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now is the day of salvation

An ordinary day on Mars. by cosmicdatabase

★☆★ SPACE ★☆★

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

- applicable algebra professor

As we head into a new academic year - remember to look out for your pals! Anxiety isn’t what we might think it is!

I saw some fine fellows on my morning walk today

Leonid meteors tonight and tomorrow night

A note on Nuclear Fission

When an atom fissions, it releases a teeny tiny amount of energy ( The decay of one atom of uranium-235 releases about 200MeV or about 3*10-11J.). But atoms are quite small. An atom does not make a big explosion when it splits.

To get a big explosion, you need to split lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of them—many, many trillions of them.

Each one releases only a teeny amount of energy, but when you add up the teeny amount of energy from trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms, then you get a big explosion. (The explosion of 1kg of TNT releases 4MJ).

the rest of the country: trying to sell me something while I drive >:(

the midwest: asking me sleepover questions :)

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

S.S.K (via creativespacetime)

“Patristic literature associates the timing of the Circumcision on the eighth day with the Resurrection. Here the argument rests on the kind of mystical numerology which we no longer take seriously, but it did formerly engage so great minds. The reasoning runs somewhat as follows. Seven is the number of completion and fullness, for the world was created in seven days, and is due to pass through seven ages. But if seven is perfect, then seven-plus-one is pluperfect. Eight, therefore, stands for renewal, regeneration - whence the architectural tradition of eight-sided baptistries. And Christ rose from the dead on the day superseding the Sabbath, on the eight day; just as the world’s seven ages will be followed in the eighth age by the General Resurrection. These notions attach themselves almost from the beginning to all theological meditation on Christ’s circumcision. From St. Justin Martyr in the 2nd century to St. Thomas Aquinas, it is the sense of the mystery that the Circumcision on the eighth day prefigures Christ’s Resurrection, and thereby, implicitly, the resurrection of all.”

— Leo Steinberg (The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, page 52). On the next page he quotes Bede, “[It is] our true and complete circumcision, when, on the day of judgment, all souls having put off the corruption of the flesh … we will enter the forecourt of the heavenly kingdom to behold forever the face of the Creator. This is prefigured by the circumcision of the little ones in the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.”