#carry on big bang 2025

[carry-on-big-bang]

COBB 2025 Sign-ups are open!

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Just a reminder of the FAQ and rules if you are unfamiliar with this event before signing up! And here is the schedule.

[larkral]

Oh hi. I'm on vacation and coming to you poolside. I regret my sun exposure choices yesterday, but so it goes for the first pool experience of the year.

I've been primarily working on my COBB piece, with periodic brain forrays into my FTH piece, which has yet to achieve any words, but may be getting close to achieving an establishing scene. Yay! Thanks for the tags today @nausikaaa @blackberrysummerblog @rimeswithpurple @leithillustration and @roomwithanopenfire ! And everyone else who's tagged me these past few weeks.

Okay, so, COBB is... Uh? A post apocalyptic scenario. Baz is being rescued!

He makes another clicking noise with his tongue and then the flashlight is off again. Now I'm back to imagining chavvy Ed Sheeran, except stockier and wearing hunting camo, and maybe, possibly, incredibly attractive. Though a split second glance in the glow of a retina-burning LED is hardly enough to say for sure. I shift my hips against the thinly padded concrete, and a spike of pain shoots up my spine. I groan. "Oh, hey," the gorgeous chav says, "You're up."

What kind of apocalypse is this? You will find out!!

Mobile doesn't want me to tag anyone, so I'm giving a hello and hug to everyone who wants one, and an open tag to everyone who wants that! ❤️❤️❤️

[mysticstronomy]

WHAT IS THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND??

Blog#492

Welcome back,

Saturday, March 29th, 2025.

Scientists consider it as an echo or 'shockwave' of the Big Bang. Over time, this primeval light has cooled and weakened considerably; nowadays we detect it in the microwave domain.

ESA's Planck mission detected this first light, which is also the 'oldest' radiation detectable and carries information about our past and future. By observing it, Planck saw the Universe as it was almost at its origin.

The CMB radiation was discovered by chance in 1965. Penzias and Wilson, two radio astronomers in the United States, registered a signal in their radio telescope that could not be attributed to any precise source in the sky.

It apparently came from everywhere with the same intensity, day or night, summer or winter. They concluded that the signal had to come from outside our Galaxy. It came almost from the origin of the Universe.

Scientists considered their discovery as solid evidence for the 'Big Bang' theory. This theory predicted that the 'shockwave' of that primeval explosion would be still detectable as a subtle 'wallpaper' coming from everywhere behind all galaxies, quasars and galaxy clusters.

Today, the Big Bang model is still the only model that is able to convincingly explain the existence of the CMB. According to this model, the Universe started with a very dense and hot phase that expanded and cooled itself; for several hundreds of thousands of years the temperature was so high that neutral atoms could not form.

Matter consisted mostly of neutrons and charged particles (protons and electrons). Electrons interacted closely with the light particles, and therefore light and matter were tightly coupled at that time (that is, light could not travel for a long distance in a straight line). Light could therefore not propagate and the Universe was opaque.

It took about 300 000 years for the Universe to cool down to a temperature at which atoms can form (about 3000 °C). Matter then became neutral, and allowed the light to travel freely: the Universe became transparent. The relic of that 'first light' is the CMB.

Since the time when that radiation was released, the Universe has expanded, becoming at the same time cooler and cooler. The cosmic background has been affected by the same process: it has expanded and cooled down. Space has 'stretched' itself, and with it all length scales.

Light is, after all, a wave, just like waves in the sea, and when you stretch a wave its characteristic length scale (as well as its ‘frequency’) changes. Today, we can detect the CMB at microwave frequencies or length scales, which are much longer than, for example, the length scales to which our eyes are can see.

For this reason, human eyes cannot see the microwaves from the CMB (or X-rays or infrared rays either). However, using specially designed detectors, such as those carried by Planck, we can.

The CMB is the farthest and oldest light any telescope can detect. It is impossible to see further beyond the time of its release because then the Universe was completely 'opaque'. The CMB takes astronomers as close as possible to the Big Bang, and is currently one of the most promising ways we have of understanding the birth and evolution of the Universe in which we live.

Originally published on https://www.esa.int

COMING UP!!

(Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025)

"WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE IN A QUANTUM UNIVERSE??"

[pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

Hair Growth One-Year Progress Report:

it has officially been One Year since the Last ttime i bleached my hair :)

Making ghe decision to grow out my natural color was not an easy one for Me cus I was so attached to my identity as a Pink Haired Woman for 4 Years

But i was low key going bald and was at a point where my remaining hair never even looked Good So finally i just said Fuck it Enough.

