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RE: Science Porn
January 21, 2015 at 10:32 am
I fucking love cilantro. So glad I'm not a SNP mutant.
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RE: Science Porn
January 22, 2015 at 3:29 am
(January 21, 2015 at 7:56 am)Exian Wrote: This lacks the instant satisfaction of science porn, but Playboy had articles.
Here's why you hate cilantro:
http://reasoniamhere.com/2013/09/24/why-...1_38919717
ETA: Even though I think it tastes like soap, it has grown on me.
Same here. Soap, but I can get used to soap, especially since my wife loves it. That opens the door for some fun mendelian genetics, too.
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RE: Science Porn
January 30, 2015 at 2:50 pm
![[Image: PFlatLaunch_compositeJan26_0800.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=apod.nasa.gov%2Fapod%2Fimage%2F1501%2FPFlatLaunch_compositeJan26_0800.jpg)
apod Wrote:Explanation: Four NASA suborbital sounding rockets leapt into the night on January 26, from the University of Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range. This time lapse composite image follows all four launches of the small, multi-stage rockets to explore winter's mesmerizing, aurora-filled skies. During the exposures, stars trailed around the North Celestial Pole, high above the horizon at the site 30 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Lidar, beams of pulsed green lasers, also left traces through the scene. Operating successfully, the payloads lofted were two Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere Turbulence Experiments (M-TeX) and two Mesospheric Inversion-layer Stratified Turbulence (MIST) experiments, creating vapor trails at high altitudes to be tracked by ground-based observations.
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January 30, 2015 at 3:35 pm
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Love it. The whole composition with the snowy landscape and the aurorae.
Though it reminds me of something else. Let's see whether you know what it is:
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January 30, 2015 at 4:49 pm
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(January 30, 2015 at 3:35 pm)Alex K Wrote: Though it reminds me of something else. Let's see whether you know what it is: Looks like a MIRV time lapse. Not sure, though. I saw a Poseidon MIRV capabilities exercise off the coast of Camp LeJeune that reminded me of this.
What is it?
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January 30, 2015 at 4:55 pm
Yes, it is a Mirv, long exposure...
Terrifying beauty..
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January 30, 2015 at 4:58 pm
What?!!?!
That's crazy. But I could only think of two things --- weapon, and Pink Floyd. I figured Roger Waters doesn't have that kind of reach...
Alex K Wrote:Terrifying beauty.. Well said. When I saw it the lasers were sequential, and it was mesmerizing. I could only imagine a person being transfixed by that eerie glow from above before the oblivion that followed.
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January 30, 2015 at 7:36 pm
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January 30, 2015 at 8:36 pm
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It was a Capabilities exercise (CAPEX). I am sitting on a pier in fatigues with Admirals, Commodores, and Commandants from Navies and Marine Corps all over the world, and the US Navy basically flopped its big dick on the beach to scare everyone. There was a Amphib, a cruiser, and a boomer, I believe it was the USS Pennsylvania, off the coast of North Carolina. They launched a fake amphibious assault on the beach. LCACs were bringing Abrams tanks ashore, gators were hitting the beach, Harriers and Hornets were "dropping" bombs (read: triggering explosives on the beach), the USS Cape St. George was sending 5" projectiles overhead onto the bomb range on Camp LeJeune. It was a sight to behold.
When all was said and done, the Pennsylvania birthed a Trident missile into the dusk and about 3 minutes later you just see 10 lightning bolts hit the ocean (with much fanfare) in pretty rapid succession. It was awesome in the most base sense.
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RE: Science Porn
January 30, 2015 at 10:56 pm
Hell, I saw one B2 bomber coming in to land at Offutt AFB and I almost wrecked my car.
Creepy looking unnatural preversion of an airplane that thing is !!!
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