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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Science The Science of Poetry

Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:57 AM

The headline alone is a piece of beauty:

Cassiopeia, A Supernova Remnant, Is Now 'Dust Factory' Around Dead Star

And then there is the beauty of space dust:

Interstellar dust is found throughout the cosmos. It is responsible for the dark patches seen in the Milky Way on a moonless night. It consists of carbon and silicate particles, about the size of those in cigarette smoke. The dust helps stars like the Sun to form and subsequently coagulates to form planets like Earth, and the cores of giant gas planets like Jupiter. It is found in great quantities in galaxies, even very early in the history of the Universe.

More than this, there's nothing...

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Jesus, this is fucking drivel. Don't you have some photos of white women with big tits you ought to be jerking off over?

Posted by R2D2 on February 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM

As the spider knows only how to be a spider, Mudede knows only how to be Mudede.

Posted by Lee on February 25, 2009 at 9:30 AM

Oh Democritus, how right you were.

"By convention there is sweetness, by convention bitterness, by convention color, in reality only atoms and the void."

Posted by Greg on February 25, 2009 at 9:33 AM

Dust to Dust, ashes to ashes. Fuck, a bible verse actually got science right for once.

Posted by vooodooo84 on February 25, 2009 at 9:39 AM

At least this makes me think of Roxy Music, which is how I like to start the mornings.

Posted by Abby on February 25, 2009 at 9:48 AM

I am fascinated by the the beauty of it all. It all accretes to form stars and planets that follow paralells through out the universe. That we understand this is profound in itself.

Posted by Vince on February 25, 2009 at 10:44 AM

In my cosmos, the dust coagulates into big fuzzy balls that hide under furniture.

Posted by the creator on February 25, 2009 at 10:51 AM

This online Atlas of the Universe is good for making one feel small if you start at the lowest level and keep moving out to the map of the "known universe":

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/

Kind of cool.

Posted by Simac on February 25, 2009 at 11:24 AM

Yep, nice Roxy Music reference... Gonna have to dig out that record now......

Posted by merry on February 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM

This just makes me think of Pullman's "dust."

Posted by Nay on February 25, 2009 at 1:28 PM