terça-feira, 10 de novembro de 2009
De um grão de café a um átomo de carbono
Pale Blue Dot + Sigur Rós
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

O ponto azul onde toda a história da Terra se passou.
Imagem feita pela Voyager 1 em 1990.
Via Dynamics of Cats
quinta-feira, 5 de novembro de 2009
segunda-feira, 26 de outubro de 2009
Der Mensch als Industriepalast
Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] from Henning Lederer on Vimeo.
Essa animação do corpo humano como uma indústria, seu maquinário e operários, do artista alemão Henning Lederer, foi inspirada no pôster "O homem como palácio industrial", de Fritz Khan, 1927, e é muito bacana.
Via 100Nexos
Surpresas na trama

Link para o gráfico completo.
Via Boing Boing.
The Death of Bunny Munro

Nick Cave lançou um romance em três formatos. The Death of Bunny Munro vem em papel, audio-livro e app para iPhone. No audio-livro, Nick lê a história em cima de uma trilha composta por ele em parceria com Warren Ellis como se fosse a trilha de um filme.

“I am damned, thinks Bunny Munro, in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those that are soon to die.”
A história fala sobre um vendedor obcecado por sexo, que leva seu filho em uma viagem após o suicídio de sua mulher.
É possível ouvir um trecho de The Death of Bunny Munro aqui. E aqui tem uma entrevista com Nick Cave sobre o livro e o video que está abaixo.
Portanto, já tenho um compromisso com Nick Cave neste feriado.
quinta-feira, 22 de outubro de 2009
segunda-feira, 19 de outubro de 2009
Equinócio em Saturno

A Lua Prometheus e sua perturbação no anel F de Saturno

Titã fracamente iluminada enquanto era eclipsada pelo planeta.
Parece tirada do set de algum filme do Ed Wood.
Saturn at equinox - The Big Picture
Missões a Marte
Casamento zombie

Via Boing Boing


