0 notes, May 24, 2012
Thank Daniel Franz for this gem
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Rainbow bird, Illustrator unknown, Iran, 1970s
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Endeavour Crater, Mars
Mars Rover, Opportunity captured this image the other day to catch this image of its late-afternoon shadow. The Endeavour Crater spans 14 miles and is seen looking to the east, here.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State University)
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More book sculptures, seeing how it works without paintings and stages of growth in mushrooms.
Deep space by the ATLAS survey in which each dot is a galaxy - Herschel & ESA
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Stanley Kubrick about the purpose of life.
- Playboy Magazine: “If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it’s worth living?”
- Stanley Kubrick: “Yes, for those of us who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre, their idealism – and their assumption of immortality. As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in the ultimate goodness of man. But, if he’s reasonably strong – and lucky – he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s elan. Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death – however mutable man may be able to make them – our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
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