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bisarahtots: via Stumbleupon

Sat, 25 May 2013 17:15:53 -0400

via Stumbleupon

chaotic-renan: Mandelbrot set colored using binary...

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:38:15 -0400

Mandelbrot set colored using binary decomposition based if the imaginary value of variable Z was positive or negative.

I made this using python. Usually i do my stuff in C, but i found python quite interesting .

The image above was processed using and escape radius of 10000, while the below one with the usual escape radius of 2. The difference is significantly, especially in the render time.

42pub: Happy Towel Day!

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:23:27 -0400

42pub:

Happy Towel Day!

For Towel Day: The 42 Best Lines from Douglas Adams' HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY Series

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:22:26 -0400

For Towel Day: The 42 Best Lines from Douglas Adams' HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY Series:

androgynousbookworm:

Happy Towel Day!

anndruyan: Earth rise sequence (Image Credit: NASA)

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:21:31 -0400

anndruyan:

Earth rise sequence

(Image Credit: NASA)

the-science-llama: Influence of Planets on the Sun This tool...

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:25:39 -0400

the-science-llama:

Influence of Planets on the Sun

This tool shows the movement of the Sun due to the gravitational pull of the planets. You can see how little effect we have on our massive star or how much more massive Jupiter is compared to us.

If some alien astronomer was looking at our star, they would see it red/blueshift as it wobbles around dancing with the planets.

vanilliamshakespeare: lokidindeed: i-deduce-youre-a-bitch: YOU...

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:30:54 -0400

vanilliamshakespeare:

lokidindeed:

i-deduce-youre-a-bitch:

YOU NIQQAS WANNA LEARN ELVISH?! HERE YA GO!

What fuck

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Tue, 21 May 2013 18:06:05 -0400

im-hibernating: How Mars would look if it still had water

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:04:25 -0400

im-hibernating:

How Mars would look if it still had water

mothernaturenetwork: New kitten cam stalls your productivity in...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:45:47 -0400

mothernaturenetwork:

New kitten cam stalls your productivity in name of population control

Kitten Rescue’s webcam feed seeks to highlight awareness of the millions of cats in shelters in need of permanent, loving homes.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 17:54:43 -0400

Einstein’s Voice? Well, listen as Albert Einstein reads you a...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:35:13 -0400

Einstein’s Voice?

Well, listen as Albert Einstein reads you a scientific essay. It’s his voice, in your ears, from 1941, reading his essay ‘The Common Language of Science’.

Click Here : http://is.gd/O4s3F5
More Recordings At: http://is.gd/CMzE1S

The Lord of the Rings Movie Trivia: Cameos & Special...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:53:01 -0400

The Lord of the Rings Movie Trivia: Cameos & Special Appearances

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Mon, 20 May 2013 05:10:43 -0400

spaceplasma: Mimas Occults Janus Icy, impact-riddled Mimas...

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:10:30 -0400

spaceplasma:

Mimas Occults Janus

Icy, impact-riddled Mimas (396 kilometers, 246 miles across) slips briefly in front of the moon Janus (179 kilometers, 111 miles across) in this movie from Cassini.

The movie was created from 37 original images taken over the course of 20 minutes as the spacecraft’s narrow angle camera remained pointed toward Janus. Although Mimas moves a greater distance across the field of view, Janus also moved perceptibly during this time. The images were aligned to keep Janus close to the center of the scene. Additional frames were inserted between the 37 Cassini images in order to smooth the appearance of Mimas’ movement – a scheme called interpolation. Close-up images from the few minutes surrounding the occultation are arranged into a strip along the bottom of the GIF.

The terrain on Mimas seen here is about 80 degrees to the west of that visible in a previously released movie, which showed the little moon appearing to cross Saturn’s ring plane from Cassini’s vantage point. In that previous movie, the rim of the large impact crater Herschel (130 kilometers, 80 miles wide) was visible as a flattening of the moon’s eastern limb. In the new movie, Herschel is almost at dead center.

Contrast on Janus was mildly enhanced to aid the visibility of its surface. The right side of Mimas appears bright because the moon was partly overexposed in this image sequence.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

spacettf: Lost Lake by Ben Canales on Flickr.

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:04:16 -0400

spacettf:

Lost Lake by Ben Canales on Flickr.

journeyofscience: Z okazji afery zbożowej na wykopie JoS...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:36:13 -0400

journeyofscience:

Z okazji afery zbożowej na wykopie JoS umieszcza zdjęcia pól uprawnych na których zaobserwowano dziwne kręgi. Pikanterii całej sprawie dodaje fakt, że pojawiły się one w okolicach 50 rocznicy powstania agencji NASA.

Bardzo dziś Wesoły Foton

Competing with aliens - for 50 years.

spacettf: DSC_0703Mothia (Sicily) by tango- on Flickr.

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:34:27 -0400

spacettf:

DSC_0703Mothia (Sicily) by tango- on Flickr.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 06:59:24 -0400

thatscienceguy: This is a simulation of a rotating 4...

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:31:44 -0400

thatscienceguy:

This is a simulation of a rotating 4 dimensional Cube, otherwise known as a Tesseract.

What you are seeing is it Rotating. It is not being distorted, reshaped, or anything like that. it is simply Rotating - It appears to be distorted because you are only seeing the ‘projection’ of it. similarly if you rotated a 3D cube infront of lamp the shadow you would see would appear to distort.