So I just watched the 8th episode of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and I need explanations for one particular information about light travel and relativity theory mentioned by Carl. He said that the star ‘Beta’ is 75 light years away from Earth and if it blew up two weeks ago, we won’t be able know it until 75 years in the future.
Now I have questions: First, does this mean the lights of the stars I see at night aren’t real time lights but lights of the stars from X years ago if, let’s say the distance of the stars from Earth is X? Second, does the relativity applies to light travel itself? I mean if it does, if a star is X light years away, the light from that star as we see it today is a light from Y years ago where X>Y. Third, am I asking the right questions?
Apologies if the answer for the third question is no. But I really hope I will receive answers from my followers, if there are any and/or from those people who are tracking the science tags :)
And it is only because of the extinction of the dinosaurs that our ancestors could get going. And the extinction of the dinosaurs seems to have been caused by an immense collision by an asteroid or cometary nucleus with the earth some 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period. That is a statistical event, and if that had not happened maybe I would be ten feet tall with green scales and sharp pointy teeth, and you would be similarly tall and green and pointy-toothed. We would both likely consider ourselves extremely attractive. What handsome fellows we are. And how strange it would seem if I proposed that had things gone different, then the little mice that bother us might have evolved to become the dominant organism, and the only remnants of us would be salamanders and crocodiles and birds.
–Carl Sagan (via thechurroboy
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Via N e v er e n d i ng thoughts
The Department of Education (DepEd) has decided to drop “Science” from the roster of subjects taken up by incoming Grade 1 pupils in line with its efforts to decongest the Basic Education Curriculum and to make learning more enjoyable to young learners.
Education Secretary Armin Luistro said that the move to exclude Science in Grade 1 subjects starting this coming school year is based on the design of K to 12 curriculum. “The overall design of the new curriculum to be introduced and implemented this coming June to both Grade 1 and First Year high school students is based on the idea that we should be taking the students where they are,” Luistro said in an interview.
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“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.” — Carl Sagan
Deped seems to be responsible for beating the scientists out of the Filipino children.
A message from Andrew Scott:
Glorious citizens of TUMBLR.
I know a number of you have been waiting to see it so here at long last is the release of SEA WALL. It really is a beautiful story; amazingly written and directed by the incredible Simon Stephens and produced by Veracity’s Andy Porter. We’re very proud of it and we really hope you like it.
The film essentially is about the importance of love and we made it with that in mind.
While we are on that subject, I’d like to say a huge thank you for all the wonderful support during this series of Sherlock. As some of you know I’m not a twitter guy so I thought I could take this opportunity to say how humbled I am by the passion, humour, imagination and general sexiness of the Sherlock fandom.
See you soon.
With big love
ASx
(As I don’t have an account on Tumblr, I just wanted to introduce Sea Wall and say thanks to you all…..)
No. No sir. Thank youuu.
pak* hes handsome here
aaaahhhhh! moriarty! he’s alive!!!!!! ooops. spoilers ;b
BBC Sherlock S02E03 The Raichenbach Fall - thoughts, opinion, obsession…
Molly Hooper - every expression, every dialogue, every emotion in her screen time is perfection. She’s like icing in a cake, a pendant in a necklace, a chorus in a song. If Watson served as Sherlock’s transparent glass so the latter can witness our reality from his alternate universe, Molly became the rift, Sherlock’s transcendental portal to the complexities of being human. “Oh, I don’t count.” is the Sherlockian version of Whoniverse’s perception filter aka ‘corner of the eye’, and Molly is martyr Martha Jones with longer patience, wider understanding and acceptance. And unlike Martha, she only used her escape pod to hide from the painful needles around him, the pod remained attached to Sherlock’s ship so she could be there when he needs her.
John Watson - fuck you, he won a BAFTA. And he deserves another one, you’ll know why from the very first minute of the episode. I’m aware of the spoilers, that Sherlock won’t actually die from the fall, judging by the last conversation with Molly, and Gatiss and Moffat confirming the 3rd series (but no, I’m not expecting him to come back in a comical camouflage with an antique chair, if you know what I mean), yet I literally sobbed like a baby watching John in despair. Forget about Holmes, we know he’s fine, but John, he is heartbroken, and you can see that from every single movement of each muscle from his face and it’s unbearable to look at.
Jim Moriarty - stunningly creepy and adorably terrifying. The pairing of the adverbs to the adjectives don’t even fit in a normal scale and I never thought I’ll use them together, but I couldn’t find any better words to express the brilliance of Moriarty’s versatile character. Now I completely understand why they casted Andrew Scott no matter how odd choice it will appear. C’mon, he pulled off an extremely horrifying figure from a very limited villainous potential source; the height, the built, huge eyes that compliment the guy-next-door face, and the soft voice. Oh, and that breathtaking royalty (literally) image when he was caught, i cant— it’s marvellous.
Sherlock Holmes - he’s brilliant in every episode that it becomes mundane for him to be that good everytime. I’ll write longer if he will ever suck.
Mycroft Holmes - is it even normal to be strongly attracted to this character? I think Mark Gatiss’ portrayal of ‘the other Holmes’ is peculiar, classy and superb. I adore every single bit of his accent, his voice, posture, eyebrows, even the umbrella he use to carry around is sexy. And his name can literally open the gates, how ‘bout that Doctor’s screwdriver? Well this is the first time I talked about Mycroft so obviously, this isn’t just about the fall. But he seriously needs to make up for his mistakes over Sherlock, which means we need more of him in S3.
Greg Lestrade - he’s my definition of entertainment. I’m having too much enjoyment everytime his face pops up on the screen (not to mention his feet on his table when Sgt. Donovan came in). A Sherlock episode will never be complete without him (get that The Blind Banker?) and will always be great if he’s not in his usual suit (Hounds episode, oh and that sunglasses, damn). But in The Fall, I feel bad for him, they all went through very tough situations but I feel bad specially for him, that feeling of doing your duties against what you believe in and even worse, against someone you consider as friend, that’s something I don’t really want to get into in real life. Nevertheless, having Lestrade is a must in Sherlock.
Writing, Directing, Score - will make this as short as possible: writing - fine, not as good as the first two but the actors did their parts beautifully so it’s fine, it’s compensated; directing - if I’m not aware that the director of this episode is different from the first two, I won’t notice. I love the scenes of Andrew Scott in the beginning, the focus, the camera turns, the phone matrix, the slomo of spilling coffee - I honestly don’t know if those are director’s or cinematographer’s works but either way, it’s stunning; score - it’s noticeably different from previous episodes, I’m not sure if I like the idea of using different variety of music apart from their usual theme. It’s fine, I think.
Oh, I don’t count.
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