Hail Fenrir! Let Ragnorak begin! Death to Odin!

Aug. 21st, 2017 03:14 pm
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*looks outside and sees the sun is still there*

Oh well, the world will end soon enough. :-p  Just as seriously though NASA TV did a good job covering the eclipse. I just wish I was able to get some glasses to view it directly and that I could have gotten at least a couple of decent pics. Oh well. Can't have everything. :-)
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Incredible. I literally cannot wrap my mind around this

May. 28th, 2016 11:30 pm
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Its just a video showing a size comparison of the universe but its so mind warpingly beautiful.

What can I say? I'm a nerd who finds this stuff fascinating.


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Best cover version of a David Bowie song EVER.

May. 13th, 2013 05:45 am
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This video just underscores the fact we should be throwing our resources into these projects, instead of wrecking our environment and figuring out better and more ingenious ways to exploit and kill each other.  Forty some years after going to the moon this type of video really shouldn't be extraordinary, it should be common place.

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  • Current Music: "Space Oddity" - Chris Hadfield
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For all my space loving friends out there

Jan. 29th, 2013 11:38 am
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I found this on the BBC's website and thought the final quote to be rather poetic and beautiful:

"You've now reached the outer edges of our own solar system, a distance of more than 21 billion kilometres. It would take you 22 million years of continuous scrolling on this scale to get to the farthest regions of the observable Universe, another 435 sextillion kilometers (435 followed by 21 zeros, or 46 billion light years) away. We think we'll stop here. Live long and prosper."

If interested the link is here. It makes for some fascinating scrolling.   http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120321-how-big-is-space
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Proof that many times science fiction becomes science fact

Aug. 21st, 2012 04:41 am
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The Curiousity Rover has drilled holes in Martian rocks with its laser. Somewhere I think H.G. Wells is laughing his ass off, if only because the invasion went the other way.

:-)
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Proof that many times science fiction becomes science fact

Aug. 21st, 2012 04:41 am
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The Curiousity Rover has drilled holes in Martian rocks with its laser. Somewhere I think H.G. Wells is laughing his ass off, if only because the invasion went the other way.

:-)
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Wasps of unusual side

Aug. 26th, 2011 10:14 pm
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From the article:

"Its jaws are so large that they wrap up either side of the head when closed. When the jaws are open they are actually longer than the male's front legs. I don't know how it can walk," noted Kimsey, who is also director at the Bohart Museum of Entomology.

Sweet Jesus! I don't know how the hell it would walk either, but its cool, in an awesomely terrifying sort of way.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/giant-warrior-wasp-discovered-with-jaws-longer-than-its-legs?hpt=hp_bn11


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  • Current Music: The theme from "Jaws" seems appropriate right now
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Wasps of unusual side

Aug. 26th, 2011 10:14 pm
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From the article:

"Its jaws are so large that they wrap up either side of the head when closed. When the jaws are open they are actually longer than the male's front legs. I don't know how it can walk," noted Kimsey, who is also director at the Bohart Museum of Entomology.

Sweet Jesus! I don't know how the hell it would walk either, but its cool, in an awesomely terrifying sort of way.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/giant-warrior-wasp-discovered-with-jaws-longer-than-its-legs?hpt=hp_bn11


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Wasps of unusual side

Aug. 26th, 2011 10:14 pm
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From the article:

"Its jaws are so large that they wrap up either side of the head when closed. When the jaws are open they are actually longer than the male's front legs. I don't know how it can walk," noted Kimsey, who is also director at the Bohart Museum of Entomology.

Sweet Jesus! I don't know how the hell it would walk either, but its cool, in an awesomely terrifying sort of way.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/giant-warrior-wasp-discovered-with-jaws-longer-than-its-legs?hpt=hp_bn11


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I remember reading somewhere that Russian torpedo fuel makes good hooch, so this sorta makes sense.

Jan. 8th, 2011 04:52 am
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Remember those alcoholic energy drinks that are supposedly too dangerous for human consumption? Well apparently some enterprising people have decided that "blackout in a can" need only apply to the nervous system of the average college student, not the power grid. Apparently there are plans afoot to convert them into ethanol to run bio-fuel based cars.

Isn't science wonderful? Here's the text of the article:

Outlawed Four Loko drink could be turned into ethanol fuel

The famously outlawed Four Loko alcoholic energy drink could be turned into ethanol fuel according to a report by the Associated Press.
 
The drink was deemed too dangerous for public consumption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As a result, thousands upon thousands of cans of the stuff are going to waste.
 
The good news though is that they can be recycled into ethanol which could be used to power cars. A spokesman for one of the ethanol recycling facilities said they could process up to four trucks, or 8,000 cases per day. Four Loko isn't the only drink of its kind that has been outlawed, so we could see this program go on for several months.
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I remember reading somewhere that Russian torpedo fuel makes good hooch, so this sorta makes sense.

Jan. 8th, 2011 04:52 am
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Remember those alcoholic energy drinks that are supposedly too dangerous for human consumption? Well apparently some enterprising people have decided that "blackout in a can" need only apply to the nervous system of the average college student, not the power grid. Apparently there are plans afoot to convert them into ethanol to run bio-fuel based cars.

Isn't science wonderful? Here's the text of the article:

Outlawed Four Loko drink could be turned into ethanol fuel

The famously outlawed Four Loko alcoholic energy drink could be turned into ethanol fuel according to a report by the Associated Press.
 
The drink was deemed too dangerous for public consumption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As a result, thousands upon thousands of cans of the stuff are going to waste.
 
The good news though is that they can be recycled into ethanol which could be used to power cars. A spokesman for one of the ethanol recycling facilities said they could process up to four trucks, or 8,000 cases per day. Four Loko isn't the only drink of its kind that has been outlawed, so we could see this program go on for several months.
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I remember reading somewhere that Russian torpedo fuel makes good hooch, so this sorta makes sense.

Jan. 8th, 2011 04:52 am
snowywolfowl: (Default)

Remember those alcoholic energy drinks that are supposedly too dangerous for human consumption? Well apparently some enterprising people have decided that "blackout in a can" need only apply to the nervous system of the average college student, not the power grid. Apparently there are plans afoot to convert them into ethanol to run bio-fuel based cars.

Isn't science wonderful? Here's the text of the article:

Outlawed Four Loko drink could be turned into ethanol fuel

The famously outlawed Four Loko alcoholic energy drink could be turned into ethanol fuel according to a report by the Associated Press.
 
The drink was deemed too dangerous for public consumption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As a result, thousands upon thousands of cans of the stuff are going to waste.
 
The good news though is that they can be recycled into ethanol which could be used to power cars. A spokesman for one of the ethanol recycling facilities said they could process up to four trucks, or 8,000 cases per day. Four Loko isn't the only drink of its kind that has been outlawed, so we could see this program go on for several months.
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