Wow!

And then there are the so-called “forbidden colors” called red-green and blue-yellow, because scientists suck at naming things. We know they exist, but our retinas piss all over the very idea by crudely approximating them to their base colors when sending the signal to the brain. In an experiment conducted in 1983, researchers figured out they could make volunteers actually see these colors using specifically constructed striped images where one half of an eye’s retinal cells could only see one color while the other saw the other, basically overloading the eye until it went “screw it” and unleashed the forbidden hues.

The volunteers saw colors they had not seen before, but had no words for what they were looking at. It sort of broke their brains for a minute.

5 Insane Things Hiding Just Outside Of Human Perception

Omg this

Christ taught to not lie or be greedy, so to celebrate his birthday I perpetuate a lie to children about a man who promotes materialism and breaks into houses.

This is so cool

NAAS Astronomy Picture of the Day 2016 September 5 

Spiral Meteor through the Heart Nebula 

What is this meteor doing? Dynamically, the unusually short and asymmetric train may indicate that the sand-sized grain at the center of the glow is momentarily spinning as it ablates, causing its path to be slightly spiral. Geographically, the meteor appears to be going through the Heart Nebula, although really it is in Earth’s atmosphere and so is about one quadrillion times closer. Taken last month on the night of the peak, this meteor is likely from the Perseid meteor shower. The Perseids radiant, in the constellation of Perseus, is off the frame to the upper right, toward the direction that the meteor streak is pointing. The Heart Nebula was imaged in 18 one-minute exposures, of which the unusual meteor streak appeared on just one. The meteor train is multicolored as its glow emanates from different elements in the heated gas.

Sad that this is so true...

‘The Time To Act Is Now,’ Says Yellowing Climate Change Report Sitting In University Archive 

BERKELEY, CA—Warning society that it has reached a crucial tipping point from which it may never be able to recover, a brittle, yellowing report sitting in the archives of the University of California’s Bioscience & Natural Resources Library reportedly urged readers Friday that “the time to act against climate change is right now.” “Any further delay in ending the international community’s reliance on fossil fuels and reversing global carbon emission trends places the planet on an irreversible path toward climate catastrophe,” read the faded text of the document, whose musty, degrading pages further cautioned that, without “an immediate and concerted worldwide response,” polar ice caps will melt at an accelerating rate and extreme weather events will grow more frequent and destructive.

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There is no denying the beauty of space!

i think i have an unhealthy obsession with space

but i mean

can

you

really

blame

me?

This kills me.

The vast majority of toilet paper is either used to wipe the part of your body that smells or the part of your body that smells.

This is me at 3 a.m.

#illustration #sketch #dibujo #draw #drawing #toon #coffee #ilustracion

Fire and ice

Celestial Bauble Intrigues Astronomers (NASA, Chandra, 12/20/11) / http://flic.kr/p/aYptbF / by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 2016 September 19 

50,000 Kilometers over the Sun 

What’s happening at the edge of the Sun? Although it may look like a monster is rampaging, what is pictured is actually only a monster prominence – a sheath of thin gas held above the surface by the Sun’s magnetic field. The solar event was captured just this past weekend with a small telescope, with the resulting image then inverted and false-colored. As indicated with illustrative lines, the prominence rises over 50,000 kilometers above the Sun’s surface, making even our 12,700-diameter Earth seem small by comparison. Below the monster prominence is active region 12585, while light colored filaments can be seen hovering over a flowing solar carpet of fibrils. Filaments are actually prominences seen against the disk of the Sun, while similarly, fibrils are actually spicules seen against the disk. Energetic events like this are becoming less common as the Sun evolves toward a minimum in its 11-year activity cycle.

I'm very very excited about this