Perpetually having a beard limits my ability to participate in Movember.

source: Jacamo

sailorfailures:

This is probably how it would go.

Color-composite Cassini image of Saturn’s northern hexagon (NASA/JPL/SSI/Jason Major)

Cassini sure has been busy these past few days! After returning some mind-blowing images of the swirling 3,000-km-wide cyclone over Saturn’s north pole the spacecraft pulled back to give a wider view of the ringed giant’s upper latitudes, revealing one of its most curious features: the northern hexagon.

The image above is a color-composite made from raw images acquired by Cassini on November 28 from a distance of 379,268 miles (610,373 kilometers) away. Because the color channels were of a much lower resolution than the clear-filter monochrome image, the color is approximate in relation to individual atmospheric details. Still, it gives an idea of the incredible variation in hues around Saturn’s northern hemisphere as well as clearly showing the uncannily geometric structure of the hexagon.

(Can I get another “WOW”?)

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Read the rest of Saturn’s Strange Hexagon – In Living Color! (264 words)

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Post tags: atmosphere, Cassini, color, hexagon, images, NASA, Saturn

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mothernaturenetwork:

When designer Mike Thomspon asked himself, “What if power came at a cost to the individual?” he ended up creating the blood lamp as a statement on energy conservation. This single-use lamp requires a drop of blood to be activated — a personal sacrifice that will really make you think twice before turning on the lights. The lamp’s secret ingredient is luminol, the chemical forensic scientists use to check for blood, which glows blue when it reacts with the iron in red blood cells.

15 bizarre green inventions

The Avengers and their respective Pokémon. The artist definitely took some interesting choices. I especially like the Hulk/Bruce Banner comparison.

Below is a list of each of the Avengers and their Pokémon:

Tony Stark/Iron Man – Ninetales, Metagross, Porygon Z, Lucario, Rotom
Steve Rogers/Captain America – Arcanine, Braviary, Eevee, Shieldon
Nick Fury – Mewtwo, Volcarona, Absol
Pepper Potts – Espeon, Milotic
Bruce Banner/Hulk – Togekiss, Lapras, Jigglypuff, Blissey, Clefairy, Meganium
Maria Hill – Vespiquen, Nidoqueen
Natalia Romanova/Black Widow – Crobat, Ariados, Weavile
Agent Phil Coulson – Gallade, Growlithe
Clint Barton/Hawkeye – Noctowl, Pidgeot
Thor – Joltik, Shinx, Pichu, Mareep, Raikou, Blitzle

source: deviantART

what the fuck

gasshofriend:

Kali, the Hindu Goddess, with a garland of heads and a belt of hands. She cleaves us of our appendages to break the tools that make karma, she takes our heads to rid us of our ego. Take refuge in Ma Kali, and she will guide and protect you. 

O artigo Action Figures de cientistas famosos faz parte do conteúdo do Byte Que Eu Gosto! - Nerd, Geek, Dicas, Cinema, Games e mais!.

O Deviantartist Datazoid curte action figures e estava chateado com o fato de que não existem action figures de cientistas famosos, apenas um ou outro bonequinho de Albert Einstein. Ele modelou 30 bonecos levando em média entre 40 minutos e 2 horas cada um, num total de 50h de trabalho. Bem que esses bonequinhos podiam existir mesmo! Clique na imagem para ampliar:

O artigo Action Figures de cientistas famosos faz parte do conteúdo do Byte Que Eu Gosto! - Nerd, Geek, Dicas, Cinema, Games e mais!.

Fiz um texto há uns 3 anos atrás e o Mugui é sempre o mesmo desde sempre. Inclusive sempre, mas sempre mesmo, que eu vou lá eu peço o bendito lamen da casa sem moyashi haha! 


Apesar de ter oficialmente este nome, eu sempre me refiro ao Mugui como o Lamen-ya, que significa "lugar que vende lamen" e é o termo genérico usado para esses estabelecimentos no Japão (que por sinal são mais numerosos, brotam em qualquer esquina e mesmo assim são divinos).
Para piorar ele fica dentro do Food Center, que já é um pouco escondido e não tem placa nenhuma em sua fachada. Só dá pra saber que é ele porque os outros 2 estabelecimentos que ficam no primeiro andar estão identificados.


O lugar não é muito grande, recomendo para grupos de no máximo 6 pessoas e olhe lá. A falta de espaço é culpa de um balcão enorme onde as pessoas podem se sentar para comer se não se importarem com a falta de conforto.


Não se vende só lamen, tem outros pratos sensacionais como udon, yakisoba, teishoku... mas eu não consigo pedir outra coisa que não seja lamen - especificamente o lamen da casa. A tigela tem um tamanho respeitoso, muita gente de apetite normal não consegue terminá-la. É muito bem feito, com um bom tempero e muita cara de comida caseira.

Recomendo também uma porção de gyozas de entrada, que aqui são fritos e muito bons!


O maior defeito mesmo é o horário de funcionamento (detalhado no final deste post na ficha feliz). É importante frisar que eles não abrem de domingo e que o almoço é até as 14:30. Já fiquei só na vontade de comer lamen várias vezes por causa disso.


