Brad Archie

Well...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:54:38 +0800

If there is a God, what’s the point in living? He torments you with disease, injury, psychological abuse, and discrimination, despite having the power to make it all go away. He demands constant worship and an excrutiatingly close reading of a book far less interesting than Moby Dick, Harry Potter, or even One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. He makes drugs and forbids us from taking them, despite how uninspired this bland planet is for someone with infinite knowledge. Solid liquid and gas? Really? That’s IT!? And only five flavors? FIVE!? Plus a spectrum of light that is primarily invisible, and ears with a pathetic hearing range. Just think of the symphonies that could be enjoyed if we only had a majestic God! But, no, we get a God who makes a universe composed mostly of empty space, and a planet, allegedly made for terrestrial creatures, that’s mostly water. I CALL BULLSHIT! To top it all off, he makes it so that we need to get a shitty job just so we can maintain this shitty existence. And what’s my reward, spending eternity with people who actually think this is a good idea? If that’s heaven, then Satan, whet your pitchfork, my ass is itchy. Let’s get this eternal damnation started already.

However…

If this is all just a cosmic accident, then isn’t it pretty neat? Pain is inevitable, but it’s not so bad with all that laughter, happiness, and occasional interesting news article mixed in. We are free to make whatever purpose in life we choose, whether it be reaching internet fame, or walking on mars. We have become beings of depth and culture, of sensuality and psychology. There is a vast legacy of art for us to explore and invent. We can experience this universe in five completely unique ways, and can use our ingenuity to expand this experience where our natural senses fail. What’s more, this all arose out of chaos; we have proven tenacious enough to carve out a niche for ourselves in this harsh, but bearable plane. We work and build off of each other and accomplish great awe-inspiring things that cannot be accomplished in solitude. We see the fruits of our labor actualized in our secular works. What’s more, we don’t have time to get bored. This curiosity called “life” is a relatively brief phenomenon; let’s enjoy it while we can!

lovequotesrus: Photo Courtesy: withdecorum

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:54:16 +0800

lovequotesrus:

Photo Courtesy: withdecorum

New hair doooooooooooooode

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:17:12 +0800

Mohawks making a comeback. I have 10 days off and 2 concerts to play. I just gotta be meeeeeee!

Always worth it.

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:34:49 +0800

Always worth it.

expose-the-light: Mitosis

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:26:28 +0800

expose-the-light:

Mitosis

discoverynews: Phytoplankton Bloom Forms Enormous Figure...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:26:25 +0800

discoverynews:

Phytoplankton Bloom Forms Enormous Figure 8

Plankton blooming off the Falkland Islands creates bright blue swirls in the Atlantic.

the-star-stuff: Geeky Math Equation Creates Beautiful 3-D...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:26:23 +0800

the-star-stuff:

Geeky Math Equation Creates Beautiful 3-D World

This article was published by Wired on December 9, 2009. This is not a new news but I still find it amazing. The first time I saw this, I was like, “WHOOAAH! These are beautiful!”

This article was about the Mandelbulb. A group of math geeks created a three-dimensional analogue for the mesmerizing Mandelbrot fractal. The 3-D renderings were generated by applying an iterative algorithm to a sphere. The same calculation is applied over and over to the sphere’s points in three dimensions. In spirit, that’s similar to how the original 2-D Mandelbrot set generates its infinite and self-repeating complexity.

cwnl: MagnetoAstrocoolness How Cosmic Magnetic Fields Shape...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:26:20 +0800

cwnl:

MagnetoAstrocoolness

How Cosmic Magnetic Fields Shape Planetary Systems

Side Note: For those of you whom like myself, can’t get enough exoplanet news. Here’s a wonderfully informative SciAm news article getting into how some of these extremely hot exoplanets become so heated. The implications state that it may not just be the proximity of the planet to their star, but also electromagnetism playing a part:

Astrophysicists have a funny attitude toward magnetic fields. You might say they feel both repelled and attracted. Gravitation is assumed to rule the cosmos, so models typically neglect magnetism, which for most researchers is just as well, because the theory of magnetism has a forbidding reputation. The basic equations are simple enough, solving them less so.

Electromagnetism is a standard weeder course in graduate school, and magnetohydrodynamics ranks up there with quantum field theory as the hardest subject known to mortal minds.

That said, when astrophysicists don’t understand something, they often invoke the m-word. “When all else fails, introduce a magnetic field,” exoplanet theorist Dimitar Sasselov of Harvard University told an audience at the American Astronomical Society meeting this week.

Judging from his and others’ talks, all else has been failing a lot lately. One of the many mysteries about the Jupiter-like planets being found around other stars is why their density is so low—some are as fluffy as styrofoam or balsa wood. Orbiting so close to their stars, these planets are baked by stellar radiation, but even that’s not enough to puff them up, at least not directly.

Sasselov described a new model by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and his colleagues in which the planet acts like a giant induction stove. Magnetic fields set up electric currents in the ionized gases of the planet, further heating and bloating it (see above diagram).

Continue..

Photo

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:24:42 +0800

Downey Cat :1

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:23:41 +0800

Downey Cat :1

whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:13:10 +0800

hewwo.

whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

What it feels like on business trips in Asia.

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:08:21 +0800

What it feels like on business trips in Asia.

"They should just call thai food ” hey your going to be shitting for the next day, eat..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:05:29 +0800

“They should just call thai food ” hey your going to be shitting for the next day, eat up”, Cause you do.”

- Random guy in the thai restaurant.

yup

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:04:57 +0800

yup

gordon freeman

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:29:41 +0800

gordon freeman

morning

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:37:24 +0800

morning

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:37:23 +0800

morning

Top News!!!

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:46:30 +0800

A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway outside Washington DC. Nothing was moving. Suddenly, a man knocks on the window.

The driver rolls down the window and asks, “What’s going on?”

“Terrorists have kidnapped Congress, and they’re asking for a $100 million dollar ransom. Otherwise, they’re going to douse them all in gasoline and set them on fire. We’re going from car to car, collecting donations.”

“How much is everyone giving, on average?” the driver asks.

The man replies, “Roughly a gallon.”

hence why i’m stealing HKV.

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:07:07 +0800

hence why i’m stealing HKV.

Daily boredom ADD.

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:03:23 +0800

Must Visit someday.

A mac that finally supports windows...

Secret home.

Daily boredom ADD.