Ex Astris Scientia

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zeusfuckedmymom

“Circe?”

“Yes Odysseus?”

“Where’s my crew?”

flavoracle

One of the things I like about memes is that they give me a good sense of when the different required reading assignments come around these days.

Oh, is it Odyssey meme season already? Must be February I guess.

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mindblowingscience

New images from New Horizons of Pluto and its moons: July 15th, 2015

1. Methane map of Pluto

2. Pluto’s moon Charon

Cathy Olkin is now describing a new image of Charon, the largest of Pluto’s moons, named for the ferryman of Greek mythology who carried the dead across the river Styx.
She says that the team has been describing the dark region near the pole as Mordor, and that the dark area may be a veneer and the brighter regions craters. “Going from the north-east to the south-west is a series of troughs and cliffs,” she says. “It’s amazing ot see this image.”
“The extend about 600 miles across the planet, so this is a huge area and it could be that it’s due to internal processes.”
She says below that region is a region where “it’s relatively smooth,” suggesting “it’s geologically active or resurfacing” in that area.
Near the top – “at about the two o’clock position” she points out a canyon. “That canyon is really quite deep, it’s about four to six miles deep. I find that fascinating.”
“So it’s a small world with deep canyons, troughs, cliffs, small regions that are still quite mysterious to us.”
“There’s so much interesting science in this one small image alone.”

3. Pluto’s moon Hydra

He describes its elongated, “surprisingly large” dimensions and jokes: “Hydra’s not a planet”. It’s primarily composed of water ice, he adds, and some higher resolution images are on their way.

4. Close up of Pluto’s surface:

Another researcher says that the team is named the heart-shaped region on Pluto after the discoverer of the planet, Clyde Tombaugh.“While [the heart] was a good name, we wanted to honor the discoverer,” he says.
They zoom into one part of the yesterday’s photo of Pluto with the first very high resolution image. He says surprisingly that they have not found a single impact crater on this image.
“Probably less than 100 million years old, which is a small fraction” of the age of the solar system, he says. “These mountains we’res seeing are quite spectacular, they might be up to 11,000ft high.”
He says the surface is covered with a lot of nitrogen, ice, methane ice – “you just can’t make mountains out of that stuff, so we’re seeing the bedrock.”

Source: The Guardian

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aeriialace

pancakemilkshake pancakemilkshake

OK I have watched MANY videos and here it is for all you kids to learn your viral/meme video history, here are some premium vintage meme fodder:

Hampster Dance (1998)
Rejected (2000)
All Your Base (2001)
Tidus Laughing (2001)
The End of the World (2003)
Badger Badger Badger (2003)
Hyakugojyuuichi!!! (2003)
GI Joe PSAs (2003)
Llama Song (2004)
Banana Phone (2004)
Ddautta (There She Is!) (2004)
Charlie the Unicorn (2005)
Cillit Bang (2006)
Caramelldansen (2006)
Metal Gear Awesome (2006)
Leekspin (2006)
Marissa Stole the Precious Thing (2006)
The Mysterious Ticking Noise (2007)
Powerthirst (2007)
Paffendorf (2007)
Splash Attack (2007)
Caipirinha Dance (2007)
I Take a Potato Chip… (2007)
Nico Nico Douga Medley (2007)
Ronald McDonald Ran Ran Ru (2008)
Danjo (2008)
Giga Pudding (2008)
The Ultimate Showdown (2008)
Balsamic Vinegar (2008)
Sakura-Con Commercial (2009)
Shamwow (2009)
Slapchop (2009)
OK GO- Here It Goes Again (2009)
Stu Making Chocolate Pudding at 4 AM (2010)
HEYYEYAA (2010)
Galo Sengan (2011)

There are probably more that I’m missing. Some of these videos are part of a series (GI Joe, Potter Puppet Pals) and I didn’t count shitty videos like those idiot laughing babies.

bleutempete

Oh my fucking god, I was a retro memer

pensivelyplayfulme

I can’t believe we’re already calling Charlie the Unicorn vintage, I feel so old

pancakemilkshake pancakemilkshake

Charlie the Unicorn would be in 6th grade if it was a person.

aspiritualstate aspiritualstate

GI JOEEEEEE

akolnoix

and don’t forget these classics

They’re Taking The Hobbits To Isengard (2006)
Numa Numa (2006)
The Gummy Bear Song (2007)
The Duck Song (2009)
White & Nerdy (2009)
Trololo (2010)
Nyan Cat (2011)

theultravioletcatastrophe

Anyone remember Mr. T Vs Unicron (2003)?

