Magnetic Flip

Evidence of second fast north-south pole flip found - (Link)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Earth's magnetic poles flip around every 200,000 years or so, with north becoming south and vice versa. Normally, the process takes 4-5,000 years and it ought to be impossible for the flip to be much faster, if models of the Earth's core are correct, but now for the second time evidence has been found of a flip that appears to have taken only a few years.

Stuff like this astounds me. The universe in general never ceases to amaze me but even back here on earth weird stuff is still around to find.

Space is Awesome

The Hubble Deep Field picture.

The hubble deep field picture shows only 1/88,000,000 of the visible night sky and yet you are looking right here at thousands of galaxies each containing hundreds of billions of stars. This to me is the most beautiful and significant picture ever taken by mankind.

A ring galaxy or galaxies.

Scientists are not sure yet if this visible light picture of a ring galaxy is in fact one or two galaxies but either way it is a spectacular picture.

NGC 466

It is a starburst galaxy, about 80 million light-years from Earth, in which particularly intense star formation is taking place. The starburst is thought to be caused by gravitational interactions with neighboring galaxies, including NGC 4668, visible to the lower left. A combination of supernova explosions and strong winds from massive stars in the starburst region drives a vast outflow of gas from the galaxy into space — a so-called “superwind”.

Source: PhysOrg.com

A supernova with the material being consumed by nearby stars.

The Hourglass nebula.

The universe is a beautiful place. I will try and post some more pictures of it in a timely manner.

Starcraft 2

Ok! I'm starting to get the hang of it now.

Protoss is definately easier and more fun than Terran. Right now I push with a normal build and tend to block off with a few zealots outside for defense, then I go straight for some void rays and keep myself up a robotics bay to make some immortals incase I'm vs siege tanks with marines guarding or a mass of roaches.

Works well so far at least so I'll keep doing the same. Anyone got a better idea though let me know!

365 Reasons #9

Your goofy “anime” faces.

You are so damn cute when you do them, I just wanna leap on you.

365 Reasons #8

Because you are truely and genuinly the cure and the cause.

Starcraft 2

Still struggling to play this game competitively at a high level. It seems whatever tactic I use I am always rushed before I manage to initiate it. If anyone that reads my blog is in the platinum league or if anyone just knows some surefire tactics then let me know. Love the game, however I seem to win only 60% of matches.

365 Reasons #7

That you managed to cure 19 years of bad sleep and 9 years of insomnia simply by laying there with me.
You’ll never really realise just how amazing that is and how big a difference it made.