Again, NASA, a corporation NOT owned by the United States Government, has been well informed of 'Life on Mars' for a while now.
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Galaxies come in all shapes and sizes: from those with compact fuzzy bulges or central bars to galaxies with winding spiral arms. Astronomer Edwin Hubble classified these different breeds of galaxies by means of a diagram known as the Hubble Tuning Fork. Click picture for interactive link The tuning fork shape presents elliptical galaxies along the handle, and two different populations of spiral galaxies on the fork’s ‘prongs’ to differentiate between spiral galaxies with a central bar, and those without. The diagram also describes the shape of the galaxies. Elliptical galaxies are positioned further along the handle towards the fork depending on how elongated they appear, while spiral galaxies are organised by how tightly wound their arms are. Of course, there are always exceptions, and a separate class of ‘irregular’ galaxies conforms to neither group, perhaps as a result of a collision or merging event disrupting their shape. In this interactive tuning fork diagram, 61 nearby galaxies studied by ESA’s Herschel and NASA’s Spitzer space telescopes are presented. The galaxies are located 10–100 million light-years from Earth and were surveyed as part of two programmes: the Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: a Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel (Kingfish) and the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey.
Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Now listen to me very carefully...
Holy ! Chop my arm off! Now I wont be so careful when I work with machinery and ! it, take my legs too! Get those bouncy legs and robotic arms! Then I'll do amazing . Get spiked legs and climb a mountain you know. Retrofit my arms with a couple guns, and a hidden sword. Send me to Afghanistan jumping 7 feet in the air. it, chop me up!
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Tour the Cosmos with 100,000 Stars (got it by How-to Geek)
Haha, I love this scene in the movie, when they're both high.
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Bioengineered Nano-Jellyfish Captures Cancer Cells in the Bloodstream
The device is actually a microfluidic chip that’s been coated with long strands of DNA, which dangle down into the bloodstream and bind to any cancerous proteins floating past — directly imitating the way a jellyfish scoops up grub in the ocean.
If required, the chip can release these cells unharmed for later inspection. According to the chip’s designers at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the catch-and-release mechanism can be put to both diagnostic and therapeutic use in the fight against Big C, and can also be used to isolate good things, like fetal cells. The next step will be to test the device on human.
