Far Beats

Cosmic dust is dust which exists in outer space. Most cosmic dust particles are between a few molecules to 0.1 µm in size. A smaller fraction of all dust in space consists of larger refractory minerals that condensed as matter left the stars. It is called “stardust” and is included in a separate section below. The dust density in the local interstellar medium of the Local Bubble is approximately 10−6 × dust grain/m3 with each grain having a mass of approximately 10−17 kg.

Cosmic dust can be further distinguished by its astronomical location: intergalactic dust, interstellar dust, interplanetary dust (such as in the zodiacal cloud) and circumplanetary dust (such as in a planetary ring). In the Solar System, interplanetary dust causes the zodiacal light. Sources of Solar System dust include comet dust, asteroidal dust, dust from the Kuiper belt, and interstellar dust passing through the Solar System. The terminology has no specific application for describing materials found on the planet Earth except for dust that has demonstrably fallen to Earth. By one estimate, as much as 40,000 tons of cosmic dust reaches the Earth’s surface every year. In October 2011, scientists reported that cosmic dust contains complex organic matter (“amorphous organic solids with a mixed aromatic–aliphatic structure”) that could be created naturally, and rapidly, by stars.

On August 14, 2014, scientists announced the collection of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust spacecraft since returning to Earth in 2006.

Cosmic dust, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cosmic_dust&oldid=713482589 (last visited May 15, 2016).

TRCKLST :

01.Kuedo – Reality Drift [BANDCAMP]

02.ARKTKT – Sea Monster (original mix) [Division Recordings]

03.Totemic – Drow [SOUNNDCLOUD]

04.These Hidden Hands – These Moments Dismantled (feat.Lucrecia Dalt) – [Hidden Hundred]

05.Death Grips – 8080808 [ Harvest Records]

06.Noisia & Mono/Poly – The Nomad (Original Mix) [Division Recordings]

07.CloZee – The Path To Heaven [Gravitas Recordings]

08.Richie Brains – The Blips [Exit Recordings UK ]

09.CloZinger – Sinking [ SOUNDCLOUD]

10.Richie Brains – Likkle Som [Exit Recordings UK ]

11.Moresounds – Ghetto Style [Le French Work]

12.The Imposture – Made It [Le French Work]

13.Flying Lotus – Camel [Warp Records]

14.SCNTST – Wavez Changes –  [Boyznoize Records]

15.Jackhigh – Turbines [XLR8R]

16.Harmonic 313 – No Way Out [Warp Records]

17.Azekel – New Romance (Om Unit Remix) [SOUNDCLOUD]

18.Submerse – This Combo Could End Us [Project Mooncircle]

19.Decap – Feeling [OkayPlayer]

20.Stray – Hide [SOUNDCLOUD]

21.Captain Murphy – Between Friends [SOUNDCLOUD]

22.Captain Murphy – Between Friends ft. Earl Sweatshirt (Prod. Flying Lotus) [SOUNDCLOUD]

23.Kaytranada – Bus Ride [Stones Throw]

24.TH7 IMMORTXLZ – PLXN7TXRY TRIO [BANDCAMP]

25.Dave Douglas – Cardinals [SOUNDCLOUD]

Planet Nine is a hypothetical large planet in the far outer Solar System, the gravitational affects of which would explain the unusual orbital configuration of a group of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) that orbit mostly beyond the Kuiper belt.

The hypothesis first took form in a 2014 letter to the journal Nature by astronomers Chad Trujillo and Scott S. Sheppard, who had inferred the possible existence of a massive planet from similarities in the orbits of the distant trans-Neptunian objects Sedna and 2012 VP113. On 20 January 2016, researchers Konstantin Batygin and Michael E. Brown at Caltech argued that a massive outer planet would be the likeliest explanation for the similarities in orbits of six distant objects. The predicted planet would be a super-Earth, with an estimated mass of about 10 times that of Earth (approximately 5,000 times the mass of Pluto), a diameter two to four times that of Earth, and a highly elliptical orbit that is so far away that it could take around 15,000 years to orbit the Sun.

On the basis of models of planet formation that might include planetary migration from the inner Solar System, such as the fifth giant planet hypothesis, the authors suggest that it may be a primordial giant planet core that was ejected from its original orbit during the nebular epoch of the Solar System’s evolution.

Planet Nine, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Planet_Nine&oldid=715248696 (last visited Apr. 19, 2016).

