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Posts Tagged ‘astronomy’

Link dump: Tubes, vampires, cookies

Posted in Play on 30 January 2010 | Comments?
Tags: astronomy, humor, internet, links, scifi, space

(It’s time for another link dump, a hodgepodge of web goodness. Enjoy!)
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There is a theory — a “unified” theory, in fact — that the universe is connected by “wave tubes”. (Imagine traveling to other galaxies through wormholes ala-Star Gate.) But I digress.
On a less grander scale, but still beautiful, here is the Milky Way, represented [...]

Sleep well, Phoenix

Posted in Play on 31 October 2008 | Comments?
Tags: astronomy, news, science, twitter

Update: Ah, it’s awake!
We’ll see you when you wake up.
While we’re in the subject of anthromorphism, check out and follow MarsPhoenix’s other cohorts on Twitter. I wished we had this back in my science high school days — it would have been a blast. (Pointy nerd hat on.)

‘We are such stuff…’

Posted in In-between on 19 January 2006 | Comments?
Tags: astronomy, cool, science

Got this childhood dream of becoming an astronaut, or at least work with NASA. And with news like this about the Stardust project, who wouldn’t? [via Boing Boing]