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Good Riddance 2011

Hello & Welcome 2012. 

I want to start anew (again); Death to my pseudo-political anti-Anti-Establishment amalgam of residual high school Angst and Mainstream news topics. I Vowed to make this an Open journal, True and genuine to myself and others. 2011 was simultaneously the Worst and best year of my life and there is a Twisted beauty in that duality; I’ve learned so much about my overall Existence this past twelvemonth and still have much more to Unravel. Forewarning: Bare Witness If You Dare!

One Love,

Kid

Sick of Being tired…Tired of Being sick.

Kid

Columbus Day

Oh the intrepidity of the Western World.

One,

Kid

iKid

Spaced Out!

infinity-imagined: A spectacular Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the heart of the Lagoon Nebula. Seen as a massive cloud of glowing dust and gas, bombarded by the energetic radiation of new stars, this placid name hides a dramatic reality.  The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a dramatic view of gas and dust sculpted by intense radiation from hot young stars deep in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8). This spectacular object is named after the wide, lagoon-shaped dust lane that crosses the glowing gas of the nebula.  This structure is prominent in wide-field images, but cannot be seen in this close-up. However the strange billowing shapes and sandy texture visible in this image make the Lagoon Nebula’s watery name eerily appropriate from this viewpoint too.

Located four to five thousand light-years away, in the constellation of Sagittarius, Messier 8 is a huge region of star birth that stretches across one hundred light-years. Clouds of hydrogen gas are slowly collapsing to form new stars, whose bright ultraviolet rays then light up the surrounding gas in a distinctive shade of red.  The wispy tendrils and beach-like features of the nebula are not caused by the ebb and flow of tides, but rather by ultraviolet radiation’s ability to erode and disperse the gas and dust into the distinctive shapes that we see.  Young stars that are still surrounded by an accretion disc occasionally shoot out long tendrils of matter from their poles. Several examples of these jets, known as Herbig-Haro objects, have been found in this nebula in the last five years, providing strong support for astronomers’ theories about star formation in such hydrogen-rich regions.

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cosmosplasma

(via casyopeia)

*GAMER’s Paradise*

YES! Don’t Act Like You’re Not Impressed.

Illustration by Milo Ckonjovic

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videogamenostalgia

Game On,

Kidster

Spaced Out

China and Europe Both Have Plans To Prevent Deadly Asteroid Apophis from Hitting Earth in 2029 (or 2036)

Apophis is a 46 million tonne asteroid that will pass within a hair’s breath of Earth in 2029. However, Apophis’s trajectory is likely to take it through a region of space near Earth known as a keyhole that will ensure the asteroid returns in 2036.

Nobody knows how close Apophis will come on that pass. But if there’s a chance of a collision, we’ll have only 7 years to work out how to avoid catastrophe.

Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing say their preference is to use a solar sail to place a small spacecraft into a retrograde orbit and on collision course with Apophis. The retrograde orbit will give it an impact velocity of 90km/s which, if they do this well enough in advance, should lead to a collision large enough to do the trick.

In 2002, the European Space Agency began a program called Don Quijote to find out how best to perform such a deflection.

Don Quijote involves sending two spacecraft to a near Earth asteroid; one to smash into it and the other to watch while in orbit above the impact crater. The goal is to change the asteroid’s semimajor axis by more than 100 metres and to measure the change with an accuracy greater than 1 per cent.

via Technology Review

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kenyatta

ToutedTravel

Earthquake In New York City

The Kid just experienced it…..so awesome ;) Pentagon Evacuated :( Affected most of East Coast. Oh Nature you Always know how to show US a good Time.

P.S.

Do check out: nycearthquake.tumblr.com 

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laughingsquid

Newsweek