IN DΞAT - IS LIFΞ / IN DΞATH - IS DΞAT

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Fri, 24 May 2013 23:23:29 -0700

"Moreover, in this extremity of solitude none could count on any help from his neighbor; each had to..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:15:48 -0700

“Moreover, in this extremity of solitude none could count on any help from his neighbor; each had to bear the load of his troubles alone. If, by some one chance, one of us tried to unburden himself or to say something about his feelings, the reply he got, whatever it might be, usually wounded him. And then it dawned on him that he and the man with him weren’t talking about the same thing. For while he himself spoke from the depths of long days brooding upon his personal distress, and the image he had tried to impart had been slowly shaped and proved in the fires of passion and regret, this meant nothing to the man to whom he was speaking, who pictured a conventional emotion, a grief that is traded on the market-place, mass-produced. Whether friendly or hostile, the reply always missed fire, and the attempt to communicate had to be given up. This was true of those at least for whom silence was unbearable, and since the others could not find the truly expressive word, they resigned themselves to using the current coin of lenguage, the commonplaces of plain narrative, of anecdote, and of their daily paper. So, in these cases, too, even the sincerest grief had to make do with the set phrases of ordinary conversation. Only on these terms could the prisoners of the plague ensure the sympathy of their concierge and the interest of their hearers.”

- Albert Camus, The Plague (via wingsfortheirsmiles)

mcmillianfurlow: The surreal forests of Romania, by Andrei and...

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:15:11 -0700

mcmillianfurlow:

The surreal forests of Romania, by Andrei and Sergiu Cosma of PhotoCosma.

xyuriiii: Wu Tang Clan//Can It Be All So Simple Cause I find...

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:13:14 -0700

xyuriiii:

Wu Tang Clan//Can It Be All So Simple

Cause I find myself in the place where I’m last seen
My thoughts must be relaxed
Be able to maintain
Cause times is changed and life is strange

"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:13:09 -0700

“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”

- Robert Tew (via expiry)

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Fri, 24 May 2013 23:12:00 -0700

k-atharses: For all the lunars out there, we have a Penumbral...

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:09:41 -0700

k-atharses:

For all the lunars out there, we have a Penumbral Eclipse tonight! If you look closely, you can also see Mars peeking out. Enjoy!

(My apologies for the grain, this was just a quick shot around midnight.)

"This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:09:05 -0700

“This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell… Nothing happens while you live. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, a interminable, monotonous addition… That’s living. But everything changes when you tell about life; it’s a change no one notices: the proof is that people talk about true stories. As if there could possibly be true stories; things happen one way and we tell about them in the opposite sense. I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.”

- Sartre, JP, Nausea, (New Directions) p.39-40 (via fuckyeahdialectics)

un-define-me2: keldulmo: villenoire: serialkiller-obsessed: L...

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:04:30 -0700

un-define-me2:

keldulmo:

villenoire:

serialkiller-obsessed:

Last Words

Ted Bundy - “I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends.”

Aileen Wuornos - “I’d just like to say I’m sailing with the rock, and I’ll be back like Independence Day, with Jesus June 6. Like the movie, big mother ship and all, I’ll be back.”

John Wayne Gacy -“Kiss my ass.”

Carl Panzram - “Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around!”

Jeffrey Dahmer - “I don’t care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me.”

Peter Kurten - “Tell me, after my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be a pleasure to end all pleasures.”

James French - “Hey fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? ‘French fries’!”

Sean Flannagan - “I love you.” (spoken to the executioner)

Robert Drew - “Remember, the death penalty is murder.”

Tom Ketchum - “I’ll be in hell before you start breakfast, boys. Let her rip!”

This is my new favorite post.

sassy serial killers

This is awesome. :3

crawlinginvomits: Wu

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:03:29 -0700

crawlinginvomits:

Wu

dodsrike: The Twilight Zone - “Eye of the Beholder”...

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:02:27 -0700

dodsrike:

The Twilight Zone - “Eye of the Beholder” 1960

Where is this place, and when is it? What kind of world where ugliness is the norm and beauty the deviation from that norm? You want an answer? The answer is, it doesn’t make any difference. Because the old saying happens to be true. Beauty *is* in the eye of the beholder, in this year or a hundred years hence. On this planet or wherever there is human life, perhaps out amongst the stars. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Lesson to be learned - in The Twilight Zone.

