Who on Earth could ever turn this owl away?
Technovember Day 29. Some owls are born, others are forged by Hephaestus.
He came from a distant star. So far that when he passed by Vega--some 300,000 years ago--Vega wasn't even there yet.
The whole story is fascinating but these bits caught our attention:
Pronounced “Oh-moo-ah-moo-ah,” it means “a messenger from afar arriving first.”
Observations of the wildly-varying light from ‘Oumuamua showed scientists it wasn’t spherical, but probably had a cigar shape measuring 800 meters by 80 meters by 80 meters—that’s something almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty, but half a mile long. It’s red, and likely made from metal and carbon-rich matter like some comets.
There are many unknown things in our galaxy, and some of them are zooming at us at incredible speeds.
Four open clusters (M103, Owl Cluster, and two Caldwells) Visit http://spaceviewsandbeyond.blogspot.com/2017/11/four-open-clusters-m103-owl-cluster-and.html for more space pics
Nicole and Chloë love the new apartment look. (at Aspire)
This man inspired my very first feature length screenplay. I'm very sad to hear he's gone
Stanislav Petrov was on overnight duty in 1983 when computers indicated the U.S. had launched a nuclear strike against his country. He had only a few nerve-jangling minutes to act. “ … they were lucky it was me on shift that night,” he says.
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A book crystallized in the ocean
Best tag ever.