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I’m so bored… I’m also tired, and would go to sleep, but I don’t have a bed beyond the couch, and I don’t have access to a blanket anyway. I have pyjamas, but I don’t have anywhere to change in to them. I’m not back from the dead, I just don’t have a journal to outlet in.
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Didn’t have a dream last night. Or if I did, I can’t remember. Although I did find out I was bisexual the previous night, so that was cool.
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Dream Journal: Entry 1
I’ve decided to make this Tumblr in to a dream journal.
The other night I had a dream about aliens. In a spaceship. They were in orbit, equipped with a red laser, and they started destroying buildings around me, in the street next to mine which I was walking in with 3 friends. I ran in to a pub, and when I came out (with my friends), the whole street was destroyed. I went back inside the pub and discussed what I would do with my friends. Unfortunately, the friends were as moronic and un-cooperative as in real life, and I guess my dream didn’t take in to consideration what they would feel like if a whole street was destroyed around them.
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Mmm I have my kitten and my wonderful boyfriend sound asleep next to me wile watching Ice Age:
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Is shit. I’m leaving.
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Fuck, I can’t sleep even though it’s school tomorrow. So where did I go?Tumblr, of course.
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Extreme Life Might be Visble on Colourful Exoplants
Lichens and algae could be the first life forms we find on Earth-like exoplanets, by looking for their light signatures in a planet’s distinctive colouring.
Astronomers have found several rocky worlds in the habitable zone, the region around a star where liquid water can exist on a planet’s surface, and many more are thought to exist. As telescopes get more sensitive, we should be able to collect light reflected off such planets and look for clues to their surface conditions.
Seen from space, Earth gives off a large amount of near-infrared light, which is reflecting off the chlorophyll in plants. We might see a similar “red edge” on distant exoplanets if they also host green vegetation.
But Siddharth Hegde and Lisa Kaltenegger of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, think it is possible that many rocky worlds will have extreme heat, dryness or acidity, and that hardier life forms will dominate their surfaces. So what would these organisms look like from a distance?
Patterns of life
To find out the pair looked at the light reflected by some of Earth’s more extreme life forms: lichens in arid regions, bacterial mats in very hot water and red algae in acid mine drainage. They calculated that seen from afar each type of organism would create a unique colour pattern. Lichens, for instance, appear more yellow than the algae or bacteria.
Finding these patterns wouldn’t necessarily mean life is present, but it could be a step towards narrowing down exoplanets for more detailed searches, the authors say.
It’s an attractive idea, says Nicolas Cowan of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and it is far more likely that a given planet would contain microbial life than trees. But the work has its limits, he cautions. For instance, atmospheres on other planets may be very different from our own and could scatter light in ways we wouldn’t expect.
“Nature may be more creative than our little corner of the cosmos would have us believe,” Cowan says.
(via science-junkie)
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Internet Journal
I guess every things moderatley okay. Homes good, hanging out with my friend is good. My other home and school however, are not so good. I mean, my friends awesome, but she’s at a different school, and in a different grade, so she’s not there for me a lot of the time, which isn’t her fault of course.
At school last year, at least there were a couple of people I was more than just familiar with. But now they’re gone, there isn’t anyone who I’ve been more than an acquaintance with. I don’t think I really like laughing and hanging out with them. Oh sure, it’s fun sometimes, but they tease me and call me weird, which makes me feel rather uncomfortable. I comfort myself with the thought that I’m more intelligent than them, and that they’re just a bunch of dumb-fucks. But I guess that reinforces the feeling that I would be better off reading a book.
Woo, that’s a load off my mind. Thank you for reading, I haven’t really talked or written abut anything even remotely similar to what I am feeling currently, and I guess it’s just good to get it out there :)
