Posts Tagged: space
In Space, No One Can Hear You Cry
Actually, according to this Atlantic blog post, in space, you can’t really cry at all.
...moreAstronauts can, certainly, tear up—they’re human, after all. But in zero gravity, the tears themselves can’t flow downward in the way they do on Earth.
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Department of The Japanese are Better Than Us: polar bear clouds!
Also on the Asian whimsy front, in Thailand you can have food served to you by a samurai robot.
Gerry Canavan has kindly pointed us towards a rad MeFi post on the about to launch new spaceplane!
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Clothing for the discerning clergyman.
Sometimes people are really into typefaces but also have too much free time; those people do things like this.
Hella sweet pictures of astronauts and such (warning: french text).
The BBC is going to talk to you about plankton for a little while.
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Today’s theme is things that are good.
These appeal to me on at least three levels: 1980’s subway photography.
“The primary goal is to change the attitude towards living on a houseboat.”
Seed Magazine on the relationship between Science Fiction and Science.
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I just finished this really interesting article on bionics at National Geographic, but for some reason, the link has gone wonky on me. Head over to the main page and find it–it’s worth the read.
Noctilucent clouds are appearing more often, and does anyone want to guess why?
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Important science news: the universe is delicious!
Need a good hideout? Al Capone’s is for sale.
The American Girl homeless doll is surprisingly expensive. Or maybe not surprisingly, I don’t even know anymore.
On the distance between McDonald’s.
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Space photography gets me every time. Maybe it’s because for the last six years I’ve lived in places where I’m lucky if I see a handful of stars because of all the light pollution, or maybe it’s all the Star Trek I’ve watched over the years, I don’t know, but photos of nebulas and sunspots just do it for me.
...moreA Field Guide To Military Urbanism
“I mean, when you’re forced to smuggle, by sheer necessity of survival, due to forces completely outside of your own control, when the power to decide your own destiny has been taken from you (as a nation), can it really be called smuggling anymore?
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