gnostek1 / 10This is a demonstration of the message with color added to highlight its separate parts. The binary transmission sent carried no color information.
01The message was broadcast from the Arecibo Observatory using 450 kilowatts of power — the most powerful deliberate transmission ever sent.
02It encoded a human figure, DNA structure, and the Arecibo dish itself in a 23×73 pixel binary grid.
03A reply traveling at light speed won't arrive until the year 51,974 — 50 millennia from now.
gnostek1 / 5Corybantian dance , the type of dance most likely danced on Gymnopedia festivals (image from Smith 's Dictionary of Antiquities ).
01The festival lasted several days in July, the hottest period of the Spartan calendar, with no shade permitted.
02Choral competitions involved three age groups — boys, men, and elders — performing simultaneously.
03When news of the defeat at Leuctra arrived mid-festival in 371 BC, the ephors refused to stop the dancing.
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01Greer argued that the female hormone cycle itself had been pathologized to keep women compliant and self-hating.
02'The Female Eunuch' was published in 1970 and translated into 11 languages within two years.
03Greer included a chapter titled 'The Wicked Womb,' arguing women had been taught to hate their own bodies' central organ.
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01Thomson published the paradox in 1954; the total switching time sums to exactly 2 minutes via geometric series.
02Standard mathematics is simply silent — both 'on' and 'off' are consistent with the premises.
03The paradox exposes that infinite processes with defined totals need not have defined final states.
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01Passenger Rupin Katyal was murdered aboard the aircraft during the eight-day standoff at Kandahar.
02India released Masood Azhar, who went on to found Jaish-e-Mohammed and is linked to subsequent attacks.
03The Taliban, then ruling Afghanistan, served as reluctant mediators — demanding India remove the plane from their territory.
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01X-rays taken in 1947 confirmed the rapier passed through his liver and stomach undamaged.
02He performed the skewering publicly in Zurich, witnessed by physicians who could find no trickery.
03He died in 1948 — not from blades, but from a swallowed steel needle causing an aortic aneurysm.
gnostek1 / 6North American F-100 Super Sabre dropping napalm in a training exercise
01The U.S. dropped 32,357 tons of napalm on Korea — more than in any prior conflict in history.
02Napalm B, the refined thermite-gel formula, was tested and standardized for mass production during the Korean War.
03By 1953, U.S. Air Force reports noted there were few remaining targets in North Korea not already destroyed.
gnostek1 / 3Figure 1. The arrangement of hydrogen atoms (black circles) about oxygen atoms (open circles) in ice. Two hydrogen atoms (bottom ones) are close to the central oxygen atom while two of them (top ones) are far and closer to the two other…
01Spin ice is made from dysprosium titanate, a crystal cooled to within a fraction of absolute zero.
02Magnetic monopoles — lone north or south poles — were predicted by Dirac in 1931 but never found in free nature.
03In spin ice, these quasi-monopoles move through the lattice like real particles, obeying Coulomb's magnetic law.
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01The 'bullet fees' charged to grieving families — typically around $1 Ethiopian — became a symbol of the campaign's bureaucratic cruelty.
02Mengistu was convicted of genocide in absentia by an Ethiopian court in 2006 and sentenced to death.
03He has lived under the personal protection of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe since his 1991 flight from Addis Ababa.