kingknife

FUCK

thug

can’t believe there’s no mention of the most iconic of them all: WTF Bomb, ima firin my lazar, and Ninja Info Cards

stripesandteeth

How could this list not include the greatest 2007 meme of all time, the dramatic reading of a break up letter???: https://youtu.be/MBHOL1PcPR8

drawyourocslikethis drawyourocslikethis

What about -

Chocolate Rain (2007)

Fork in the Garbage Disposal (2007)

I Can Break These Cuffs (2008)

Do You Like Waffles? (2008)

Fukkireta (2010)

Spitting While Kissing (2011)

Navy Seal Copypasta (2012)

tamhonks

Here’s some more

My Roflcopter Goes Soisoisoisoi (2004)

Kitty Cat Dance (2004)

Fast Food Rockers (2006)

Shoes - Kelly (2006)

Geddan (2007)

Neurotically Yours (Foamy the Squirrel) (N/A)

Tunak Tunak Tun (N/A)

weaponizedhorse

Someone add lllams with hats. I can’t believe potter puppet pals is 10 years old now

moriahari

The ancient times

masqueraccoon

Llamas with Hats

stokerbramwell

Wow I managed to miss a few of these back in the day. I’m not sure whether I regret that.

bemusedlybespectacled

the navy seal copypasta could not POSSIBLY have come out in 2012. there is no FUCKING way.

This is the Bronze Liver of Piacenza. Piacenza is Classical Placentia, which was a Roman colony meaning “pleasing”; indeed, the English after the French called it Plaisance. (It is entirely unrelated to the word “placenta,” which comes from the Latin... — This is the Bronze Liver of Piacenza. Piacenza is Classical Placentia, which was a Roman colony meaning “pleasing”; indeed, the English after the French called it Plaisance. (It is entirely unrelated to the word “placenta,” which comes from the Latin placenta uterina, “uterine cake,” as a placenta was a type of cake of Italian origin but of Greek etymology, coming from a word for “flat.”) The piece is an anatomically precise sheep’s liver inscribed with the names of Etruscan deities in the Etruscan alphabet, arranged according to their division of Heaven into sixteen parts. The reason it is a sheep’s liver is because of the Etruscan practice of “haruspicy,” divination by certain qualities of an animal’s liver like size and crease depth. One of the most interesting inscriptions to me is “MAË,” barely visible in the top left. The common etymology of “May” is that it comes from the Greek goddess Maia, who in a Homeric Hymn “To Hermes” is named the mother of Hermes: “…Maia gave him birth, / that nymph whose tresses are fair, having joined in love with Zeus, / being worthy of reverence. Shunning the throng of blessed gods, / she dwelt in a deep-shaded cave, where Kronos’ son used to join / … / While Hera whose arms are pale in the sweetness of sleep was clasped…” It is significant that “the immortals’ speedy messenger,” Hermes, was conceived by the god of heaven in a cave with a nymph on earth for two reasons: first, her being cave-dwelling suggests that she was an earth goddess whose worship was undertaken in a cave, i.e. “in the earth”; second, Hermes would be the perfect messenger between heaven and earth being born of both. There’s just one problem—the Romans got their fundamental worship and observance of the seasons from the Etruscans to the north, not the Greeks to the south. So when we see MAË on an Etruscan religious artifact and “e” at the end of Etruscan words denotes a grammatically masculine word, the Latin equivalent would be Maius. Now, the month of May was already called Maius mensis, assuming that “maius” was an adjective meaning “of Maia,” but the place of MAË on this liver suggests Ma(i)e is an epithet for Jupiter or Zeu-pater, Father Zeus. Now, it could still be Maia, the name borrowed from Greek as a stand-in for an equivalent Etruscan goddess, since the names of months could be of a high, Olympian origin—March for Mars, April for Aphrodite, June for Juno—or relatively lower origin, like Janus, Julius, or Augustus. Regardless, the liver is packed with the names of deities with and without Roman or Greek equivalents, or which would be combined into a single Greco-Roman god, simply expanding their domain and associated mythology. Many of the names on the liver correspond to the Liber Linteus, a liturgical calendar, that is, a calendar of religious rites and festivals to be performed on certain dates and dedicated to certain gods. The Etruscans wrote on libri lintei, “linen books,” which they would fold rather than roll like papyrus. Their linen was imported from Egypt. The Liber Linteus is simply the most prominent because it is the largest of these books (~3.5m x 35cm/13.8ft x 13.8cm) and provides a firsthand, finely detailed description of Etruscan religion, which is fundamental to the understanding of the formation of Roman religion. The coolest thing though is that the Liber Linteus is an honest-to-God recycled Egyptian mummy wrap.
Sources: Reading the Past: Etruscan by Larissa Bonfante; The Homeric Hymns translated by Michael Crudden; Around the Roman Table by Patrick Faas; The Dictionaries of Greek and Roman Geography, Antiquities, and Biography & Mythology, all edited by William Smith; The Bronze Liver of Piacenza by L.B. Van der Meer; The Online Etymology Dictionary by anonymous creator “etymonline”; and Wiktionary by the community.

