Posts tagged Astronomy

YEAH, EVILUTIONISTS! YOU CAN’T GET SOMETHING FROM NOTHING UNLESS IT’S GOD BECAUSE HE CAN COME FROM NOTHING BUT NOTHING ELSE CAN!

Look and marvel. Your gods are nothing compared to reality.

The Venus transit behind a bird perched on one of the domes of the Taj Mahal.

flyingscotsman:

Must…not…giggle (via)

Full-on guffawing.

“As recent advances in cosmology suggest, the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”

Jupiter Unplugged
Drawing Credit & Copyright: Frédéric Burgeot

Explanation: Five hand drawn sketches of Jupiter were used to create this beautifully detailed flat map of the ruling gas giant’s turbulent cloud tops. Made with colored pencils at the eyepiece of a 16 inch diameter telescope, the original drawings are about 5 inches (12.5 cm) in diameter. The drawn planisphere map dimensions are 16x8 inches (40x20 cm). Observing on different dates in November and December of 2011, astronomical artist Fred Burgeot has relied on Jupiter’s rotation to cover the planet’s complete circumference. Digital animator Pascal Chauvet has also translated Burgeot’s drawings into an intriguing video (vimeo), synthesizing a telescopic view of the rotating planet with a tilt and phase appropriate for the observing dates. The video includes the Galilean moons moving along their orbits, beginning with Ganymede and Io casting shadows as they glide in front of Jupiter, followed by Europa and Callisto passing behind the planet’s banded disk.

Chuck & Beans

“No manned space travel for you!” - The NASA Nazi

Dear Christians,

Your heaven is in the clouds. Your earth, heaven, and hell are, combined, a percentage of my reality that is too small to count.

Yours,

Me