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Venus Transit VIDEO: NASA Footage Of Rare 2012 Planetary Alignment From Solar Dynamics Observatory (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/venus-transit-video-nasa-_n_1574547.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003)

Simply awesome

cool

shows how immense the sun is

shows how immense the sun is

I always remind myself to suspend reality when dealing with measurements and space.

shows how immense the sun is

The fact that the a thing 93 MILLION miles away can still heat our little rock in space is incomprehensible to me. I accept it on an intellectual level but really, fully grasping the reality of it is just simply beyond my tiny little brain.

EDIT: I'll just have to build a robot to do it for me. :laughing-

NASA - Data From NASA's Voyager 1 Point to Interstellar Future (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20120614.html)

NASA - Data From NASA's Voyager 1 Point to Interstellar Future (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20120614.html)
That's really cool.

We humans sure do suck in a lot of ways but we're also really awesome too.

Venus Transit VIDEO: NASA Footage Of Rare 2012 Planetary Alignment From Solar Dynamics Observatory (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/venus-transit-video-nasa-_n_1574547.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003)

Simply awesome

How'd I miss this gem? Damn that's awesome!

NASA - Data From NASA's Voyager 1 Point to Interstellar Future (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20120614.html)


Amazing the new stuff we find out as time goes on. Thanks for the posts Smoot! You have earned some cool points in my book. :)

More amazing stuff computers CAN do.

NSA in Bluffdale, Utah (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/)

Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks.

Bear in mind that just because you can't wrap your mind around a concept doesn't mean someone else hasn't already got something incredible up and running.

But these mother****ers would blow your mind:

The 25th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & (http://ssdut.dlut.edu.cn/iea-aie/webpages/index.htm)
Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (http://ssdut.dlut.edu.cn/iea-aie/webpages/index.htm)
2012 Dalian, China (http://ssdut.dlut.edu.cn/iea-aie/webpages/index.htm)

^^that isn't really science related.

More amazing stuff computers CAN do.

NSA in Bluffdale, Utah (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/)

Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks.

Bear in mind that just because you can't wrap your mind around a concept doesn't mean someone else hasn't already got something incredible up and running.

What I can't seem to wrap my mind around is that you don't get the concept that a lot of us on here have an extremely solid background and understanding of what computers can and will be doing.

It's amazing to see how far they have come in such a short time, but with that said, there are certain bounds that have not yet been reached, and are far murkier even if and when they are reached.