Figures and Events Are Transfixed by Time in Pep Carrió’s Extensive Daily Visual Diaries
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William Scully (American, b. 1967, based Boston, MA, USA) - 1: Water Lily Study No. 18 2: Water Lily Study No. 20, Underwater Photography
While most folks were sitting down for supper, NASA tried to move a space mountain.
Beyond sight for backyard stargazers, a spacecraft the size of a vending machine self-destructed by ramming into a harmless asteroid shortly after 7 p.m. ET Monday, September 26th. The high-speed crash was part of the U.S. space agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART.
The moment of impact marked the first time in history humans have attempted to alter the path of an asteroid, a flying chunk of rubble left over from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. Most of the time, these ancient rocks pose no danger to Earth, including Dimorphos, the one NASA just used for target practice. But at least three have caused mass extinctions, the most infamous of which wiped out the dinosaurs.
Stegosaurus didn't have NASA.
"We are changing the motion of a natural celestial body in space. Humanity has never done that before," said Tom Statler, program scientist. "This was the substance of fiction books and really corny episodes of Star Trek from when I was a kid, and now it's real."
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Roden Crater | Painted Desert, Arizona
“My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.” - James Turrell
Meera bai Hindu print Kalyan. “Kalyan” is a Hindi monthly magazine published by Gita Press, Gorakhpur. (via CollectorBazar: Jaycollections)
Art from Kumari Loves a Monster by Rashmi Devadasan. Illustrated by Shyam.
“The young maidens in these pages all have beauty, brains and talent / They while away the night and day / With monsters fierce and gallant.
A romantic picture book of young girls who have fallen in love with monsters.”
Nahi mila hain koi tujhsa aaj tak mujko,
Aur phir ye sitam alag hain ki mila tu bhi nahi
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