Thursday, December 31, 2015

Henry Moore

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'."

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

The Alps in Winter


European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and Expedition 46 Flight Engineer Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) photographed the Alps from orbit on Dec. 27, 2015 and later shared the image with his social media followers, writing, "There may not be much snow in the Alps this winter but they still look stunning from here! #Principia" via NASA http://ift.tt/1miLof5

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Henry David Thoreau

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."

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@CharityCr1TiKaL: I give up on coffee

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@CharityCr1TiKaL: I bought a new coffee brand, I added new shit, I have completely changed the coffee game. Waiting for it to cool down to try my concoction

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Reading the Alphabet From Space


NASA's Earth Observatory has tracked down images resembling all 26 letters of the English alphabet using only NASA satellite imagery and astronaut photography. In this image, the letter 'Y' is for yardangs, elongated landforms sculpted by erosion and similar to sand dunes, but instead comprised of sandstone or siltstone. via NASA http://ift.tt/1ZzD7Bo

Monday, December 28, 2015

Horace Walpole

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

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@CharityCr1TiKaL: It's so hard for me to get my fingers on the correct frets on the ukulele, shits so small I feel like I'm trying to finger a smurf

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Boulders on a Martian Landslide


The striking feature in this image, acquired by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 19, 2014, is a boulder-covered landslide along a canyon wall. Landslides occur when steep slopes fail, sending a mass of soil and rock to flow downhill, leaving behind a scarp at the top of the slope. via NASA http://ift.tt/1ZxnSsx

Sunday, December 27, 2015

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."

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@CharityCr1TiKaL: CSGO Sunday https://t.co/Z0YkwMrD4B

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Saturday, December 26, 2015

A. C. Benson

"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."

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@CharityCr1TiKaL: Tried coffee again, added all the recommended accessories, still tasted like mulch

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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Christmas Pluto


Pluto gets into the holiday spirit, decked out in red and green using a pair of Ralph/LEISA instrument scans. via NASA http://ift.tt/22quRWL

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Charles Dickens

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

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Zinnia Flowers Starting to Grow on the International Space Station


Zinnia flowers are starting to grow in the International Space Station's Veggie facility as part of the VEG-01 investigation. Veggie provides lighting and nutrient supply for plants in the form of a low-cost growth chamber and planting "pillows” to provide nutrients for the root system. via NASA http://ift.tt/1mApUtZ

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

@CharityCr1TiKaL: I enjoy reading strange news stories from around the world. My favorite from today's search the Library Foot Smeller https://t.co/isKC5Tv7Dg

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NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra on Dec. 21 Spacewalk


Expedition 46 Flight Engineer Tim Kopra on a Dec. 21, 2015 spacewalk, in which Kopra and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly successfully moved the International Space Station's mobile transporter rail car ahead of Wednesday's docking of a Russian cargo supply spacecraft. via NASA http://ift.tt/1S8leHF

Monday, December 21, 2015

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."

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Chandra Finds Remarkable Galactic Ribbon Unfurled


An extraordinary ribbon of hot gas trailing behind a galaxy like a tail has been discovered using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. via NASA http://ift.tt/1OGFdI6

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The soul's joy lies in doing."

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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Voltaire

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."

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Friday, December 18, 2015

Horace Mann

"It is well to think well; it is divine to act well."

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NASA Releases New High-Resolution Earthrise Image


NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft's vantage point in orbit around the moon. via NASA http://ift.tt/1ZfFEQZ

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Lewis Mumford

"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind."

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NuSTAR's View of Galaxy 1068


Galaxy 1068 is shown in visible light and X-rays in this composite image. High-energy X-rays (magenta) captured by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, are overlaid on visible-light images from both NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. via NASA http://ift.tt/1QPF49G

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Anton Chekhov

"To advise is not to compel."

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Expedition 46 Soyuz Approaches Space Station for Docking


Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko manually docked the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft on Dec. 15, 2015 to the International Space Station's Rassvet module after an initial automated attempt was aborted. Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA flanked Malenchenko as he brought the Soyuz to the Rassvet port. via NASA http://ift.tt/1P8gjFL

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

@CharityCr1TiKaL: I've never watched a debate before, but decided to tune in for a sec and heard a man talk about "Rawns Pubis" Who the fuck is Rawns Pubis?

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@CharityCr1TiKaL: @CrikMaster @VinnyVinesauce A timeless classic for the whole family to enjoy this holiday season

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Expedition 46 Soyuz Launch to the International Space Station


The Soyuz TMA-19M rocket is launched with Expedition 46 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA, and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency), Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. via NASA http://ift.tt/1jZR3nW

Monday, December 14, 2015

Lyndon B. Johnson

"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's."

