startswithabang: The Earliest Galaxies Spin Just Like Our Milky…

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The Earliest Galaxies Spin Just Like Our Milky Way, Defying Expectations

“As our data sets improve, we should begin to measure the internal motions of large numbers of galaxies like this, which will answer many questions and raise others. Do most/all galaxies at these early stages rotate in a whirlpool-like plane? Is there a variety and multiple sets of populations that exhibit different behaviors? What are the actual effects of gas infall, supernovae, and small-scale motions? What is the velocity profile of these rotation curves, and can they teach us anything about the interplay of radiation, normal matter, and dark matter?

While we hope to learn these answers, we can now ask these questions sensibly in the aftermath of having measured the movement and internal motions of a galaxy so far away. At least for the first two, they rotate very similarly to their much older cousins, a quite unexpected result. Thanks to ALMA, we’re taking those coveted next steps into the final frontier.”

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When you form galaxies in the very young Universe, it’s supposed to be a chaotic, turbulent place. Sure, you have gravitation, pulling matter in and creating a pancake-like shape. But then you form stars, and everything goes haywire. Supernovae go off, gas falls in, protogalaxies merge and get swallowed, motions get stirred up, and turbulence should permeate the galaxy. It ought to take billions of years for them to quiet down into a Milky Way-like whirlpool. Well, for the first time, owing to ALMA and Renske Smit’s team, the internal motions of galaxies less than a billion years old were measured, and – surprise! – their movement is smooth and not chaotic at all.

They’re less than a billion years old. And, thanks to ALMA observing them, they might finally pave the way to understand how galaxies form altogether.

brooklynmuseum: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Brooklyn are forever…

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Jean-Michel Basquiat and Brooklyn are forever linked. From January 26 to March 11, experience this connection in One Basquiat, our spotlight presentation featuring one of Basquiat’s most powerful paintings. In only three short weeks, thanks to the generosity of Mr. Yusaku Maezawa, Untitled (1982) returns to the artist’s hometown in an exhibition that honors the local hero and aims to inspire both Brooklynites and global audiences.

Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988). Untitled, 1982. Acrylic, spray paint, and oil stick on canvas, 721⁄8 x 681⁄8 in. (183.2 x 173 cm). Collection of Yusaku Maezawa. © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Licensed by Artestar, New York

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thehighpriestofreverseracism: So we all know we are going to…

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So we all know we are going to support the frick out “Black Panther” (COMING TO THE THEATRE:12th of February) and “A Wrinkle In Time” (COMING TO THE THEATRE:9th of March)

But I haven’t seen much promo for “Proud Mary”! Taraji P. Henson as a kick ass black woman who is a assassin….we need to get behind this shit too (USA PREMIERE:12th of January/UK PREMIERE:23rd of March)

Watch trailer here!

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superheroesincolor: Afrosf: Science Fiction by African…

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Afrosf: Science Fiction by African Writers (2013)

“AfroSF is the first ever anthology of Science Fiction by African writers only that was open to submissions from across Africa and abroad. 

It is comprised of original (previously unpublished) works only, from stellar established and upcoming African writers: Nnedi Okorafor, Sarah Lotz, Tendai Huchu, Cristy Zinn, Ashley Jacobs, Nick Wood, Tade Thompson, S.A. Partridge, Chinelo Onwualu, Uko Bendi Udo, Dave de Burgh, Biram Mboob, Sally-Ann Murray, Mandisi Nkomo, Liam Kruger, Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu, Joan De La Haye, Mia Arderne, Rafeeat Aliyu, Martin Stokes, Clifton Gachagua, and Efe Okogu.”

Edited by Ivor W. Hartmann

Get it  now here  

“AfroSF will serve as an admirable antidote for all those who have to be reminded that Africa is a continent, not a country. Both the stories and the authors are as diverse as any reader could wish…Looking over this broad assortment…it’s clear that this anthology has lived up to its ambition…highly readable and enjoyable stories that take the raw materials of science fiction and give them a different spin…Although it is coming from a small press, it would be lovely if this anthology were to get some of the wider attention it deserves.” - Karen Burnham

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chaosophia218: Project Camelot – The design of the OTC X-1.Ralph…

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Project Camelot - The design of the OTC X-1.

Ralph Ring is a brilliant innovative technician who as a young man in the late 1950s worked closely with Otis T. Carr. With the aid of his small team, Carr, who was himself a protegé of the great inventor Nikola Tesla, built a number of flying disks which worked, prior to their experimentation being forcibly terminated by government agents.

They built a flying disk, powered by rotating electromagnets in conjunction with a number of small, ingenious capacitor-like devices called “Utrons”. A number of prototypes were built, ranging in size from experimental models a few feet across to a passenger-carrying craft which was fully 45 feet in diameter. The smaller disks flew successfully - one even disappeared completely and was permanently lost - and Ralph himself testifies to having co-piloted, with two others, the large craft a distance of some ten miles, traversing this distance instantaneously.

The Utron was the key to it all. Carr said it accumulated energy because of its shape, and focused it, and also responded to their conscious intentions. When they operated the machine, they didn’t work any controls, but went into a kind of meditative state and focused their intentions on the effect they wanted to achieve. Carr had tapped into some principle which is not understood, in which consciousness melds with engineering to create an effect.