neuroflora

First of all, let’s clarify what the NASA budget is. Do you realize that the $850 billion dollar bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50-year running budget of NASA?

And so when someone says, “We don’t have enough money for this space probe,” I’m asking, no, it’s not that you don’t have enough money, it’s that the distribution of money that you’re spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.

You remember the 60s and 70s. You didn’t have to go more than a week before there’s an article in Life magazine, “The Home of Tomorrow,” “The City of Tomorrow,” “Transportation of Tomorrow”. All of that ended in the 1970s. After we stopped going to the Moon, it all ended. We stopped dreaming.

And so I worry that the decision that Congress makes doesn’t factor in the consequences of those decisions on tomorrow. Tomorrow’s gone. They’re playing for the quarterly report, they’re playing for the next election cycle, and that is mortgaging the actual future of this nation, and the rest of the world is going to pass us by.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson (via david)

This is brilliant and sad. It’s the end of dreams time.

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Yeah, how are we gonna get kids to study math & science now? We can’t be all “you could be an astronaut!” anymore.

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9 months ago 1,998 notes

oldbookillustrations:

I beheld a noble stag with a fine full-grown cherry-tree above ten feet high between his antlers.

J. B. Clark, from The surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, London, 1895.

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diamondot:

listofnow:

champagnecandy:

bbook:

Dale Cooper: Now I’m going to go down and get us two malts and some fries downstairs. Then I want you to tell me all your troubles.

Audrey Horne: That could take all night.

Dale Cooper: The night is young. Now I’m going to get the food and you’re going to get dressed.

Audrey Horne: I can’t tell you all my secrets.

Dale Cooper: Secrets are dangerous things Audrey.

Audrey Horne: Do you have any?

Dale Cooper: No.

Audrey Horne: Laura had a lot of secrets.

Dale Cooper: Finding those out is my job.

reblogged for Melissa, obvs.

twin peaks instant reblog.

Oh hell yeah.

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imagesfromapoet:

From Rob, too cute

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1 year ago 4 notes

In the real world, time travel is actually possible, but only into the future. It takes great speed (GPS would be horribly off if time travel effects weren’t accounted for) and/or a lot of gravity (black holes anyone?) before the time travel effects become noticeable. Astronauts orbiting the Earth go through time faster than those on the ground, causing them to age a few microseconds less than those on the ground. Time travel into the past is a total unknown though.

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We’re always traveling through time, or it might be that time is traveling all around us. It’s simply that we perceive time as a constant, unidirectional thing. We might be like barnacles on the hull of a ship, stationary yet traveling in one direction. Many think of space-time as one-dimensional (past to future), but what if it is more tapestry than thread—or what if it is a cloud of woolen fleece. Maybe time is a tangle of yarns or cloths. Maybe we are clothed in it. Maybe it is spider webbing, maybe we are caught wrapped in it until we die.

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1 year ago 2 notes

T: (picks up a deck of cards and draws one) which card is this?
A: Uh, “Ceasars Palace”
T: No, that’s not what I mean.
A: Well I don’t know.
T: Come on, give me a suit and the card.
A: Uh, diamonds?
T: Okay, and…?
A: Four?
T: (turns card around, four of diamonds)
A: I’m worried.

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1 year ago