Scientists Use Google Earth to Understand Mysterious Giant Wheels
One of the wonderful results of networked intelligence is the revelation of the already-there. Geoglyphs. Could there be anything more there than a work of art built out of or incised into the earth itself? But the earth, she is big, and you can’t get your mind around the whole of it and apprehend its multitudinous parts, or even the small patterns they form. Well, you couldn’t, but now you can.
Thousands of geoglyph “wheels,” almost completely unknown to the public, are now part of public knowledge thanks to advances in technology, both photographic and social. These wheels are scattered across the deserts of Jordan and adjacent countries.
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Actually, cosmologically speaking, it has everything to do with stars.
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NASA Finds New Life Form
Time to re-read the chapter in Michael Crichton’s Sphere called “The Anthropomorphic Problem” again.
Science is building a better tomato moon rock.
In Pisa, Italy, mad genius Enrico Dini is building sandcastles on the moon. His giant 3-D printer is the first of its kind with the potential to print whole buildings, and it makes them out of solid rock, cutting down a thousand-year-long process into a few minutes. It uses sand, but someday it’ll use moon dust. … As part of the European Space Agency’s Aurora program, he’s talking with La Scuola Normale Superiore, Alta Space, and Norman Foster to modify D-Shape to build with moon dust. Voila: instant moonbase. (via Fast Company)
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Never in your life have you seen porn this graphic
Dr. Pek Van Andel, who won an Ig Nobel Prize for making the first MRI images of a couple’s sex organs while those organs were in use, also made a video of the phenomenon.
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A sweeping prominence, a huge cloud of relatively cool dense plasma is seen suspended in the Sun’s hot, thin corona. At times, promineces can erupt, escaping the Sun’s atmosphere. Emission in this spectral line shows the upper chromosphere at a temperature of about 60,000 degrees K (over 100,000 degrees F). Every feature in the image traces magnetic field structure. The hottest areas appear almost white, while the darker red areas indicate cooler temperatures. The Sun - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Structure Of 'Beneficial' Virus That Can Infect Cancer Cells Solved
SCIENCE!
Further investigation found that the virus was harmless to normal human cells, but could infect certain solid tumors, such as small cell lung cancer, the most common form of lung cancer.
Watch the world end!
Ha! Not really. Use the link above to see some live cam footage of the Hadron Collider in action. Yeah science!
FYI: There is a small chance that this super collider may end the world. Just a heads-up.
Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture - Boston.com
