"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrick Nietzsche
Atheist, scientist, secular Buddhist, rat lover, etc.
Originally from Iowa,I am a biology graduate student at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Scientists Create Star Trek’s Tractor Beam
Scientists from Scotland and the Czech Republic have created a real-life “tractor” beam, as featured in the Star Trek movies that, for the first time, allows a beam of light to attract objects.
Although light manipulation techniques have existed since the 1970s, this is the first time a light beam has been used to draw objects towards the light source, albeit at a microscopic level. Researchers from the Univ. of St Andrews and the Institute of Scientific Instruments (ISI) in the Czech Republic have found a way to generate a special optical field that efficiently reverses radiation pressure of light.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/01/scientists-create-star-treks-tractor-beam
Ode to Spot
Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature,
an endothermic quadruped carnivorous by nature?
Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses
contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
a singular development of cat communications
that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
you would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aide in locomotion,
it often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
O Spot, the complex levels of behaviour you display
connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
Data
Star Trek: TNG Season 6, Episode 5 “Schisms”
(Source: old-vibrathor)
When this gel is done staining I shall return home, practice violin for a bit, and then watch Star Trek TNG all evening while smoking fancy cigars and kush. Good start to a weekend, I’d say.
The Day William Shatner Tweeted at an Astronaut (and the Astronaut Replied)
Day = made.
Some of the holiday gifts from the boy.
Top: double helix necklace with matching earrings
Bottom: pizza cutter shaped like the USS Enterprise
Yeah, he probably has one of the nerdiest gfs ever. Lucky him. He also got me a Gordon Ramsay cookbook and a peppermill.
Spock’s Milks Shake…..
Hahahahahahha yessssss
Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey — reminds us to cherish every moment because they’ll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek Generations (1994)
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A friend asked me how I learned to be a good person without Jesus, when I was a kid. I pulled this picture up on my phone and said he taught me.[FIXED]
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A friend asked me how I learned to be a good person without Jesus, when I was a kid. I pulled this picture up on my phone and said he taught me.[FIXED]
http://proud-atheist.tumblr.com
yes. oh god yes.
