Orbis non sufficit
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Earthrise
Take a moment to appreciate the smallness and fragility of the Earth and the entire human race with this extremely famous and historically significant photograph:
"Taken by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders on December 24, 1968, showing the Earth seemingly rising above the lunar surface. Note that this phenomenon is only visible from someone in orbit around the Moon. Because of the Moon's synchronous rotation about the Earth (i.e., the same side of the Moon is always facing the Earth), no Earthrise can be visible from the surface of the Moon." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg
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Take a moment to appreciate the smallness and fragility of the Earth and the entire human race with this extremely famous and historically significant photograph:
"Taken by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders on December 24, 1968, showing the Earth seemingly rising above the lunar surface. Note that this phenomenon is only visible from someone in orbit around the Moon. Because of the Moon's synchronous rotation about the Earth (i.e., the same side of the Moon is always facing the Earth), no Earthrise can be visible from the surface of the Moon." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Unproductivity
Man, this Spore creature creator is so terrible for my productivity. It was probably a bad idea to download it to my uni computer. I wasted a bunch of time today building this guy:
This one is Karen's fault, though it turned out pretty well, in a horrible monster kind of way. I made sure to share it online :).
Man, this Spore creature creator is so terrible for my productivity. It was probably a bad idea to download it to my uni computer. I wasted a bunch of time today building this guy:
This one is Karen's fault, though it turned out pretty well, in a horrible monster kind of way. I made sure to share it online :).
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Awesome.
Check out the xkcd blog for more details: this should so be a prac in first year physics.
Check out the xkcd blog for more details: this should so be a prac in first year physics.
Uuggghhhh
Man, its 2:20 am and I only just finished my stat mech exam! Gah! I also have to finish my stat mech assignment, which is due tomorrow, before I can sleep. Clearly I will be sleeping on the couch in my office tonight. Or possibly not sleeping. I reaaally hope I get to sleeep, ouch.
Man, its 2:20 am and I only just finished my stat mech exam! Gah! I also have to finish my stat mech assignment, which is due tomorrow, before I can sleep. Clearly I will be sleeping on the couch in my office tonight. Or possibly not sleeping. I reaaally hope I get to sleeep, ouch.