I would always bleach it all the way down to my scalp so here's pics of how much my roots Has grown in Since a year ago :)

im so happy W the progress. I Didnt think it was possible but i fell in love W my natural color again 🤍

For the first 6 months or so i wasnt seeing any baby Hairs come in and I Was scared I ruined my scalp For Lifez. But in the 2nd half of the year I Stsrted Noticing sooo many babies sprouting up. Just took some time to get the balance Back in order

Up until May of 2024 i was trimming my ends constantly (Neurotically) and keeping my hair in a pretty short "bob" type thing. But around May i decided to just stop cutting my hair at all. There were times i was tempted AF to cut it All back into A bob but Im glad I persisted. its finally starting To look long again ^//^ (My hair has stayed super short Since Late 2020 So this is a big deal for Me)

i will Carry On Strong in my goal of No Haircuts 2025 (Other Than Bang Trims) and i cant wait to see how it looks Even 6 months from now. I'm So glad I gave up bleaching when I Did. Cheers! xx

pmd9 🎵

[brihaley213]

FENDI PRINCE; BOY MEETS WORLD

In which Bang Chan and Florentina were the talk at the Fendi Men’s Winter-Fall Show.

February 26 2025 (5:00PM)

Stray Kids member Bang Chan has officially completed his first task as a newly minted Fendi ambassador by attending the brand's fall-winter 2025 coed show in Milan Fashion Week, which celebrated the house's 100th anniversary.

On Feb. 26, 2025, Bang Chan stole the show, arriving at Fendi's iconic HQ in Milan's Via Solari 35 rocking an all-cream 'fit with an off-the-shoulder light knit worn over a sandy camel color tank top with white trims. He rounded off the look with long crepe pants and white sneakers. Aside from the peek of the tank, the only other element breaking up his monochrome look was his black Fendi bag, which he carried like a clutch.

After making his MFW debut with the brand during the spring-summer 2025 season, Bang Chan was announced as a Fendi ambassador on Jan. 16, 2025. Even before landing on Italian soil, the star was already in a Fendi mood. On Feb. 25, Bang Chan was spotted departing from Incheon Airport wearing a matching denim jacket and pants from the brand, which he paired with a white tee and white platform sneakers. As far as accessories go, he rocked a black baguette messenger bag with a cute WolfChan Skzoo pendant attached to it and long silver earrings.

What fans didn’t expect was to see a familiar face alongside Bang Chan at the Fendi Show. Florentina was spotted with the Fendi Prince holding hands. Fans were happy to see her attend the show and support her bf. At first Florentina received the invitation but had almost declined it, until the Fendi Director reached out to her and Bang Chan and persuaded her to attend the show she’s a royal guest.

Flora’s outfit consisted of a Brown twill dress from Fendi. She paired with sneakers to walk around the airport comfortably. She wore her hair down letting her curls fall on her face. She carried around her SKZOO but what caught fans eye was the wolfchan she had hugging her SKZOO on her purse. The dispatch lady asked her is Wolfchan hugging Tina? To which Flora shyly replied yes and smiled big.

When arrived at the show, Florentina was seen in a quite modern: a high slit wrap skirt. The ankle-length design featured draped detailing across the front and one (yes, one) button closure holding everything together. She styled the statement piece with a matching crop top that flashed her toned abs. She went with simple champagne stilettos, a nude Fendi Peekaboo soft bag, and clear avant-garde glasses. The dancer wore her hair in a half-up, half-down style.

Royalty had long been associated with these two ambassadors and some photographers even expressed feeling a sense of admiration when catching their first glance of the couple walking onto the carpet.

Photography Credits; @/Fendi on Instagram

The members who unfortunately could not attend conveyed respect and pride for their leader and their noona through comments on Instagram in which they made sure that fans were aware of just how much work went on behind the scenes, most ending their lengthy speeches with tears - showcasing the genuine love tying these idols together.

The timing for Bang Chan to attend Fendi's momentous fall fashion show certainly does feel like a perfectly planned miracle, as it fits within a small gap between Stray Kids' <dominATE> world tour stops. The octet played two stops in Hong Kong in January, followed by three SKZ 5'CLOCK fan meeting stops in South Korea earlier this month. Before they resume their tour in Latin America in March, there's room for some more Stray Kids fashion month moments — and we will be keeping our eyes peeled.

[groovytimes]

I've been doing these end-of-the-year albums lists for years now, and admittedly, I do them mostly to have some sort of order in my life. These albums carried me this year, and the less we say about 2024, the better (I think I have said a lot during anyway). St. Vincent has never put a wrong foot for me, but given that the themes of the album related to me very much (death, grief, world being on fire, holding on to the love you have for others with all of yourself), All Born Screaming honestly, felt like a godsend. There's been banging debuts, returning faves, and a big let-down (Jack White, my long-time crush who's No Name was too apt, babe). And, an old favorite is on the list, Loveless (one of the best albums ever made and one of my desert island choices), because coming home to a surprise gift of it in vinyl by @strangeness-andcharm just really left me crying all night. Happy and grateful tears -I must add- for the respite from the relentless sadness this year kept bringing on. Thank you for giving this record "back" to me.

All Born Screaming - St. Vincent

Desire - Fontaines D.C.

