National Geographic has a gorgeous visual map of space missions to our nearest interplanetary neighbors. Is it just me, or would this make an awesome embroidery sampler? Or maybe a pillow?
Many thanks to the Bad Astronomy blog, for this beauty.
To the Moon, Alice!
Many thanks to the Bad Astronomy blog, for this beauty.
Leave a comment
More items
Quiz: Donald Judd, Or Cheap Furniture?
Here is a fun quiz where you must identify whether the furniture in the photos are works by minimalist artist Donald Judd, or cheap flat pack furniture from a big box store! Donald Judd, or Cheap Furniture?... More.
Legal battle over Shepard Fairey Obama poster takes an unexpected turn.
We've been following artist Shepard Fairey's work here on Boing Boing for some time now. A disclaimer, first: I love his work, we have mutual friends, he strikes me as a stand-up guy. Last year, Pesco was among the first to blog the Obama "Hope" poster which quickly grew far more popular than anyo... More.
Photos of remote birds killed by our trash
Photographer Chris Jordan has published a series of images identified as dead albatross on Midway Atoll whose bodies are filled with bits of plastic they ingested. Midway Island is an anemic little line of sand and coral reefs, way out in the middle of the Pacific. Now, I don't know Mr. Jordan ... More.
Anne Frank on film
Above is the only film footage of Anne Frank, the inspirational 13-year-old diarist who hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic before finally dying in a concentration camp. The brief clip shows Frank, then 12, looking out of her window during her neighbor's wedding on July 22, 1941, one year befo... More.
Investment banks borrow money from gov't at 0%, lend it back to them at 3%
Philip Greenspun explains how Wall Street makes billions -- by bilking taxpayers. Because of the Collapse of 2008 financial reforms, the big investment banks are able to borrow money from the U.S. government at 0 percent interest. Then they can turn around and buy short-term bonds that pay 2 or 3 p... More.
Mark Frauenfelder, Cory Doctorow
David Pescovitz and Xeni Jardin
Editors
Rob Beschizza
Managing Editor
Lisa Katayama, Maggie Koerth-Baker
and Brandon Boyer
Contributing Editors
Sysadmin
Lead Moderator
Moderator
Moderator
Finance
Legal
Legal
Insurance
Developer
Friend
Ken Snider
Antinous
Arkizzle
Avram
Terry Thurlow
Rob Rader/MS&K
Marc Mayer/MS&K
Ed Szylko/EJMS
Dean Putney
Jason Weisberger
John Battelle
Partner
Federated Media
Advertising
RSS Feed
I'd totally have that embroidered on the back of a denim jacket.
Looks great, but why is the moon further away from us than Venus?
There is a still version of the image on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcrowe/4002050596/ posted by someone. (license CC-SA as it says)
Phikus: Images are not to scale. (It's written in fine prints in on a corner :P)
@Phikus because after so many missions to the moon, it's still completely boring!
That has to be the most graceful and majestic data visualization I've seen all year. I want a large-format for my wall, to be viewed with the original soundtrack to Carl Sagan's Cosmos playing in the background.
Looks like this was made with a CAD program...
I figured, but could hardly even read the regular text, even through the "magnifier." Damn my eyes!
I agree it is beautiful. Then again, the puerile part of me couldn't help but snicker at the caption "first mission to Uranus."
@ Anonymous
Thanks for the sill. I was looking for that! :)
@ Phikus
Looks great, but why is the moon further away from us than Venus?
Don't listen to these other guys.
It has to do with wavefunction collapse as explained by the mechanism of quantum decoherence. By this means we resolve correlation paradoxes, such as the EPR paradox and Schrödinger's cat.
I tried to print this out on a big piece of paper, but the ink was all streaky. I'll try again later when my ink comes in.
It's interesting that, although we've made more missions to Venus according to this, it doesn't get nearly as much press as Mars does.
I knew I had seen this here before, took a bit to find it:
Nat Geo Space Map on BB Gadgets
The first thing that leapt to mind when I saw this was the cover art for "The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld", which I felt to be rather appropriate.
@ Dean Putney
It's interesting that, although we've made more missions to Venus according to this, it doesn't get nearly as much press as Mars does.
Venusians are very boring, slow and silly looking and they can't hold their liquor so then you have to shoot them with a bazooka.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/csm-videos/httpdocs:files:videos/fair_use_case_studies/aip_conquered/aip_conquered.jpg
When I need someone to enter the equations to fold space, now I know who to call. ;D
That last comment was supposed to be a reply to Agnot. The space-time continuum blinked and failed to register this in the current reality-causality node.
OK, I'll be the n00b this time: Who's Alice?
Ralph Kramden,the main character in the 1950's sitcom "The Honeymooners" had an oft-repeated catch phrase he'd use to threaten his wife: "... one of these days ... Pow! Right in the kisser! One of these days Alice, straight to the Moon!"
Somehow the wife-beating joke doesn't work as well as it used to.
This reminds me of the recent pictures of Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons. Great story someone concocted about it. Long read, very conspiracy-theory driven, but then again links to some stunning pictures of the insane deathstar-like moon.
http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon1.htm
Highly recommend checking that out, if anything it inspired the sci-fi nerd in me.
Thanks for the background. I've often heard when he would hit her, and where he would hit her, but I never got the part about how hard he would hit her, or her name.
@ Brainspore
. . . he'd use to threaten his wife: "... one of these days ... Pow! Right in the kisser! One of these days Alice, straight to the Moon!"
Somehow the wife-beating joke doesn't work as well as it used to.
True, but I've always wondered if the problem is that Ralph Kramden wasn't sexy and/or non-white.
The point of the joke is to reveal Kramden's helplessness before the woman he loves so much more than he could ever live up too in his own mind. She takes him about as seriously as petulant house pet in these outbursts.
Meanwhile, Desi Arnaz whales away on Lucille Ball's butt regularly on "I Love Lucy,"--doesn't always just leave it at a threat.
Yet Arnaz remains a posthumous darling among women of all walks. While Kramden is vindictively misrepresented by the feminist world as maybe someday following through with his idle threat.
[Oh look, we have reply thingies now.]
I've often heard when he would hit her, and where he would hit her, but I never got the part about how hard he would hit her, or her name.
Case in point for my previous post I guess.
I get point of the joke. All I'm saying is that nowadays it doesn't seem as funny for a sitcom character to threaten a wife-beating, even if it's an impotent threat.
In the immortal words of Roy 'Chubby' Brown:
"Who the f*** is Alice?"
I get point of the joke. All I'm saying is that nowadays it doesn't seem as funny for a sitcom character to threaten a wife-beating, even if it's an impotent threat.
Didn't mean to argue that point. Just like to put in a plug for Ralph Kramden when it comes up.
He was a gentle person's comedian and he gets the reputation that anansi133 refers too.
I get into trouble from just about ever political/social nook and cranny there is for my dislike of injustice.
Sooner or later, it seems, every cause for justice strays into injustice towards somebody. That particular hypocrisy is a pet peeve of mine.
Though looking at it, it's a bit misleading. They seem to imply that New Horizons enterred Jupiter's orbit and then had/has encounters with Saturn/Uranus/Neptune. All of which it didn't/won't.
Does anybody know if it's possible to get a printed copy of this? I looked all over the National Geographic website, but no luck, and my printer did a horrible job when I tried printing it myself. But I want it!