supraspectra: Top: Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with Mir on 4 July 1995.  Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, who had arrive onboard Atlantis five days earlier, took Soyuz TM-21 for a fly-around photo survey prior to Atlantis undocking for her return to Earth.  This was the first time a shuttle had docked with Mir. Bottom: Two shots of the Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the ISS, as photographed by the departing Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft on 23 May 2011, during the STS-134 mission.  (There are a lot more from this fly-around here)
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supraspectra: Top: Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with Mir on 4 July 1995.  Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, who had arrive onboard Atlantis five days earlier, took Soyuz TM-21 for a fly-around photo survey prior to Atlantis undocking for her return to Earth.  This was the first time a shuttle had docked with Mir. Bottom: Two shots of the Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the ISS, as photographed by the departing Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft on 23 May 2011, during the STS-134 mission.  (There are a lot more from this fly-around here)
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supraspectra: Top: Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with Mir on 4 July 1995.  Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, who had arrive onboard Atlantis five days earlier, took Soyuz TM-21 for a fly-around photo survey prior to Atlantis undocking for her return to Earth.  This was the first time a shuttle had docked with Mir. Bottom: Two shots of the Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the ISS, as photographed by the departing Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft on 23 May 2011, during the STS-134 mission.  (There are a lot more from this fly-around here)
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Top: Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with Mir on 4 July 1995.  Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, who had arrive onboard Atlantis five days earlier, took Soyuz TM-21 for a fly-around photo survey prior to Atlantis undocking for her return to Earth.  This was the first time a shuttle had docked with Mir.

Bottom: Two shots of the Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the ISS, as photographed by the departing Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft on 23 May 2011, during the STS-134 mission.  (There are a lot more from this fly-around here)

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nursewithtattoos: adventuresofphunny: andachtig: Should I die before I wake… Turn me into a tree! (Does putting it on Tumblr make my request legally binding?) I’ve been telling people for years to plant my ashes with a tree. Now it’s easy!! Totally want this when I’m dead. I always want to do this, but my plan was to be cremated, have my ashes taken to the redwood forests of Northern California and put in a hole dug for a redwood sapling. Spread my ashes around the root ball of the sapling and cover with soil. This would, in essence, turn me into a tree with a very long lifespan.
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andachtig:

Should I die before I wake… Turn me into a tree! (Does putting it on Tumblr make my request legally binding?)

I’ve been telling people for years to plant my ashes with a tree.
Now it’s easy!!

Totally want this when I’m dead.

I always want to do this, but my plan was to be cremated, have my ashes taken to the redwood forests of Northern California and put in a hole dug for a redwood sapling. Spread my ashes around the root ball of the sapling and cover with soil. This would, in essence, turn me into a tree with a very long lifespan.

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astronemma: Antigravity gets first test at Cern’s Alpha experiment Researchers at Cern in Switzerland have proved the merits of a way to test antimatter as a source of the long-postulated “anti-gravity”. How antimatter responds to gravity remains a mystery; it may “fall up” rather than down. Now researchers reporting in Nature Communications have made strides toward finally resolving that notion. Why the Universe we see today is made overwhelmingly of matter, with only tiny amounts of antimatter, has prompted a number of studies to try to find some difference between the two. One significant difference between the two may be the way they interact with gravity - antimatter may be repelled by matter, rather than attracted to it. But it is a difference that no one has been able to test - until the advent of Cern’s Alpha experiment. Alpha is an acronym for Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus - an experiment designed to build and trap antimatter “atoms”. In 2011 the Alpha team showed they could keep antihydrogen atoms trapped for 1,000 seconds. The team has now gone back to their existing data on 434 antihydrogen atoms, with the antigravity question in mind. “In the course of all the experiments, we release (the antihydrogen atoms) and look for their annihilation,” said Jeffrey Hangst, spokesperson for the experiment. “We’ve gone through those data to see if we can see any influence of gravity on the positions at which they annihilate - looking for atoms to fall for the short amount of time they exist before they hit the wall,” he told BBC News. The team has made a statistical study of which antihydrogen atoms went where - up or down - and they are able to put a first set of constraints on how the anti-atoms respond to gravity. The best limits they can suggest is that they are less than 110 times more susceptible to gravity than normal atoms, and less than 65 times that strength, but in the opposite direction: antigravity. In short, the question remains unanswered - so far. Read more: [x]
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Antigravity gets first test at Cern’s Alpha experiment

Researchers at Cern in Switzerland have proved the merits of a way to test antimatter as a source of the long-postulated “anti-gravity”. How antimatter responds to gravity remains a mystery; it may “fall up” rather than down. Now researchers reporting in Nature Communications have made strides toward finally resolving that notion.

Why the Universe we see today is made overwhelmingly of matter, with only tiny amounts of antimatter, has prompted a number of studies to try to find some difference between the two. One significant difference between the two may be the way they interact with gravity - antimatter may be repelled by matter, rather than attracted to it. But it is a difference that no one has been able to test - until the advent of Cern’s Alpha experiment.