What Now - Brittany Howard

Prelude to Ecstasy - The Last Dinner Party

brat - Charli xcx

Club Shy - Shygirl

Tangk - IDLES

Starface - Lava La Rue

Cowboy Carter - Beyonce

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be keeping Broken Man on repeat as I have for the whole of 2024. It has truly become my theme tune. Here's to 2025, where the only thing I'm looking forward to is more great music.

[skambigbang]

Do you enjoy all the Big Bang stories? Did you participate as a writer, artist, beta or reader? Are you interested in seeing the SKAM fandom continue to thrive? Well then, the SKAM Big Bang 2025 is looking for you! We are looking for a new mod squad to carry this event forward!

The SKAM Big Bang is a fan-run annual event that brings together writers, artists and betas from around the world to collaborate and bring new fandom works to life!

If you’re curious, have any questions, just want to chat about what it entails or you’d like to step up, DM us on Insta, Tumbler or email us: skambigbang@gmail.com! We’re happy to answer your questions and would love to hear from you! Call is open for the next two weeks!

[throuple-tournament]

These are the throuples that are currently in the tournament in alphabetical order by media. The bolded ones have no description and the italicised ones have no image (Last Updated: 13th April 2025):

3 Will Be Free: Neo, Shin and Miw

A Chorus of Dragons: Kihrin D'mon, Janel Theranon and Teraeth

Agents of Shield: Jemma Simmons, Leopold Fitz and Daisy "Skye" Johnson

Arrow: Oliver Queen, John Diggle and Felicity Smoak

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Katara, Aang and Zuko

The Bad Guys: Snake, Wolf and Diane

Batman Comics: Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle and Talia al'Ghul

Berserk: Guts, Casca and Griffith

The Big Bang Theory: Bernadette Rostenkowski, Howard Wolowitz and Rajesh Koothrappali

Boy Meets World: Cory Matthews, Shawn Hunter and Topanga Lawrence

Carrie: Carrie White, Susan Snell and Tommy Ross

Chihayafuru: Chihaya, Taichi and Arata

Dead Boy Detectives: Crystal Palace, Edwin Paine and Charles Roland

DC Comics: Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman

Doctor Odyssey: Avery Morgan, Tristan Silva and Max Bankman

Doctor Who: 12th Doctor, Missy and Clara

Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Ferris, Sloan and Cameron

Física o Química: La Nueva Generatión: Asia, Koldo and Jon

Ghost Trick: Alma, Cabanela and Jowd

The Golden Girls: Dorothy Zbornak, Blanche Devereaux and Rose Nylund

Guardians of the Galaxy: Peter Quill, Richard Rider and Gamora

Ice Age: Manny, Sid and Diego

The Infernal Devices: Will, Tessa and Jem

The Inheritance Cycle: Dragon, Arya and Murtagh

Jane Eyre: Bertha Mason, Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester

Jurassic Park: Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm

Keroro Gunso AKA Sgt Frog: Giroro, Dororo and Keroro

Kim Possible: Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable, and Monique

The Kingkiller Chronicle: Bast, The Chronicler and Kvothe

The Kingkiller Chronicle: Kvothe, Willem and Simmon

Lockwood & Co: Quill Kipps, Lucy Carlyle and Anthony Lockwood

Love Me To Death: Mercedes, Victor, and Enrique

Luca: Giulia, Luca and Alberto

Lupin III: Arsene Lupin III, Daisuke Jigen and Ishikawa Goemon XIII

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: Gaby Teller, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin

Mario Series: Princess Daisy, Luigi and Prince Peasley

MASH: Hawkeye Pierce, Bj Hunnicut and Peg Hunnicut

Mass Effect: Garrus, Tali and Shepard

Merrily We Roll Along: Frank, Charlie and Mary

Mo Dao Zu Shi: Jin Guangyao, Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: Keiko, Bill and Lee

A Monster in Paris: Francoeur, Lucille and Raoul

The Mortal Instruments: Jace, Clary and Simon

The Muppets: Waldorf, Statler, and Astoria

The Muppets: Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Fozzie

Nancy Drew: Nancy Drew, George Fayne and Ned Nickerson

Othello: Iago, Othello and Desdemona

Perry Mason: Perry Mason, Della Street and Paul Drake

The Phantom of the Opera: Erik, Raoul de Chaligny and Christine Daaé

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward and Lord Henry

Pinky and the Brain: The Brain, Pinky and Phar Fignewton

Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald/Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire/Adventures: Maxie, Archie and Matt

Pokémon Scarlet/Violet: Clavell, Sada and Turo

Pokémon X/Y: Calem, Shauna and Serena

The Princess Bride: Fezzik, Inigo and Wesley

Project Sekai: Rui Kamishiro, Shizuku Hinomori and Tsukasa Tenma

Red Dwarf: Kryten, Lister and Cat

The Road Within: Vincent, Marie and Alex

Romeo & Juliet: Romeo, Rosaline and Juliet

Severance: Irving, Burt and Fields

Sherlock & Co: John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, and Mariana Ametxazurra

