Cool Science thread

[Game Over]

https://twitter.com/dmataconis/statu...35164918116353

Can't figure out how to imbed this pic...

[NoPostholio]

[NoPostholio]

got mixed hazy clouds here...

Nice shots -

[huckbucket]

There you go. Flowing water on mars.



Will necessitate spacecraft with a rack for the float.

[TomCrac]

Nice shots -

Thanks. Not bad considering I just took my cell phone and held it up to my telescope

[From_the_NEK]

Not sure how many of you go into the Photography forum so I'll cross post this here:

Here in the northeastern US, the lunar eclipse occurred rather high in the sky, so it was difficult to find something interesting to put in the foreground. The tallest things around here are churches so I went to see what I could find.

Blood Moon St Elizabeth Steeple by Tim_NEK, on Flickr

SUPER BLOOD MOON _totallity by Tim_NEK, on Flickr

Blood Moon and Baptist Church by Tim_NEK, on Flickr

Not too often that you can get a shot of the Milky Way during a full moon:
Blood Moon and the Milky Way by Tim_NEK, on Flickr

[NoPostholio]

^^^was hoping someone on here would catch some nice pro shots - excellent, esp that milky way one.

[Timberridge]

Beautiful shots, as always, NEK

[old goat]

It was cloudy here last night, but a few years back standing at the Rainbow Bridge overlook you could see a full lunar eclipse in one direction and a comet in the eastern sky with Donner Lake in the foreground. The comet was as long in the sky as Donner Lake was wide.

[From_the_NEK]

^^^was hoping someone on here would catch some nice pro shots - excellent, esp that milky way one.

Thanks! I knew there would be tons of pictures of the just the eclipsed moon coming out from last night so I was aiming to find some opportunities to photograph the event in a unique way.

[TomCrac]

Love the shot with the Milky Way!

[Dantheman]

I wish these guys the best. If it works as advertised I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...entury-shaving

[iceman]

I wish these guys the best. If it works as advertised I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...entury-shaving

Cool. But from the FAQ: "Why do you all have beards?"

ha. good question.

[Dantheman]

People seem to be making a big deal out of that, but I fail to see how having a beard prevents you from seeing the metric fuckload of money that could potentially be made selling a better razor. Hell, you could sell them exclusively to women and still make a killing. One thing is for sure, they've absolutely crushed their funding goal.

[iceman]

I just thought it was funny. Who cares if they have beards?

[Dantheman]

Who cares if they have beards?

You would think, but here's a sampling from the CNET article comments. People are dumb.

People with beards trying to convince me of their supreme beard fighting technology makes me a little uncomfortable I must say.

These guys all have pretty banged up beards for a innovative razor company. just saying

You'd think they'd all be completely clean shaven or at least have a manicured look to show how well the tech works.

Every person on the screen had a beard or stubble... doesn't really give me any confidence in the product yet.

[evasive_MT]

Just because they have facial hair doesn't mean they aren't shaving.

[mud]

There you go. Flowing water on mars.



Will necessitate spacecraft with a rack for the float.

Pretty informative AMA from the scientists at NASA.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/commen...nything_about/

[sb]

Not sure how many of you go into the Photography forum so I'll cross post this here:

Here in the northeastern US, the lunar eclipse occurred rather high in the sky, so it was difficult to find something interesting to put in the foreground. The tallest things around here are churches so I went to see what I could find.

Blood Moon St Elizabeth Steeple by Tim_NEK, on Flickr

SUPER BLOOD MOON _totallity by Tim_NEK, on Flickr

Blood Moon and Baptist Church by Tim_NEK, on Flickr

Not too often that you can get a shot of the Milky Way during a full moon:
Blood Moon and the Milky Way by Tim_NEK, on Flickr

Nioce

[Ernest_Hemingway]

I do not know if this is science, young man. But today I saw a candle for sale that was "Cowboy" scented.

I have no idea how the manufacturer managed to get the smells of dour alcoholism, being broke, chewing tobacco, and punching a woman in the face for not doing the dishes, all in the same jar of wax.

[iceman]

Maybe there's little bits of ground-up cowboy in there.

[huckbucket]

Maybe there's little bits of ground-up cowboy in there.

" ... so you know it's good"


(oh wait, that's another Anchorman reference)

[huckbucket]

Pretty informative AMA from the scientists at NASA.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/commen...nything_about/

I think it's pretty cool those NASA dudes answered questions on reddit. There was some gold on that page.

[Viva]

For the bird brains out there:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150...hat-fear-death

[Harry]

This is interesting....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...aborative_1_na