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*Inhaling Fear*



*Exhaling Anger*

i'm scared because there is only one of you.

This is our galaxy, the "Milky Way", viewed from above.
The Milky Way is a large spiral galaxy containing roughly 100 billion stars disposed in the form of a disk, with several spiral arms coiling around a central bulge.
The diameter of the disk is about 100 000 light years and the Sun is located about 30 000 light years from the Milky Way’s nucleus on the Orion arm, at the center of the little red grid.

This grid delimits a square area of about 1500 x 1500 light years, magnified in the map below.



This is the galactic environment within 1500 light years from Sol, rich of gas clouds.
Note the "Dumbbell nebula" on the top left, Polaris on the bottom left, the Pleiades and Betelgeuse below the central red grid, Rigel (Beta Orionis) on the bottom right, Hadar (Beta Centauri) on the top right, Antares above the central red grid.

The red grid is a square area of about 400x400 light years, magnified in the map below, with our Sun at the center.



This image represents the solar neighborhood. Our solar system is located in an unusual region of space called the "Local Bubble" because the ISM (InterStellar Medium) in this area is much less dense than the ISM surrounding it.
Scientists believe that this bubble may have been created by a supernova explosion.

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paikallinen_kuuma_kupla

NASA's WISE Mission Releases Medley of First Images

This infrared image taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a star-forming cloud teeming with gas, dust and massive newborn stars. The inset reveals the very center of the cloud, a cluster of stars called NGC 3603. It was taken in visible light by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

WISE, which is surveying the whole sky in infrared light, is particularly sensitive to the warm dust that permeates star-forming clouds like this one. In this way, WISE complements visible-light observations.

The mission also complements Hubble and other telescopes by showing the 'big picture," providing context for more detailed observations. For example, the WISE picture here is 2,500 times larger than the Hubble inset. While the Hubble view shows the details of the hot young star cluster, the WISE picture shows the effects that this stellar powerhouse has on its neighborhood."

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/images20100216.html

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/427018main_pia12831-b.jpg

An experimental physicist performs an experiment involving two cats, and an inclined tin roof.

The two cats are very nearly identical; same sex, age, weight, breed, eye and hair color.

The physicist places both cats on the roof at the same height and lets them both go at the same time. One of the cats fall off the roof first so obviously there is some difference between the two cats.

What is the difference?

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One cat has a greater mew.

In my dreams I was



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Missing cat