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A real life Nemo 🙂

Exploration in Extreme Environments: Under Water and in Outer Space

Living in the depths of the sea…to prepare for travel in deep space. 

Sounds strange, but that’s what our NEEMO expedition aims to do.

This 10-day NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 22 expedition is slated to begin on June 18. NEEMO 22 will focus on both exploration spacewalks (or in this case waterwalks?) and objectives related to the International Space Station and deep space missions.

Analog (noun): is a situation on Earth that produces effects on the body similar to those experienced in space, both physical and mental/emotional. These studies help us prepare for long duration missions.

As an analog for future planetary science concepts and strategies, marine science also will be performed under the guidance of Florida International University’s marine science department.

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren will command the NEEMO 22 mission aboard the Aquarius laboratory, 62 feet below the ocean surface near Key Largo Florida. Lindgren was part of the space station Expeditions 44 and 45 in 2015, where he spent 141 days living and working in the extreme environment of space. He also conducted two spacewalks.

Fun Fact: These underwater explorers are referred to as “aquanauts”

Lindgren will be joined by ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Pedro Duque, Trevor Graff, a Jacobs Engineering employee working as a planetary scientist at our Johnson Space Center; and research scientists Dom D’Agostino from the University of South Florida and the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition.

While living underwater for 10 days, the crew will:

Test spaceflight countermeasure equipment

Validate technology for precisely tracking equipment in a habitat

Complete studies of body composition and sleep

Assess hardware sponsored by ESA that will help crew members evacuate someone who has been injured on a lunar spacewalk

Why do we use Analog Missions?

Analog missions prepare us for near-future exploration to asteroids, Mars and the moon. Analogs play a significant role in problem solving for spaceflight research.

Not all experiments can be done in space – there is not enough time, money, equipment and manpower

Countermeasures can be tested in analogs before trying them in space. Those that do not work in analogs will not be flown in space

Ground-based analog studies are completed more quickly and less expensively

For more information about the NEEMO mission, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NEEMO/index.html

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The Mysterious, Free-Roaming Zebras of San Simeon, California

The Mysterious, Free-Roaming Zebras of San Simeon, California

Wait-zebras? In California? Out in the wild? It’s true: There are wild zebras in California, a reminder of a time when vastly wealthy families kept private menageries for their children and as a way to show off their good fortune. William Randolph Hearst, famed publisher and obscenely wealthy businessman of the late 19th century who later dabbled in politics and inspired the legendary film…

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NASA scientists are closer than ever to finding life outside of Earth.

follow @the-future-now

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Beautiful.

Retoñar: Reproducirse lo que había dejado de ser o estaba amortiguado.

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#awesome there is still good news out there the Panda bear is in good shape, so is the Manatee.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRs5S68iWDs)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlHQV52fJ1A) will the Earth survive the red giant stage?

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN0b97_iS24) If there was no sun it would be alot worse than just being cold.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9QIPQ4XEW8) Tesla was a genius, Edison was a douche.

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This is a pretty amazing version of True Colors by Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake not sure how I missed this!? #NowPlaying

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Such an awesome tune <3

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Support The Maestro Dario Argento and his creative freedom as he crafts his most HORRIFIC FILM EVER!

#crowdfunding #horror #IndieFilm

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Spotify is avilable in Canada finally! *Doing my happy dance*

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Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. #inspiration #life

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Tumblr does not have very good SEO built in, compared to blog sites like Wordpress and Blogger. But you do have the option to edit the HTML, so we can increase our search rank with a bit of smart coding, and good habits.

Beef up the <title> tag. Add the Post Summary to the Title, as its more...

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No Cottonelle No. Most definitley #douchesocial 

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http://rarerepublic.com/community if you give a sh*t about real food, then check out Rare Republic, or the puppy gets it ;o)

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A Moire pattern inspired by ‘eddying currents’

Mathematica code:

Eddy[x_, y_, s_, n_, th_, R_] := Translate[ {Thickness[th], Line[ Table[ If[R == 0, TransformationFunction[IdentityMatrix[3]], ReflectionTransform[{0, 1}]] [{If[Or[Mod[i, 4] == 0, Mod[i, 4] == 1], Floor[(i + 1)/4], s - Floor[i/4]], If[Or[Mod[i, 4] == 0, Mod[i, 4] == 3], Floor[Abs[(i - 1)]/4], s - Floor[i/4]]}], {i, 0, n, 1}]]}, {x, y}] G[pr_, th_, o_, h_, s_, n_, X_, Y_, t_] := Graphics[{ Table[ Eddy[1 + X*x, 1 + Y*y, s, n, th, Mod[x, 2]], {x, 0, 8, 1}, {y, 0, 8, 1}], Translate[ Table[ {Opacity[o], Thickness[th], Line[ Table[{{i - j*i, j*i}, {i - j*(i - h), h - j*h + j*i}}, {i, -h, h, 1}]]}, {j, 0, 1}], {-t, -t}]}, PlotRange -> {{0, pr}, {0, 7/5 pr}}, ImageSize -> {500, 700}] Manipulate[ G[40, .011, 1, 60, 5.25, 11, 7.2, 7.2, t], {t, 1, 1/30, -1/30}]