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Moon and Companions~0.jpgMoon, Mars and Venus149 visiteDa "NASA - Picture of the Day" del 19 Ottobre 2005:"On another October 19, in 1899, a 17 year-old Robert Goddard climbed a cherry tree on a beautiful autumn afternoon in Worcester, Massachusetts. Inspired by H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" and gazing out across a meadow, young Goddard imagined it would be wonderful to make a device that had the possibility of ascending to Mars. Forever more he felt his life had a purpose and in the following years his diary entries record October 19th as "Anniversary Day", the anniversary of his ascent into the cherry tree. By 1926 he had designed, built, and flown the world's first liquid fuel rocket. Mars is just visible through the trees at the lower right in this dramatic sky view that also features the Moon and Venus - all visited by liquid fuel rockets constructed on principles developed by Goddard".
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Night_Beauties-ES.jpgNight Beauties (by Ermes Sansottera)149 visite"...A man can be destroyed but not defeated..."
Ernest HemingwayMareKromium
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Moonlight.jpgDistortions... (Image Credit & Copyright: Giacomo Venturin)149 visite"...L'usanza comune a molti letterati di disprezzare il mondo moderno e' una maniera dissimulata di presumersi degni di un altro migliore..."
Aristide GabelliMareKromium
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thermal_trenches_1600.jpgUncommon Mistake148 visite
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Equinox_at_the_Pyramid_of_the_Feathered_Serpent.jpgEquinox at the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent (Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Fedez - Credits for the Author of lyrical prose: Dr. Paolo C. Fienga)148 visiteWhat If…
(…Justice, according to some, is Truth, while Others believe that Justice means Vengeance.
Now, since I know the Truth and I want Justice, I will seek for Revenge.
And Revenge shall be mine…)
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When I was a child, long ago, my Father taught me to watch the Sky, learn the name of the Stars and Constellations.
He taught me to love the Infinite above us and ask myself lots of questions.
I had to do that, even though I had to know that I could have never get any answer. But I was supposed to watch, learn, and meditate. No matter what the outcome of all those efforts might have been.
Now, after many years have come and gone, I still do the same.
When I lay down, in my bed, at night, I see the Stars, lost in a never-ending Darkness.
When I wake up, at dawn, and I look around and what I’m supposed to do, I only see emptiness. Banalities. Misery. Insane disputes that have their foundation in our unfathomable ignorance and stupidity.
I hear inane chatters, dialogues full of commonplaces, empty promises, and clear nonsenses.
Then I ask myself, every day, what actually powers the World, and I understand that our World is not powered by Faith, Energy, Beauty, Love or Empathy and Pity.
Our World runs on lies.
The same lies that make us go through miserable and dead-slow days, spent in an often-desperate search of what we believe is good for us.
We believe that everything will work fine and that, in the end, we shall get our well-deserved reward.
We shall be prompt, precise, on time, rightful and forgiving.
This, all this is what we have been taught that we needed and useful to survive.
So, we also believe that everything we have studied and learned, is the Truth.
And the Truth shall make us free.
We believe in an endless Universe that works like a clock. Only that this Clock is eternal. Immutable. Fixed.
We believe that the Universe does not need to be fully explained, because it explains itself just by the fact that it exists, and we can see it.
At least, a small part of it.
The books explain this in many ways.
And those explanations are the Truth.
A Truth that makes us worthy of living.
But…
What if our teachers lied to us?
And the same was done by our loved ones, when they said they loved us?
Do we have to believe in Love just because of the fact that Love is something eternal and endless?
Do we have to believe that Love is something fit to explain all our hopes, illusions, disappointments, mistakes, and misconducts?
What if our engine, what we have named “Love”, is just something deeply false and nonexistent?
And, if it really does exist, is simply wrong in its foundations and is actually malfunctioning, pushing us at doing and believing in things we do not truly care and believe in?
What if all our dreams, and sacrifices, and good actions, are just illusions founded on a profound misunderstanding?
A misperception of Reality?
What if we are all misled by Love because Love simply does not exist and, if it does, it is something we just dream of, at night, when the blanket of our deepest Truths disappears, thus leaving us surrounded by the sick and naked Reality?
The Reality that we are all alone, eternally lost in a Universe that only lives in our minds?
In our unachievable dreams?
In our fake and fading pity and empathy?
In our empty and opportunistic Faith, perhaps?
What if the Truth is that there is no Truth at all?
What if we are all the unwanted sons of a way too demanding Mother and a mischievous Father?
What if nothing is actually real or, at least, not as real as we thought it was?
That is why we need lies.
We need them to justify our misdeeds and still unpunished intellectual arrogance.
But, above all, we need lies to justify our own pathetic existence that has no other and further meaning, but depriving Others from their good right to believe that we were deeply wrong.
We need lies to explain our lack of capacity to see things for what they really are, such as nothing.
The Universe is empty.
Like the Paradise and Hell: they are all empty.
Like us.
And now, in my old age, and now, that all my tears have been shed and dried up, and now, that all the pains that my flesh is heir to have come and gone, I can finally open my eyes and look around.
