How 37 Banks Became 4 In Just 2 Decades, All In One Astonishing Chart
If you were wondering how banks got “too big to fail,” here’s a good place to start. This chart shows us how, over the last couple of decades, 37 banks have became just 4 mega-banks. These same 4 mega-banks have, thus far, been immune to the consequences of any and all of their terrible decisions that places the entire world economy in jeopardy.
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The “free market” is four corporations who are subsidized by the government, protected by the establishment, and bailed out by taxpayers reflexively.
(via antisocial-collectivist)
![RESEARCH: LROC Northern Polar Mosaic (LNPM) - 681 Gigapixels!
IMAGE (Above): Spectacular LROC Northern Polar Mosaic (LNPM) allows exploration from 60°N up to the pole at the astounding pixel scale of 2 meters [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
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RESEARCH: LROC Northern Polar Mosaic (LNPM) - 681 Gigapixels!
IMAGE (Above): Spectacular LROC Northern Polar Mosaic (LNPM) allows exploration from 60°N up to the pole at the astounding pixel scale of 2 meters [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
On 18 June 2009, NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to map the surface of the Moon and collect measurements of potential future landing sites as well as key science targets. After two and a half years in a near-circular polar orbit, LRO entered an elliptical polar orbit on 11 December 2011 with a periapsis (point where the LRO is closest to the surface) near the south pole, and the apoapsis (point where LRO is furthest from the surface) near the north pole. The increased altitude over the northern hemisphere enables the two Narrow Angle Cameras (NACs) and Wide Angle Camera (WAC) to capture more terrain in each image acquired in the northern hemisphere. As a result, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) archive now contains complete coverage from 60°N to the north pole (except of course for areas of permanent shadow) with a pixel scale of 2 meters.
The LROC team assembled 10,581 NAC images, collected over 4 years, into a spectacular northern polar mosaic. The LROC Northern Polar Mosaic (LNPM) is likely one of the world’s largest image mosaics in existence, or at least publicly available on the web, with over 680 gigapixels of valid image data covering a region of the Moon (2.54 million km², 0.98 million miles²) slightly larger than the combined area of Alaska (1.72 million km²) and Texas (0.70 million km²) – at a resolution of 2 meters per pixel! To create the mosaic, each LROC NAC image was map projected on a 30 m/pixel Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) derived Digital Terrain Model (DTM) using a software package called Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS). A polar stereographic projection was used in order to limit mapping distortions when creating the 2-D map. In addition, the LROC team used improved ephemeris provide by the LOLA and GRAIL teams and an improved camera pointing model to enable accurate projection of each image in the mosaic to within 20 meters.
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LNPM by the numbers:
* Square image; 931,070 pixels across and down
* Total pixels: 866,891,344,900 (867 billion)
* Pixels with image data: 680,808,991,627 (681 billion)
* NAC images: 10,581
* Size of compressed mosaic: 950 Gigabytes
New Horizons’ Best View of Pluto’s Craters, Mountains and Icy Plains This movie is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA’s New
Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby on July 14, 2015. The
pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons’ closest
approach to Pluto, with resolutions of about 250-280 feet (77-85 meters)
per pixel – revealing features smaller than half a city block on
Pluto’s diverse surface. The images include a wide variety of cratered,
mountainous and glacial terrains – giving scientists and the public
alike a super-high resolution view of Pluto’s complexity.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
The planet Earth on December 11, 1966, imaged by NASA’s ATS-I satellite.
I’ve had a stressful day, so if you’re in the same situation here’s something to relax: a flight through 400,000 galaxies!
This simulation is made from real data and images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Feeling small? This video only takes you to a redshift of 0.1, which corresponds to a distance of 1.3 billion light years from Earth. The most distant galaxy ever observed has a redshift of 11.1!
Space exploration is pretty amazing right now. Just yesterday, we launched the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft, which will hunt for signs of life on Mars, and by now, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is likely way out in interstellar space. NASA recently announced that it plans to visit Europa, one of the most promising candidates in our Solar System to host life, and even NASA’s chief scientist thinks we’ll find alien life within 20 to 30 years, as long as we keep exploring.
But how do you keep track of all these awesome space missions? To help out,the guys at Pop Chart Lab have created this beautiful poster showing our space exploration to date. It spans all the way from 1959 to 2015, and features over 100 exploratory probes, landers, and rovers.
As you can see on the poster below, the majority of our machines never leave Earth’s orbit. There are a whole lot of crowded lines near our planet, each of which belongs to a space probe or explorer of some kind. But as you get further from Earth, there are less and less of these brave explorers, and you get to see just how far humanity has travelled into our Solar System.
For teaching: Engineering, astronomy
Planet Saturn, February 22, 2016, observed by the Cassini space probe.
(NASA)