Ricki Lake was an entertaining 90s show….
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10 Brutally Honest Coffee Mugs
We’re sorry if that’s your city on the mug.
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During a solar flare, magnetic field lines on the sun are often visible due to the flow of plasma—charged particles—along the lines. According to theory, these magnetic lines should remain intact, but they are sometimes observed breaking and reconnecting with other lines. An interdisciplinary team of researchers suggests that turbulence may be the missing link. In their magnetohydrodynamic simulation, they found that the presence of chaotic turbulent motions made the magnetic line motion entirely unpredictable, whereas laminar flows behaved according to conventional flux-freezing theory. (Photo credit: NASA SDO; Research credit: G. Eyink et al.; via SpaceRef; submitted by jshoer)
The Engine Burns BlueThis image shows a cutting-edge solar-electric propulsion thruster in development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., that uses xenon ions for propulsion. An earlier version of this solar-electric propulsion engine has been flying on NASA’s Dawn mission to the asteroid belt.
This engine is being considered as part of the Asteroid Initiative, a proposal to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it. This image was taken through a porthole in a vacuum chamber at JPL where the ion engine is being tested.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechI spend half my time at work on ion propulsion so I’m into this NASA image of the day.
I love when Science Fiction becomes just Science.
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Hey everyone, check out my updated cinematography reel!! The updated version contains shots from my thesis project that I wrote/directed/DP’d, as well as a couple other fellow classmates’ projects that I DP’d/Camera Operated for. Hope you enjoy. Comments are welcomed, especially the positive ones - thank you!
my brother’s wicked talented people!!
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Can weed really make you thin? If it can make jam bands seem enjoyable, anything is possible.
Click here to watch Stephen discuss this scientific breakthrough in last night’s installment of Cheating Death.
There’s something wonderfully serene about watching water droplets skate their way across the surface of a pool. Here the pool of water is being vibrated at a frequency just below the Faraday instability - meaning that no standing waves form on the surface. Instead, the bounce is just enough to create a thin layer of air between the droplet and the pool to prevent coalescence. With each bounce, gravity’s effect on the water tries to drain the air away, but each rebound lets more air rush in to hold the droplet up. Eventually, gravity wins and the droplets coalesce into the pool. In high-speed that process is mesmerizing, too. (Video credit: K. Welch)
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Brace yourselves. Real life is coming.