I feel like a ship at low tide.
Marooned. The wind my blow but it cannot take me.
So like thr ship I wait.
Wait for the water to carry me so the wind can push me.
When this happens my only limits will be where the wind can take me and the water will carry me.
Only on that day, like the ship an i fulfill my purpose, only on that day can I be fulfilled.
Simon 🙂
© Simon Farnell 2016
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Most of the resources we have on Earth cannot be replaced. We’re often told in the media about how this or that is running out. This graphic shows a sample of the resources we’re using – it’s interesting and a little scary.
See the link for the full information.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120618-global-resources-stock-check
Simon 🙂
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This image shows Saturn’s moon Mimas near it’s mighty rings. Despite looking huge, from another perspective Mimas is much larger.
Read the article for more:
via Tiny Mimas, Huge Rings | NASA
Simon 🙂
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I love finding new places, near work there is a quiet little place where there are lots of young trees and a few benches. This is going to be a great place to get some peace in a lunch break.
Yes… my shoes are a bit smarter than my usual trainers.
It will be nice to see this place in Spring, I could spend a long time here enjoying the peace and quiet.
Simon 🙂
Its worth renembering!
Simon 🙂
A week of images shows up among other things, Japan in false colour and an astronut’s amazing view of Earth from ISS. More images in the link below
via Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
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My mind is getting a bit fried right now. Maybe it’s to do with this time of year, but I’ve been thinking about time dilation, black holes and that kind of thing. This has all come about from the film Interstellar where a group of astronauts try to find a new home for the human race in a far away galaxy.
They get there through a wormhole that’s in the area of Saturn and find themselves in a star system where three planets orbit a black hole. Things are ok so far, this is good old fashioned Sci-Fi stuff.
The first world they visit is closest to the black hole and they work out that an hour on the surface for them will mean seven years will pass from the point of view of their mother ship, the Endurance. This is also ok, this is now not only science fiction but thanks to the theory of relativity also science fact (or as good as becasue no one has yet verified this fact).
This time dilation was demonstrated in the story when an unscheduled delay meant that rather than the mission to the planet taking a mere seven years, it in fact took 23 years. To them they were only a few hours, but the guy left behind on Endurance had aged 23 years and Joseph Cooper’s kids had turned into mature adults who had thought he was either dead or had abandoned them.
Towards the end of the film, the pilot Cooper ejects himself and his spacecraft from Endurance. He ejects so that the rest of the Endurance can escape to the third planet carrying Anne Hathaway’s lone survivor. In the film it gets weird and there’s a kind of 3D thought / reality thing going on and this is where I split from the plot to my thinking.
By ejecting, Cooper has essentially given himself to the black hole (called Gargantua). Our understanding is that spectacularly intense gravity would kill him, crushing anything physical completely and utterly to mere atoms. From his point of view this would happen quickly, but probably not quickly enough thinking about it.
Getting to the point here – if Anne Hathaway could watch Copper falling into the black hole and past the event horizon (again another problem with this as light has a little trouble escaping a black hole – hence it’s name) things would be happening slowly. Whereas for Cooper looking back up things would be happening very quickly.
The first thing is that this is a total brain fuck in itself.
The second thing kinda blew my mind away, I’ve been picking up the pieces all week! Cooper may never, ever reach the physical entity of the black hole. If time is moving so fast outside the black hole what may actually kill Cooper (he’s not going to be too bothered by this I think) is the end of the universe.
Think about it… while he’s merrily (Ha!) falling towards his doom, the universe is speeding by up there. So much so that it ends before he reaches it?!?!
Damn – my mind blew again. Sometimes I wish I didn’t think so much!
This is some purely wildly out there thinking – this would mean that falling into a black hole could be a bath to living forever. Firstly it wouldn’t you would die from the gravity crush, but it’s the possibility. When the kind of concepts can be thought of in mathematics and proved in theories on relativity it begs the question – what the hell else can we discover?
The only limits are the limits that our human mind can actually perceive and cope with and maybe even accept.
That’s kinda big.
Simon 🙂
No ownership claimed on images – found on Google from the film Interstellar.
I love the diversity that comes with the ESA images. With the Gibson desert, last images from Rosetta and the isolation of the Greenland ice sheet in this week collection this carries on.
Click on the link for more.
http://www.esa.int/Highlights/Week_In_Images_14_18_November_2016
Simon 🙂
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How about this for a bit of news. Certified evidence that the world is turning on it’s head as Microsfot joins the Linux foundation. Something that was unthinkable not so long ago.
See the link for more.
via Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation | TechCrunch
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For a bit of a Friday funny I thought I would put this up…
Simon 🙂
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