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*I can’t hold all these feels.gif*

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beautiful-anomaly:

Carl Sagan’s Apple Pie (by Neven Mrgan)

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” — Carl Sagan.

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“Make the universe as usual” seems a bit vague. I’ll try and give you the most current recipe I can think of:

In a singularity, mix Planck’s Constant, Speed of Light in a Vacuum, Gravity, and fundamental particles in your preferred form (superstrings are currently easily available). Allow to expand until matter begins to form, ensuring that you are allowing matter to cool enough for the Gravity to start clumping it. Wait. Wait. Wait. (This will take a while, trust me.) Once you see that your matter has clumped tightly enough to start nuclear reactions, you will have “Stars” which you will use to build more complicated forms of matter. (Up to this point, your matter has been, at the most complex, hydrogen atoms.) Once you have stars, you will also notice that some of them form planets. This is what you are looking for. When you have had stars and collections of stars into galaxies (and larger and larger structures…but those are less relevant for the apple pie recipe currently) for long enough, you will find that you may have a main-sequence star with a planetary system around it (well, you might have quite a few) with a planet in a good orbit to stay warm, but not too warm, and the planet will have caught some water from a comet and complicated elements and molecules from previous stars and will end up with a decent atmosphere.

At this point, you are back to a waiting game as the matter on the planet eventually gets configured into proteins and cells and the like. After a few billion years (not that long compared to the overall universe creation), you’ll be ready to make apple pie once you have the necessary complex lifeforms of the plant and animal varieties (among many others that you can study, but this recipe seems mostly concerned with plants, animals, and a yeast).

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astrotastic:

June 6, 1990 - Astronomer Carl Sagan Speaks at a news conference where NASA made available the last pictures taken by Voyager 1, which show the solar system as viewed from the outside.

Is it just me or does it look like that pointer is going directly through his hand?

You’re getting a little tangled up, Carl.

The shadow being cast by hard overhead and back lighting on the tendon connected across the palm to the pinky is in line with the tip of the pointer which is (possibly?) resting on the back of his forearm, making it look, indeed, like he’s managed to painlessly jab himself with the pointer through the back of his hand.

Or maybe Carl Sagan knew how to control tunneling and just tunnelled the atoms of the pointer through the middle of his palm?

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garlandgrey:

Carl Sagan Day | November 9th, 2011

I’ll probably ask off of work, for religious reasons, and spend the day recreating Sagan’s “Mr. X” experiments while watching awesome space shit.

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beautiful-anomaly:

astrotastic:

project-argus:

Well hay.

I… I have no words for this picture. Holy shit. He looks so creepy.

ohaaaaay.

Creepy!Sagan just wants to teach you about science. Don’t run.

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(via Home, from the start of a long, long journey | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine)

Juno is 6 million miles away (10 million kilometers) and looking back at home. The bigger white blob? Earth. The smaller fuzzy one? The Moon. Time it took us humans to get from one blob to the other in 1969? Three days.

Distance Juno will travel by the time it gets to Jupiter? 3 billion kilometers.

Let Carl Sagan remind you of something, in case this picture isn’t: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M