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FreeFall-1.jpgFree-Fall167 visiteDa "NASA - Picture of the Day" del 20.02.2006:"...Like a scene from a space mystery movie, a spacesuit floated away from the International Space Station earlier this month, but no investigation was needed. It was pushed out by the space station crew. Dubbed Suitsat-1, the unneeded Russian Orlan spacesuit filled mostly with old clothes was fitted with a faint radio transmitter and released to orbit the Earth. Suitsat-1 will orbit once every 90 minutes until it burns up in the Earth's atmosphere within a few weeks. The suit circled the Earth twice before its radio signal became unexpectedly weak. Pictured above, the lifeless spacesuit was photographed as it drifted away from the Earth-orbiting space station earlier this month..."
Nota: anche se la caption originale NASA si guarda bene dal dirlo, non siamo davanti n ad uno scherzo, n ad un gioco, ovviamente.
Questo esperimento, come in molti avranno gi capito, stato effettuato al solo scopo di vedere che cosa accadrebbe (e, di conseguenza, come si potrebbe intervenire) qualora un Astronauta "sfuggisse" agli ormeggi e si allontanasse - irreversibilmente - dalla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale.
Conseguenze a breve: l'Astronauta diventa un "satellite" ed inizia ad orbitare.
Nel tempo (esaurimento delle scorte di O2 a parte), questo "satellite umano" inizia a perdere quota e poi finisce con l'avviare una vera e propria "fase di rientro".
Ma l'Astronauta non una Navicella Spaziale dotata di schermature protettive: il rientro, ovviamente, non si compirebbe mai ed il malcapitato Astronauta finirebbe bruciato (vivo o morto, ma presumibilmente morto) gi negli strati superiori dell'atmosfera (ricordate il film "Mission to Mars"?).
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Venus Belt.jpgThe "Belt of Venus"166 visiteCaption originale NASA da "Astronomy Picture of the Day" del 27 Gennaio 2005:"A nearly full Moon and planet Earth's shadow set together in this scene captured from snowy Mt. Jelm, home of the Wyoming Infrared Observatory. For early morning risers (and late to bed astronomers), shadow set in the western sky is a daily apparition whose subtle beauty is often overlooked in favor of the more colorful eastern horizon. Extending through the dense atmosphere, Earth's setting shadow is seen in this picture as a "dark blue band" along the distant horizon, bounded above by a pinkish glow or antitwilight arch. Also known as the "Belt of Venus", the arch's lovely color is due to backscattering of reddened light from the rising Sun. The setting Moon's light is also reddened by the long sight-line through the atmosphere and echoes the dawn sky's yellow-orange hues".
Allora: che ne dite della "Cintura di Venere"? Affascinante, vero?!?...
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Solar_Eclipse_1999-MIR.jpgMacular Degeneration on a Planetary Scale165 visiteCaption NASA, from "NASA - Picture of the Day" del giorno 2 Gennaio 2011:"Here is what the Earth looks like during a Solar Eclipse.
The shadow of the Moon can be seen darkening part of Earth. This shadow moved across the Earth at nearly 2000 Km-per-hour.
Only observers near the center of the dark circle can see a Total Solar Eclipse - others see a Partial Eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon.
This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 Solar Eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir Space Station. The two bright spots that appear on the upper left are thought to be Jupiter and Saturn. Mir was deorbited in a controlled re-entry in 2001".MareKromium
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Dyson_Sphere_-_03.jpgThe Dyson Sphere (here: Complex and interconnected Dyson Swarm)164 visiteDyson-style energy collectors around a distant star would absorb and re-radiate energy from the star. The wavelengths of such re-radiated energy may be atypical for the star's spectral type, due to the presence of heavy elements not naturally occurring within the star.
If the percentage of such atypical wavelengths were to be significant, an alien megastructure could be detected at interstellar distances. This could indicate the presence of what has been called a Type II Kardashev civilization.
