Astronauts: Past and Present
Posted on September 4, 2008 by tiki god | 6 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: Science!, Space, Wallpaper
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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN
Posted on September 2, 2008 by thelotuseater725 | 12 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: large hadron collider, LHC, Science!
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Earth’s Shadow
Posted on August 21, 2008 by nyokki | 1 CommentFiled Under Images and has these tags: APOD, Science!, Space, Wallpaper
Explanation: The dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is called the umbra. Shaped like a cone extending into space, the umbra has a circular cross section that can be most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. For example, last Saturday the Full Moon slid across the northern edge of the umbra. Entertaining moon watchers throughout Earth’s eastern hemisphere, the lunar passage created a deep but partial lunar eclipse. This composite image uses successive pictures recorded during the eclipse from Athens, Greece to trace out a large part of the umbra’s curved edge. The result nicely illustrates the relative size of the umbra’s cross section at the distance of the Moon, as well as the Moon’s path through the Earth’s shadow.
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The Crown of the Sun
Posted on August 20, 2008 by nyokki | 1 CommentFiled Under Images and has these tags: APOD, Science!, Space, Wallpaper
Explanation: During a total solar eclipse, the Sun’s extensive outer atmosphere, or corona, is an inspirational sight. The subtle shades and shimmering features of the corona that engage the eye span a brightness range of over 10,000 to 1, making them notoriously difficult to capture in a single picture. But this composite of 28 digital images ranging in exposure time from 1/1000 to 2 seconds comes close to revealing the crown of the Sun in all its glory. The telescopic views were recorded near Kochenevo, Russia during the August 1 total solar eclipse and also show solar prominences extending just beyond the edge of the eclipsed sun. Remarkably, features on the dark near side of the New Moon can also be made out, illuminated by sunlight reflected from a Full Earth.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080808.html
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Io’s surface: under constuction
Posted on August 18, 2008 by nyokki | 3 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: APOD, Science!, Space, Wallpaper
Explanation: Like the downtown area of your favorite city, the roads you drive to work on, and any self-respecting web site … Io’s surface is constantly under construction. This moon of Jupiter holds the distinction of being the Solar System’s most volcanically active body — its bizarre looking surface continuously formed and reformed by lava flows. Generated using 1996 data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, this high resolution composite image is centered on the side of Io that always faces away from Jupiter. It has been enhanced to emphasize Io’s surface brightness and color variations, revealing features as small as 1.5 miles across. The notable absence of impact craters suggests that the entire surface is covered with new volcanic deposits much more rapidly than craters are created. What drives this volcanic powerhouse? A likely energy source is the changing gravitational tides caused by Jupiter and the other Galilean moons as Io orbits the massive gas giant planet. Heating Io’s interior, the pumping tides would generate the sulfurous volcanic activity.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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Han Solo Frozen Carbonite Desk
Posted on August 14, 2008 by Dreth | 8 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: Fantasy - Science Fiction, Movies, Science!, Television
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Acid Rain
Posted on August 14, 2008 by nyokki | 3 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: Nature, NGeoPOD, Science!
Acid Rain, Washington, D.C., 1981
Photograph by Robert Sisson
In this macro close-up, a bromophemol solution is dripped on raindrops found on a daisy petal to test their acidity. The solution is reddish and has turned one drop yellow. The rain is pH 3, the same as vinegar.
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day
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Space Shuttle Porn Part 5
Posted on August 12, 2008 by tiki god | 2 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: Science!, Space, Wallpaper
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BigDog robot
Posted on August 11, 2008 by nyokki | 20 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: Military, Science!
The Army’s newest robot. It looks and sounds creepy.
More info and video:
http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog
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Hurricane Felix from space
Posted on August 3, 2008 by nyokki | Leave a CommentFiled Under Images and has these tags: Nature, Science!, Space, Wallpaper
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Q What shampoo did NASA give the Challenger astronauts?
A Head and Shoulders
Q Where did the Challenger astronauts spend their last vacation?
A All over a Florida beach
Q What does NASA stand for?
A Need Another Seven Astronauts
Q How many astronauts can you fit into a Volkswagen Bug?
A 11, two in the front, two in the back, and seven in the ashtray
Q What did the tv announcer say after the Challenger exploded?
A No, no, I meant BUD-light!
Q What did Christa M. say to her husband before she left that morning?
A You feed the dog, I’ll feed the fish.
Comment by natedog — September 4, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
Thanks, nate. I haven’t heard those since grade school.
You forgot the one about what color her eyes were, though.
And yes, they were blue. One blew this way, one blew that way.
Comment by suicydking — September 4, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
I hadn’t heard those.
Some part of me wants to laugh at them, but the part of me that isn’t an evil asshole finds them abhorrent.
Comment by MikeBabaguh — September 4, 2008 @ 4:09 pm
The evil part of me wants to add this one, and the good part is out of town:
How do we know Christa M. was the best teacher ever?
She only blew up in front of her class once.
Comment by Kandorr — September 4, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
I don’t think I see Lisa Nowak there, that crazy astronaut kidnapper.
Comment by phat_stack — September 4, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
Yeah, I’m with Phat Stack where is the diaper lady?
Comment by Caio — September 4, 2008 @ 8:41 pm