TRCKLST :

01.The Deadbirds – The Sphynx equation [Blackelk Recordings]

02.Busdriver – Hottentot Supercluster [Self Release]

03.Ebbo kraan – Pian808 [Rwina Records]

04.Tigorilla – Ray (Original Mix) [Ask the internet]

05.Boeboe – Rewind [Saturate!Records]

06.The Deadbirds – Highways [Blackelk Recordings]

07.Coleco – Saturation [LowRise Sounds]

08.Maverick – Revolution [#NWDS – NOWADAYS RECORDS]

09.Joney – Summer of ’96 [ Saturate!Records]

10.Pixelord – Mad-Hop World [Mad-Hop Records]

11.J(ay).A.D – Send Off –  [Cosmic Bridge Records]

12.Gramatik – Room 3327 – [GramatiK]

13.Opiuo – It Was [SOUNCLOUD]

14.Daddy Veda – Far East Strategies [Antidote Concilium]

15.Dday One – Look Again (Remix) [Project Mooncircle]

16.Ash Koosha – I Feel That [Ninja Tune]

17.Commodo – Floods [Black Acre Records]

18.Lord Rao + Cupp Cave + Herrmutt Lobby – Freakazoid [Detroit Underground]

19.Samiyam – Taco Chase [Stones Throw]

20.Mux Mool – Soultaker [Super Best Records]

21.Minoo – Let’s Make It (feat. Jon Kennedy) [Mad-Hop Records]

22.Notorious B.I.G – Suicidal Thoughts (Lorn Remix) [Internet]

23.TELEPOPMUSIK – BREATHE (SICAA REMIX) [Internet]

24.TH7 IMMORTXLZ – MXCHIN7S [BANDCAMP]

An equinox is an astronomical event in which the plane of Earth’s equator passes through the center of the Sun, which occurs twice each year, around 20 March and 23 September.

On an equinox, day and night are of approximately equal duration all over the planet. They are not exactly equal, however, due to the angular size of the sun and atmospheric refraction. To avoid this ambiguity, the word equilux is sometimes used to mean a day in which the durations of light and darkness are equal. See Length of equinoctial day and night for further discussion.

The equinoxes are the only times when the solar terminator (the “edge” between night and day) is perpendicular to the equator. As a result, the northern and southern hemispheres are equally illuminated.

In other words, the equinoxes are the only times when the subsolar point is on the equator, meaning that the Sun is exactly overhead at a point on the equatorial line. The subsolar point crosses the equator moving northward at the March equinox and southward at the September equinox.

The equinoxes, along with solstices, are directly related to the seasons of the year. In the northern hemisphere, the vernal equinox (March) conventionally marks the beginning of spring in most cultures and is considered the New Year in the Persian calendar or Iranian calendars as Nouroz (means new day), while the autumnal equinox (September) marks the beginning of autumn. In the southern hemisphere, the vernal equinox occurs in September and the autumnal equinox in March.

Equinox, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Equinox&oldid=711114428 (last visited Mar. 21, 2016).

TRCKLST :

01.Bambounou – EX06 [50Weapons]

02.Two Fingers – Traces [Division Recordings]

03.Om Unit & Sam Binga – Triffidz [Exit Records UK]

04.Posij – Windforce [Division Recordings]

05.Cadenza – The Darkest Hype (Philip D Kick Remix) [Dummy]

06.Shades – Dogstar [Power of two]

07.Ivy Lab – Third World Cop [20/20 LDN]

08.Alix Perez & Ivy Lab – Stop It [Critical Music]

09.Two Fingers – Sweden  [Big Dada]

10.Austin Speed & Calculon – Get Murked (Deft Remix) [Shoot Recordings]

11.Totemic – Liquid Moonlight [UNLOG]

12.Andy Stott – Numb [Modern Love]

13.Om Unit – Ulysses VIP [XLR8R]

14.Shades – Unholy [Power of two]

15.Gramatik feat Raekwon & Orlando Napier – Native Son (Great Dane Remix)  [Low Temp Music]

16.Chango + FSTZ – Work Em (Mark Kloud Remix) [Ground Mass]

17.Bantu Clan vs Sarabi (Behr Remix) – Africa Ni Leo [High Life World Series]

18.Fracture & Deft – I Just [Exit Records UK]

19.Danny Scrilla – Fallout [Civil Music]

20.REC – Blow [UNLOG]

21.SMKSGNLS & G Jones – The Realness [Saturate!Records]

The first direct gravitational wave observation was made on 14 September 2015 and was announced by the LIGO and Virgo interferometer collaborations on 11 February 2016. The waveform, detected by both LIGO observatories, matched the predictions of general relativity for a gravitational wave emanating from the inward spiral and merger of a pair of black holes and subsequent “ringdown” of the single resulting black hole. The signal was named GW150914 (i.e., “Gravitational Wave 2015–09–14“). This was also the first observation of a binary black hole merger, demonstrating the existence of binary stellar-mass black hole systems, and that such mergers could occur within the current age of the universe.

