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Well too bad, you’re about to find out what happens:

(via Russell; via Geekologie)

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Alternatively titled “What Physicists do when High”

(via Today’s Big Thing, via ametallurgist)

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Thierry Legault looks at the Sun so you don’t have to.

His most recent awesome photo:
On May 13th, the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope transited the Sun (passed in front of it). These photos of the transit are the only ones of their kind.

You rock, Thierry.

(via (Roughly) Daily, via Astrophoto.fr)

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Go Team Earth!

Earth Hour – Official Page
Earth Hour – Wikipedia

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On December 11, the Japanese Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (Computational Neuroscience Laboratories) provided the press with these two sets of images. The top set of characters was shown to a test subject, and the bottom set was scanned from the brain of the test subject.

Yes – black and white image snapshots from the human mind.

By using fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging), the ATRI-CNL team was able to map bloodflow patterns in the visual cortex of test subjects. With the aid of software and voodoo, they were able to reconstruct the images “seen” in the mind of the test subjects.
Holy sh!t!

Super-cool technology we can expect to see from this:
• “Dream photography.”
• Witnesses producing mental photographs of perpetrators and crime scenes.
• Communication with the paralyzed/comatose.
• Espionage: photography of sensitive/classified materials from memories.
• Testing “psychic abilities” by photographing “visions.”
• Marketing development: learning what images “stick.”
• Real-to-mind artwork: photographing your artistic vision.

(via Pink Tentacle, via Chunichi)

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The device is apparently an absolute necessity for life on the International Space Station, whose occupancy will double in bladders next year – since we have no other pressing concerns at the moment. On a more serious note, I’m sure there are prospects for this technology to have a huge impact in the developing world, where access to water is a serious concern, but we can only hope that there will not be too many severe blockages to getting this technology downstream.

As for any sneek peeks as to what the technology looks like… no such luck. On the other hand, we’re sure you remember the last time a ton of money was flushed down the toilet on a pee-drinker.

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A few days ago a team from UC Berkeley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Lawrence Livermore Labs, and NASA JPL announced in Science that they have taken a photograph of a planet outside of our own solar system. Though numerous planets outside our solar system have been discovered in recent years, this is a rare example of an extrasolar planet identified through photographs. This planet – between one and a half to three times the mass of Jupiter – orbits the star Fomalhaut (25 light years away) in the constellation Piscis Australis (”The Southern Fish”). The star Fomalhaut is about twice the size of our Sun, but 15 times as bright, glowing bright blue-white. Remarkably, this young star has features similar to our early solar system: it has a large disk of debris surrounding it, serving as a “nursery” for young planets.

Several years ago, scientists noticed that this debris ring has a sharp inner edge (as if something large is shaping the inner edge) and that it is not entirely centered around the star (as if some other mass is pulling the ring slightly off-center). A comparison of photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004 and 2006 revealed an object in orbit around Fomalhaut on the inside of the star’s debris ring – this planet moves at a pace of 872 years for one complete orbit around the star.

This planet is named Fomalhaut b: it’s one and a half to three times the size of Jupiter, it appears to be a giant ball of gas (much like Jupiter or Saturn), and may have a large ring system of its own (and much larger than Saturn’s).

Hubble Website Link

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(via Morgan)

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This is flash freeware, but users have the opportunity to support the game’s designers and try user-created levels. Give it a shot and let us know what vehicles you create!

(Thanks VJ!)

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Comin’ straight outta Geneva…

(via SteveB, via Engadget)

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