Shrek: Donkey, Shrek and Fiona

Shugo Chara: Tadase, Amu and Ikuto

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas: Sinbad, Proteus and Marina

Six of Crows: Jesper Fahey, Inej Ghafa and Kaz Brekker

Star Wars: Leia Organa, Han Solo and Chewbacca

Static Shock: Richie Foley, Virgil Hawkins and Daisy Watkins

Stranger Things: Nancy Wheeler, Steve Harrington and Jonathan Byer

Super Mario: Bowser, Mario and Princess Peach

Ted Lasso: Roy Kent, Keeley Jones and Jamie Tartt

The Tick: The Tick, Arthur, and Carmelita

Tokyo Ghoul: Seidou Takizawa, Akira Mado and Koutarou Amon

Totally Spies!: Clover, Alex and Sam

Transformers: Ratchet, Rodimus Prime and Drift

Twelfth Night: Viola/Cesario, Olivia and Duke Orsino

Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun: Suzuki Iruma, Asmodeus Alice and Valac Clara

White Collar: Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke and Elizabeth Burke

Wings of Fire: Clearsight, Sunstreak and LeafWing

Winx Club: Stormy, Icy and Darcy

Winx Club: Stella, Bloom and Flora

Yentl: Anshel, Avigdor and Hadass

Y: The Last Man: Dr. Allison Mann, Yorick Brown and Agent 355

Zero Escape/Zero Time Dilemma: Carlos, Junpei Tenmyouji, and Akane Kurashiki

Feel free to submit descriptions or images for any of these throuples!

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

NASA JPL prepping for full year of launches, mission milestones

With 2024 receding into the distance, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is already deep into a busy 2025. Early in the new year, the Eaton Fire came close to JPL, destroying the homes of more than 200 employees, but work has continued apace to maintain mission operations and keep upcoming missions on track.

Several missions managed by NASA JPL are prepping for launch this year. Most have been years in the making and launches are, of course, only part of the bigger picture. Other milestones are also on the docket for the federal laboratory, which Caltech manages for NASA.

Here's a glimpse of what lies ahead this year.

Mysterious universe

Shaped like the bell of a trumpet and as big as a subcompact car, NASA's SPHEREx space observatory is aiming for the stars. Known formally as the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, the mission will create four 3D maps of the entire sky in order to improve humanity's understanding of the universe—how it expanded after the Big Bang, where ingredients of life can be found in ice grains, and much more. Target launch date: no earlier than Feb. 27 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

The moon's icy secrets

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer aims to help resolve an enduring mystery: Where is the moon's water? Scientists have seen signs suggesting it exists even where temperatures soar on the lunar surface, and there's good reason to believe it can be found as surface ice in permanently shadowed craters, places that have not seen direct sunlight for billions of years.

Managed by NASA JPL and led by Caltech, the small satellite will help provide answers, mapping the moon's surface water in unprecedented detail to determine the water's abundance, location, form, and how it changes over time. The small satellite will hitch a ride, slated for late February, on the same launch as the Intuitive Machines-2 delivery to the moon through NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative.

Earth's changing surface

A collaboration between the United States and India, NISAR is a major addition to the fleet of satellites studying our changing planet. Short for NASA-Indian Space Research Organisation Synthetic Aperture Radar, the mission's name is a nesting doll of acronyms, and the spacecraft is a nesting doll of capabilities: The first spacecraft to carry both L-band and S-band radars, it will see surface changes related to volcanoes, earthquakes, ice sheet motion, deforestation, and more in unprecedented detail after it launches in a few months' time.

Sea level

Targeting a November launch, Sentinel-6B will provide global sea surface height measurements—some of the most accurate data of its kind yet—that will improve climate models and hurricane tracking, as well as our understanding of phenomena like El Niño. A collaboration between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), the spacecraft will take the baton from its twin, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, which launched in 2020. Together, the satellites are extending for another 10 years a nearly three-decade record of global sea surface height.Moon rover trioAs a technology demonstration, the CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) project marks another step NASA is taking toward developing robots that—by operating autonomously—can boost the efficiency of future missions.The project team at JPL will soon be packing up and shipping CADRE's three suitcase-size rovers to Texas in preparation for their journey to the moon aboard a commercial lander through one of NASA's future CLPS deliveries. The rovers are designed to work together as a team without direct input from mission controllers back on Earth. By taking simultaneous measurements from multiple locations, they are meant to show how multirobot missions could enable new science and support astronauts.

Quantum technology

Having arrived at the International Space Station in November, SEAQUE (Space Entanglement and Annealing QUantum Experiment) is testing two technologies that—if successful—could enable communication using entangled photons between two quantum systems. The research from this experiment, which gets underway in 2025, could help develop the building blocks for a future global quantum network that would allow equipment such as quantum computers to transfer data securely across large distances.

