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Belka and Strelka.
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“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is “mere”. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part… What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?” — Richard Feynman.
“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.” — Edgar Allan Poe (via sleepydumpling)
Ask me why Venus spins sideways!
Why does Venus spin sideways?
Because in The Long Ago a meteor or some other huge space object (maybe a moon!) collided with Venus and literally bumped that motherfucker off its axis. So now it spins on its side! Venus also has more volcanos than any other planet! And as our sister planet it will probably be our only ally in the inevitable war against Jupiter.
It doesn’t spin “sideways”, it spins clockwise, so the sun rises in the West and sets in the East. And that retrograde rotation has more to do with tidal locking (the phenomenon that causes objects like the Moon or Mercury to rotate at the same speed as their revolution, thus meaning we only ever see one side of the Moon). The change took place over a long time and wasn’t due to a collision.
Uranus could be said to spin “sideways” because it has such an extreme axial tilt, most likely because of a collision with another body.
“It’s an entire artistic movement of, for, and about the bourgeoisie at a time when everyone in America is living anything but the lifestyle of the rich, famous and bored.” —
Did Zach Braff Kill American Music? - Idea of the Day Blog - NYTimes.com (via bowfolk)
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If you don’t like this kind of music, it is by no means all that music has to offer these days (despite how Milam makes it seem), and you are by no means required to listen or like it or even appreciate it. If you think it’s boring, you are more than entitled to your opinion. But please, leave off with the those-kids-are-just-a-bunch-of-spoiled-brats-style “analysis.” It’s tired.
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The line from the article that interested me the most is here: “But while Tommy NewYorkBigwig used to pimp people’s art from everywhere else, now he’s only invested in the kids down the street.”
It’s an interesting observation, and I think there is something about the sentiment that there is a burgeoning “non-threatening alt” rock market out there for white young people. But what springs to mind when I read that sentence is this: ‘twas ever thus. An establishment that focuses on marketing stuff that is more culturally palatable instead of artistically challenging is nothing new to the music industry; in fact, with very rare exceptions (early punk rock of course being the most striking example), that is the default state of affairs, ever since Elvis de-black-ified any number of great songs. The music industry is a very bourgeois concern and it has always been.
Secondly, as RH points out in full, just because someone is young and white doesn’t mean they can’t feel dislocation, heartbreak, existential angst, and (increasingly in a society that puts such a heavy value on productivity) quiet creative disenfranchisement (which you can call “boredom” if you want), which to me is what artists like the Shins represent.
The world is brighter. I can now smell colours and taste imagination.
(In response to this, ripping off this).
“For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion.” — Albert Einstein (via unburyingthelead)
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