Python: What If Everything Was A Dict?

Sometimes I want to go up to the people who insist that feminism and progressive values are Ruining Science Fiction and remind them that their genre exists because a teenaged girl was stuck at a house party and decided that inventing science fiction sounded more appealing than yet another tiresome threesome with Lord Byron.

Teen breaks Rubik’s Cube new world record (video)

T-42 days (October 23, 2015) - Cygnus being loaded with cargo

Cargo stowing began on the OA-4 mission earlier this week at the International Space Station Processing Facility. The enhanced Cygnus pressure vessel is now being loaded with nearly 7,700 pounds of cargo for the International Space Station. In the foreground of the last image, the service module for the spacecraft can be seen undergoing testing. It was delivered to Kennedy Space Center early last week. OA-4 is scheduled to launch at 6:03 pm EST on December 3, on an United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket. It will be the first of two Cygnus resupply missions to fly on the Atlas V, which is acting as an intermediate launch vehicle while Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket returns to flight.

R.Buckminster Fuller. Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity. Pelican. 1973.

things i like doing: math

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‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method 

A very useful demonstration of the importance of sentence length.

What is human existence? It turns out it’s pretty simple: We are dead stars, looking back up at the sky.

Dr. Michelle Thaller, NASA astronomer  (via psych-facts)

The study of the galaxies reveals a universal order and beauty. It also shows us chaotic violence on a scale hitherto undreamed of. That we live in a universe which permits life is remarkable. That we live in one which destroys galaxies and stars and worlds is also remarkable. The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos (via vagogh)