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Today’s photo is a river doing impersonations: Look, I’m a Stag Beetle!
“If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.”
— Henry David Thoreau (via thelisanator)
“Henry David Thoreau never said anything in thirteen words that could be said in eighty.”
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John Green (via theunquotables)
so basically me
Three Possible Futures for the Universe via Chandra X-ray Observatory (Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)
“This illustration shows three possible futures for the Universe, depending on the behavior of dark energy, by showing how the scale of the Universe may change with time. If dark energy is constant, as the new Chandra results suggest, the expansion should continue accelerating forever. If dark energy increases, the acceleration may happen so quickly that galaxies, stars, and eventually atoms will be torn apart, in the so-called Big Rip. Dark energy may also lead to a recollapse of the Universe, in the Big Crunch. The illustration also shows the early decelerating expansion of the Universe, followed by the accelerating phase that started about 6 billion years ago.”
(via we-are-star-stuff)
“It’s hard for me to see a more profound cosmic connection than the astonishing findings of modern nuclear astrophysics: except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up - the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our brains - were manufactured in red giant stars thousands of light years away in space and billions of years ago in time. We are, as I like to say, starstuff.”
— Carl Sagan (via silencemadenietzschecry)
“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
- Carl Sagan
From Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder. Interesting material for me since I wish to introduce my future students to philosophy; Sophie is 14 years old.
