Square-Mile Street Network Visualization - Geoffboeing.com

Brian Lewis’s unused art for Usborne’s “Cities of the Future.” 

Approximately 1 billion light years across, the largest known structure in the universe consists of 830 galaxies nestled within 4 connecting galaxy clusters.

As above, so below.

Credits to the lovely people over at NASA and ESA. Image by Science Photo Library.

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Moon Mountain Named After Melba Roy Mouton, NASA Mathematician

Award-winning NASA mathematician and computer programmer Melba Mouton is being honored with the naming of a mountain at the Moon’s South Pole. Mouton joined NASA in 1959, just a year after the space agency was established. She was the leader of a team that coded computer programs to calculate spacecraft trajectories and locations. Her contributions were instrumental to landing the first humans on the Moon.

She also led the group of "human computers," who tracked the Echo satellites. Roy and her team's computations helped produce the orbital element timetables by which millions could view the satellite from Earth as it passed overhead.

The towering lunar landmark now known as “Mons Mouton” stands at a height greater than 19,000 feet. The mountain was created over billions of years by lunar impacts. Huge craters lie around its base—some with cliff-like edges that descend into areas of permanent darkness. Mons Mouton is the future landing site of VIPER, our first robotic Moon rover. The rover will explore the Moon’s surface to help gain a better understanding of the origin of lunar water. Here are things to know:

Mons Mouton is a wide, relatively flat-topped mountain that stretches roughly 2,700 square miles

The mountain is the highest spot at the Moon’s South Pole and can be seen from Earth with a telescope

Our VIPER Moon rover will explore Mons Mouton over the course of its 100-day mission

VIPER will map potential resources which will help inform future landing sites under our Artemis program

The VIPER mission is managed by our Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The approximately 1,000-pound rover will be delivered to the Moon by a commercial vendor as part of our Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, delivering science and technology payloads to and near the Moon.

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Hans Vagt and Peter Bannert, Radio set "Pop 70", 1969. Wood, plastic, metal, manufactured by: Blaupunkt, Hildesheim, Germany (1969-1976). Photos via 1stDibs / Radiomuseum

"The first stereo radio designed specifically for the rooms of adult sons and daughters. As an acoustic and visual center. Not a toy, but a real stereo device." Salesfolder Blaupunkt

Frank Lloyd Wright beside a model of the new Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 25, 1953. This became the only Wright building in the city.

Photo: CF for the AP via the Denver Post

‘Marshmallow’ Sofa. Designed in 1956 by Irving Harper of George Nelson Associates in New York; manufactured from 1956 to ca. 1965 (and 1999 onwards) by Herman Miller Furniture Company in Zeeland, Michigan. Philadelphia Museum of Art accession number: 1996-30-1.

"This sofa's eighteen cushions are attached to an exposed frame in a radical rethinking of the traditional upholstered sofa. The cushions can be detached for easy cleaning or 'interchanged to equalize wear.'"

(Source: philamuseum.org)

So anyway I personally welcome the imminent lunar dome city colonies to eventually sprout from this revelation, like all my fav sci-fis. I'd live on the moon, how about you?