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Beehives and black holes
May. 29th, 2008 08:01 pm-CBS has put all three seasons of original Star Trek online streaming for free. Nifty! Now we don't need to buy DVDs or get lucky finding a rerun to engage in some classic fandom or laugh at predictions for the future like all the women wearing absurdly short skirts and beehives. Ha, ha! How ridiculous. Oh, wait:( image cut to save your flist )
Beehives and dangerously high hemlines are, disturbingly enough, happening now. Star Trek also predicts that in the future people will be able to talk people far away simply by flipping open a handheld communication device. Wait a second. We're living in the future! Where's my friggin' flying car?
-This time of year, when it stays light really late, teaching an astronomy elective is difficult. We stall for time until it's dark enough to use the telescope by showing educational videos from youtube. One of them is about black holes, but about 17 seconds in there's a random image of Old School daleks. Every single time I show it I have to fight to stifle my giggles to avoid explaining my extreme Whovian geekdom to a bunch of sixth graders. It doesn't help that usually right before the black hole video we show a video of solar life cycles that has animation of the sun expanding to engulf Earth.
-Speaking of black holes, here's a segment of a NPR report on the Large Hadron Collider and the worries that it will produce a black hole containing a neat ultra-short story about what would happen if a black hole did result but could be contained, a potential doom for earth in a stasis chamber for the rest of human existence on this planet.
-Finally, a movie meme grabbed from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
honorh:
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Beehives and dangerously high hemlines are, disturbingly enough, happening now. Star Trek also predicts that in the future people will be able to talk people far away simply by flipping open a handheld communication device. Wait a second. We're living in the future! Where's my friggin' flying car?
-This time of year, when it stays light really late, teaching an astronomy elective is difficult. We stall for time until it's dark enough to use the telescope by showing educational videos from youtube. One of them is about black holes, but about 17 seconds in there's a random image of Old School daleks. Every single time I show it I have to fight to stifle my giggles to avoid explaining my extreme Whovian geekdom to a bunch of sixth graders. It doesn't help that usually right before the black hole video we show a video of solar life cycles that has animation of the sun expanding to engulf Earth.
-Speaking of black holes, here's a segment of a NPR report on the Large Hadron Collider and the worries that it will produce a black hole containing a neat ultra-short story about what would happen if a black hole did result but could be contained, a potential doom for earth in a stasis chamber for the rest of human existence on this planet.
-Finally, a movie meme grabbed from
honorh:( movie meme )
