Archive for the ‘space’ category: Page 818
Oct 31, 2018
Hawaii top court approves controversial Thirty Meter Telescope
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Oct 31, 2018
Truly Terrifying: The Solar System’s Spookiest Place
Posted by Bill Retherford in category: space
Oct 30, 2018
Mysterious 900 MILE long ‘plume’ cloud spotted on the surface of Mars near a giant volcano
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Oct 29, 2018
The Most FASCINATING Things Ever Found in SPACE
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Oct 29, 2018
The best astronomy pictures of the year are gorgeous reminders that we live on a rock that drifts through space
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Look at the beauty of the universe!
Looking up at space reminds us that everyone and everything on Earth is stuck together on a big space rock that’s drifting through an infinite black void.
Unfortunately, terrestrial concerns like work, dinner, and getting enough sleep tend to keep us facing down.
Oct 29, 2018
We’re on the cusp of the #Apollo50… — NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
We’re on the cusp of the #Apollo50 anniversary of America’s great achievement that landed a dozen astronauts on the Moon between July 1969 and December 1972 and our first crewed mission – Apollo 8 – that circumnavigated the Moon in December 1968. Take a look: https://go.nasa.gov/2CN3KQH
Oct 29, 2018
Technology and Culture: Our Accelerating Epigenetic Factor Driven Evolution
Posted by Alex Vikoulov in categories: computing, genetics, particle physics, space, virtual reality
Memes are not just learned, they run deeper than that, they are part of our shared experience as human beings. This is how we communicate to each other through spoken, written, and body language; this is how we participate in customs, rituals and cultural traditions. Indeed, human civilization has always been a “cultured” virtual reality. We don’t often think of cultures as virtual realities, but there is no more apt descriptor for our widely diverse sociology and interpretations than the metaphor of the “virtual reality.” In truth, the virtual reality metaphor encompasses the entire human enterprise. We should realize that all our ideologies and religions, our belief systems and models of reality are our own personal operating systems — real to us but wry to someone else — each of us lives in a seemingly shared but simultaneously private virtual world.
By Alex Vikoulov.
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