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[doberman-08]

nice to see the light at the end of the tunnel Bill _b

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http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11vsFootball.gif

[bigROBOTbill]

Oh and I think Churchill is more of an artist, looks like Adolf was a good copiest, ie he can draw well enough but puts no personality into it.

I like this concept, it will be cool to have something like this to fit over our mobility scooters in the future (the near future for some of us)

[doberman-08]

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Great Ball of Fire

On August 1, 2010, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. This image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory of the news-making solar event on August 1 shows the C3-class solar flare (white area on upper left), a solar tsunami (wave-like structure, upper right), multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale shaking of the solar corona, radio bursts, a coronal mass ejection and more.

This multi-wavelength extreme ultraviolet snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the sun's northern hemisphere in mid-eruption. Different colors in the image represent different gas temperatures. Earth's magnetic field is still reverberating from the solar flare impact on August 3, 2010, which sparked aurorae as far south as Wisconsin and Iowa in the United States. Analysts believe a second solar flare is following behind the first flare and could re-energize the fading geomagnetic storm and spark a new round of Northern Lights.

Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1732.html

[Dr Woomanchu]

The creative process

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[frankytanky]

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Is it right to feel queezy after watching that. That poor poor man.

[Emrico1]

^go to Tatapouri in Gisborne and you can hand feed beasts like that. There is one like that, that swims up to you when you are snorkelling. Scary fucker.

[Ngati_Grim]

http://io9.com/5602078/behold-the-best-amateur-space-pictures-of-the-year/gallery/

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One of the 'hottest' places in the World, right now!

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52412

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Russia-accuses-US-of-breaching-non-proliferation-obligations/657611/

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Interesting times.

[doberman-08]

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[doberman-08]

The human race must look to outer space within the next century or it will become extinct, Professor Stephen Hawking has warned. The renowned astrophysicist said he fears mankind is in great danger and its future "must be in space" if it is to survive.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7935505/Stephen-Hawking-mankind-must-move-to-outer-space-within-a-century.html

[Ngati_Grim]

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[Dr Woomanchu]

I been saying for 30 years, unless and until we stop being dependent on a sole biosphere we are doomed to extinction. Guaranteed.

[mattnz]

Fuckin Hawking stealing your ideas Woohoo! Spose it's cause he's always online.

[Dr Woomanchu]

I've been emailing that bitch for fuckin years to send me the Nobel that is rightfully mine

[mattnz]

He's got no excuse not to answer your emails tbh

[EskemoJoe]

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[doberman-08]

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NASA scientists are readying to begin an intense, six-week research investigation into how hurricanes – like Isabel in 2003, pictured here – form and how the often rapidly intensify. This hurricane image was captured on Sept. 14, 2003 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite. Image credit: NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/missions/grip/news/grip-quest.html

[doberman-08]

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Planets Align for the Perseid Meteor Shower
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/05aug_perseids/

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American Psychosis

What happens to a society that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion?

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https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/90/hedges-american-psychosis.html

The United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires, is a country entranced by illusions. It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd. It is captivated by the hollow stagecraft of celebrity culture as the walls crumble. This celebrity culture giddily licenses a dark voyeurism into other people’s humiliation, pain, weakness and betrayal. Day after day, one lurid saga after another, whether it is Michael Jackson, Britney Spears or John Edwards, enthralls the country … despite bank collapses, wars, mounting poverty or the criminality of its financial class.

[Emrico1]

^"This is boring, uninformative, and uses all sorts of accusatory language. This piece is obviously meant for people who agree with you, and to help them feel better about themselves"
 

[bigROBOTbill]

Cool as calculators

http://robbreport.com/Electronics/Math-from-the-Past

[doberman-08]

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'Island Universe' in the Coma Cluster

A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies, which lies 320 million light- years away in the northern constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy, known as NGC 4911, contains rich lanes of dust and gas near its center. These are silhouetted against glowing newborn star clusters and iridescent pink clouds of hydrogen, the existence of which indicates ongoing star formation. Hubble has also captured the outer spiral arms of NGC 4911, along with thousands of other galaxies of varying sizes. The high resolution of Hubble's cameras, paired with considerably long exposures, made it possible to observe these faint details.

This natural-color Hubble image, which combines data obtained in 2006, 2007, and 2009 from the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys, required 28 hours of exposure time.

Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1739.html