[Yellow]

SEM images are brilliant. I remember a series of two-minute features that BBC2 (or someone) did about ten years ago, where they started off with a picture as zoomed in as you could possibly get. Gradually it zoomed out in slow mo and eventually you realised you were looking at a lightbulb or something.

I wouldn't mind watching them again if anyone can find them on Youtube.

Some of the guys at our place get to mess about with SEM. I can look at those pics for hours.

[Illuyankas]

Science.

I love it.

[Cold Iron]

That statement is nonsensical, science is not an entity unless you are looking at it spiritually

/troll

[Cause]

Maybe one day sceince will develope a weapon for the use against trolls!

/feeding troll

[Yellow]

/retort fuelling fire

[Aptorian]

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[stone monkey]

Cold Iron, on Mar 22 2009, 01:46 AM, said:

That statement is nonsensical, science is not an entity unless you are looking at it spiritually

/troll

Whilst I know you're only looking for an argument which I have neither the time nor the inclination for at this particular moment and this thread would not be the place for it anyhow, I really can't let that particular utterance pass.

Your statement is really the one that doesn't make sense. I do understand that in your worldview everything is subjugated to the spiritual realm, and I'll agree to disagree with you on that one, but, strictly speaking an entity is something that, much like a mathematical set, is able to be held in the mind as such (which I know sounds a little tautological, but there you go). Science is a concept and concepts are entities; whether you're choosing to look at it spiritually or not.

But anyway... Pretty science pictures!

[Cold Iron]

http://www.malazanempire.com/IPBforum/inde...showtopic=14607

[Cold Iron]

On topic:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/p...icro_world.html

This post has been edited by Cold Iron: 23 March 2009 - 02:43 AM

[stone monkey]

Fake rep for those pics; they're gorgeous.

This is extraordinary

If you're interested: it's an art film made entirely using images from NASA's STEREO mission. The mission uses two probes separated by a fair distance (which I've not committed to memory and which I really can not be arsed looking up at this juncture; but trust me, it's a long way) to record stereoscopic images of the Sun's activity which gives an insight into the 3D struture of these events. There's some truly incredible footage of Coronal Mass Ejections in this film; science meets art in the very best of ways. The other films on the feed are pretty cool too.

Found via Boing Boing.

This post has been edited by stone monkey: 13 April 2009 - 02:31 AM

[Yellow]

Not bad

You have to love astronomy/NASA naming conventions for these sorts of things. Name them first, then come up with a backronym. Remote Intense Magnification Jupiter-Orbiting Boondoggle, or RIMJOB.

This post has been edited by Yellow: 13 April 2009 - 07:27 AM

[Satan]

stone monkey, on Apr 13 2009, 04:16 AM, said:

Fake rep for those pics; they're gorgeous.

This is extraordinary

If you're interested: it's an art film made entirely using images from NASA's STEREO mission. The mission uses two probes separated by a fair distance (which I've not committed to memory and which I really can not be arsed looking up at this juncture; but trust me, it's a long way) to record stereoscopic images of the Sun's activity which gives an insight into the 3D struture of these events. There's some truly incredible footage of Coronal Mass Ejections in this film; science meets art in the very best of ways. The other films on the feed are pretty cool too.

Found via Boing Boing.

That movie was oddly fitting for listening to Radiohead. Thanks.

[stone monkey]

It's a teensy bit off topic, but I'm way more fond of these things than any sane person should be:

Kick your ass with Science!
"...You know we're the dopest,
Stand by us, get dope through osmosis!"


The Nano Song
With added puppets... So sweet...

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Science is fun!







and that spider is effin scary!

[Mezla PigDog]

stone monkey, on Apr 15 2009, 09:13 PM, said:

Kick your ass with Science!
"...You know we're the dopest,
Stand by us, get dope through osmosis!"

Riboflava - tee hee.

--> The Chemistry Party From the website Null Hypothesis which is the best science website I have ever stumbled across, along with --> Bad Science where I like the forums too

--> The PCR song This might be too specialist to be funny for you lot (and therefore make me look like a total nerd) but considering I have used PCR every week for the last 8 years and give seminars on how to do it all the frickin' time, it's very funny and has all the crazy cat scientists I work with in stitches......

[cerveza_fiesta]

This is a cosmic ray visualizer...called a Wilson (Diffusion cloud) chamber. It literally lets you watch cosmic rays pass through. I've seen one in some science museum (ontario I think...) and it is very very cool.

Pretty much just a superclean chamber filled with alcohol vapour. You put a piece of dry ice underneath the bottom of the chamber and it supercools a thin layer of alcohol vapour at the bottom. The top stays more or less at room temperature.

So the supercooled vapour at the bottom of the chamber is just sitting there and can't condense because there's nothing to initiate condensation (no dust or other particles) so its primed and ready. The cool part happens when a photon of ionizing cosmic radiation passes through the chamber, it strips a couple of electrons off an alcohol molecule, causing the other nearby molecules to attract to it and condense into a small droplet. The droplets are viewed with the aid of a powerful light that is shone into the side of the chamber (you look in through the top).

Anyways, each particle that passes through the chamber causes a little trail of condensed droplets to track its path. Certain types of radiation give squiggly paths and others have the cone-shaped vortex ones. It is seriously the coolest thing to watch ever. Pics can't even begin to do it justice.

This post has been edited by cerveza_fiesta: 20 April 2009 - 05:55 PM

[stone monkey]

About 20 seconds in, when the Galactic Centre starts to rise... Words fail... They really do...