Cool Pictures IV: The Awesomeness is Volatile

[Tee Kay]

The cruelty to animals thread is over there -->

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Haven't posted a while, so have some laser beams aimed at the sky.

Very Large Telescope, Chile.

Keck-2 Telescope, Hawaii.

Allgäu Public Observatory, Germany.

 

[madviking]

edit nvm

 

[gangleri2001]

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Oh no, it couldn't be that women find facial less attractive, it's just that they can't handle it because they are weak. Chart's rather overzealous of the value of beards.

Anyway, with Voyager 1 crossing the boundary of the solar system (heliosphere), it's a nice opportunity also to demonstrate the self-correcting nature of scientific inquiry.

At first, the Sun's heliosphere was assumed to have a comet shape, due to being pushed by the interstellar medium.

Data from the Cassini probe in 2009 showed that this is not the case.


In 2012, it was shown that even the bow shock (caused by stellar wind hitting interstellar medium) doesn't exist.

 

[Kyriakos]

For what its worth, although i would never grow a beard, most ancient philosophers had one, and so did most deities. Not having a beard was seen as being child-like.

 

[Traitorfish]

Oh no, it couldn't be that women find facial less attractive, it's just that they can't handle it because they are weak.

Given that the chart also makes precise statistical claims about "lumberjacks and badasses", it might not be entirely serious in every particular?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I was just wondering about the attitudes of the author RE: women's acceptance of beards. Maybe you can tell me about that?

Anyway, a thread for pictures needs pictures. Here's what a bow shock looks like.

"The Hubble Space Telescope imaged this view in February 1995. The arcing, graceful structure is actually a bow shock about half a light-year across, created from the wind from the star L.L. Orionis colliding with the Orion Nebula flow."

 

[Monsterzuma]

Now, Contour Aerospace Limited, a London-based airplane seat manufacturing company, and consulting firm Factory Design are unveiling a new twist on the pod — wait for it — pod airplane seats!

The company doesn't even call them seats. Instead it prefers "lairs."

"A lair is a secret or private place in which a person seeks concealment or seclusion, a perfect way to restore your equilibrium after a business trip to the other side of the world," the company said.

http://www.businessinsider.com/cont...-unveiled-new-lairs-for-airplane-seats-2012-6

 

[Save_Ferris]

Doesn't have a cupholder, 2/10 wouldn't sit

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[Deviate]

What is "Emergence Day?"

 

[Kyriakos]

Not sure, i found it on facebook. Maybe some sort of book fair (?)

 

[Monsterzuma]

Link to video.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worlds-largest-treehouse-in-crossville-tennessee-2012-6#

 

[Monsterzuma]

Potala Palace, Tibet

 

[Arakhor]

An impressive place, clearly.

 

[_random_]

 

[Arakhor]

Huge picture ahoy! Start in the top left and move clockwise around to the bottom left. The red line in the last two images has an orbital period of 11,400 years.

Spoiler :

 

[Monsterzuma]

 

[Traitorfish]