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Aussie Solar Storm Pic Is Pretty And Informative

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If I recall the saying correctly, “Red sky at night… mean that the sheep are on fire.”. This isn’t a case of burning quadrupeds, though, but a shot taken by NASA near Flinders of Last week’s Solar storm. And it’s not just a good looking shot.

January 27, 2011
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Under Construction

This is The Shard, a skyscraper currently under construction next to the London Bridge, as photographed by Rob Telford. It goes to show that with the right perspective, even an incomplete building can be a thing of beauty.

January 9, 2011
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Were We So Scared Of The Future That Kids Once Dressed In Foil?

This is an awesome picture taken in the early 1900s in America. All the boys are wearing foil for some odd reason. Was foil in style? Was it to protect themselves from an alien invasion? Did it represent the future?

January 5, 2011
Science

I Love Slow-Motion Videos Of Cavorting Wobbly Things

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Science

This Is What Really Happens When A Match Burns

This is what you see when you light up a match and look extremely close at two thousand frames per second. The chemical reactions of the burning phosphorus and gelatin is mesmerising and something that your brain wouldn’t expect.

January 4, 2011
Cameras

This Fighter Is Just Way Too Damn Close

This Dassault Rafale—a 4.5 generation twin-engined delta-wing jet fighter—was flying over Sion Air Base, Switserland, when Niels Boswinkel captured it with his Canon 500D. I don’t know where he’s located but, even with zoom lens, it’s too damn close.

January 2, 2011
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The Burj Khalifa Looked Like The Tallest Christmas Tree In The World On New Years

That’s the Burj Khalifa. For New Years, Dubai had fireworks explode all around the building which sorta made it look like a super electric and ridiculously tall Christmas tree. Other New Year’s celebrations around the world looked just as awesome.

December 31, 2010
Science

What Is This?

My guess: An alien beacon recently discovered at Llano Chajnantor, 16,450-feet high in the Chilean Atacama desert, 50 kilometers to the east of San Pedro de Atacama. In reality, its name is APEX, and it’s a galactic vacuum cleaner.

Entertainment

This Video Cheered Me Up Today—In A Depressing Kind Of Way

I’ve seen other kinetic typography animations in the past, but none of them were as good as this one and none of them were set to such a nice poppy happy tune: Jonathan Coulton’s Shop Vac.

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The Best Image Caches Of The Year

This was a good year to be a photographer. Thievery was thwarted, the Simpsons were spoofed, and suspicious amp stacks were outed. Take a look at our most eye-popping, jaw-dropping, seal-cropping images of 2010!

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