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RE: Science Porn
May 21, 2014 at 3:21 am
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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RE: Science Porn
May 21, 2014 at 6:31 am
They're all fascinating, SC!!!
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RE: Science Porn
May 21, 2014 at 10:20 am
What's going on with the spinning thing?
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RE: Science Porn
May 21, 2014 at 10:47 am
(May 21, 2014 at 10:20 am)Little lunch Wrote: What's going on with the spinning thing?
LEDs that light up in sync with the rotation, so you see a stationary clock, while the LEDs are spinning.
I once saw something like that that you could mount on your bike's wheels and it would display various stuff
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RE: Science Porn
May 21, 2014 at 11:02 am
(May 21, 2014 at 10:20 am)Little lunch Wrote: What's going on with the spinning thing?
It's a collection of 33 LEDs, spinning at 30 revolutions per second, tricking your eyes into thinking there's over 8000 LEDs.
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May 21, 2014 at 3:30 pm
(May 21, 2014 at 3:07 pm)pocaracas Wrote: ![[Image: rule_36caa8_1551888.jpeg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=static.fjcdn.com%2Fpictures%2Frule_36caa8_1551888.jpeg)
This model clearly isn't built to scale. Totally unrealistic.
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RE: Science Porn
May 22, 2014 at 2:45 pm
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RE: Science Porn
May 23, 2014 at 3:10 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2014 at 3:20 am by SteelCurtain.)
Sorry for the lack of imgfit.
Awesome shit cut in half:
![[Image: a-leica-camera-lens-cut-in-half.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=trending.ly%2Fentertainment%2F13-amazing-photos-of-things-cut-in-half%2Fa-leica-camera-lens-cut-in-half%2Fz_hh0G_EzB8YQHdrmDSGqQ%2Fa-leica-camera-lens-cut-in-half.jpg) Leica Lens
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Frag Grenade
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Airplane
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A tree in half to reveal.... a golf ball cut in half.
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RE: Science Porn
May 24, 2014 at 2:48 am
How dogs drink water:
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Wringing out a washcloth in space:
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Explosive Polymerization of p Nitro Aniline:
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