Sometimes, it's hard to find anything meaningful when you are bored out of death and have nothing productive to do but for me, usually, in those moments, I strike silver if not gold. This blog post is going to be related to some of these moments that I have had in the last two weeks or so.
Considering that my last three posts have been about Astronomy and NASA, its appropriate that I mention the following discovery first. Its about finding a blog post by Hamish Johnston on Jan 11, 2011 concerned with the results of the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical society. Two of the results that really grabbed my attention were the following:
1. Thunderstorms hurl antimatter into space (http://physicsworld.com/blog/2011/01/thunderstorms_hurl_antimatter.html)
2. Dwarf Galaxy solves super massive mystery (http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/44743)
Then something else that I found interesting and stumbled upon was this fascinating simulation of "The Cosmic Web" or how does the universe looks like on a large scale? For me the thought of putting myself in perspective according to this simulation was just too fascinating to miss and I needed to record it for future reference whenever I became foolishly full of myself.
Assuming that I have enough of scientific geeky moments of glory and that it's always good to end a post on a more 'optimistic' note, I want to share one other moment of discovery which is nothing more than a video and song 'Firework' by Katy Perry. Though I have not listened to a lot of her music but this is one of the few songs that I like and I though the video was quite well done. Just to contextualize, I stumbled on this video after my class met with an amazing person who is CEO of a wonderfully futuristic media company.
I hope people like this video and even take some inspiration from it if they can because I myself believe in taking inspiration from movies and songs once in a while. Enjoy!
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