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    I thought I'd start a thread on random interesting and unique articles that me or anyone on this site comes across from any website. My main source is "I F**king Love Science" from Facebook (Please excuse the profanity as they have another page "Science is Awesome: https://www.facebook.com/ScienceIsSeriouslyAwesome). Anyways I love reading article about the universe, science, technology, earth and pretty much everything in between. Please share and I will post as much as I can. Thank you.

    https://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience

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    I read their stuff too.

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    This is a phylogenetic tree of life. This shows were humans are on this scale and it is pretty amazing.

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    For the entire image click here: http://www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/antisense/tree.pdf (The image does sharpen up as you zoom in)

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    Here is a pretty cool fact sheet of what Nasa has invented and came up with over the years.

    wtfnasa? **Warning there is profanity in this!**

    Here is a friendlier version: What the NASA?

    For anyone doubting what Nasa has done for us, I encourage you to take a few moments looking at some of these.

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    What should you be afraid of? Check some of these facts out.

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    Here is the image page: http://kusleika.com/breakfast/wp-con...2/beafraid.jpg

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    Here is a really cool plant called the Large Flying Duck Orchid. It is located in Australia and is a carnivorous plant. Very neat and unusual.

    Caleana major - Large Duck Orchid

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    Here's some crazy road rage if I haven't seen it before.

    Road Rage - It's Not Just For Americans Anymore: Video

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    Well, Christmas is over so I'll go ahead and post this without crushing the Christmas Spirit. lol


    Is there a Santa Claus?

    No known species of reindeer can fly. However, there are hundreds of thousands, even millions of species of living organisms yet to be classified. While most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

    There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. Since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish & Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

    Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with. This is due to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits/second.

    This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has .001 seconds to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.

    Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles/household, a total trip of 75.5 million miles; not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once ever 31 hours, plus feeding etc.

    So Santa's sleigh must be moving at 650 miles/second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on the earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second. A conventional reindeer can run, TOPS, 15 miles/hour.

    The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-size Lego set (2 lb.); the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 lbs. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see above) could pull 10 TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with 8, or even 9 reindeer. We need 214,200. This increases the payload - not counting the weight of the sleigh to 353,430 tons. This is four times the weight of the ocean-liner Queen Elizabeth!!!

    353,00 tons traveling at 650 miles/second creates enormous air resistance. This will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy!!! Per second!!! Each!!! In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within .00426th of a second. Meanwhile, Santa will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity, A 250 lb Santa (seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of this sleigh by 4,315,015 lbs. of force.

    Therefore, if Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve ... he's dead now.

    Merry Christmas!
    -I F***ing Love Science

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    Do we have any avid divers on this board? If so check out this amazingly clear lake in Austria. It is even better in the Spring.
    Oh and if anyone has been, please let me know as I will go do this one day myself.

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    Make sure you check out all the pictures on this link!!!! Just absolutely stunning! Green lake in Austria | Vieweird


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    Suffer from Ornithophobia(fear of birds and yeeeeeeees I used Wikipedia for that one )? Then this isn't for you. Here was a photo taken in OKC in the OU Medical Center.

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    Credit: News 9 and Nicole Spencer

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    Have a look at this beetle and his "friends".

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    Here is a group of pictures of our wonderful and beautiful planet taken over the years.

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    Pale Blue Dot based from Carl Sagan

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    Pale Blue Dot based from Carl Sagan



    A visual response to Carl Sagan's famed 'Pale Blue Dot' monologue, where he muses on our planet's appearance in a photograph taken by the Voyager 1 space probe. The most distant photograph ever taken of Earth.

    This was a free-time project, designed and created in After Effects with extensive sound work created to sit along side the music from Cosmos and spoken word from Sagan. I had wanted to bring visuals to Sagan's words for some time and finished this after working on it periodically over the last 3 months.
    Thanks for taking the time to view.
    Pale Blue Dot on Vimeo

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    This is how far our radio broadcast have extended out into our galaxy.

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    Talk about innovation. Attics aren't just for storing old boxes and what not. lolz

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    Quote Originally Posted by Plutonic Panda View Post
    This is how far our radio broadcast have extended out into our galaxy.

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    I know its a rather small region, but, question...just the blue dot or the square area? I'm guessing just the blue dot and that that dot itself represents 200 light years. Pretty amazing and it's gonna be at least a thousand years before they find our signal. Lot of area to deal with.

    This thread reminds me of StumbleUpon. Great app where you can choose to read or view pics of all different types of subjects and my choices tend to be what yours are.

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    http://youtu.be/K9YskjYoyNc <----IDK how to post videos on our site so follow this link.

    Love this video. It's the longer one, but makes you feel really small!

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    Quote Originally Posted by OKCisOK4me View Post
    The Biggest Stars In The Universe - YouTube <----IDK how to post videos on our site so follow this link.

    Love this video. It's the longer one, but makes you feel really small!
    Wow. It is just mind blowing thinking what's out there and how big our universe(possibly multiverse as I am a believer in that theory) truly is.

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