It Is Breaking
Stephen, 17, a blog about science, politics and the odd personal post.
NASA to Reveal Hubble Discovery of Milky Way’s Violent Fate
Figure: Galactic Cannibalism of two galaxies that wandered too close to each other’s orbit.
NASA will reveal new discoveries about the violent fate of our Milky Way galaxy on Thursday (May 31), the space agency has announced.
NASA will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) Thursday at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Scientists will discuss new Hubble Space Telescope findings about the inevitable crash of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, which will occur billions of years from now.
“Because of uncertainties in Andromeda’s motion, it has not been possible to determine whether the Milky Way will have a head-on collision or glancing blow with the neighboring galaxy billions of years in the future,” NASA officials said in a media alert Friday (May 25). “Hubble’s precise observations will settle this question.”
“ Being “anti-PC” is not sticking it to the Man, it’s sticking it to all the people whom the Man routinely stomps on. ”
And on the note of that last post
I really wish I had money to cop a twin right now.
On March 22nd, more than 200 000 students, teachers, workers & citizens took the streets of Montreal to oppose the tuition hike !
“ When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy hearted into which our grief has given us enterance. Inevitably, we feel about us their arms, their sympathy, and their understanding. ”
“ Plenty of oppressive bullshit goes down under the guise of nice. Every day, nice, caring, friendly people try to take our bodily autonomy away from us (women, queers, trans people, nonbinaries, fat people, POC…you name it, they just don’t think we know what’s good for us!). These people would hold a door for us if they saw us coming. Our enemies are not only the people holding ‘Fags Die God Laughs’ signs, they are the nice people who just feel like marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense, it’s just how they feel! We once got a very nice comment on this site that we decided we could not publish because its content was ‘But how can I respect women when they dress like – sorry to say it, pardon my language – sluts?’. This is vile, disgusting misogyny and no amount of sugar coating and politeness can make it okay. Similarly, most of the people who run ex-gay therapy clinics are actually very nice and polite! They just want to save you! Nicely! Clearly, niceness means FUCK ALL. ”
The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good (Social Justice League)
I’ve been thinking about niceness a lot lately. I’m not sure it’s as beneficial as I used to think it was.
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“ All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ”
“ Scientists and engineers can indeed change the world. So can you. You were born to. ”
Regina Dugan. She’s right. You can.
From her TED talk: “From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone”
“ Kids play T-ball, then baseball; they play games and have practice every week and, if they’re serious about it, pre-season and post-season too. We never think, “Let’s have kids play baseball for eight weeks in seventh grade,” and then expect that in five years they can join the majors or even be on a college team. But for some reason we do this with civics. We say, “We’re going to have you do a penny harvest in fifth grade and a service learning project in tenth grade, and then we’ll teach you abstractly about government for a semester in twelfth grade.” Then our students enter the major leagues of citizenship, and we give them the vote and expect them to keep our country going. And that’s just crazy! ”
Meira Levinson talking about her new book No Citizen Left Behind. (via bostonreview)
Wow. Just, wow. Quote of the week.
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What if all you had was a rock in your hand to defend your home, family, and life?
Resistance is not terrorism.
Palestinian Mothers.
Sinusoidal Functions time.
If I continue on my current trend I might actually be able to pull off an 80 (y)
(the opposite of Albinism)
oh my god
Now that is one bad ass tiger.