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Retinal Orgasm – NASA’s Releases of the Lagoon Nebula
Oh my goodness, watch this:
The Lagoon Nebula. Media server folks, want some amazing content? Holy crap.
This is incredible imagery. From the Hubble site:
At the...
The Daily Lamp – Dror Caspi and HELIA, Ardoma Design
These things are made of concrete. Concrete shade-style fixtures... the manufacturer includes two materials, concrete and metal fittings. Let's just say you're ordering the extra-strength...
The Daily Lamp – RLON’s L3 Lamp
It's been a long time since I've been able to look at non-entertainment fixtures, but...
Overunity Systems, Perpetual Motion, Zero Point Energy
What is this nonsense? Breaking the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You are CRAZY, JimOnLight! You nutjob, those are LAWS!
HELIOS is the US Navy’s New Laser Weapon
The personification of the sun... a laser that can knock a drone dead out of the sky, somewhere between 60kW and 150kW. That's tremendous.
Wires Above Cities, Then and Now
Before we had rat nests of death in the air through cities across the world, we had beautiful rat nests of death across the air in our cities. Notice the difference?
Event Horizon Telescope – Capture the Edge of Light
Imagine something so powerful that not even light can escape -- and then imagine that we have no way to see it, because not even light can escape it.
Argentinian Dude Photographs Exploding Star
Thanks to Victor Buso, we now have photographs of the supernova explosion in the spiral galaxy NGC 613 -- a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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