Spectacular painting by Angus McKie and brilliant use of colour. ‘London 250,000 Years Hence’ from the book Tour of the Universe (1980) by Malcolm Edwards & Robert Holdstock
I have been sort of keeping a low profile on my poetry because it’s generally something that is the ultimate in things, and I have found that people on this planet are very immature, mentally and spiritually, they’re actually walking around here dead
Soviet space art by Andrei Sokolov, printed in the 1976 postcard set “Man in Space.” Here we see Americans and Soviets linked up in orbit during the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
He’s got a really comic-book-villain-ish flow that’s, like, right on the edge of freestyle at all times. If you haven’t heard him with Madlib on Madvillainy… you definitely should!
He’s got a really comic-book-villain-ish flow that’s, like, right on the edge of freestyle at all times. If you haven’t heard him with Madlib on Madvillainy… you definitely should!
This is the third and innermost of three mummiform coffins of Tutankhamun. The mummy itself now rests in the outermost mummiform coffin in the tomb at Thebes.
This coffin of solid gold is covered with incised decorations and inscriptions inside and outside, with the names and epitaph of the deceased king and protective texts. It is inlaid with semiprecious stones and colored glass.
The coffin’s shape is that of Osiris holding the sacred insignia, the heka scepter and the flail. The vulture and the uraeus, or cobra, protect his forehead. The divine beard is made of gold inlaid with blue glass.
Deities of Upper and Lower Egypt protect the body of the coffin with their wings. The coffin weighs 110.4 kilograms or 243.4 pounds.
From the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 60671
This is the third and innermost of three mummiform coffins of Tutankhamun. The mummy itself now rests in the outermost mummiform coffin in the tomb at Thebes.
This coffin of solid gold is covered with incised decorations and inscriptions inside and outside, with the names and epitaph of the deceased king and protective texts. It is inlaid with semiprecious stones and colored glass.
The coffin’s shape is that of Osiris holding the sacred insignia, the heka scepter and the flail. The vulture and the uraeus, or cobra, protect his forehead. The divine beard is made of gold inlaid with blue glass.
Deities of Upper and Lower Egypt protect the body of the coffin with their wings. The coffin weighs 110.4 kilograms or 243.4 pounds.
From the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 60671
On the main wall, The King and his Ka before Osiris followed by a scene of the boy king in front of the goddess Nut (making the Nini gesture) and a representation of the king as Osiris. On the left wall a section from the Amduat (Book of What is in the Underworld) showing apes of the ‘First Hour’.
Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.
After a near decade-long journey, NASA’s New Horizons probe has woken hibernation for the last time as it prepares for its close encounter with Pluto next year.
Mission controllers received the first signal that New Horizons had woken from hibernation at 9:30 p.m. EST on Saturday, with full confirmation coming in at 9:53 p.m. EST. This is the last time the spacecraft will wake from hibernation as it approaches its primary target.
“This is a watershed event that signals the end of New Horizons crossing of a vast ocean of space to the very frontier of our solar system, and the beginning of the mission’s primary objective: the exploration of Pluto and its many moons in 2015,” said New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern.
Launched on January 19, 2006, NASA’s New Horizons mission will perform a flyby of the Pluto and its moons, and is expected to go on to explore Kuiper Belt objects. When it arrives on July 14, 2015, it will be the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and will provide the first close-up images of the dwarf planet.
While still 6 months away from its close encounter with the dwarf planet, the New Horizons probe will begin making observations of Pluto starting on Jan. 15. According to NASA, by mid-May the spacecraft will be able to capture views of Pluto and its moons better than what Hubble Space Telescope has been able to provide.