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@CharityCr1TiKaL: I hate coffee, it tastes like I'm drinking dirt. I pour so much milk in it and it still tastes like a glass of oak tree cum.

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Expedition 46 Soyuz Rollout


In this one minute exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky as the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015 in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Expedition 46 crew to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz is scheduled for Dec. 15, 2015. via NASA http://ift.tt/1Qozyw6

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Socrates

"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."

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@CharityCr1TiKaL: Sunday CSGO https://t.co/Z0YkwMrD4B

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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle."

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Friday, December 11, 2015

Rose Kennedy

"Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great."

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Expedition 45 Crew Members Return Home


Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA captured this image from aboard the International Space Station, of the Dec. 11, 2015 undocking and departure of the Soyuz TMA-17M carrying home Expedition 45 crew members Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Kimiya Yui of JAXA. via NASA http://ift.tt/1OX6Pvb

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."

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Phytoplankton Bloom in the North Atlantic


On Sept. 23, 2015, the weather was adequate for the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite to acquire this view of a phytoplankton bloom in the North Atlantic. The image was composed with data from the red, green, and blue bands from VIIRS, in addition to chlorophyll data. via NASA http://ift.tt/1jQCdAm

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Venus From the International Space Station


On Dec. 5, 2015, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui captured this image from the International Space Station of the planet Venus. Part of the station's Kibo laboratory is visible at the top of the frame. At the time this photograph was taken, Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft, a Venus climate orbiter, was nearing the planet. via NASA http://ift.tt/1HV7i1m

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Armstrong Flight Research Center’s F-15D Eagle Follows OLYMPEX Science Mission


NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s F-15D Eagle #897, flown by pilot Troy Asher with videographer Lori Losey in the back seat, serves as a chase vehicle for NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory on the Olympic Mountain Experiment (OLYMPEX) science mission, Nov. 10, 2015. via NASA http://ift.tt/1m8xewH

Monday, December 7, 2015

Ezra Pound

"Either move or be moved."

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Earth in Full View


The Apollo 17 crew caught this breathtaking view of our home planet as they were traveling to the moon on Dec. 7, 1972. It's the first time astronauts were able to photograph the South polar ice cap. Nearly the entire coastline of Africa is clearly visible, along with the Arabian Peninsula. via NASA http://ift.tt/1Qr9JtL

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Sara Teasdale

"Life is but thought."

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Launch of Orbital ATK Commercial Resupply Mission to the International Space Station


Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo spacecraft launches aboard United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 4:44:56 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will deliver experiments, equipment and supplies to the orbiting laboratory and its six-person crew. via NASA http://ift.tt/1IyvA1g

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Nadia Boulanger

"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."

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@CharityCr1TiKaL: 4 Days left on the holiday shirt sale https://t.co/F3vYFvXb4Z

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Friday, December 4, 2015

Muriel Spark

"It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles."

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The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum


In this highest-resolution image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto’s water-ice crust appear jammed together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains. via NASA http://ift.tt/1lCvXgz

Thursday, December 3, 2015

@CharityCr1TiKaL: I want Psychonauts 2 bad as fuck. Hopefully Double Fine doesn't make the same mistakes they made with Broken Age

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ULA Atlas V Rocket With Cygnus Spacecraft at the Launch Pad


A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard stands at the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Dec. 3, 2015. via NASA http://ift.tt/1O5HzzT

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

William Lloyd Garrison

"Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?"

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Space Station's Robotic Arm Set for Arrival of Cygnus Cargo Craft


The International Space Station's robotic arm, Canadarm2, is visible over Earth in this Nov. 27, 2015 photograph. On Dec. 6, Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren will operate the Canadarm2 from inside the station's cupola, using it for the rendezvous and grapple of Orbital ATK's Cygnus commercial cargo craft. via NASA http://ift.tt/1NHLZCC

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Henry Miller

"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."

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@CharityCr1TiKaL: Thirty-seventh charity donation + a chance to be an alien in Rick and Morty #BigMoistBigDreams https://t.co/v8yYMa09gG

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Celebrating 20 Years of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)


After 20 years in space, ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, is still going strong. Originally launched in 1995 to study the sun and its influence out to the very edges of the solar system, SOHO revolutionized this field of science, known as heliophysics, providing the basis for nearly 5,000 scientific papers. via NASA http://ift.tt/1Xvle9g