Romanesco Broccoli

Romanesco broccoli, or Roman cauliflower, is an edible flower of the species Brassica oleracea, and a variant form of cauliflower. The broccoli's shape approximates a natural fractal; each bud is composed of a series of smaller buds, all arranged in yet another Logarithmic Spiral. This self-similar pattern continues at several smaller levels.

The spiral shapes of the florets describe a Fibonacci Mathematical Series, one in which each number is the sum of two previous numbers. For example: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and so on. This series was discovered by Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) and many natural patterns can be described using it.

Plan B

I am at point A. I want to go to point B. I don't have a plan or a map. There are many roads that lead from point A to point B, but right now, i can't see which. My only plan is to get to point B. I keep walking. On rare occasions while i walk, i can briefly see with absolute clarity, the reason why the road i am walking on couldn't possibly lead to point B. I stop, I have a cup of tea, I mark the road as "No Way!" and I change course. I keep walking. Hoping that someday, one by one, i will have eliminated all the roads that do not lead to point B. If i can still keep walking then, i will be on one of the roads that lead from point A to point B.

"Hydrogen is a light, odourless gas, which, given enough time,
turns into people."
~ Edward R. Harrison (1919-2007), Cosmologist.

Be Lief

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Beloved. Be Loved.
Be Dear. Be Agreeable.
Be Willing. Be Ready.
Be Lief.

Liege & Lief

Harder to Dig

We have managed to reach and explore places beyond our planet much further than we have managed to reach and explore what is just below our feet. Of the average 6400 kilometers that lies between us and the center of the Earth, we have only peeped into about 0.2%. Only once, through a 9-inch wide keyhole.

And that was way back in 1992, when the Russians after 22 years of trying to dig the deepest hole into the ground, concluded they could go no further. The maximum depth of about 12.3 kilometers that they had reached in 1989, continues to remain the deepest journey ever made by humankind towards the center of the Earth.

They would have had to dig 22.7 kilometers more just to penetrate the Earth's Crust, a layer of onion-skin compared to the overall depth. Among many other unexpected discoveries, which would go on to challenge existing Geological knowledge, temperatures at this depth turned out to be 80° higher than the expected 100°C, which combined with the extreme pressure made further drilling unfeasible.

Thanks to our little hole, rocks and fossils from as far as the Archaean age, saw the light of day for the first time in 2.5 billion years.

The Deepest Hole

Messier 78

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Image of Messier 78
a Reflection Nebula about 1350 light-years away
in the constellation of Orion.

Recorded by the Wide Field Imager camera
on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
at the La Silla Observatory, Chile.

Reflection Nebulae are clouds of dust
which are simply reflecting the light
of a nearby star or stars.

~ ESO / Igor Chekalin

Flow

what must a caterpillar do
so that it may one day
become a butterfly

~ unknown

OMG

you can love God
only to the extent that
you can love Life

you are the only Life
you are Conscious of