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Fri, 24 May 2013 22:59:43 -0700

heisenbergdownrodeo: Iron Man - Black Sabbath

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:54:45 -0700

heisenbergdownrodeo:

Iron Man - Black Sabbath

astrodidact: Galaxy Evolution Fueled By Giant Cosmic Webs In...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:54:05 -0700

astrodidact:

Galaxy Evolution Fueled By Giant Cosmic Webs

In the early universe, galaxies formed out of clumps of matter, connected by filaments in a giant cosmic web. Within the galaxies, nuggets of gas cooled and condensed, becoming dense enough to trigger the birth of stars. Our Milky Way spiral galaxy and its billions of stars took shape in this way. The previous, standard model of galaxy formation held that hot gas sank into the centers of burgeoning galaxies from all directions. Gas clouds were thought to collide into each other, sending out shock waves, which then heated up the gas. The process is similar to jets creating sonic booms, only in the case of galaxies, the in-falling gas travels faster than the speed of sound, piling up into waves. Eventually, the gas cools and sinks to the galactic center. This process was theorized to be slow, taking up to 8 billion years.

Recent research has contradicted this scenario in smaller galaxies, showing that the gas is not heated. An alternate “cold-mode” theory of galaxy formation was proposed instead, suggesting the cold gas might funnel along filaments into galaxy centers. Kyle Stewart, Stewart, who is now at the California Baptist University in Riverside, Calif., completed the majority of this work while at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. and his colleagues set out to test this theory and address the mysteries about how the cold gas gets into galaxies, as well as the rate at which it spirals in.
“Galaxy formation is really chaotic,” said Kyle Stewart, lead author of the new study appearing in the May 20th issue of the Astrophysical Journal. “It took us several hundred computer processors, over months of time, to simulate and learn more about how this process works.”Since it would take billions of years to watch a galaxy grow, the team simulated the process using supercomputers at JPL; NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; and the University of California, Irvine.

They ran four different simulations of the formation of a galaxy like our Milky Way, starting from just 57 million years after the big bang until present day. The results show that cold gas — fuel for stars — spirals into the cores of galaxies along filaments, rapidly making its way to their “guts.” Once there, the gas is converted into new stars, and the galaxies bulk up in mass.

The simulations began with the starting ingredients for galaxies — hydrogen, helium and dark matter — and then let the laws of physics take over to create their galactic masterpieces. Supercomputers are needed due to the enormous number of interactions.

“The simulations are like a gigantic game of chess,” said Alyson Brooks, a co-author of the paper and expert in galaxy simulations at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “For each point in time, we have to figure out how a given particle — our chess piece — should move based on the positions of all of the other particles. There are tens of millions of particles in the simulation, so figuring out how the gravitational forces affect each particle is time-consuming.”

When the galaxy concoctions were ready, the researchers inspected the data, finding new clues about how cold gas sinks into the galaxy centers. The new results confirm that cold gas flows along filaments and show, for the first time, that the gas is spinning around faster than previously believed. The simulations also revealed that the gas is making its way down to the centers of galaxies more quickly than what occurs in the “hot-mode” of galaxy formation, in about 1 billion years.

“We have found that the filamentary structures that galaxies are built on are key to how they build up over time, by threading gas into them efficiently,” said Leonidas Moustakas, a co-author at JPL.

The researchers looked at dark matter too — an invisible substance making up about 85 percent of matter in the universe. Galaxies form out of lumps of regular matter, so-called baryonic matter that is composed of atoms, and dark matter. The simulations showed that dark matter is also spinning at a faster rate along the filaments, spiraling into the galaxy centers.

The results help answer a riddle in astronomy about galaxies with large extended disks of material spinning around them, far from their centers. Researchers didn’t understand how the outer material could be spinning so fast. The cold-mode allows for this rapid spinning, fitting another jigsaw piece into the puzzle of how galaxies grow.

“The goal of simulating galaxies is to compare them to what telescopes observe and see if we really understand how to build a galaxy,” said Stewart. “It helps us makes sense of the real universe.”

The image at the top of the page is from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer showing a young galaxy, NGC 300, located about seven million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor.

The Daily Galaxy via JPL

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/05/galaxy-evolution-fueled-by-giant-cosmic-webs.html#more

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Fri, 24 May 2013 22:48:10 -0700

ermahgerd-blerk-mertl: Arckanum - Svarti

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:47:26 -0700

ermahgerd-blerk-mertl:

Arckanum - Svarti

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Fri, 24 May 2013 21:27:46 -0700

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Fri, 24 May 2013 21:23:50 -0700

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:23:44 -0700

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to preceive with our frail and feeble minds.That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power , which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms an idea of God.”

- Albert Einstein (via imaneeeee)

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