Cool/Exciting/Interesting things (probably videos)
Sunset on Pluto.
The backlit photos of Pluto just posted by NASA are fantastic. Some of those features don’t look like mountains at all, but like reptile scales or huge shards of ice pushed up into the sky.
Turns out, you can have too much of a good thing. Like water for instance…drink six liters of water and it can kill you. So can 85 chocolate bars. Or being almost 9 feet tall. Or listening to music at 185 db.
NASA: there’s liquid water on the surface of Mars. Like, right now on Mars, not millions of years ago.
[quote]In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Dr. McEwen and other scientists identified waterlogged molecules – salts of a type known as perchlorates - in readings from orbit.
“That’s a direct detection of water in the form of hydration of salts,” Dr. McEwen said. “There pretty much has to have been liquid water recently present to produce the hydrated salt.”
By “recently,” Dr. McEwen said he meant “days, something of that order.”[/quote]
This is fantastic timing for the release of The Martian movie, which comes out this weekend.
I mean sure, if you ignore the part where your time is worth money. Also doesn’t seem like much of a “hack”?
It’s a fun personalized building project made with cheap Ikea furniture as components. I would have loved to have a secret door as a young kid.
This is a photo of five Secret Service agents bracing themselves against helicopter prop wash. It’s like they’re each individually posing for their own super-boss album cover.
