S.T.real,lights,out Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Ok so me and the GF were hanging out Friday night watching a Stand up to cancer thing and now im not a coldplay fan and i actually never even heard of this before Friday night but the song and the live show was very very cool. And for a great cause. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4-onfSCSAU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsonny Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Flamingo flock forms the shape of a bird: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattFancy Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Some pretty neat facts in here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/can-you-make-it-through-this-post-with-having-your Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighPlainsDrifter Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Pretty cool from burning man. Hula hoop cam. As far as I can tell, all the girls are covered, if pasties are too risqué, I'll take it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Check this out... I follow a science blog on Tumblr and she recently promoted this site. http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ Here is the blog that she wrote... There’s this idea that if all the planets are perfectly aligned on one side of the sun, all hell would break loose on Earth—the influences of the other planets would cause earthquakes, floods, huge tides, huge cracks in the earth as gravity pulls it apart, the flipping of our magnetic field or even the flipping of the planet on its axis…But I am here to call bull----. Planetary alignments happen all the time. Since all planets orbit the sun, it’s inevitable that at some point, they must line up. Earth takes one year to orbit the sun while Mars takes approximately two, so every two years, Earth and Mars line up—but for all the planets to align, you have to wait much longer. The thing is, in the billions of years of the solar system’s history, alignments must have actually happened, and probably happen every few millions of years. I use the word ‘alignment’ loosely, though. In the past, it’s more likely that the planets have just all been in the sky at the same time in an approximate line. (And even if they did all line up perfectly, it would have absolutely no affect on the Earth—the gravitational effects of anything other than the sun or moon are negligible.) Planetary alignment can be used for some awesome scientific opportunities. In the late 1970s, the planets were aligned in such a way that Voyager 2 was launched so it could undertake a Grand Tour of the solar system, flying by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all in a row over 15 years. This wasn’t a straight-line alignment, though—more of a curving spiral. The last time the planets were reasonably well lined up was in June 1988, when all planets except Jupiter and Pluto were on the same side of the sun, and formed an approximate line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Check this out... I follow a science blog on Tumblr and she recently promoted this site.http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ Fun to play with but I notice that Pluto is still listed as a planet, and none of Jupiter's moons are included. Also, the relative size of the planets and sun seem way off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighPlainsDrifter Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Geoff Mackley, Bradley Ambrose, Nathan Berg, after an epic struggle with the weather for 35 days, we became the first people ever to get this close to Marum Volcano's famed lava lake on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. Coming within 30 metres of the lava lake down a watercourse, it was possible to stand the heat for only 6 seconds. With Fire Brigade breathing apparatus and heat proof proximity suit it was possible to stand on the very edge and view the incredible show for over 40 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.T.real,lights,out Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Very cool....looks like the guy is just standing there taking a pee or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.T.real,lights,out Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNJIp4BKfM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 (edited) Presidential Press Conference from start to finish Edited September 27, 2012 by Corcaigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostyj Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIGzpi9lCck&feature=player_embedded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Apparently, Jay Bruce can indeed fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 http://www.airpano.com/360Degree-VirtualTour.php?3D=Egypt-Cairo-Pyramids Get multiple 360 degree views of the Pyramids in Egypt. The site also has apps for other landmarks like the Taj Mahal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Just a great image of a sculpture... The Veiled Lady Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.T.real,lights,out Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 From a few weeks ago....not sure if this was posted. http://gizmodo.com/5946460/google-maps-has-freaking-amazing-underwater-street-view-now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Time lapse video of the Space Shuttle's trip through L.A.: http://framework.latimes.com/2012/10/15/time-lapse-video-space-shuttle-endeavours-trek-across-l-a/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Cypress Hill Played Through a Squid: Insane in the Membrane, Indeed Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 (edited) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20026938 What a white whale might look like Researchers in the US have been shocked to discover a beluga whale whose vocalisations were remarkably close to human speech. While dolphins have been taught to mimic the pattern and durations of sounds in human speech, no animal has spontaneously tried such mimicry. But researchers heard a nine-year-old whale named NOC make sounds octaves below normal, in clipped bursts. The researchers outline in Current Biology just how NOC did it. The first mystery, though, was figuring out where the sound was coming from. When a diver at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in California surfaced saying, "Who told me to get out?" the researchers there knew they had another example on their hands. --If you go to the link you can listen and yes, it sounds like a person talking to you, just mumbled. This is amazing. A whale is teaching itself to speak to us. Probably to ask us WTF we are doing. Edited October 23, 2012 by Koolblue13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 http://www.mysmallhomestead.com/2009/06/1001-uses-for-vinegar/ have been having a problem with lint accumulating on different clothing when we line dry them. I researched the problem and learned that this often comes from a clogged filter in the washing machine. The suggested remedy is a cup of white vinegar run through a cycle every month. Now I knew that vinegar was good for coffee pots but I didn’t translate that to other appliances. - Lower your dependency on oil, chemicals and plastic and save a ton of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 --If you go to the link you can listen and yes, it sounds like a person talking to you, just mumbled. This is amazing. A whale is teaching itself to speak to us. Probably to ask us WTF we are doing. Sounds like a drunk person mumble-singing a song through a kazoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 VERY interesting!!If anyone could explain the behavior of the magnet and the copper pipe, I would appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HBnotBlades Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 (edited) VERY interesting!! If anyone could explain the behavior of the magnet and the copper pipe, I would appreciate it. Ahhh, a classic example of Lenz's Law. The video is quite dramatic for a demonstration of one of the basic principles of electromagnetism, but that guy doesn't seem like he's that grounded in reality. As the magnet falls through the pipe it creates a moving magnetic field. A magnetic field that moves across a conductive material will induce a current in that material. This is how electric generators work. A copper wire wrapped around a spinning magnet will see a changing magnetic field and thus, will see a current. The example with the pipe takes it a step further. The moving magnet induces a current in the copper pipe, but that current generates it's own magnetic field and that field will exactly oppose the one that created it. Basically, as the magnet moves it creates a magnetic field that opposes its own movement. The stronger the magnet, the stronger the opposing magnetic force will be and the closer it will come to "defying gravity". EDIT: I found a great site with gifs explaining what's happening! http://regentsprep.org/Regents/physics/phys08/clenslaw/default.htm Here's the example of the opposing magnetic fields, the blue circular arrows represent the field that's resisting the movement of the magnet. Edited October 23, 2012 by HBnotBlades Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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