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by Max Eddy | 11:45 am, April 5th
The HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has already shown of its ability to photograph minute details of the Martian surface, even meteorlogical evens like dust devils and spring thaws. The HiRISE camera recently spotted another dust devil spinning across the surface of Mars, but this one dwarfs its predecessor being an incredible twelve miles tall.
Read on...by Eric Limer | 4:40 pm, January 11th
You want to try something really out of this world? Try these planetary chocolates. They let you put space in your stomach. Japanese chocolatiers L’éclat have developed this novel little line of chocolate balls to represent each of the — it pains me to say this — 8 planets in the solar system. Each planet boasts a different flavor loosely based on its appearance. The whole set is roughly $50 dollars, but the chance to make some really good Uranus jokes is priceless. Check out closeups and awkwardly Google-translated flavor descriptions after the jump.
Read on...by Eric Limer | 3:30 pm, August 31st
For a long time, scientists have been questioning how exactly a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way is formed. Now, thanks to super computers and math, they have an idea of at least one of the possibilities. The calculations used to form this computer model were first published in 2010, in an issue of the journal Nature. That, however, was only step one. Knowing the appropriate calculations is a far cry from having a computer calculate them.
In order to acually run the model, researches needed not one, but two super computers, the Cray XT5 “Monte Rosa” at Zurich’s Swiss National Supercomputing Center, and NASA’s Advanced Supercomputer Division’s “Pleiades.” Because the model contains (and individually models) something like 790 solar masses, the program brought even these behemoths to their knees. The simulation took, in total, 8 months. If it had been done your average PC, however, it would have taken over 500 years. All in all, the simulation provides an interesting take on how the formation of a spiral disc galaxy is possible and also makes predictions about aspects of the Milky Way that have yet to be discovered. Pretty wild stuff.
Time lapse video of (a depiction of) the creation of the Milky Way after the jump.
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Max
New Hallmark Card: "I held an extended conversation with you without being able to remember your name" Inside: "I'm sorry."
Eric Limer
To any of you bros who might like to ice me, I encourage you to act on that urge, bro.
Eric Limer
If anyone is looking for some totally garbled, nigh-incomprehensible ad copy, I'm your man.
Eric Limer
What? None of my Facebook friends are on So.cl? How can this be?!
Eric Limer
"Does this mustache look creepy? Experts are blind; can't tell."
Rollin Bishop
Lin Beifong is suddenly one of the best things about Legend of Korra.
James Plafke
I just taught someone what TIL means. There's some kind of poetry to that.
Max
Preparing some mails.
Eric Limer
Walking my sister through the finer points of PS2 emulation as something of a birthday gift.
Max
Whoever just had The Strand pull a copy Of the Prose Edda: We should be Viking nerd friends.
Eric Limer
"That Spacex launch last Saturday was an absolute abortion."
Max
"lily_tomlin_explosion.gif"
Eric Limer
André 300 http://t.co/4HX40AEk
Max
Lowest rating for the Antz soundtrack on http://t.co/l4iFAqyD is three stars and is titled "It did not meet all of my criteria."
Eric Limer
Spotify is great for listening to soundtracks of games with licensed music. There's playlists for everything. Now playing: Guitar Hero 2.
James Plafke
I think the next Bond movie, Skyfall, should be 2 hours of Bond falling through the sky, doing action and spy movie things.
Eric Limer
I swear Xbox Live is never not offering me 2 months of gold for $2. At that price, I kind of don't even mind the dirty, auto-renew trick.
Rollin Bishop
Easily the strangest thing I've seen this weekend. http://t.co/AW7UGSQJ
Max
Pull up a loose tile in fifth avenue, discover a secret world populated by dogs that walk on hind legs and wear little waist coats.
Max
Legally changing my name to The Beachbummer
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