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Fri, 17 May 2013 02:45:17 +0200

bohemea: Game of Thrones Portraits by Gavin Bond

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:55:13 +0200

bohemea:

Game of Thrones Portraits by Gavin Bond

bohemea: Game of Thrones Portraits by Gavin Bond

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:54:59 +0200

bohemea:

Game of Thrones Portraits by Gavin Bond

vintagegal: Batman

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:54:37 +0200

vintagegal:

Batman

wnycradiolab: old-ads-and-mags: Space Race card game Anyone...

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:52:28 +0200

wnycradiolab:

old-ads-and-mags:

Space Race card game

Anyone know the rules?

UPDATE: Chels found the rules!

suicideblonde: Emilia Clarke

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:51:28 +0200

suicideblonde:

Emilia Clarke

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Wed, 15 May 2013 06:50:47 +0200

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fuckyeahvintageillustration: ‘Canadian wonder tales’ by Cyrus...

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:48:28 +0200

How Summer Came To Canada

Star-Boy And The Sun Dance

The Partridge And His Drum

The Mermaid Of the Magdalenes

Glooskap's Country

The First Mosquito

The Passing Of Glooskap

The Duck With Red Feet

The Sad Tale of Woodpecker & Bluejay

The Northern Lights

fuckyeahvintageillustration:

‘Canadian wonder tales’ by Cyrus Macmillan; with illustrations in colour by George Sheringham and a foreword by Sir William Peterson. Published 1920 by John Lane, London.

See the complete book here.

suicideblonde: Rose Leslie photographed by Rebecca Miller

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:47:35 +0200

suicideblonde:

Rose Leslie photographed by Rebecca Miller

lovely things → cemetery sculptures

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:46:52 +0200

lovely things → cemetery sculptures

louisepandora: View from the hotel..

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:45:05 +0200

louisepandora:

View from the hotel..

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Tue, 14 May 2013 02:54:19 +0200

wnycradiolab: Emma Kunz. Emma Kunz. Emma Kunz.

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:41:24 +0200

wnycradiolab:

Emma Kunz. Emma Kunz. Emma Kunz.

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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:51:34 +0200

caramelpussy: Madonna, 1982 Photographed by Peter Noble

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:29:51 +0200

caramelpussy:

Madonna, 1982

Photographed by Peter Noble

sagansense: 40 Years Later, NASA’s Pioneer 11 Probe’s Solar...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:42:20 +0200

sagansense:

40 Years Later, NASA’s Pioneer 11 Probe’s Solar System Legacy Lives On | (View Video Montage)

On April 5, 1973, exactly 40 years ago, Pioneer 11 blasted off from Cape Canaveral for a risky mission that would take the small satellite dangerously close to Jupiter’s surface and through Saturn’s outer rings, paving the way even more ambitious explorations of the solar system.

The spacecraft had a tough act to follow. Its sister craft, Pioneer 10, which launched on March 2, 1972, was the first to fly beyond Mars, the first to fly through the asteroid belt and the first to zip by Jupiter, sending volumes of scientific data back to Earth.

But Pioneer 10’s success allowed NASA managers to set their sights higher for the 9.5-foot (2.8-m), 570-pound (258-kg) Pioneer 11. The spacecraft would fly not only three times closer to Jupiter than Pioneer 10 but it would also whiz past the next planet out: Saturn.

Pioneer 11 made its closest approach to Jupiter on Dec. 3, 1974, at just 27,000 miles (43,000 km) from the gas giant’s atmosphere, flying over the planet’s poles to avoid the intense radiation belts around the Jupiter’s equator. The planet’s massive gravitational pull was used as a slingshot to send Pioneer 11 hurtling toward Saturn.

The Pioneer team originally wanted to send the spacecraft through Saturn’s elusive inner rings, but NASA decided to have it take a less risky path through Saturn’s outer A ring, in order to test a critical part of the route Voyager 2 would take on its “Grand Tour” of the solar system. Managers at the space agency reasoned that Voyager 2’s safe passage to Uranus and Neptune would be more important for science than a Pioneer journey through the inner rings of Saturn.

“It was a controversial decision at the time,” Pioneer’s last project manager, Larry Lasher, said in a statement NASA released today to mark the mission’s 40th anniversary. “But with the brave path it forged, Pioneer 11 was proud to contribute to the success of Voyager 2 in its completion of the ‘Grand Tour,’ and the exploration of two of the outermost planets in our Solar System.”

This safer route still allowed Pioneer 11 to capture amazing images of Saturn, and it even discovered a couple of previously unknown small moons around the planet, and a new ring, dubbed the F ring.

The last transmission from Pioneer 11 was received in 1995. According to NASA, the spacecraft is now thought to be 8 billion miles (13 billion km) from the sun and traveling in the direction of the constellation Scutum.

Should they ever be intercepted by extraterrestrials, Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 both carry gold plaques to describe where the spacecraft came from, with images of an unclothed man and unclothed woman, a diagram of a solar system and a pictorial showing the sun relative to other nearby stars. The plaque was co-designed by SETI founder Frank Drake and television host and astronomer Carl Sagan.

NASA’s Pioneer Spacecraft: A Solar System Legacy (Photo Collection)