Science Porn

[SteelCurtain]

Captured one night last May this eight frame mosaic starts on the left, down Northside Drive through Yosemite National Park. It ends thousands of light-years away though, as the arc of the Milky Way tracks toward the center of our galaxy on the right, far beyond the park's rugged skyline. That night was still moonless when the storm clouds retreated, so the rocky faces of the surrounding mountains are lit by campfires and artifical lights. Yosemite Falls is at the left. The granite face of Half Dome juts above the far horizon, near the center of the view. The remarkable flash above it is a bright meteor. Part of the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower the colorful streak is moving up, its trail pointing directly back to the shower's radiant, low in Aquarius. This year's Eta Aquarids should peak in the moonless early morning hours of May 6 as the Earth sweeps through dust from the tail of Comet Halley.

[Rahul]

"Ethiopian Welo Opal New gem found looks like the ocean in rock."

Want want want want want want want want want losing oxygen to the brain want want want want wa......

You a rock hound? I want it more!

[LostLocke]

You a rock hound? I want it more!

Not in the slightest. I don't really care at all about rocks.
But this one...... different story.

[Zen Badger]

Not my caption, Aractus. But I suppose that is the next evolution of the cell tower. Whatever company makes that happen will be golden.

This is happening people. It's going to be mine own little Science Porn thread.

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"Ethiopian Welo Opal New gem found looks like the ocean in rock."

Looks more like the pillars of creation in the eagle nebula.

[SteelCurtain]

Literally a Periodic Table...

[My imaginary friend is GOD]

I want that thing! OMG PLZ PLZ PLZ I WANT I WANT!

[Coffee Jesus]

Captured one night last May this eight frame mosaic starts on the left, down Northside Drive through Yosemite National Park. It ends thousands of light-years away though, as the arc of the Milky Way tracks toward the center of our galaxy on the right, far beyond the park's rugged skyline. That night was still moonless when the storm clouds retreated, so the rocky faces of the surrounding mountains are lit by campfires and artifical lights. Yosemite Falls is at the left. The granite face of Half Dome juts above the far horizon, near the center of the view. The remarkable flash above it is a bright meteor. Part of the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower the colorful streak is moving up, its trail pointing directly back to the shower's radiant, low in Aquarius. This year's Eta Aquarids should peak in the moonless early morning hours of May 6 as the Earth sweeps through dust from the tail of Comet Halley.

I'm feeling kind of bizarre and disturbed at the moment, and this photo made me feel good.

[SteelCurtain]

"Oh noes. I got water on my laptop!"

[The Valkyrie]

And here I was, expecting to see girls in lab coats inserting microscopes and test tubes into... places.

Tres disappointment.

When I was in highschool a girl had fun with a test tube when there was no one around.

Until it broke . . .

hock:

[Bad Writer]