From Blog Burnt offerings in ice: Thor Peak is like no other mountain on earth. Its precipitous west face is known 'round the world in climbing circles and is the one mountain most often associated with Auyuittuq by visitors. The Inuit refer to Thor as 'Qaisualuk' as the mountains of Auyuittuq (the Penny Highlands) have an importan ...
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New Graphic Design in China: 4/14/08 Fascinating layers of patterned kanji. "Shadow Play is Fun!" illustration by Qian Qian. From the New Graphic Design In China compilation. http://pingmag.jp/2008/04/14/new-graphic-design-in-china/
=W/ Mac Tonnies of 'Posthuman Blues':= http://www.nwowatcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=9546.0 Fascinating discussion with author and blogger Mac Tonnies about the future of technology and space travel, transhumanism trends, and scientific singularities.
WASHINGTON, D.C.--High-energy particles spewing out of a young star in a nearby stellar nursery are plowing through interstellar clouds and creating a giant spiral structure in space that looks like a glowing, rainbow-colored tornado, scientists said today.
The star spewing the particle jet lies 480 light-years away in a star-forming region known as Chamaeleon I.
The awesome thing about science fiction is that anything can happen — including the occasional incredibly convenient miracle. Sometimes circumstances become so desperate and dire in a science fiction tale that even the "reset button" can't fix them — and that's when the "deus ex machina" shows up. The term, meaning "God from a machine," comes from classical theater, where a wheel-and-pulley deity would literally show up to sort everything out. And in science fiction, god literally can come out of a machine. Bow your head before our taxonomy of the most unlikely miracles in scifi history.
Thor Peak is like no other mountain on earth. Its precipitous west face is known 'round the world in climbing circles and is the one mountain most often associated with Auyuittuq by visitors. The Inuit refer to Thor as 'Qaisualuk' as the mountains of Auyuittuq (the Penny Highlands) have an importan ...
