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This is a really beautiful image.

This is a really beautiful image.

Originally shared by Friends of NASA

Mars Guide: Cerberus Fossae – In the Relay Zone | NASA MRO

These trenches or “fossae” are about a kilometer (0.62 miles) across. This area shows where two segments have joined up and are close to a third section. The fossae are probably areas where the surface has collapsed down into voids made from faults (huge cracks with movement on either side) that don’t extend up to the surface. In structural geology, when multiple faults are closely spaced, we call that a relay zone. These zones have much higher stress built up in the crust and consequently tend to be more fractured. These fractures can serve as “pipes” for fluids (water, lava, gases) to flow through.

This area corresponds with the youngest of Mars’ giant outflow channels, Athabasca Valles, that is only 2 to 20 million years old and shows geologic evidence of having been formed and modified jointly by water and lava.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Caption Credit: Kirby Runyon

Release Date: February 18, 2015

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 

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Amazing!!! 😍 🔭

Originally shared by Fernando Mdza

Amazing!!! 😍 🔭

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2972989/Camera-accidentally-captures-570-megapixel-image-COMET-Stunning-shot-Lovejoy-shocks-scientists-hunting-dark-energy.html
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Two new films I’ve been waiting to see are now available online

Originally shared by Robert Best

Two new films I’ve been waiting to see are now available online

1.

Citizenfour by Laura Poitras 

https://citizenfourfilm.com/

Available to watch here:

http://thoughtmaybe.com/citizenfour/ –

“In January 2013, film-maker Laura Poitras received an encrypted e-mail from a stranger who called himself Citizen Four. In it, he offered her inside information about illegal wiretapping practices of the NSA and other intelligence agencies. Poitras had already been working for several years on a film about mass surveillance programs in the United States, and so in June 2013, she went to Hong Kong with her camera for the first meeting with the stranger, who identified himself as Edward Snowden. She was met there by investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian intelligence reporter Ewen MacAskill. Several other meetings followed. Citizenfour is based on the recordings from these meetings. What follows is the largest confirmations of mass surveillance using official documents themselves, the world has never seen…”

2.

Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02gyz6b/adam-curtis-bitter-lake

Also available to watch here:

http://thoughtmaybe.com/bitter-lake/ – 

“Bitter Lake explores how the realpolitik of the West has converged on a mirror image of itself throughout the Middle-East over the past decades, and how the story of this has become so obfuscating and simplified that we, the public, have been left in a bewildered and confused state. The narrative traverses the United States, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia—but the country at the centre of reflection is Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan is the place that has confronted political figureheads across the West with the truth of their delusions—that they cannot understand what is going on any longer inside the systems they have built which do not account for the real world. Bitter Lake sets out to reveal the forces that over the past thirty years, rose up and commandeered those political systems into subservience, to which, as we see now, the highly destructive stories told by those in power, are inexorably bound to. The stories are not only half-truths, but they have monumental consequences in the real world.”

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On a recent episode of NPR’s Unknown Brain, philosopher David Chalmers asks why humans have a sense of self, a…

Originally shared by Kevin Rutkowski

On a recent episode of NPR’s Unknown Brain, philosopher David Chalmers asks why humans have a sense of self, a constantly running movie full of sensation and internal chatter. He offers two ideas about the nature of consciousness.

Chalmers goes on to say that, “Physics studies all this stuff from the outside – their interactions with each other, their relations to each other. But they’ve got to have an intrinsic nature. It’s got to be something, and physics doesn’t tell us about that.”

Do you agree with Chalmers, that physics is not part of our intrinsic nature or could contribute to solving the mystery of consciousness?

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/20/384949675/how-can-we-explain-the-mystery-of-consciousness