Just yesterday I turned on my Netflix, which I haven’t watched for 23 day since I have been working in the north, and found a new series named TED talks.  Being a recent university graduate, I’m still use to lectures and learning in that format.  I have to say that I really enjoyed the episodes that I did see and learnt new things about our solar system and universe, architecture (which I knew nothing about before), human rights and violations and many other topics.  

So, if you’re bored with regular television (sitcoms, dramas, murders etc) and would like to learn something, I recommend TED talks.

I am so sick of my sister-in-law!  I’m not good during the holidays.  Next year I really need to leave the country!

kissingtherain asked: OMGAWDDDDDD FREEDOM never tasted so sweet <3 I wish you all the best, & thx for making stats a blast! & remember, don't be a tranger <3 (:

Happy New Year!!  I can’t believe that she hasn’t posted our marks yet!!  Come on, it’s a multiply chose scan card!!

Hello All, 

After a short hiatus, about 8 months, I have returned and will be blogging full time!!  Tomorrow I write my last exam forever.  I am very excited and have been daydreaming about finishing school: All the different things that I can now do, all the video games I can now play, all the books I will now read and the most exciting for me is going back to work!!  I have already received my itinerary for work, so I know where and when I am going and I can think of nothing else.

Now to celebrate the day before my last exam, I will watch an episode of “How the Earth was Made”.

Whiteschist 

Hello All, 

Well, it’s September again and I have returned to uni for one more semester.  Whoo-hoo, almost done!!

I going to try to post more geology oriented topics and less of me bitching about my classmates and other random people that piss me off!!

Cheers and may the quartz be with you ;)

14-billion-years-later:

jstn:

Gold is fantastically rare, not just on Earth but throughout the cosmos. All the gold ever mined by humankind would fit into a 20 meter cube (about three swimming pools full). As far as we know, the only time gold is created in the universe is during a supernova, in the last few seconds of the death throes of only the most massive stars. As the core collapses at one quarter the speed of light, temperatures reach 100 billion degrees and for just a moment the conditions are right for a supply of loose neutrons to be pushed into existing atoms and synthesize not just gold but every other element heavier than lead. When the star explodes all these heavy elements are ejected into the surrounding cosmos at up to 10% the speed of light, perhaps eventually winding up in a protoplanetary disc and baked into planets and other celestial bodies like our own.

The amount of gold on Earth is believed to have been the result of several supernovae, which are thought to occur in our galaxy only every 50 years. The last supernova observed as it happened was in 1604, visible to the naked eye in broad daylight for three weeks and leaving the remnant shown above.

Let’s mine that shit and make some jewelry.

 I patiently await the discovery of a gold asteroid.

(via evaporites)

Arctic sunset