Gravity assist to reach Jupiter

Launched this past October, Europa Clipper will arrive at Jupiter in 2030 to investigate whether an ocean beneath the ice shell of the gas giant's moon Europa has conditions suitable for life. The spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers) to reach its destination. Since there are limitations on how much fuel the spacecraft can carry, mission planners are having Europa Clipper fly by Mars on March 1, using the planet's gravity as a slingshot to add speed to its journey.

IMAGE: NASA JPL is readying for, clockwise from lower right, the launches of CADRE (its engineering models are seen here), Lunar Trailblazer, NISAR (seen in an artist’s concept), Sentinel-6B (artist’s concept), and SPHEREx, as well as the Mars gravity assist of Europa Clipper (artist’s concept). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems/Lockheed Martin Space

[carry-on-big-bang]

Hey all!!! Its almost 2025!!!!!!

Just wanted to let you know that COBB signed up will open on the 1st of January!

Just a reminder of the FAQ and rules if you are unfamiliar with this event before signing up!

Schedule of dates will be posted in a few days!

Looking forward to seeing you all sign up!

[toxinspired]

ty gyro @swordsmans for the tag!

words posted: 24,729 aka my most prolific year ever, wow

additional words written: ~1.5k, some of this is wips, some of it is aatt chapter two.

fandoms: one piece onlyyyyy

highest kudos: dancing on heaven's palm which makes sense, it was both one of the first things i posted this year and was for a big bang

highest hit one shot: to carry 210 grams! which hell yeah

new things i tried: writing events! two of them, even (though the big bang barely counts for 2024). id never done any in the past and im excited to do more lol

fic i spent the most time on: to carry 210 grams was about 6 months from start! i started outlining it in 2023 actually. nauticial twilight is technically also around 6 months but thats because it was originally going to be part of swiftly flow the days but i was having trouble with it so i decided to seperate them.

fic i spent the least time on: bellwether! especially in terms of actual time writing, i banged it out pretty quickly (and with no outline 🫢)

favorite thing i wrote: this is a little bit biased atm but to carry 210 grams. kate's remix of it was so beautiful, it's just given me such a positive association with it.

favorite things i read: oh man i wouldn't even know where to begin to choose. if im limiting myself to things posted this year as well... im just a human, so today i turned my head down (is that okay?) by gin was sooo delicious and good. bombproofed by sciencemyfiction for obvious reasons... our favorite piñata. everything gyro writes... aaaaand what's mine is yours by zolunas

writing goals for 2025: just keep on writing. do some more events. maybe finally finish the dreamsharing fic thats been in my wips since.... october 2023.

new works: watch this space for achilles and the tortise chapter two (through seven)

tagging: @trans-peridot and @ghostlandtoo if u havent already been

[mysticstronomy]

IS THERE OXYGEN IN SPACE??

Blog#471

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025.

Welcome back,

In space, no one can hear you scream, and as every grade school student knows, it's because there's no air to carry sound waves. Since around 350 BC, we've suspected — and more recently confirmed — that space is a vacuum. But what happens to oxygen in space?

Although NASA and other space agencies were well-prepared with spacesuits before sending astronauts into space, determining what happens to oxygen in space has been less clear. However, the study of the atmosphere — or, more correctly, the lack of atmosphere — in space has recently shown that molecular oxygen does exist there, but only in two locations so far.

Clearly, despite it being the third most abundant element in the universe, breathable oxygen is in extremely short supply once you leave our planet. But are the implications of this? And what can we learn from this fact?

What happens to oxygen in space could not be confirmed by direct observation at first, as crewed spaceflight did not happen until the latter half of the 20th century. Instead, the lack of oxygen in space was initially predicted by deduction, observation and a lot of climbing.

Our planet is surrounded by a shell of atmosphere. Layers of air comprising nitrogen, carbon dioxide and other gases, such as oxygen, support life on the planet. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) describes how early scientists measured the change in the atmosphere as you get farther from Earth's surface.

In 1648, two scientists, Blaise Pascal and his brother-in-law Florin Perier, carried a one-meter glass column of mercury to the top of a mountain. This early Torricelli barometer showed them that air pressure decreased with altitude. In 1787, further research carried out by another researcher who risked altitude sickness on Mont Blanc, Europe's highest mountain, showed that, along with the drop in air pressure, temperature also decreased.

These findings suggested that our atmosphere was breaking free of gravity and vanishing into a vacuum of space, which was further confirmed with daring balloon flights higher and higher into the atmosphere. Risking death, early scientists demonstrated not only that air pressure was lower at higher altitudes but also that oxygen levels four miles up into the atmosphere were so reduced that they were almost incompatible with life.

Further study of the atmosphere at greater elevation, carried out with uncrewed weather balloons, confirmed that there's less oxygen in the upper layers of our atmosphere and the air pressure is lower there.

Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe, so in theory, space should be full of it. However, the space between the planets, stars and other celestial bodies is only thinly populated with dust, gas and radiation. Despite decades of astronomy, molecular oxygen (the stuff you can breathe, comprising two atoms, O2, joined together) is almost nonexistent. As Science.org notes, in space, hydrogen molecules, H2, outnumber O2 by a million to one.

On Earth, O2 is abundant. It's formed by plants, algae and phytoplankton during photosynthesis as they take in CO2 and convert it into energy. Breathable oxygen forms around 20% of the atmosphere, and gravity keeps it closely bound to the planet, but in the upper layers, the pull isn't so strong, and the vacuum of space hoovers it up. Oxygen floating off into space at altitude is why most mountaineers need to carry reserves with them to summit Everest.

Oxygen does exist in space, though the Goddard Space Flight Center notes that it wasn't formed during the Big Bang. Instead, it arrived due to nuclear fusion reactions in the newly formed stars. As the stars consumed hydrogen and helium, they created carbon and oxygen. At the end of a star's life, these elements — the building blocks of carbon-based life — are hurled into space.

So, yes, we do come from stardust, but it's also stardust that's hoarding the oxygen molecules out in space.

Originally published on https://now.northropgrumman.com

COMING UP!!

(Saturday, January 18th, 2025)

"IS THERE A FIFTH FORCE OF NATURE??"

[spnsabrielbang]

About SSB

Welcome, stranger, and thanks for wanting to know more about us!

We are an annual fanworks event focused on celebrating and exploring the relationship between the characters Sam Winchester and the archangel Gabriel from the popular CW TV Show Supernatural!

Writers and artists work together each year to create completely new stories and illustrations, which are shared on our Tumblr and Ao3 accounts.

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[vaishalimadeblogs]

From Local Voice to National Icon: Vaishali Made’s Unstoppable Journey with 'Madanmanjiri' at NDTV Awards 2025

Mumbai | March 2025 – The voice that once stunned India on a reality show stage is now echoing across national headlines. Vaishali Made, Maharashtra’s pride and India’s melodic powerhouse, has just won the prestigious NDTV Entertainment Award 2025 for Best Playback Singer for her mesmerising rendition of ‘Madanmanjiri’. But this award is not just about one song—it’s a glowing tribute to her unstoppable journey in the world of music. Let’s rewind and revisit the career of a singer who turned her voice into a revolution—and became a symbol of consistency, culture, and craft.

It All Started With Sa Re Ga Ma Pa – A Voice That Silenced the Nation

Vaishali Made first captured the hearts of millions as a contestant on Zee TV’s Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009. From the very first episode, her rich, soulful voice set her apart. Each performance wasn’t just a song—it was a statement of talent, hard work, and destiny. Placed under Himesh Reshammiya’s Rock Gharana, Vaishali delivered hit after hit, never missing a note or an opportunity to impress. She proved to be: • Versatile: Handling classical, folk, and Bollywood tunes with equal ease • Fearless: Taking on the toughest compositions without hesitation • Consistent: Winning hearts every week with impeccable singing And when the finale came, India had already decided — Vaishali Made was the voice of the people. She won the show and secured a Rs. 50-lakh music contract, a Hyundai i10, and a place in music history.

Playback Queen in the Making: From TV Shows to Cinema Screens

After her big win, Vaishali didn’t fade like most reality show stars. Instead, she skyrocketed into playback singing for both regional and Bollywood cinema. Her voice has lit up Marathi television with unforgettable title tracks like: • Kulvadhu • Honar Soon Mi Hya Gharchi • Majhya Navaryachi Bayko Each melody carried her signature emotional depth, instantly connecting with audiences and making her a household name across Maharashtra. But her talent couldn’t be contained in one state.

The Bollywood Breakthrough: Grand, Glorious, and Goosebumps-Worthy

Vaishali Made’s Bollywood journey began with a bang. Her duet ‘Hum Tum’ in the film Damadamm! alongside Himesh Reshammiya introduced her voice to a national audience. But it was in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s magnum opus, Bajirao Mastani, that Vaishali truly owned the spotlight. She gave her voice to not one, but two iconic tracks: • Pinga (with Shreya Ghoshal) • Fitoori These songs became anthems, not just because of the visuals featuring Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra, but because Vaishali’s voice gave them soul. She later joined forces again with Shreya Ghoshal for ‘Ghar More Pardesiya’ in Kalank, cementing her name among Bollywood’s most respected playback singers.

And Now... Madanmanjiri – A Masterpiece Worthy of the NDTV Award

Vaishali’s 2025 win for ‘Madanmanjiri’ from the latest Marathi movie Phullwanti is more than just an award—it’s a celebration of years of dedication to her craft. The song blends timeless poetry with modern composition, and her rendition has been described as: “A song that touches your heart before it even reaches your ears.” Her control, expression, and ability to carry cultural richness into commercial music is what makes this track a standout. The NDTV Award only confirms what her fans have known all along — Vaishali Made is in a league of her own.

