Nature


I found this…

oddly arousing. Except for when it blew up.

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Bad Sushi

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Sprites and Jets and Elves, oh my!

Lightning week would not be complete without touching on the phenomenon of  ”upper atmospheric lightning,” which has only recently been recognized as a bonafide phenomenon. Blue jets, in fact, were reported for over a century before their existence was verified – particularly by airplane pilots flying at night – but the nature of the phenomenon – extremely short duration and relative “inaccessibility” above thunderstorms – prevented reliable detection of it and its “brethren” – sprites and elves – until the 1990s.

You may read more about these phenomena at this page maintained by the University of  Alaska, Fairbanks.

And check this video out–

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Eyes…

Up close.

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Lightning at 9,000 frames per second.

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My Plant has Wood II

Fatfinger edition:

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My Plant Has Wood

I had to move it away from the other plants; the pansies were blushing.

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – right next door to the homemade fusion reactor

The fusion core of Mark Suppes Homemade Fusion Reactor

Need a weekend project around the house? Mark Suppes, web developer by day, has built his own nuclear fusion reactor in a Brooklyn workspace. It kind of makes that project car you’ve got rusting in the garage seem lame by comparison. (read more)

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