Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the universe, not a star complex was stirring, not even Cygnus X! Merry Christmas from Popular Science. We're taking off a couple days to go spend time with our families. Enjoy these festive space pics in the meantime. Miss you already.
Posted 12.24.2012 at 12:00 pm
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It's Santa! Or, nebula IC 2118 in the constellation Orion.
NASA/STScI Digitized Sky Survey/Noel Carboni
Is that the face of jolly old St. Nick, or a million-mile-wide nebula? The gas and dust of the cosmos often align into very familiar scenes from Earth. We've gathered nine space pictures that look just like your favorite Christmas things: Rudolph, snow angels, tree ornaments, and more.
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Take care. ;)
Merry Christmas!
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Watch the movie Brazil. Is in this kind of society you want to live in?
None of what you propose is useful if the population had more information and more say balls to tackle the problem, which OBVIOUSLY is as mechanical and artificial as the guns they want to control.
My proposed solution is:
A) Stop being a coward! Be active. Understand that on your hand you have more than your own lives. Be responsible for those as well.
B) DEMAND a clean government. Grow some iron balls and fight the oppression your government is laying upon you and your family and community.
C) Take ONE month (only one) of your fives and use that month solely to study how your government is corrupt, how it works, what powers lay right behind the presidents chair. Who controls what, and for what purpose. ABC NBC FOX DOES NOT COUNT AS NEWS. 95% of the media is merely a story fabrication factory to keep you in the state you encounter yourself in the present. That is: blind, dumb, and doomed to choose between mechanical choices offerend to you by the very same people that engineered most if not all our present problems.
D) Follow your constitution TO THE LETTER! Is the most beautiful piece of legislation I ever read in my entered life, and I've read some good ones.
And finally, a personal message to the minions promoting this orwelilan nightmare. Your children will soon the labeled with the same label ours receive. Do not fool yourselves! Much more important and influent minions have not GAINED "god" status, certainly you will not. So before you think you are part of something... you are a tool, and like any other tool, the replacement is guarantee once a better one is devised.