Reading The Abstract Of A Scientific Paper: Ok I Got This

Home is where the Eucharist is ❤️

there was a really annoying post on a “Xtains don’t interact” blog (cause you know how people just hate using the word Christ) talking about how “Christians just can’t understand Hallelujah because it’s a jewish song” and “the context and the jewish relationship with God prevent Christians from fully understanding cause they can’t obviously have struggles with their relationship with God cause they blindly follow him” and a whole other bunch of crap.

And like, I’m only saying this cause people have such a poor understanding of actual, legitamite and Holy Christian theology that they can’t even comprehend that we have a complex relationship with God where we question things and doubt and fear.

Controversially, Christian people have struggled and fought from the very start to exist and continue to suffer and die for their faith.

I’m ranting but it’s just sad. Maybe actually bother to learn something about Christianity (or Catholicism since I am coming from a Catholic point of view) because a whole bunch of what people say and think is wrong because every one has a watered down, secularized and poorly represented version of Christians.

Damn.

1700's medical illustrators be like "hey boss can I put a rhinoceros behind this anotomically correct sketch of the human skeleton" and the boss be like "only for the books being published in these specific european countries" and then they high-five and go out for drinks

“Number theory is nothing but questions that shouldn’t be asked.”

- applicable algebra professor

What were astronauts like when they first returned from outer space? Nurse Dee O'Hara: ‘They have something, a sort of wild look, I would say, as if they had fallen in love with a mystery up there, sort of as if they haven’t got their feet back on the ground, as if they regret having come back to us… a rage at having come back to earth. As if up there they’re not only freed from weight, from the force of gravity, but from desires, affections, passions, ambitions, from the body. Did you know that for months John [Glenn] and Wally [Schirra] and Scott [Carpenter] went around looking at the sky? You could speak to them and they didn’t answer, you could touch them on the shoulder and they didn’t notice; their only contact with the world was a dazed, absent, happy smile. They smiled at everything and everybody, and they were always tripping over things. They kept tripping over things because they never had their eyes on the ground.’

Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (via m-l-rio)

turns out you don’t have to be beautiful at all, you can just be

Catholic Aesthetics

Irish Catholic: Green vestments, Celtic crosses, St Patrick, Old stone monastery's, Friars

Mexican Catholic: Our Lady of Guadeloupe, rosaries, Spanish bibles, baptisms

Roman Catholic: Gold chalices, Nuns, Sistine Chapel, Swiss Gaurds, Latin Masses

Polish Catholic: Priests in black, St Faustina, Divine Mercy Paintings, Confessionals

Eastern Catholic: Icons, stained windows, cool hats

From Earthrise to the black hole: astronomy’s most famous images.

Photographs from history that capture humanity’s exploration of the heavens.

20 July 1969

One of the most iconic views of Earth, taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft as it orbited the moon. Describing the scene, the astronaut Neil Armstrong said: ‘It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small’ | This caption was updated on 11 April 2019 to correct the date the picture was taken, photograph: Nasa.

21 July 1969

Buzz Aldrin, the lunar module pilot for the first moon landing, poses on the lunar surface. The footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil. Neil Armstrong took the picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface camera Photograph: American Photo Archive/Alamy

25 February 1979

This dramatic view of Jupiter’s great red spot and its surroundings was obtained by the Voyager 1 space probe

Photograph: JPL/Nasa/UIG/Getty Images

14 February 1990

Often referred to as ‘the pale blue dot’ image, this picture was taken when Voyager 1 was 4bn miles (6.4bn km) from Earth and 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane. Earth is a mere point of light, just 0.12 pixels in size when viewed from that distance. The fuzzy light is scattered sunlight because Earth was close to the sun (from the perspective of Voyager)

Photograph: JPL/Nasa

6 January 2004

The first colour image of Mars taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. It was the sharpest photograph ever taken on the surface of the planet

Photograph: JPL/Nasa/AP

25 September 2012

Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, this photo was assembled by combining 10 years of Hubble space telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the centre of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. By collecting faint light over many hours of observation, the telescope revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the universe ever taken at that time

Photograph: Hubble space telescope/Nasa/ESA

24 July 2015

A combination of images captured by the New Horizons space probe, with enhanced colours to show differences in the composition and texture of Pluto’s surface

Photograph: AP

10 April 2019

The first image of a black hole, captured by the Event Horizon telescope (EHT) – a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration. The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape

Photograph: EHT Collaboration/UCL

I saw some fine fellows on my morning walk today

Perfection is not only the reason behind the passion but your hard work matters a lot for your passion.

S.S.K (via creativespacetime)