A 20 sided ‘Roman Rock Crystal Dice’. 1st-2nd Century AD. Louvre Museum. The dice was possibly used in fortune telling, Greek letter on each face may have corresponded to a reference in a divination manual.

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superrman:
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Hey so yesterday I put out a piece of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World but it didn’t include Cumae. Now, I’ve found one that does but it doesn’t have Etruria or Chalcis. But this bit of map is still absolutely wonderful and packed... — Hey so yesterday I put out a piece of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World but it didn’t include Cumae. Now, I’ve found one that does but it doesn’t have Etruria or Chalcis. But this bit of map is still absolutely wonderful and packed with cool shit. You can see Mount Vesuvius and the doomed cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, but this region was very geologically active besides the volcano! Puteoli was named for its “putrid” sulfur nearby. Coincidentally, it would also become a major hub of the Western Mediterranean trade of garum, a sun-aged fish paste the Romans used like ketchup. There’s the Puteolan Gulf (“Sinus”), which is also called a “crater.” The world broadly meant “bowl” in Greek and the borrowed Latin and is the origin of our identical word.
Just under the word “Cumae” you’ll see “Avernus L.” in blue. That would be Lake Avernus, whose own sulfurousness would make it an entrance to the underworld in folklore, to the point that “Avernus” was a synonym for “Hades.” It’s name comes from the Greek α-Fόρνις, “a-wornis,” which means “Fuck Birds Lake” (my translation; more accurately “No-Bird L.”), because birds would die from the fumes if they flew over it. Here, or near it, is where Aeneas entered the underworld after the Trojan diaspora landed at Cumae. Just as Delphi in Greece had a female oracle, the Pythia, thrown into oracular fits by the noxious fumes of the area, Cumae had a similarly-inspired Sibyl.
Cumae was the trading hub-city founded by the Chalcidians once they’d established themselves as friendly traders among the Italian peoples, especially the Etruscans. But, before that, when the Euboean Greeks were wary of potential hostility, they had a trading hub called Pithekoussai on the island just offshore that they abandoned after their colonization at Cumae.
There’s this common misconception that antique Italy and Greece were separate, but the Greeks colonized much of southern Italy and Sicily. The Ionian Euboeans colonized and made a trading network on the west coast, while other Greeks established Syracuse in eastern Sicily and that region’s Phoenicians, just beginning to establish their Carthaginian identity (the Romans still called them Poeni, later Puni, which is why the Roman wars with Carthage were called Punic), were becoming a major player in international trade.
These Phoenicians established colonies in western North Africa, eastern (Mediterranean, not Atlantic) Spain, and western Sicily. In response to the virtual Ionian coastal monopoly in Italy, the Dorians (people of the Peloponnese like Sparta) established Taras in southeastern Italy and made an overland trade route of their own. The Greek people are called “Greek” because our vocabulary is Roman and the Romans called them Greeks for a region in the south of Italy called Magna Graecia. They called themselves Hellenes and their land Hellas, though Greece wouldn’t be united until the Macedonian “fake Greeks” conquered it AND the Persians, which would be like if the Republic of Ireland conquered the UK and then France and Spain.
Greek cultural exchange in Italy and Western Mediterranean trade wars are so fucking dope dude. Like, the albeit rich and racist underdog United States established themselves as a naval power in the Pacific by defeating Japan in the same way the underdog (and racist) Romans overcame the Carthaginian navy.
HMU if you want cool Classics facts, folks

inconspicuouspotatosack

Found a Penguin Classics cover generator

schmergo

necromancy-savant

@malvoliowithin join me in making these.

lloerwyn

These are awfully fun.

Also, here’s a link.

dagny-hashtaggart

Okay, but can we talk about how the Paradise Lost one is meme text attached to one of Gustave Dore’s woodcuts for Paradise Lost

Because there was a time where we were all embarrassing meme trash so lean back, relax, and try not to cringe too hard. You meme loving fucks.

memes meme culture embarrassing playlist 8tracks this physically hurt me to make

ladybuglass

ANCIENT ROMAN MEME DISCOVERED

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1 2
2 50

it doesnt translate very well

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I II

II L

son of a bitch.

woodygaythrie

railroadsoftware

Ancient Greek guy talking to Ancient Greek artist: so what kind of art do you do?
Ancient Greek artist: handsome muscle boys
Ancient Greek guy: nice, love that

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Found a Penguin Classics cover generator

ANCIENT ROMAN MEME DISCOVERED