This first observation was reported around the world as a remarkable accomplishment for many reasons. Efforts to prove the existence of such waves had been ongoing for over fifty years, and the waves are so minuscule that Einstein doubted they could ever be detected. The waves given off by the cataclysmic merger of GW150914 reached Earth as a ripple in space-time that changed the length of a 4-km LIGO arm by a tiny fraction of the width of a proton, proportionally equivalent to changing the distance to the nearest star by one hair’s width. The energy released during the brief climax of the event was immense, with about three solar masses converted to gravitational waves and radiated away at a peak rate of about 3.6×1049 watts — more than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe. The observation was also heralded as confirming the last remaining unproven prediction of general relativity, and validating its predictions of space-time distortion in the context of large scale cosmic events, as well as inaugurating a new era of gravitational-wave astronomy, allowing probing of violent astrophysical events unobservable until now.

First observation of gravitational waves,

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=First_observation_of_gravitational_waves&oldid=704913650

(last visited Feb. 14, 2016).

TRCKLST :

01.Ebbo kraan – No amount  [Rwina Records]

02.Was Legit – Journey [STYLSS]

03.ARP 101 X Elliott Yorke – Fluro Black [Donky Pitch]

04.Killer Mike – Butane (Champion’s Anthem) feat. EL-P [Williams Street Records]

05.Misanthrop – Lunatic Dolphin [Equinox Records]

06.oOgo – This Girl [Nowadays Records]

07.The Echo – Signals (Ambassadeurs Remix) [XLR8R]

08.Moresounds – Simon Peacefull [Original Cultures]

09. Kijk Een Ster – Maby For Koes [Saturate!Records]

10.DJ Cam – Love Junkee feat. Cameo and J.Dilla [Inflamable Records]

11.Kupla – Planetary [BANCAMP]

12.Autechre – Recks on [Warp Records]

13.Shabazz Palaces – Motion Sickness [Sub Pop]

14.CloZee – Revolution [Gravitas Recordings]

15.Om Unit Fucking Weirdo – [Self Release]

16.DJ Krush – 黒い雨 Kuroi Ame – Black Rain [Es.U.Es Corp]

17.Robot Koch – Gorom Sen Returns [Project Mooncircle]

18.I Kicked A Cloud Once – That Dimension [Greased Up Records]

19.Opiuo + Badge – Load Landfill ft, Syreneiscreamy [Additech Records]

20.Harmonic 313 – Cyclotron [Warp Records]

21. Ivy Lab – Deus [20/20 LDN]

22.El-P – Feel Like a Ghost [Definitive Jux]

23.UM Le Villain – R2 Strategik Beat  [UNLOG]

24.Al’Tarba – The Malignant [Self Release]

25.Nosaj Thing – FWD [Rush Hour Recordings]

26.B.Lewis – Code(x) [BANDCAMP]

27.Kuedo – Salt Lake Cuts [Planet Mu]

Interstellar travel is the term used for hypothetical manned or unmanned travel between stars. Interstellar travel will be much more difficult than interplanetary spaceflight; the distances between the planets in the Solar System are less than 30 astronomical units (AU)—whereas the distances between stars are typically hundreds of thousands of AU, and usually expressed in light-years. Because of the vastness of those distances, interstellar travel would require either great speed, a high percentage of the speed of light, or huge travel time, lasting from decades to millennia or longer.

The speeds required for interstellar travel in a human lifetime far exceed what current methods of spacecraft propulsion can provide. Even with a hypothetically perfectly efficient propulsion system, the kinetic energy corresponding to those speeds is enormous by today’s standards of energy production. Moreover, collisions by the spacecraft with cosmic dust and gas can produce very dangerous effects both to passengers and the spacecraft itself.

A number of strategies have been proposed to deal with these problems, ranging from giant arks that would carry entire societies and ecosystems, to microscopic space probes. Many different spacecraft propulsion systems have been proposed to give spacecraft the required speeds, including nuclear propulsion, beam-powered propulsion, and methods based on speculative physics.

