Hidden deep in Obama’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget is this item: “Begins work on a mission to rendezvous with—and then move—a small asteroid.”
See what else you can find that’s particularly noteworthy, and tell us.
Circumpolar Stars
Depending on the viewers location on earth a circumpolar star is a star that never sets due to its proximity to the celestial poles, the picture above represents the circumpolar borealis (north) and the picture below represents the circumpolar australis (south). Image: Sergio Montúfar
#ama
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I look up — many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big — but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity.
That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant, you want to feel like a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you.
That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…
- Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson [ x ]
This is the Moon.
But imagine for a second that the Moon switched places with other planets. This is what you would see (subject to staying alive, of course):
Mars:
Venus:
Uranus:
Neptune:
Saturn:
Jupiter:
(Source: did-you-kno)
The mayor of Iceland gave Bjork this special house in Iceland. Its a little island actually, its not part of Iceland. So Bjork really lives in her own country. This is Bjork’s house. This is where Bjork lives.
“An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the children that whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run, they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats.
When he asked them why they had run like that when one could have had all the fruits for himself, they said, ‘UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?’ (‘UBUNTU’ in the Xhosa culture means: ‘I am because we are.)”aww <3
(Source: anoncentral)
Marine pretending to cheat off a 4th graders math exam. - Phillippines
This is
kind ofadorable.this deserves every single note and then more.
