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sexual thrill at the mere prospect of cataloging things in a database

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gamer

(source: squidpastry on iNaturalist)

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caribou bone doll, Alaska 20th c

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Axe head

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Hook

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Weight

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Internet Archive Book Images Image from page 591 of “Die Gartenwelt” (1897)

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Mass map of Abell 1689

Credit: NASA, ESA, E. Jullo (JPL/LAM), P. Natarajan (Yale) and J-P. Kneib (LAM).

This is an image of a galaxy cluster called Abell 1689.

What is a galaxy cluster?

Galaxy clusters are clusters of galaxies.

Galaxies cluster?

Yes they cluster because dark matter is super heavy and has a lot of gravitational pull.

Pockets of dark matter, like that purple cloud, are super duper massive and have exert absolutely enormous amounts of gravitational force. They pull together all those galaxies.

See how the galaxies towards the edge of the purple cloud are stretched?

That's dark matter stretching the space-time continuum with gravitational force! Einstein's Theory of Relativity!

Dark matter accounts for 90ish percent of the mass of the universe. It's heavy and its everywhere.

The purple cloud in the image is a visual representation of the distribution of dark matter in Abell 1689 galaxy cluster.

Although dark matter is completely invisible, the purple in the image is added as an after effect that maps the dark matter, which gives away its hiding spot by having so much darn gravity!

By measuring the gravitational pull of pockets of this invisible substance, we can detect it!

Otherwise, it's completely undetectable!

Scientists don't even really know what it is!

Anyways... there's dark matter everywhere and you can't even see it so maybe there's angels or aliens or something all around you but they're just made of dark matter and not our kind of matter!

Pretty cool....

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Gertrude Abercrombie

The Door and the Rock, 1971

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helmut lang spring 98

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elsa tiffany

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Forrest Bess

Number 40, 1949

Oil on canvas mounted on board, in artist’s frame

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Forrest Bess

Untitled, c. 1960

Oil on canvas mounted on board, in artist’s frame

12 x 16 in.

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fragment of a band with floral motif, spain, undated 1700s.

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Helene Appel Sink (With Dishes), 2024 Acrylic, oil and lacquer on linen 49.5 × 39.5 cm