Alpha is an acronym for Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus - an experiment designed to build and trap antimatter “atoms”. In 2011 the Alpha team showed they could keep antihydrogen atoms trapped for 1,000 seconds. The team has now gone back to their existing data on 434 antihydrogen atoms, with the antigravity question in mind.

“In the course of all the experiments, we release (the antihydrogen atoms) and look for their annihilation,” said Jeffrey Hangst, spokesperson for the experiment. “We’ve gone through those data to see if we can see any influence of gravity on the positions at which they annihilate - looking for atoms to fall for the short amount of time they exist before they hit the wall,” he told BBC News.

The team has made a statistical study of which antihydrogen atoms went where - up or down - and they are able to put a first set of constraints on how the anti-atoms respond to gravity. The best limits they can suggest is that they are less than 110 times more susceptible to gravity than normal atoms, and less than 65 times that strength, but in the opposite direction: antigravity. In short, the question remains unanswered - so far.

Read more: [x]

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booksforsoldiers: Long time Books For Soldiers volunteer, Sara Ashley Brown, needs help with paying for her college tuition. She has already  raised $20,000 and she is half way there. Read about here college fund campaign on Indiegogo. She has a genius level IQ, mathematics prodigy and can’t get funding for school. She has busted her ass to get the first $20,00 raised. Help her with the last half. A very worthy cause.
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Long time Books For Soldiers volunteer, Sara Ashley Brown, needs help with paying for her college tuition. She has already  raised $20,000 and she is half way there. Read about here college fund campaign on Indiegogo.

She has a genius level IQ, mathematics prodigy and can’t get funding for school. She has busted her ass to get the first $20,00 raised. Help her with the last half.

A very worthy cause.

the-science-llama: infinity-imagined: Neurons growing in a cell culture These time lapse animations use phase contrast microscopy to show neural stem cells in a nutrient medium for 4 hours.  They reveal the dynamic growth and recycling of dendrites and synapses as neurons establish relationships with each other.  The social behavior of these cells creates the incredible properties of the mind and brain. Credit: University of Victoria Medical Sciences Your brain is doing this RIGHT NOW. Re-wiring as you remember something or learn something, constantly changing.
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the-science-llama: infinity-imagined: Neurons growing in a cell culture These time lapse animations use phase contrast microscopy to show neural stem cells in a nutrient medium for 4 hours.  They reveal the dynamic growth and recycling of dendrites and synapses as neurons establish relationships with each other.  The social behavior of these cells creates the incredible properties of the mind and brain. Credit: University of Victoria Medical Sciences Your brain is doing this RIGHT NOW. Re-wiring as you remember something or learn something, constantly changing.
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the-science-llama: infinity-imagined: Neurons growing in a cell culture These time lapse animations use phase contrast microscopy to show neural stem cells in a nutrient medium for 4 hours.  They reveal the dynamic growth and recycling of dendrites and synapses as neurons establish relationships with each other.  The social behavior of these cells creates the incredible properties of the mind and brain. Credit: University of Victoria Medical Sciences Your brain is doing this RIGHT NOW. Re-wiring as you remember something or learn something, constantly changing.
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the-science-llama: infinity-imagined: Neurons growing in a cell culture These time lapse animations use phase contrast microscopy to show neural stem cells in a nutrient medium for 4 hours.  They reveal the dynamic growth and recycling of dendrites and synapses as neurons establish relationships with each other.  The social behavior of these cells creates the incredible properties of the mind and brain. Credit: University of Victoria Medical Sciences Your brain is doing this RIGHT NOW. Re-wiring as you remember something or learn something, constantly changing.
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the-science-llama: infinity-imagined: Neurons growing in a cell culture These time lapse animations use phase contrast microscopy to show neural stem cells in a nutrient medium for 4 hours.  They reveal the dynamic growth and recycling of dendrites and synapses as neurons establish relationships with each other.  The social behavior of these cells creates the incredible properties of the mind and brain. Credit: University of Victoria Medical Sciences Your brain is doing this RIGHT NOW. Re-wiring as you remember something or learn something, constantly changing.
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the-science-llama: infinity-imagined: Neurons growing in a cell culture These time lapse animations use phase contrast microscopy to show neural stem cells in a nutrient medium for 4 hours.  They reveal the dynamic growth and recycling of dendrites and synapses as neurons establish relationships with each other.  The social behavior of these cells creates the incredible properties of the mind and brain. Credit: University of Victoria Medical Sciences Your brain is doing this RIGHT NOW. Re-wiring as you remember something or learn something, constantly changing.
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Neurons growing in a cell culture

These time lapse animations use phase contrast microscopy to show neural stem cells in a nutrient medium for 4 hours.  They reveal the dynamic growth and recycling of dendrites and synapses as neurons establish relationships with each other.  The social behavior of these cells creates the incredible properties of the mind and brain.

Credit: University of Victoria Medical Sciences

Your brain is doing this RIGHT NOW. Re-wiring as you remember something or learn something, constantly changing.

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