Kingdom in Reverse

kodachronos: Jalama Beach, California (by kevinrussmobile)

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:13:07 -0400

kodachronos:

Jalama Beach, California (by kevinrussmobile)

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remember when staying up late was actually exciting now its just life

Sat, 11 May 2013 03:15:24 -0400

remember when staying up late was actually exciting

now its just life

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Fri, 10 May 2013 20:40:58 -0400

pictureperfectforyou: (via Min plats i solen)

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:50:46 -0400

pictureperfectforyou:

(via Min plats i solen)

Nice day after all this rain

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:31:00 -0400

Nice day after all this rain

Heroic Words of Wisdom by Adam Thompson

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:50:16 -0400

Heroic Words of Wisdom by Adam Thompson

Films are subjective, what you like, what you don’t like. But...

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:20:17 -0400

Films are subjective, what you like, what you don’t like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it’s the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they’ve done I want that effort there, I want that sincerity. And when you don’t feel it, that’s the only time I feel like I’m wasting my time at the movies ─ Christopher Nolan

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definitelydope: France - Paris: Park Break by John & Tina...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:40:17 -0400

definitelydope:

France - Paris: Park Break by John & Tina Reid

wonderchebs: lonahtem: referencesforartists: brenanf999: dont...

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:50:21 -0400

wonderchebs:

lonahtem:

referencesforartists:

brenanf999:

dontwantyourmoneysir:

anndruyan:

This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell.

That’s my Sociology “book”. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; there’s something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor.

This is why we download.

Alternatives to buying overpriced textbooks

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Reddit

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GaTech Math Textbooks

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Spreading this shit like nutella because goddamn textbooks are so expensive.

not necessarily art related but as someone who couldn’t afford their textbooks this semester this is a godsend

reblogging cuz im gonna need this in september

@wearethefoolish

letsbuildahome-fr: A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over...

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:30:22 -0400

letsbuildahome-fr:

A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana

© Sean R. Heavey

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Relient K concert with @caleblouie

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:33:42 -0400

Relient K concert with @caleblouie

spaceplasma: NASA Probe Gets Close Views of Large Saturn...

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:50:17 -0400

The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm (false-color image)

False-color image of Saturn's north pole.

spaceplasma:

NASA Probe Gets Close Views of Large Saturn Hurricane

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole.

In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane’s eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane are traveling 330 mph(150 meters per second). The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon.

“We did a double take when we saw this vortex because it looks so much like a hurricane on Earth,” said Andrew Ingersoll, a Cassini imaging team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. “But there it is at Saturn, on a much larger scale, and it is somehow getting by on the small amounts of water vapor in Saturn’s hydrogen atmosphere.”

Scientists will be studying the hurricane to gain insight into hurricanes on Earth, which feed off warm ocean water. Although there is no body of water close to these clouds high in Saturn’s atmosphere, learning how these Saturnian storms use water vapor could tell scientists more about how terrestrial hurricanes are generated and sustained.

Both a terrestrial hurricane and Saturn’s north polar vortex have a central eye with no clouds or very low clouds. Other similar features include high clouds forming an eye wall, other high clouds spiraling around the eye, and a counter-clockwise spin in the northern hemisphere.

A major difference between the hurricanes is that the one on Saturn is much bigger than its counterparts on Earth and spins surprisingly fast. At Saturn, the wind in the eye wall blows more than four times faster than hurricane-force winds on Earth. Unlike terrestrial hurricanes, which tend to move, the Saturnian hurricane is locked onto the planet’s north pole. On Earth, hurricanes tend to drift northward because of the forces acting on the fast swirls of wind as the planet rotates. The one on Saturn does not drift and is already as far north as it can be.

“The polar hurricane has nowhere else to go, and that’s likely why it’s stuck at the pole,” said Kunio Sayanagi, a Cassini imaging team associate at Hampton University in Hampton, Va.

Scientists believe the massive storm has been churning for years. When Cassini arrived in the Saturn system in 2004, Saturn’s north pole was dark because the planet was in the middle of its north polar winter. During that time, the Cassini spacecraft’s composite infrared spectrometer and visual and infrared mapping spectrometer detected a great vortex, but a visible-light view had to wait for the passing of the equinox in August 2009. Only then did sunlight begin flooding Saturn’s northern hemisphere. The view required a change in the angle of Cassini’s orbits around Saturn so the spacecraft could see the poles.

“Such a stunning and mesmerizing view of the hurricane-like storm at the north pole is only possible because Cassini is on a sportier course, with orbits tilted to loop the spacecraft above and below Saturn’s equatorial plane,” said Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “You cannot see the polar regions very well from an equatorial orbit. Observing the planet from different vantage points reveals more about the cloud layers that cover the entirety of the planet.”

Cassini changes its orbital inclination for such an observing campaign only once every few years. Because the spacecraft uses flybys of Saturn’s moon Titan to change the angle of its orbit, the inclined trajectories require attentive oversight from navigators. The path requires careful planning years in advance and sticking very precisely to the planned itinerary to ensure enough propellant is available for the spacecraft to reach future planned orbits and encounters.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

I had the opportunity to record my friend Austin’s spoken...

Thu, 02 May 2013 01:37:13 -0400

I had the opportunity to record my friend Austin’s spoken word about ‘Manning Up’. Check it out.

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