For both manned and unmanned interstellar travel, considerable technological and economic challenges need to be met. Even the most optimistic views about interstellar travel see it as only being feasible decades from now—the more common view is that it is a century or more away. However, in spite of the challenges, if interstellar travel should ever be realized, then a wide range of scientific benefits can be expected.

Interstellar travel, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interstellar_travel&oldid=699874685 (last visited Jan. 19, 2016).

TRCKLST :

01.Kromestar featuring Team Starfleet – Outer Limit  [Cosmic Bridge Records]

02.Goth Trad – New Epoch  [Deep Medi Musik]

03.Greymatter – Too Much (Klic Remix)  [Unique Uncut Records]

04.Mønic – Blood Hound  [Osiris Musik Uk]

05.Jafu – Fever  [Deep Heads]

06.Kryptic Minds – Convoluted [Tectonic Recordings]

07.D1 – Sub Zero [Hessle Audio]

08.Kahn – Badman City (ft Flowdan)  [Black Box Records]

09.EPROM – Can Control  [Rwina Records]

10.Egyptrixx – A/B Til Infinity [Night Slugs]

11.Danny Scrilla – VV Cephei (Kidkanevil remix)  [Cosmic Bridge Records]

12.Unknown – Higher

13.Lewis James – Worse [Original Cultures]

14.Kode9 – Zero Work  [Hyperdub]

15.Doshy – Shunt  [Robox-Neotech]

16.Joker – Boss Mode [Kapsize Recordings]

17.Kromestar – Rhythm On My Mind  [Cosmic Bridge Records]

18.JASE – The Claim [Robox-Neotech]

19.Om Unit & Lorn – Obsidian [Cosmic Bridge Records  & Lorn]

20.Floating Points – Argente [Pluto Records]

21.Sicaa – Frantic [Exploration Music]

22.FilosofischeStilte & Mad Fellow – Upfront  [Saturate!Records]

23.Commodo, Gantz, Kahn – Bitchcraft [Deep Medi Musik]

24.Roots Manuva – Facety-2-11  [Big Dada]

25.Two Fingers & Noisia – Salah  [Division Recordings]

26.ONHELL – Dark Skin [STYLSS]

Kepler-452b is an exoplanet orbiting the G-class star Kepler-452. It was identified by the Kepler space telescope, and its discovery was publicly announced by NASA on 23 July 2015.[2] It is the first potentially rocky super-Earth[4] planet discovered orbiting within the habitable zone of a star very similar to the Sun.[5] Using the criteria of the Earth Similarity Index, it is the sixth-most Earth-like exoplanet known to date.

The planet is about 1,400 light-years away from the Solar System; at the speed of the New Horizons spacecraft, about 59,000 km/h (37,000 mph), it would take approximately 26 million years to get there

Wikipedia contributors. “Kepler-452b.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 28 Dec. 2015. Web. 29 Dec. 2015.

Tracklist :

01.Killawatt – Blackhole Flamenco

A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a stellar remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: its mass is comparable to that of the Sun, and its volume is comparable to that of Earth. A white dwarf’s faint luminosity comes from the emission of stored thermal energy. The nearest known white dwarf is Sirius B, at 8.6 light years, the smaller component of the Sirius binary star. There are currently thought to be eight white dwarfs among the hundred star systems nearest the Sun.The unusual faintness of white dwarfs was first recognized in 1910. The name white dwarf was coined by Willem Luyten in 1922.

White dwarf, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_dwarf&oldid=697320294 (last visited Dec. 29, 2015).

Tracklist :

01.Darkside – Golden Arrow

Water on Mars exists today almost entirely as ice, though it also exists in small quantities as vapour in the atmosphere[1] and occasionally as low-volume liquid brines in shallow Martian soil.[2][3] The only place where water ice is visible at the surface is at the north polar ice cap.[4] Abundant water ice is also present beneath the permanent carbon dioxide ice cap at the Martian south pole and in the shallow subsurface at more temperate latitudes. More than five million cubic kilometers of ice have been identified at or near the surface of modern Mars, enough to cover the whole planet to a depth of 35 metres (115 ft). Even more ice is likely to be locked away in the deep subsurface.

Water on Mars, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_on_Mars&oldid=697167657 (last visited Dec. 29, 2015).

Tracklist :

01.UltraMagnetic M.C.’s – Intermission

Tracklist:

01 Luke’s Anger ”Warble Tone”