SETI has looked for such infrared-heavy spectra from solar analogs, as has Fermilab. Fermilab discovered 17 potential "ambiguous" candidates, of which four were in 2006 called "amusing but still questionable". Later searches also resulted in several candidates, all of which remain unconfirmed.MareKromium
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Max-014.jpgDreams never die...163 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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Dyson_Swarm_-_04.jpegThe Dyson Swarm163 visiteBecause these megastructures absorb so much starlight, they would emit a unique infrared signature (waste heat). Astronomers look for these anomalies when searching for highly advanced, Extraterrestrial Civilizations (so-called "Technosignatures").MareKromium
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Solaris-3.jpgSolaris162 visite"I only know one thing. When I... When I sleep, I know no fear, no hope, no trouble, no bliss, Blessings on him he who invented sleep. The common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd king, fool and wise man. There is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death".MareKromium
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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)162 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)
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 Im 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.
Im alone, in this endless nothing that wraps the whole and inexistent Universe.
Im alone.
The Universe does not exist.
And, if it ever existed, its now passed away.
And so did I.
Amen.
MareKromium
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Dark_Matter~0.jpgDark Matter161 visiteDark matter is a form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe and about a quarter of its total massenergy density or about 2.241108722,27 kg/m3. Its presence is implied in a variety of astrophysical observations, including gravitational effects that cannot be explained by accepted theories of gravity unless more matter is present than can be seen. For this reason, most experts think that dark matter is abundant in the universe and that it has had a strong influence on its structure and evolution. Dark matter is called dark because it does not appear to interact with the electromagnetic field, which means it does not absorb, reflect or emit electromagnetic radiation, and is therefore difficult to detect.
Primary evidence for dark matter comes from calculations showing that many galaxies would fly apart, or that they would not have formed or would not move as they do, if they did not contain a large amount of unseen matter. Other lines of evidence include observations in gravitational lensing and in the cosmic microwave background, along with astronomical observations of the observable universe's current structure, the formation and evolution of galaxies, mass location during galactic collisions and the motion of galaxies within galaxy clusters. In the standard Lambda-CDM model of cosmology, the total massenergy of the universe contains 5% ordinary matter and energy, 27% dark matter and 68% of a form of energy known as dark energy. Thus, dark matter constitutes 85% of total mass, while dark energy plus dark matter constitute 95% of total massenergy content.
Because dark matter has not yet been observed directly, if it exists, it must barely interact with ordinary baryonic matter and radiation, except through gravity. Most dark matter is thought to be non-baryonic in nature; it may be composed of some as-yet undiscovered subatomic particles. MareKromium
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Earth_Impact_Craters_-_Gosses_Bluff_Crater_-_Australia.jpgGosses Bluff Crater (Australia)161 visiteSituato nel Northern Territory meridionale, l'imponente cratere meteorico Gosses Bluff ha un diametro di 5 km e un'altezza del bordo di 200 metri. Il sito e' noto come Tnorala agli aborigeni occidentali di Arrernte ed e' un luogo sacro.MareKromium
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Earth__Impact_Craters_-_Acraman_Crater_-_Australia.jpgAcraman Crater (Australia)161 visiteCreato dall'impatto di un asteroide 590 milioni di anni fa, il cratere Acraman (Dia. 40 Km c.a.) nella Australia meridionale e' definito dal lago Acraman.MareKromium
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Venus_Moon_2026_06_17.jpgCosmic Kiss (Image Credit & Copyright: Debra Ceravolo)161 visiteVenus is now appearing on the celestial stage as Earth's brilliant evening star, performing with the Moon, other wandering planets, and bright stars in western skies.
For evening sky gazers on June 17, 2026, the celestial beacon rose after sunset close by a young, slender, crescent Moon.
But from some locations the Moon could be seen to occult or pass in front of Venus.
And from a backyard observatory in southern British Columbia, Canada, the lunar occultation was played out in daylight.
This stunning telescopic snapshot captured a scene in dramatically cloudy skies, following Venus' hour long disappearance, as the evening star emerged beyond the bright lunar limb.MareKromium
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