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Video of The Known Universe by AMNH

Andy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:29:35 +0000

The American Museum of Natural History posted this video titled The Known Universe on youtube and I think it’s amazing. It’s the actual map of our known universe rendered out nicely. The video starts out on earth…

observe the wavelengths of the universe

Andy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:46:04 +0000

I think this is sweet. Chromoscope. It’s a collection of recorded wavelengths of the universe from our perspective. You can scroll through X-Ray, infrared, Hydrogen-alpha, optical, microwave, and radio wavelength images from the sky.

Here are a couple screen shots and links to things I found:

Reflected.

a shepherd’s story

Andy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:21:18 +0000

I’m going to take you on a journey.. a journey where I set the environment and you let your mind create the pictures. I’m going to tell you a story you a story.. with a few tool songs.. if you’ve got a good 35 minutes or need something to entertain during work, listen to these videos in this order and tell me if you can hear the story…

Tool – Opiate

Tool – Swamp Song / Flood

Tool – Sober

Tool – The Pot

Tool – H

galactic rays = da tree juice

Andy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:55:48 +0000

tree patterns show growth from cosmic rays

“The growth of British trees appears to follow a cosmic pattern, with trees growing faster when high levels of cosmic radiation arrive from space.”

Galactic/Cosmic rays are energy particles (made up of mostly protons, a few electrons, and some helium atom nuclei) that flow through “space”. The amount of cosmic rays that hit earth varies. The cosmic ray activities follow a 11-year cycle. Around every 11 years, our Sun becomes more “active” and creates a peak of sunspots. Sunspots create magnetic fields that slow or even stop the paths of cosmic rays. Data analyzed during low sunspot activity showed greater tree growth then data analyzed during the peak of sunspots.

“When the researchers looked at their data, they found that tree growth was highest during periods of low sunspot activity, when most cosmic rays reached Earth.”

“But growth slowed during the four periods of cosmic ray-blocking high sunspot activity, which have occurred between 1965 and 2005.”

So far there are two theories to why the research data shows cosmic rays help plant growth.

Some researchers have concluded that the cosmic rays ionize the gasses in our atmosphere, creating more molecules, thereby causing more “cloud cover”. Light/radiation that travels through cloud cover becomes defused. Defused light is absorbed easier by forest canopies then direct sunlight, which in turn would be the cause of the larger growth patterns.

The second theory is that the trees may directly benefit from the cosmic rays, but the reason is unknown to how or why.

Are you really afraid of a lil’ radiation?

Read the full article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8311000/8311373.stm

my “hey” means nothing really

Andy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:55:15 +0000

Now is the only moment you are ever in. All moments “perceived” in the past are volatile memory. Repeating a word is not time traveling, you’re just stacking old memories in your current moment’s thought process.

42 squared squared squared

Andy — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:03:39 +0000

Nature is not only found on this planet. 20 million degrees, in the middle of the sun. Our first fusion reactor, glad it’s not collapsed.