(via NASA - NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record) climate change is now. 
osmium: Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, the new president of the American Chemical Society, in his Science is Fun shirt. Nice Zirconium portrait? :)
VADOR?
(via NASA - Voyager 1 Encounters Stagnation Region) for all the crappy things humanity has done, there’s also this. 
amnhnyc: Today, NASA launches its biggest, most advanced rover yet: the one-ton Curiosity, a mobile laboratory with a two-year mission to find out whether Mars has ever supported life. See a life-sized model of Curiosity in the Museum’s new exhibition Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration. Check out this post to see the full infographic.
chrryblssmninja:  #harsh come on, people:   1) light years measure distance, not time. this is like saying “you’re a few kilometers late.”  2) most stars live for billions of years. the milky way galaxy is, what, 100,000 light years in diameter? plus our solar system is located in one of the arms, where stars are more likely to be young. chances are pretty good that a star you see with your naked eye is still alive.  if you want to use science to justify your cynicism, how about “when you wish upon a star, you’re talking to a distant glob of plasma that cares only about maintaining hydrostatic equilibrium.” ? 
bubbleteacup: rochecoach: OH GOD I WANT TO REBLOG THIS SEVEN HUNDRED TIMES. :|
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