http://j4m3sb0nd.stumbleupon.com/ j4m3sb0nd's recent URL reviews on StumbleUpon en-us Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:16:18 -0800 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:28:49 -0700 http://j4m3sb0nd.stumbleupon.com/ http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:27:02 -0800 http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/2uAM9g/apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0209/venus1_gal_big.gif/t:4afaf162d5e6e;src:reviews http://j4m3sb0nd.stumbleupon.com/review/29415135/ A splendidly majestic and mysterious view of Venus.

]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0209/venus1_gal_big.gif Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:22:27 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/1hslMo/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/04/brown-dwarfs--n.html/t:4afaf162d5e6e;src:reviews http://j4m3sb0nd.stumbleupon.com/review/19965935/ Quite interesting, I always wondered if gas planets could either be failed stars, or the result of a cooled star. This seems to validate that thought.

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NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf


Credit:
H. Bond (STScI),
R. Ciardullo (PSU),
WFPC2,
HST,
NASA



Explanation:
Like a butterfly, a white dwarf star begins its life
by casting off a cocoon that enclosed its former self.

In this analogy, however, the Sun would be a caterpillar and the ejected shell of gas
would become the prettiest of all!

The above cocoon, the planetary nebula designated NGC 2440,


contains one of the hottest
white dwarf stars known.

The white dwarf can be seen as the bright dot near the
photo's center.

Our Sun will eventually become a "white dwarf butterfly",
but not for another 5 billion years.

The above false color image was post-processed by Forrest Hamilton.

]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040111.html Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:16:49 -0800 http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/1zghn3/arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770/t:4afaf162d5e6e;src:reviews http://j4m3sb0nd.stumbleupon.com/review/14371238/ From the page: "All fields of the standard model and gravity are unified as an E8 principal bundle connection. A non-compact real form of the E8 Lie algebra has G2 and F4 subalgebras which break down to strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-Higgs, and three generations of fermions related by triality. The interactions and dynamics of these 1-form and Grassmann valued parts of an E8 superconnection are described by the curvature and action over a four dimensional base manifold."

]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:15:24 -0800 http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/2qLqy2/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum/t:4afaf162d5e6e;src:reviews http://j4m3sb0nd.stumbleupon.com/review/14312008/ "The possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has never been a cheering one to contemplate. Vacuum decay is the ultimate ecological catastrophe; in the new vacuum there are new constants of nature; after vacuum decay, not only is life as we know it impossible, so is chemistry as we know it. However, one could always draw stoic comfort from the possibility that perhaps in the course of time the new vacuum would sustain, if not life as we know it, at least some structures capable of knowing joy. This possibility has now been eliminated.[2]"

]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:51:39 -0800 http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/1mS6mj/www.sfos.uaf.edu/emap/t:4afaf162d5e6e;src:reviews http://j4m3sb0nd.stumbleupon.com/review/14076625/ Some newly discovered marine life...

]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.sfos.uaf.edu/emap/ Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:04:51 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/7F8DkD/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7001897.stm/t:4afaf162d5e6e;src:reviews http://j4m3sb0nd.stumbleupon.com/review/13816157/ Tiberium!

]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7001897.stm Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:12:00 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/2bcj3h/www.space.com/sciencefiction/movies/dismantling_jedi_order_000418.html/t:4afaf162d5e6e;src:reviews http://j4m3sb0nd.stumbleupon.com/review/13388351/ Human rights watch on the Jedi council.

]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.space.com/sciencefiction/movies/dismantling_jedi_order_000418.html Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:19:53 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/1Uo76v/www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf/t:4afaf162d5e6e;src:reviews http://j4m3sb0nd.stumbleupon.com/review/12089571/ US Divorces is quite useless on a World Clock tool, but generally, this is a nice little clock.

]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:34:41 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/7Bh8Dx/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cosmology/t:4afaf162d5e6e;src:reviews http://j4m3sb0nd.stumbleupon.com/review/12088815/ "Indian cosmologists, the first to estimate the age of the earth at more than 4 billion years. They came closest to modern ideas of atomism, quantum physics, and other current theories. India developed very early, enduring atomist theories of matter. Possibly Greek atomistic thought was influenced by India, via the Persian civilization."

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