I was doing my usual poking around online, when I came across this webapge : a single Hydrogen atom, done to scale, to show just how much empty space there is in the universe.
The big blue dot to the right of the text is a proton, or the center of an atom. The electron is the little particle that circles around the proton. (This is the basic structure of all atoms. Some just have more electrons, and more stuff inside the proton.) This proton is is 1,000 pixels across. The electron, is 1/1000th the size of the proton - or one single pixel. And it just happens to be, to scale, 50,000,000 pixels away. 50 MILLION pixels away. Thats 11 MILES of webpage. And this web page is 50 million pixels wide. 49,999,999 of those pixels are completely empty.
From the creator of the website : “I recommend trying to scroll from here to the right a screen at a time,
just to see how long it takes the little thumb in the scrollbar to move
visibly. True masochists can try to scroll through the whole eleven
miles - but the scenery along the way is pretty bleak.”
It’s pretty amazing how everything we consider “solid” has so much empty space in between. . . . View the webpage, diagram, and a better explination of atoms and the space in between them here : http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/atom/
Resurrect this feature. As a preface…this photo was taken and submitted into a “Science as Art” competition. It also goes to show….we humans…will always be trying to blow something up. This image is an electron scanning micrograph of the smallest explosion ever seen. On a nano scale. It is a photo…of nano-wires exploding. Cheers!
Thank you Fanny Beron from École Polytechnique de Montréal
In kind of a segway from the previous post…..you can now get penguin branded ice cream! Apparently, its got a GPL recipe Its in Wadsworth, Westminster, CO. ….anyone nearby there? hehe Heres a pic:
*shrug they can do it if they want, gpl is always nice Thanks plasticpixel
Even though Tolkien says that the geography at the time of the LOTR trilogy is different then the current geography of the world, some comparisons can be made. . .Take a look at a few of these from
• The Shire is in the South-West of England, which
further north is also home to the Old Forest (Yorkshire?), the Barrow
Downs (north of England), the city of Bree (at or near
Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and Amon Sul (Scottish Highlands).
• The Grey Havens are situated in Ireland. Helm’s Deep is near the Franco-German-Swiss border tripoint, close to the city of Basel.
• The mountain chain of Ered Nimrais is the Alps.
• Gondor corresponds with the northern Italian plains, extended towards the unsubmerged Adriatic Sea.
•The Sea of Rhûn corresponds to the Black Sea.
And a few more that you have to actually read the blog to find out about.
Just a quickie here, a photo of the STS-115 Space Shuttle launch (Sept. 9 2006) taken from a high-altitude research aircraft. Thanks to a vigilant reader and Snopes for the correction, but I still have no idea who the photo actually belongs to. . .
Woot! I guess the Korean’s didn’t end up killing the whole Blizzard convention over this decision. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone declared it a holiday or something. Starcraft II is going to have new units to Protoss Terran and Zerg races, a 3d engine with realistic physics, BIG units, and a much larger army size. Its going to have a single player campaign that CONTINUES the story….meaning…its not over? And, it has an improved map editor.
Zerg: zerglings can mutate into little bombs Terran: Reapers are here, with dual machine pistols and have jumpjets, bypassing walls as a base defence
Protoss: Zealots have a charge ability to move quickly to chase down someone Immortal: Creates impenetrable shields under heavy arms fire, such as seige tanks, but small arms fire can kill em quickly Colossus: Big..monstrosities that have dual lasers hehe Stalker: teleportation unit Pheonix: flying unit like valkries except extremely powerful shots. its vulnerable after fire Warprey: air unit that fires a laser that gets stronger when fired longer Mothership: Major…BIG ship. You can only have one of these. They have Time Bomb which creates a shield against incoming missles. Planet Cracker destroys whatever is under the ship, and the ship can move while its doing this…a flying ship of DESTRUCTION. Finally, it has Black Hole, which triggers….a black hole, sucking everything near it, say…4 terran battlecruisers into the abyss. I am lookin forward to this hehehhe
Its in pre alpha…so, expect this in the future The exact words of release date: “When its DONE” Which, I take to be very good…no need to rush out a half done Starcraft…make it juuuuust right Heres a few images hehe
The Galileo spacecraft, although originally launched
from Earth, coasted past its home world twice in an effort to gain speed
and shorten the duration of its trip to Jupiter.
During Galileo’s first Earth flyby in late 1990, it made a majestically silent
home movie of our big blue marble rotating by taking images
almost every minute during a 25-hour period”