But there is nothing to see.
Nothing to live or fight for.
Nobody to hate, and nobody to love, anymore.
I’m alone, in this endless nothing that wraps the whole and inexistent Universe.
I’m alone.
The Universe does not exist.
And, if it ever existed, it’s now passed away.
And so did I.
Amen.
MareKromium
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Sundogs.jpgThe "Sundogs", again147 visiteCaption NASA originale da "NASA - Picture of the Day" del 23 Agosto 1999 :"What if you woke up one morning and saw more than one Sun in the sky? Most probably, you would be seeing Sundogs, extra-images of the Sun created by falling ice-crystals in the Earth's atmosphere. As water freezes in the atmosphere, small, flat, six-sided, ice crystals might be formed. As these crystals flutter to the ground, much time is spent with their faces flat, parallel to the ground. An observer may pass through the same plane as many of the falling ice crystals near sunrise or sunset. During this alignment, each crystal can act like a miniature lens, refracting sunlight into our view and creating parhelia, the technical term for sundogs. Sundogs were photographed here in a cloudy sky above the Very Large Array of radio telescopes. A bright Sundog is visible on the far right, and a dim one on the far left. Ice-crystals can create other strange illusions of the Sun and Moon including halos and pillars".
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Equinox.jpgEquinox147 visite
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ZA-Green flash from the Sun.jpgAnother "green flash" from the Sun (Finland)146 visiteThe same phoenomenon represented by the previous picture.
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Solar_Eclipse~2.jpgFeeding on the Sun...146 visite"Essere immortale è cosa da poco: tranne l'uomo, infatti, tutte le Creature lo sono, giacché ignorano la Morte. Ma la cosa Divina, Terribile ed Incomprensibile, è nel sapersi immortali..."
Jorge Luis BorgesMareKromium
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MoonMercMonaco_jacques_full.jpgThe Moon and Mercury, from Monaco (FRA)144 visiteUna falce di Luna ed una piccola scintilla, piuttosto alta nel cielo della sera: Mercurio.
Una bella immagine che ci arriva dalla Francia e che ha trovato spazio anche nella Rubrica "NASA - Picture of the Day".
Questa la caption originale:"Low on the western horizon after sunset, a slender crescent Moon and wandering planet Mercury join the lights of Menton and Monaco along the French Riviera. Astronomer Vincent Jacques took advantage of this gorgeous photo opportunity a week ago on March 11, when the Moon and Mercury were separated in the sky by just 3°. Of course, the Moon in a slender crescent phase is always seen near the horizon, as is Mercury - a bright planet which can be difficult to glimpse as it never strays far from the Sun in Earth's sky. In the coming days good views of Mercury will indeed be fleeting as the Solar System's innermost planet is rapidly dropping closer to the glare of the setting Sun".
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RingOfFire.jpgThe "Ring of Fire"144 visite"...Fides facit Fidem..."
(Binder)
"...La Fede genera la Fede..."MareKromium
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Waterworld.jpgTherefore... Solaris, Miller and Waterworld DO exist! Here is the Exoplanet "TOI-1452b"143 visiteCome immaginato nel 1972 dal Grande Regista Russo Andrej Tarkovskij nel film "Solaris" o, nella cinematografia più recente, in Interstellar per il pianeta oceanico "Miller," situato a circa a 100 Anni Luce da noi, sembra che esista un esopianeta alquanto più grande della Terra che potrebbe essere interamente coperto d'acqua. Denominato TOI-1452b, ruota intorno a due piccole stelle ed è stato scoperto da un gruppo di ricerca internazionale guidato da Charles Cadieux, studente di dottorato dell'università di Montréal, in Canada, e descritto sulla rivista The Astronomical Journal.
Il nuovo pianeta è stato identificato per la prima volta grazie al telescopio spaziale Tess, ideato proprio per scansionare la nostra galassia alla ricerca di pianeti extrasolari. Una volta individuato, il nuovo oggetto è stato analizzato nel dettaglio da un nuovo potente strumento installato sull'Osservatorio di Mont-Megantic in Canada che ha permesso di scoprirne le interessanti caratteristiche. È stato così possibile appurare che TOI-1452b orbita attorno a un sistema di stelle binarie più piccole del Sole, distanti tra loro solo 97 U.A. (Unità Astronomiche), ossia poco più del doppio della distanza tra Sole e Plutone.
Il pianeta risulta essere circa il 70% più grande della Terra (in termini di diametro) e la sua densità potrebbe essere coerente con l'ipotesi che su di esso esista un oceano molto profondo costituito da acqua allo stato liquido, che lo ricopre interamente. I dati indicano la presenza di un nucleo solido, mentre l'acqua rappresenterebbe ben il 20% della sua massa (Nota: sulla Terra, la massa d'acqua è pari ad appena l'1%) della massa globale del Pianeta. Nuovi dettagli di questo nuovo e interessante pianeta potranno essere rilevati a breve grazie alle osservazioni con il Telescopio Spaziale "James Webb", operativo da pochi mesi.MareKromium
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