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Moons and some rings of Saturn, photographed by Cassini, 1 June 2004. Enceladus is the largest moon seen here (the four diffraction spikes from the narrow-angle camera are unusually clear). Prometheus sneaks into a couple of frames at the end, just inside the F Ring. Outside the F Ring are the co-orbital moons Janus and Epimetheus, and I’ve chosen the end-point of the gif so that one loops almost seamlessly into the other.
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security guards
This is one of my most favorite things and I will always reblog it.
50 years ago Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Initially both Vostok 5 and 6, which flew at the same time, would be piloted by women. Tereshkova would pilot Vostok 5 and Valentina Ponomaryova Vostok 6. However, due to changes in the Sovjet Spaceflight program, Vostok 5 was flown by Bykovsky and Vostok 6 by Tereshkova. She would remain the only woman to have been in orbit for another 19 years.
MORE WOMEN IN SPACE PLEASE.
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Mark Tursi on Michael Palmer (via uutpoetry)
DREAMZ
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Interviewer: What inspired the use of colour transitions (in Punch-Drunk Love)? What drove you to include those in the film?
Paul Thomas Anderson: Pot.
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Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have
sex. No matter if it is snowing lightly and unseri-
ously, or snowing very seriously, well on into the
night, I would like to stop whatever manifestation
of life I am engaged in and have sex, with the same
person, who also sees the snow and…
Love love love this movie
Jim Goldberg TURKEY. 1990.
How self-aggrandizing.
For women who are tied to the moon, love alone is not enough. We insist each day wrap it’s knuckles through our heart strings and pull. The lows....
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Yes yes yes to all of this.
Today In History
‘Dr.Mae Carol Jemison became the first black woman astronaut on this date June 5, 1987.’
OK, so now it’s...
Isn’t being stuck on the tarmac a drag? Not when you have the Philadelphia Orchestra on board with you. Read more at NPR’s The Two-Way.