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Munsell’s color sphere, 1900. Munsell discovered that if...

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:04:09 -0400

Munsell’s color sphere, 1900.

Munsell discovered that if hue, value, and chroma were to be kept perceptually uniform, achievable surface colors could not be forced into a regular shape.

Giorgio

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:32:08 -0400

Giorgio

Audio

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:46:24 -0400

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:53:35 -0400

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:34:26 -0400

I need to get my head back in the game

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:06:52 -0400

I need to get my head back in the game

"In a computer, everything is recallable all the time, but life is a succession of events that only..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:08:06 -0400

“In a computer, everything is recallable all the time, but life is a succession of events that only happen once.”

- Thomas Bangalter

Hallowed are the Ori

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:10:31 -0400

Hallowed are the Ori

dangerousdays: A gif I made from a bit of video I shot of the...

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:35:39 -0400

dangerousdays:

A gif I made from a bit of video I shot of the Luxor a couple years ago. That building is very Blade Runner.

ucresearch: In 1958, still a decade before the moon landing,...

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:09:35 -0400

ucresearch:

In 1958, still a decade before the moon landing, Engineering made UCLA the first university with an astronautics program. This prototype of a space suit was designed in 1961.

1961 Space Suite Prototype

spaceplasma: Sun Emits Mid-Level Flare A burst of solar...

Fri, 03 May 2013 17:54:40 -0400

spaceplasma:

Sun Emits Mid-Level Flare

A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 pm EDT, just as an M-class solar flare from the same region was subsiding. The images include light from the 131-, 171- and 304-angstrom wavelengths.

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 1:32 pm EDT on May 3, 2013. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. This disrupts the radio signals for as long as the flare is ongoing, and the radio blackout for this flare has already subsided.

This flare is classified as an M5.7-class flare. M-class flares are the weakest flares that can still cause some space weather effects near Earth. Increased numbers of flares are quite common at the moment, as the sun’s normal 11-year activity cycle is ramping up toward solar maximum, which is expected in late 2013.

Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA

beautiful

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Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:40:49 -0400

Gut Microbe Makes Diesel Biofuel: Scientific American

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:38:55 -0400

Gut Microbe Makes Diesel Biofuel: Scientific American

Photo

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:32:45 -0400

I really need to trick out my tumblr theme thing. yeah.

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:24:19 -0400

I really need to trick out my tumblr theme thing. yeah.

martinlkennedy: Tim White’s artwork for Ursula Le Guin’s ‘Left...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:19:04 -0400

martinlkennedy:

Tim White’s artwork for Ursula Le Guin’s ‘Left hand of Darkness’

sunfoundation: Prime Explorer: Exploring Patterns in Prime...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:34:41 -0400

sunfoundation:

Prime Explorer: Exploring Patterns in Prime Number Spatial Layouts

Prime Explorer [bigblueboo.com], developed by a San Francisco-based software company called Mode of Expression, provides an interactive view of all the prime numbers ranging from 1 to 62,500.

sagansense: Mars Terraforming This feat, the “terraforming” of...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:42:56 -0400

sagansense:

Mars Terraforming

This feat, the “terraforming” of Mars from its current lifeless or near-lifeless state to a living, breathing world supporting multitudes of diverse and novel life forms and ecologies, will be one of the greatest and noblest enterprises of the human spirit. No one will be able to contemplate it and not feel prouder to be human.

Life in the initial Mars settlements will be harder than life on Earth for most people, but life in the first North American colonies was much harder than life in Europe as well. People will go to Mars for many of the same reasons they went to colonial America: Because they want to make a mark or a new start, or because they are members of groups who are persecuted on Earth, or because they are members of groups who want to create a society according to their own principles. Many kinds of people will go, with many kinds of skills, but all who will go will be people willing to take a change to do something important with their lives. Out of such people are great projects made and great causes won. Aided by ever-advancing technology, such people can transform a planet and bring a dead world to life.

- Robert Zubrin, Entering Space: Creating A Spacefaring Civilization

Incredible compilation of footage from the Cassini Mission to...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:53:52 -0400

Incredible compilation of footage from the Cassini Mission to Saturn.

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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:49:40 -0400

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