed map of the nearby universe yet constructed. Each dot is a galaxy. For some galaxies, the researchers who created this map are trying to separate the velocity of a galaxy due to cosmic expansion from the velocity of a galaxy due to its own “peculiar” movement.
via universe today.
Just as stars in our galaxy orbit around the galactic center, do galaxies themselves orbit around as-yet unnamed centers in the endless uniformity of the universe?
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March 31st, 2009
ISS Update
Click here to see a visual history of the International Space Station, via universe today.
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The International Space Station
via wikipedia.
According to universe today, now that the solar panel modules have been added to the as-yet uncompleted International Space Station, it is the second brightest object in the night sky, next to the moon.
via universe today.
Venus has been dethroned, and this is just a sign of things to come. Our children’s children will look up into a sky filled with artificial satellites, floating space cities twinkling in the twilight.
A lone guitarist, camping on a mild post-global-weirding Saskatchewan winter night, will sing a song about a woman who left him for a life in space. The sky is so bright with habitats, he can hardly pick out her new home. Her muscles, weakened by the lower gravity of the Lagrange-point colonies, will never be able to support earth’s gravity again.
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March 27th, 2009
Stratospheric Microorganisms
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched a balloon
into the upper atmosphere and discovered three strange new species of bacteria far more resistant to UV radiation than previously known strains. According to the ISRO, sufficient precautionary measures were used to make sure that the species were, in fact, picked up by the balloon in the stratosphere and not closer to earth. This PDF, from the International Journal of Astrobiology, states that “very small, bacteria-like particles” have been found as high as 41 kilometers into the atmosphere. The paper concludes with the suggestion that these particles, “too large to have originated from Earth” (since there is no viable way for them to reach such heights) may have originated from space. Imagine a gentle rain of alien invaders…
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March 24th, 2009
Unurthed
Last Tuesday I discovered unurthed while googling thoughtforms, and was too distracted to post anything, my apologies. Unurthed is a collection of fascinating hermetic images, such as this sasquatch
Mask carved by the Dorset Culture of the Point Barrow region in Alaska.
from an article on Szukalski’s science of Zermatism, this diagrammatic sand painting
The Shock Painting by Miguelito.
alongside an explication, and this illustration of life energy by Malcolm Thurnburn
from a discussion of Baron Fersen’s Science of Being.
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