Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
5000W Direct-Drive Tesla Coil
August 7th, 2020Via: styropyro:
Scientists Revive Microbes from 100 Million Years Ago
July 29th, 2020Via: AFP: Scientists have successfully revived microbes that had lain dormant at the bottom of the sea since the age of the dinosaurs, allowing the organisms to eat and even multiply after eons in the deep. Their research sheds light on the remarkable survival power of some of Earth’s most primitive species, which can exist […]
Photograph the Milky Way with Medium Format Film
April 26th, 2020Via: PetaPixel: My name is Jason De Freitas (@jase.film on Instagram), and I’m an analog photographer based in Australia. In this article, I’ll share how I shoot the Milky Way from my backyard on medium format film.
FliteTest on FAA’s Proposed Remote ID
February 27th, 2020Via: FliteTest:
Exploring Ruins of Coal Fired Power Plant in Chicago
January 1st, 2020They don’t mention it in the video, but you can clearly see that this is Crawford Generating Station: Crawford Generating Station is a decommissioned coal?fired power plant built in 1924. It is located in South Lawndale community of the West Side district, in Chicago, Illinois. It was closed in 2012 after a long battle with […]
Deepest Point On Land Found In Antarctica
December 15th, 2019Via: BBC: The deepest point on continental Earth has been identified in East Antarctica, under Denman Glacier. This ice-filled canyon reaches 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level. Only in the ocean are the valleys deeper still.
Astronomers Are About to Detect the Light from the Very First Stars in the Universe
December 3rd, 2019Via: Universe Today: A team of scientists working with the Murchison Widefield Array (WMA) radio telescope are trying to find the signal from the Universe’s first stars. Those first stars formed after the Universe’s Dark Ages. To find their first light, the researchers are looking for the signal from neutral hydrogen, the gas that dominated […]
The Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser
November 30th, 2019Scientists Turn Undersea Fiber Optic Cables Into Seismographs
November 28th, 2019Via: TechCrunch: These cables carry data over long distances, sometimes as part of the internet’s backbones, and sometimes as part of private networks. But one thing they all have in common is that they use light to do so — light that gets scattered and distorted if the cable shifts or changes orientation. By carefully […]
Engineer Created Algorithm That Can Remove Strong Blue-Green Color Cast and Backscatter from Underwater Photographs
November 15th, 2019Not Photoshop levels, hue, saturation, etc. Wild results. Via: PetaPixel: An engineer has developed a computer program that can, in her words, “remove the water” from an underwater photograph. The result is a “physically accurate” image with all of the vibrance, saturation and color of a regular landscape photo. The technology, called Sea-thru, was developed […]
