Cool Pictures IV: The Awesomeness is Volatile

[Borachio]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth

Or this? I didn't know about this. Thanks?

Clearly a spherical earth theory is nonsense:

These men are flying on the globe at a rate of 65,000 miles per hour around the sun, and 1,042 miles per hour around the center of the earth (in their minds). Think of that speed!

 

[strijder20]

Clearly a spherical earth theory is nonsense:
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These men are flying on the globe at a rate of 65,000 miles per hour around the sun, and 1,042 miles per hour around the center of the earth (in their minds). Think of that speed!

It's a bit odd that someone who lived near the end of the nineteenth century didn't understand physics laws created two centuries beforehand.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Hey, I've been to Hot Springs, South Dakota.

 

[Borachio]

It's a bit odd that someone who lived near the end of the nineteenth century didn't understand physics laws created discovered two centuries beforehand.

There are still a large number (me included) who do not understand physical laws.


Though Newtonian gravitation I can just about understand.

 

[strijder20]

There are still a large number (me included) who do not understand physical laws.


Though Newtonian gravitation I can just about understand.

Oh, yes, discovered. My bad

 

[Monsterzuma]

Exoskeletons with hydraulic arms and piston powered legs are nothing terribly new, Raytheon's got a new version it showed off this summer, but this Warrior Web program proposed by DARPA is a first.

The Web is actually a suit that'll be worn under a servicemember's uniform intended to provide a host of physiological benefits.

The $2.6 million contract went to the Wyss Institute at Harvard and they hope to create something like a wetsuit that will not only protect injury prone areas, reinforce joints, assist in carrying 100 pound loads, and reduce injuries — it'll log all that data and refer it back to command.

It will also offer internal prompts to the wearer, likely letting him know, for example, when a joint is bent poorly and to modify the angle.

Hopefully the suit will reduce injuries, fatigue and allow troops to better spend their energy on staying alive.

http://www.businessinsider.com/darp...suit-thats-straight-out-of-the-future-2012-10

 

[Monsterzuma]

The reason people say there are 8 planets is because there are 8 planets. A casual reader coming away from this post might conclude that this is one of those "ah-hah!" moments that the Internet is famous for, where "EVERYTHING-YOU-THOUGHT-YOU-KNEW-WAS-WRONG," except it isn't. Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris and Ceres aren't "planets." You don't get to "choose 8 or 13 planets." And there aren't "13 if you know them all by name." Your ability to name planets has no bearing on whether or not they exist. There will be the same number of planets whether you acknowledge it or not. There's a great article at Universe Today explaining why Pluto is not a planet and why it doesn't meet the requirements in order to be classified as one ("dwarf planets" aren't the same).

Not only is this infographic wrong, it's lazy. It references 8, 13, 9 planets and even references the discovery of a "10h planet." What pisses me off even more is that IFLS' own messiah, Neil deGrasse Tyson, removed Pluto's distinction as a planet as director of the Hayden Planetarium, despite this infographic's convoluted insistence to the contrary.

 

[Monsterzuma]

 

[Borachio]

I do that a lot. And when no cubicle passes the test, and I have to leave with that unsatisfied feeling...

 

[cardgame]

 

[Joecoolyo]

Goddamn that's such a cool gif...

 

[Monsterzuma]

Spoiler :

“The hopeless dream of being - not seeming, but being. At every waking moment, alert. The gulf between what you are with others and what you are alone. The vertigo and the constant hunger to be exposed, to be seen through, perhaps even wiped out. Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace. Suicide? No, too vulgar. But you can refuse to move, refuse to talk, so that you don’t have to lie. You can shut yourself in. Then you needn’t play any parts or make wrong gestures. Or so you thought. But reality is diabolical. Your hiding place isn’t watertight. Life trickles in from the outside, and you’re forced to react. No one asks if it is true or false, if you’re genuine or just a sham.”

—Persona, Ingmar Bergman (1966)

 

[Monsterzuma]

Spoiler :

Roland Deschain of Gilead

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2012/10/15/roland-deschain-of-gilead/

 

[Monsterzuma]

 

[Monsterzuma]

This would go in Uncool Pictures I:

Watch A Model Try To Walk In The Most Terrifying Shoes We Have Ever Seen
from Business Insider by Julie Zeveloff
As part of her thesis for a fine arts academy in Amsterdam, South African designer Leanie Van der Vyver envisioned a pair of high heels that take the standards of beauty and perfection to a strange new level.

Called Scary Beautiful, the sky-high stilettos have been making the rounds on the internet, as has a video of a model attempting to walk in a straight line while wearing them (at the end of this post).

With the shoes, Van der Vyver said she attempted to explore "what lies beyond perfection" given today's unattainable standards of beauty.

"Scary Beautiful challenges current beauty ideals by inflicting an unexpected new beauty standard," she wrote to us.

One thing's for sure—these contraptions give new meaning to the saying "beauty is pain."

http://www.businessinsider.com/model-walks-in-scary-beautiful-stilettos-2012-10

 

[Monsterzuma]

see also:

and:

 

[Meteor Man]

Check that out...the freakin Egyptians got mitosis right. Probably a coincidence, though, no microscopes back then.

 

[Monsterzuma]

Check that out...the freakin Egyptians got mitosis right. Probably a coincidence, though, no microscopes back then.

How can you be sure?

btw, post edited.

 

[Borachio]

Glass manufacture dates back to 3500 BC so in theory the Egyptians might have had some kind of rudimentary microscope. You only need a small ball of glass after all. Who was that Dutch guy first used a microscope? His earliest ones were little more than that.

I don't see why those Egyptian drawings are necessarily representing mitosis, though.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I don't see why those Egyptian drawings are necessarily representing mitosis, though.