I neglected to post this a couple of days ago. @Astro_Wheels tweets from 173 miles above and, as you can see, has an amazing vantage point to capture awesome images of our planet and its systems.
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Science
My Name Is Earl
Updated – What Is It?
Do you know what this thing is? (click to biggify) 5 points to the first person that knows. **Nice work, Merry! It is indeed an oarfish; a species I didn’t know existed until recently. There are many legends about sea serpents and other beasts; I wonder if the oarfish helped contribute to the myths....
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Firenado
Dust devil has never been a more appropriate term: (h/t: Bad Astronomy) Before humankind knew about heat and wind and convection and whatever else is related to crazy weathery things, it’s interesting to think about what people thought they were seeing when they saw things like this. It’s no surprise that stories of fire-breathing...
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Weren’t Looking Up Last Week?
Here’s what you missed: Joshua Tree Under the Milky Way from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo. The geography of Joshua Tree combined with the Perseids is absolute magic.
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Garbage = Oil
Apparently, a man has invented a portable machine that turns plastic garbage into burnable oil. If this works as it seems, this could be huge! And if we still feel that we need to collect our oil from the ocean, with this technology we can start with The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. //I realize...
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This Is Your Congress
I guess not wanting to be outdone by Senator Ihofe — who fancies the “science” of Michael Crichton over NOAA — Congressman Steve King has decided to share his wisdom on climate change as well: So whether it’s the Chinese seeding clouds, whether it’s some of the industrialized nations in the world trying to...
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Cloud Serpent
Creating a striking design which looks a bit like a serpent swimming through clouds, curling patterns of eddies are formed as air flows around and over the island of Tristan de Cunha in the South Atlantic. This image was captured by MODIS on the Terra satellite on July 14, 2010. (MODIS) NASA’s MODIS (Moderate...
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It’s 2010, Where’s My Flying Car? Here You Go.
While it might make headlines as a flying car, to me it seems more like a plane that can also drive on roads. The company Terrafugia, based in Woburn, Mass., says it plans to deliver its car-plane, the Transition, to customers by the end of 2011. It recently cleared a major hurdle when the...
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Starry Night (About As Starry As It Gets)
Accomplished astrophotographer Stéphane Guisard has just published a new photo. (click image to biggify) Read Phil Plait’s explanation of the image and check out Stéphane Guisard’s other images as well.
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