Why Her Career Journey Stands Out

Unlike fleeting fame stories, Vaishali’s career has been built on skill, not shortcuts. Here’s what makes her journey unique: • Talent First: Whether on reality shows or big screens, it’s always about the voice. • Rooted in Culture: Proudly Marathi, but universally appealing. • Consistently Relevant: From 2009 to 2025, she’s stayed at the top of her game. • Fearless Evolution: From folk to film, from TV to classical, she’s done it all. • Award-Winning Performer: Every stage she steps on becomes her home.

Final Note: She Didn’t Just Win Awards, She Won Hearts

From the stage of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa to the glittering red carpet of the NDTV Entertainment Awards 2025, Vaishali Made has proven that true talent, when backed by hard work, can last decades and break boundaries. Her journey is a living example of what happens when discipline meets passion. Congratulations, Vaishali Made! Maharashtra sings with pride.

Giving Back to Music: The Vaishali Made Music Academy

Success didn’t stop her from giving back. With her Vaishali Made Music Academy in Goregaon West, Mumbai, she is now mentoring the next generation of singers. Whether it’s teaching the art of Ghazals, playback singing, or stage performance, she ensures her journey becomes a path for others to walk on.

📍 Address: Office No 12 & 13, HDIL Harmony Mall, Link Road, Goregaon West, Mumbai - 400104 📧 Email: peacefulbeatsllp@gmail.com 📞 Call: +91 8451837036 🌐 Website: vaishalimade.in

[geezerwench]

David Clark

march 1st, 2025

To my American friends. There is a place named Newfoundland that saved ur arse during 911. Newfoundlanders have a unique way of talking but always crystal clear with their message. This is borrowed from another post. It’s brilliant and bang on.

An Open Letter to the United States of America

(Now in Pure Newfoundland Sass)

Lard tunderin’, ‘Merica—

Sit yer arse down, b’y. No foolin’ now. I ain’t got time fer yer foolishness, so park it and listen up. There’s been some mighty strange talk driftin’ across da border, somethin’ ‘bout takin’ Canada by force. Oh me nerves! What in da name o’ codfish is wrong wit’ ye? Did ye get into da moose milk again, or is someone slippin’ somethin’ into yer sweet tea?

Now listen here, me ducky, I knows ye got a big mouth on ya—but bless yer cotton socks, ye got da memory o’ a stunned squid. Last time ye tried to tangle wit’ us? War of 1812, b’y! We sent ye packin’ faster than a Newfoundlander runnin’ to happy hour, and don’t ye forget—we even lit up yer White House like it was da Regatta fireworks. Yer welcome fer da free reno, by da way. Probably da last time it had a proper washin’.

And as fer that racket ‘bout “takin’ Canada”—Lord jumpin’ dyin’, have ye got a death wish or what? We might be known fer sayin’ "sorry" when you step on our feet, but buddy, that ain’t ‘cause we’re soft. No sir! We’re tougher than a two-dollar steak at a roadside diner. And let’s not even get started on da hockey, b’y. Did ye not just see us wipe da ice wit’ yer team at da Championship? We don’t play hockey fer fun—we live it. Youse was skatin’ around like you was lost lookin’ fer a Tim’s drivethru.

And would ya ever smarten up and remember all da times we hauled yer arse outta trouble? Two World Wars—who was there early, drinkin’ tea an’ ready fer a scrap? Us. Afghanistan? Yep, we showed up with bells on. And every time yer forests catch fire, who’s sendin’ plane loads o’ folks to save yer bacon? That’s right. We even took yer celebrities—Ryan Reynolds? Canadian. Celine Dion? Ours. Justin Bieber... well, we’re still sorry fer dat one.

Now I knows ye get carried away sometimes, b’y, but here’s da thing—Canada ain’t somethin’ ye just take. We’re like a cold winter storm: nice to look at from afar, but ye get too close an’ you’ll be flat on yer arse wonderin’ what hit ya. We got geese that’ll chase ye to da ends o’ da earth, moose bigger than yer pickup trucks, and don’t even tempt da beavers—they’re little fury chainsaws on legs.

So here’s what ye do: Take a deep breath, pour yerself some real maple syrup (not dat fake corn goop ye got down there), and cool yer jets. We ain’t interested in a scrap, but if ye come sniffin’ ‘round with foolishness... well, let’s just say we got hockey sticks an’ we ain’t afraid to use ‘em.

With love, sass, and a wink that says “don’t test me,”

Kind as a nan’s hug, fierce as a nor’easter.

[xtruss]

Capturing The Ripples of Spacetime: LISA Gets Go-ahead

— January 25th, 2024

Today, ESA’s Science Programme Committee approved the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space.

