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Monthly Archives: July 2012
10 Strange Futurist Scenarios for Human Evolution
When science fiction writers and futurists imagine humans of the far future, they never think our descendants are going to look exactly the same as we do now. After all, we’ll have access to powerful tools to turn us into cyborgs and hack our DNA, so there’s no limit to how we could reinvent ourselves. But just how weird could our progeny become? Here are 10 of the absolute strangest visions of our post-human future.
Awesome Library in Abandoned House
I’m very taken with James Charlick’s photo, “The Grand Library,” shot in an abandoned house during an urban exploration expedition.
The Grand Library VIA: –BOING BOING–
Jaw Dropping Long Exposure Photos from Space
These amazing long exposure photographs were taken by astronaut Don Pettit from aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 31.
As the ISS circles Earth at roughly 17,000 miles per hour, Flight Engineer Don Pettit takes 30-second exposures with a stock digital camera, then stacks those exposures into single frames that produces 10-15 minutes of exposure. The rotation is fast enough for long exposures to blur the earth into bright strips of light, as well as capturing star trails, aurora, and flashes of lightning splattered all across the surface of the Earth.
View more photos at this Flickr set VIA: –AMUSING PLANET–
Govt Adviser: Aliens Might be JellyFish W/ Orange Butts
Forget little green men. Aliens may look like giant jellyfish with orange bottoms, a leading space scientist has claimed.
Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a satellite expert and government adviser, said it is likely that there is extra-terrestrial life – it is just more alien than you’d imagine.
Rather than being the little green men so beloved of Hollywood directors, they may look like football-field sized jellyfish, complete with onion-shaped appendages and an orange underbelly or bottom.
Generated from silicon, rather than the carbon that is the basis of life as we know it, the creatures are able to live off light absorbed through their ‘skin’ and chemicals sucked in through their giant mouths.
CONSPIRAPORN! 