Space Shuttle Porn Part 1
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I’ve had these pictures sitting around for a while now, and I was totally going to post them all one at a time over the course of a long time, but then I was “wtf no, that’s hard work” so I uploaded them all at once, and will be posting them in chunks.
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Tapei 101′s 728-ton Stabilising Ball
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The Taipei 101 Building sits just over 600ft from a major fault line. This big ball thing keeps it from swinging. My big balls do the exact opposite.
More about tuned mass dampeners here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper
More about this building here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_101#Construction
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Analemma over Ukraine
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Explanation: If you took a picture of the Sun at the same time each day, would it remain in the same position? The answer is no, and the shape traced out by the Sun over the course of a year is called an analemma. The Sun’s apparent shift is caused by the Earth’s motion around the Sun when combined with the tilt of the Earth’s rotation axis. The Sun will appear at its highest point of the analemma during summer and at its lowest during winter. Analemmas created from different Earth latitudes would appear at least slightly different, as well as analemmas created at a different time each day. The analemma pictured to the left was built up by Sun photographs taken from 1998 August through 1999 August from Ukraine. The foreground picture from the same location was taken during the early evening in 1999 July.
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The great grandfather of internet porn
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From the Oct, 1952 Issue of Mechanix Illustrated
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Water on Mars
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www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080619.html
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Fluid Filled Tubes
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Macrophage kitty Phagocytoses
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Top Gear USA
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![Top Gear USA First Picture[1] 500x281 Top Gear USA](http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/tdomf/35219/Top-Gear-USA-First-Picture[1]-500x281.jpg "Top Gear USA")
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Radiolarians
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The 71st plate from German biologist Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur, showing radiolarians of the order Stephoidea. Radiolarians form intricate mineral skeletons, usually with a central capsule dividing the cell into inner and outer portions. Radiolarians are found as zooplankton throughout the ocean and are important diagnostic fossils, found from the Cambrian period onwards.
Image credit: Ernst Haeckel
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Fully working NES inside NES Cartridge
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The Fami-Card.
You read right, the whole damn Nintendo Entertainment System is inside just one of its cartridges. Now for the ironic part; even though it’s inside an American cartridge, it’s meant for only play the original FamiCom (japanese) cartridges.
kotomiblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/fami-card.html
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Space Music
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anatomy of a jump
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M51 Hubble Remix
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Explanation: The 51st entry in Charles Messier’s famous catalog is perhaps the original spiral nebula – a large galaxy with a well defined spiral structure also cataloged as NGC 5194. Over 60,000 light-years across, M51′s spiral arms and dust lanes clearly sweep in front of its companion galaxy (right), NGC 5195. Image data from the Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys has been reprocessed to produce this alternative portrait of the well-known interacting galaxy pair. The processing has further sharpened details and enhanced color and contrast in otherwise faint areas, bringing out dust lanes and extended streams that cross the small companion, along with features in the surroundings and core of M51 itself. The pair are about 31 million light-years distant. Not far on the sky from the handle of the Big Dipper, they officially lie within the boundaries of the small constellation Canes Venatici.
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Soft skin BMW
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The GINA, A car covered in cloth instead of metals. There’s a movie of this at the site I found it on, the car winks at you at the end of the video.
www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1075-bmws-fascinating-gina-light-visionary-model-design-study
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The Lumeneo Smera
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It runs on an electric motor that gets 100 kilometers for 7 kilowatts. I’m kind of excited. From lumeneo.fr/welcome.html
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400,000 Black Balls
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400,000 black balls dropped to Ivanhoe Reservoir to save people from cancer. Planning to add 3,000,000 more.
From Gizmondo.
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Space Command
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that’s not orlando is it?
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Milky Way Galaxy; mapped
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Explanation: Gazing out from within the Milky Way, our own galaxy’s true structure is difficult to discern. But an ambitious survey effort with the Spitzer Space Telescope now offers convincing evidence that we live in a large galaxy distinguished by two main spiral arms (the Scutum-Centaurus and Perseus arms) emerging from the ends of a large central bar. In fact, from a vantage point that viewed our galaxy face-on, astronomers in distant galaxies would likely see the Milky Way as a two-armed barred spiral similar to this artist’s illustration. Previous investigations have identified a smaller central barred structure and four spiral arms. Astronomers still place the Sun about a third of the way in from the Milky Way’s outer edge, in a minor arm called the Orion Spur.
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Joseph Longo’s Plasma Converter
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my favorite excerpts from the article:
How It Works: Startech´s trash converter uses superheated plasma-an electrically conductive mass of charged particles (ions and electrons) generated from ordinary air-to reduce garbage to its molecular components. First the trash is fed into an auger that shreds it into small pieces. Then the mulch is delivered into the plasma chamber, where the superheated plasma converts it into two by-products. One is a syngas composed mostly of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which is fed into the adjacent Starcell system to be converted into fuel. The other is molten glass that can be sold for use in household tiles or road asphalt.
Called plasma gasification, it works a little like the big bang, only backward (you get nothing from something). Inside a sealed vessel made of stainless steel and filled with a stable gasâ€â€either pure nitrogen or, as in this case, ordinary airâ€â€a 650-volt current passing between two electrodes rips electrons from the air, converting the gas into plasma. Current flows continuously through this newly formed plasma, creating a field of extremely intense energy very much like lightning.
The radiant energy of the plasma arc is so powerful, it disintegrates trash into its constituent elements by tearing apart molecular bonds. The system is capable of breaking down pretty much anything except nuclear waste, the isotopes of which are indestructible. The only by-products are an obsidian-like glass used as a raw material for numerous applications, including bathroom tiles and high-strength asphalt, and a synthesis gas, or “syngas”â€â€a mixture of primarily hydrogen and carbon monoxide that can be converted into a variety of marketable fuels, including ethanol, natural gas and hydrogen.
Perhaps the most amazing part of the process is that it’s self-sustaining. Just like your toaster, Startech’s Plasma Converter draws its power from the electrical grid to get started. The initial voltage is about equal to the zap from a police stun gun. But once the cycle is under way, the 2,200ËšF syngas is fed into a cooling system, generating steam that drives turbines to produce electricity. About two thirds of the power is siphoned off to run the converter; the rest can be used on-site for heating or electricity, or sold back to the utility grid. “Even a blackout would not stop the operation of the facility,” Longo says.
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Sun Eater
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