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Post by rstevenson » Sun Dec 15, 2013 12:50 pm

Beyond wrote:Hydrogen squeezed from stone could be new energy source.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25349983
Interesting, but it's a little difficult to imagine scalling up to industrial size a process that requires 2,000 atmospheres of pressure.

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Post by Beyond » Fri Dec 20, 2013 2:51 pm

The incredible physics of ants.
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Post by Beyond » Tue Dec 24, 2013 3:59 am

Zebra stripes mystery 'explained'.
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Post by geckzilla » Sat Dec 28, 2013 12:15 am

Scroll through some photos of opiliones. We had the plain "daddy long legs" ones all around my house in California, which I used to catch often and try my hardest not to have the legs come off but they still would anyway. Of course, many of these are a lot fancier!
http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/mndi/A ... iones.html
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Post by Beyond » Sat Dec 28, 2013 3:58 am

GADZOOKS :!: All those unpronounceable names that I'll never remember. But there was one with red legs with black joints, that has a yellow body that reminds me of a smilie. :ssmile:
And three below that one, there's a big red one that makes me think of Jabba the Hut. :lol2:
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Post by Ann » Sat Dec 28, 2013 8:30 am

I like the zebra stripe article, Beyond. Thanks.

Now I'm just waiting for an explanation to why penguins wear white ties and tails!

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Post by Beyond » Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:00 am

Because that's all they have :?: :yes:
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Post by Ann » Tue Dec 31, 2013 3:20 pm

What happens when you throw a dice? Well, you can get a six, or a five, or a four, or a three, or a two, or a one. Or the dice, or at least the cube, or at least the Cubli, can stand on its edge, or on its corner, or walk away from you. Look at this!
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Post by Beyond » Tue Dec 31, 2013 5:35 pm

Why, that's sort of better than a slinky :!: :yes: :thumb_up: 8-)
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Post by geckzilla » Sat Jan 11, 2014 5:13 pm

Picture of me in front of a life-size model of my favorite telescope at the Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. :mrgreen:
I thought it was funny that the baffle at the top was shut. They never shut the real one!
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Post by neufer » Sat Jan 11, 2014 9:41 pm

geckzilla wrote:
Picture of me in front of a life-size model of my favorite telescope at the Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. :mrgreen:
I thought it was funny that the baffle at the top was shut. They never shut the real one!

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Emily Dickinson (1830-86). Complete Poems. 1924.
Part Four: Time and Eternity

So I must baffle at the hint
And cipher at the sign,
And make much blunder, if at last
I take the clew divine.

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From The Secrets of the Tarot , by Barbara Walker;

12. The Hanged Man: Hanging from a gallows by one foot
was a medieval custom known as "baffling." . . . .

<<The female World figure on the last trump showed the same pose right
side up as the Hanged Man upside down: one foot bent behind the other
knee, so the legs form a triangle.... suggestive [of] the Egyptian
hieroglyph of a stick figure with legs arranged in this same design.
As a verb, this hieroglyph meant "to dance." As a noun, it meant the
AB or "heart soul," the most important of an Egyptian's seven souls:
the one given by the mother's blood, the one that would be
weighted in the balances in the underworld of Maat.....

Normally a disgraceful punishment (like crucifixion), baffling seems
to have been used by secret sects as a step toward mystic initiation.
A person hanging upside down for any extended time becomes
acutely conscious of his own heartbeat, for it throbs its ceaseless
"I am, I am, I am" through the pulse beating in his head.>>
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Post by Beyond » Sat Jan 11, 2014 9:46 pm

neufer wrote:A person hanging upside down for any extended time becomes
acutely conscious of his own heartbeat, for it throbs its ceaseless
"I am, I am, I am" through the pulse beating in his head.
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Post by geckzilla » Sun Jan 12, 2014 2:45 am

:lol2: Maybe hanging yourself upside down could stretch out your legs. Alternatively, you can just sloppily use Photoshop and end up with a super distorted photo of yourself.
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Post by Beyond » Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:53 am

The only difference that i can see, is that 'normal' you looks closer than 'abnormal' you. But then, I'm not used to processing pictures like you are, so there's probably lots of things that i wouldn't give a first thought to, never mind a second thought.
Oh, wait... the door on the right is more vertical. There... i noticed something, which is amazing considering it's midnight. :yes:
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Post by geckzilla » Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:14 am

Photoshop's photomerger automatically stitched together the panorama in the first one and stretched me out all silly-like, making me look reeeally tall and out of proportion. The truth is that I'm pretty short.
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Post by Beyond » Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:34 am

I can't tell if you're short or not, as i only have the door on the right to go by, but it's too far behind you to have any meaning as to your height.
Maybe it would have helped if whomever took the picture stood where you stood, for a comparison.
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Post by Beyond » Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:11 pm

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Post by Beyond » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:41 pm

Poor chicken :!: :!:
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Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:46 pm

What came first? The egg or the egg in the egg? :?:
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Post by geckzilla » Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:22 pm

Yeah, let's not believe everything we read on Coast to Coast. Coincidentally, RJN was on it last night talking about time travel.
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Post by Beyond » Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:50 pm

How to make a smoke waterfall.
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Post by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Thu Jan 30, 2014 6:46 pm

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Sci Am aslo had an article this month - The Liquid Rope Trick
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Post by BMAONE23 » Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:23 pm

Visualization of Polar Vortex From the National Journal includes an interactive version (IE9 or better)
Cool gif, but it's four million bytes.
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