Hubble Ultra Deep field.

Happy Saturday.

Came across this a couple of days ago. Touted as the most important picture humanity has ever taken.

Pretty big shoes to fit.

What is this image you ask? It is a picture taken from the Hubble telescope. It is aimed at a section of space in the fornax consteallation. It was aimed at that spot for 11 days.

Now it wasn't aimed at a star, or a galaxy. It was aimed at the empty space between them. a section of space that comprises 1/10,000,000th of the night sky.

Perspective. Nasa says the area of space comprises 1/10th the size of the full moon.

But, what did hubble see?

10,000 galaxies.

yes. 10,000 galaxies. Each containing billions of stars, all located in a section of the night sky not much bigger than a grain of sand.

You can think big and you can think the universe is even bigger than what you think of as big. But looking at this and thinking about what it comprises, you realize that our concept of big, our concept of REALLY REALLY HUGE, does not do justice to the size and scope of the universe....

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/56540main_closer.large.jpg

Pretty crazy stuff.

What else is going on? Apparently some seismic geophysicists out of the University of Washington have been studying seismic waves generated from earthquakes and have noticed a dampening effect being cause by something big. Their conclusion? A body of water roughly the size of the arctic ocean may exist in the mantle somewhere below Asia.

http://www.physorg.com/news90171847.html

My world has been pretty boring.

Stats test this week as well as a Geop test. Did well on both of them. Well the Geop no trouble, def did good on that one and the Stats, I believe i did well. But who knows.

Downloaded the registration form for the triathlon I did last year, need to get that filled out and sent away.

Been swimming pretty consistently. Averaging about 3km a week right now. Nothing massive, but time is at a premium right now. Been a long time since I swam reps of 25. My shortest is 50 with 100s as my typical main amount these days. Latest experiment was a 25m no breath length followed immediately by a regular length. Although part of my loves the 25m no breath lengths. They are very taxing. Swimming the 25 without having to break stroke or your form at all means you feel like you are moving pretty fast.

1 1/2 into work. 1 coffee down.

That is all