This important step, formally called ‘adoption’, recognises that the mission concept and technology are sufficiently advanced, and gives the go-ahead to build the instruments and spacecraft. This work will start in January 2025 once a European industrial contractor has been chosen.

LISA is not just one spacecraft but a constellation of three. They will trail Earth in its orbit around the Sun, forming an exquisitely accurate equilateral triangle in space. Each side of the triangle will be 2.5 million km long (more than six times the Earth-Moon distance), and the spacecraft will exchange laser beams over this distance. The launch of the three spacecraft is planned for 2035, on an Ariane 6 rocket.

Led by ESA, LISA is made possible by a collaboration between ESA, its Member State space agencies, NASA, and an international consortium of scientists (the LISA consortium).

LISA – Measuring Gravitational Waves

Bringing ‘Sound’ To The Cosmic Movie

Just over a century ago, Einstein made the revolutionary prediction that when massive objects accelerate, they shake the fabric of spacetime, producing miniscule ripples known as gravitational waves. Thanks to modern technological developments, we are now able to detect these most elusive of signals.

“LISA is an endeavour that has never been tried before. Using laser beams over distances of several kilometres, ground-based instrumentation can detect gravitational waves coming from events involving star-sized objects – such as supernova explosions or merging of hyper-dense stars and stellar-mass black holes. To expand the frontier of gravitational studies we must go to space,” explains LISA lead project scientist Nora Lützgendorf.

“Thanks to the huge distance travelled by the laser signals on LISA, and the superb stability of its instrumentation, we will probe gravitational waves of lower frequencies than is possible on Earth, uncovering events of a different scale, all the way back to the dawn of time.”

The Spectrum of Gravitational Waves

LISA will detect, across the entire Universe, the ripples in spacetime caused when huge black holes at the centres of galaxies collide. This will enable scientists to trace the origin of these monstrous objects, to chart how they grow to be millions of times more massive than the Sun and to establish the role they play in the evolution of galaxies.

The mission is poised to capture the predicted gravitational ‘ringing’ from the initial moments of our Universe and offer a direct glimpse into the very first seconds after the Big Bang. Additionally, because gravitational waves carry information on the distance of the objects that emitted them, LISA will help researchers measure the change in the expansion of the Universe with a different type of yardstick from the techniques used by Euclid and other surveys, validating their results.

Closer to home, in our own galaxy, LISA will detect many merging pairs of compact objects like white dwarfs or neutron stars and give us a unique insight into the final stages of the evolution of these systems. By pinpointing their position and distances, LISA will further our grasp of the structure of the Milky Way, building upon the findings from ESA's Gaia mission.

“For centuries we have been studying our cosmos through capturing light. Coupling this with the detection of gravitational waves is bringing a totally new dimension to our perception of the Universe,” remarks LISA project scientist Oliver Jennrich.

“If we imagine that, so far, with our astrophysics missions, we have been watching the cosmos like a silent movie, capturing the ripples of spacetime with LISA will be a real game-changer, like when sound was added to motion pictures.”

Golden Cubes For LISA

Golden Cubes and Laser Beams

To detect gravitational waves, LISA will use pairs of solid gold-platinum cubes – so called test masses (slightly smaller than Rubik’s cubes), free-floating in special housing at the heart of each spacecraft. Gravitational waves will cause tiny changes in the distances between the masses in the different spacecraft, and the mission will track these variations using laser interferometry.

This technique requires shooting laser beams from one spacecraft to the other and then superimposing their signal to determine changes in the masses’ distances down to a few billionths of a millimetre.

The spacecraft must be designed to ensure that nothing, besides the geometry of spacetime itself, affects the movement of the masses, which are in freefall.

Solid Heritage and Future Teamwork

The spacecraft follows in the footsteps of LISA Pathfinder, which demonstrated that it is possible to keep the test masses in freefall to an astonishing level of precision. The same precision propulsion system that has also been flown on ESA’s Gaia and Euclid missions will ensure that each spacecraft maintains the required position and orientation with the highest accuracy.

Selected to be the third large mission of ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015–2025, LISA will join ESA’s science fleet of cosmic observers to address two essential questions at the heart of the programme: What are the fundamental physical laws of the Universe? How did the Universe originate and what is it made of?

In this quest, LISA will work together with ESA’s other large mission currently under study: NewAthena. With a launch date foreseen for 2037, NewAthena is set to be the largest X-ray observatory ever built.

Notes For Editors:

ESA leads the LISA mission and will provide the spacecraft, launch, mission operations and data handling. Key instrumental elements are the free-falling test masses shielded from external forces, provided by Italy and Switzerland; the picometre-accuracy systems to detect the interferometric signal, provided by Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and the Czech Republic; and the Science Diagnostics Subsystem (an arsenal of sensors across the spacecraft), provided by Spain. The ultra-stable lasers, the 30 cm telescopes to collect their light, and the sources of UV light (to discharge the test masses) will be provided by NASA.