Ficha feliz:

• Satisfação da gordinha: saiu rolando feliz e com a sensação que nao ia engordar muito
• Preju: lamen da casa: R$ 17,00, não cobram 10%! OOOH! 
• Unidade visitada:
• Rua da Glória, 111 - 1º andar
• (11) 3106-8260
• Horário de funcionamento: segunda à sábado, das 11:30 às 14:30 e das 18:00 às 22:00
• Visa vale? Sim!

There is a man made satellite orbiting Earth, that is expected to come back down in 8.4 million years, carrying maps of today’s Earth for future residents of Earth.

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Foods like donuts and bacon are addictive, high calorie foods overload the brains pleasure center.

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saw it on I Like It British.

geminitrolls:

samuraiexorcist:

ladyofthelagoon:

Things that ruin thanksgiving

favorite ever

I can’t stop laughing at the last one! XD

YES IT’S BACK

I’M FUCKING THANKFUL FOR THIS BEING BACK

Here’s some good times light fare by Matin Comedy for those of you taking refuge on the internet this Black Friday. The re-imagining of everyone’s favorite crossover hit is of course exactly what it sounds like, taking scenes from Season 1 Game of Thrones and giving them the iconic Seinfeld audio/studio audience treatment.

It doesn’t quite match the distilled brilliance of the alternate Breaking Bad “Dead Freight” ending, but I think we can all agree that once the 1:00 mark hits everything about this is pretty glorious. Also I’m pretty sure there’s a shrinkage/Dinklage joke in here somewhere but I’m too Thanksgiving’d over to make it.

Thanks to Matin for the tip.

The post Your Favorite ‘Game Of Thrones’ Scene Gets The ‘Seinfeld’ Treatment appeared first on UPROXX.

How insane would the original Legend of Zelda be if there was 151 different kinds of creatures to battle? Someone needs to make that game.

source: Reddit
via: Gamefreaks

Why not try some of these? It's Urechis unicinctus, a marine spoon worm also known as the fat innkeeper worm, or, if that doesn't sound delicious enough, the penis fish. And you don't even have to cook it! In China you might find them in a stir-fry, but in Korea, it's eaten raw. A little salt and sesame oil and you're good to go, a nice light meal after all that heavy holiday fare.

These guys have an interesting cuisine of their own. They secrete their own slime net to catch particles of food. And they're hospitable, hence the "innkeeper" name: they share the tunnels they dig with small fish and other marine animals, which also eat their leftovers.

All in all, a perfect symbolic animal for this holiday, right?

Happy Thanksgiving!
-Wombat (No Relation)

It took a few months and only now I admit that The Dark Knight Rises could not have been better summed up than in this reenactment between a Batman-Shampoo and a Bane-ana. Their disagreement about a terrible plan that involves hair clogging the drains of Gotham sums up what I felt trying to understand Bane’s (Talia’s?) incomprehensible plan.

Mooooore Bananas!

[via io9]

There is a pirate “stock exchange” in Somalia where locals can invest in pirate gangs planning hijacking missions.

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Cemitério da Saudade Sorocaba, SP. Obrigado Brevivente.

eclectic69:

Some ancestry

Hawkman, Aztec-style.

Machine Gun Jetpack

"Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward firing machine guns?”  

—Rob B

I was sort of surprised to find that the answer was yes! But to really do it right, you’ll want to talk to the Russians.

The principle here is pretty simple. If you fire a bullet forward, the recoil pushes you back. So if you fire downward, the recoil should push you up.

The first question we have to answer is “can a gun even lift its own weight?” If a machine gun weighs ten pounds but only produces eight pounds of recoil when firing, it won’t be able to lift itself off the ground, let alone lift itself plus a person.

In the engineering world, the ratio between a craft’s thrust and the weight is called, appropriately, thrust-to-weight ratio. If it’s less than 1, the vehicle can’t lift off. The Saturn V had a takeoff thrust-to-weight ratio of about 1.5.

Despite growing up in the South, I'm not really a firearms expert, so to help answer this question, I got in touch with an acquaintence in Texas. (Judging by the amount of ammunition they had lying around their house ready to measure and weigh for me, Texas has apparently become some kind of Mad Max-esque post-apocalyptic war zone.)

As it turns out, the AK-47 has a thrust-to-weight ratio of around two. This means if you stood it on end and somehow taped down the trigger (Note: Please, PLEASE do not try this at home) it would rise into the air while firing.

This isn’t true of all machine guns. The M60, for example, probably can’t produce enough recoil to lift itself off the ground.

The amount of thrust created by a rocket (or firing machine gun) depends on (1) how much mass it’s throwing out behind it, and (2) how fast it’s throwing it. Thrust is the product of these two amounts:

\[\text{Thrust}=\text{Mass ejection rate}\times\text{Speed of ejection}\]

If an AK-47 fires ten 8g bullets per second at 715 meters per second, its thrust is:

\[10\tfrac{\text{bullets}}{\text{second}}\times8\tfrac{\text{grams}}{\text{bullet}}\times715\tfrac{\text{meters}}{\text{second}}=57.2\text{ N}\approx13\text{ pounds of force}\]

Since the AK-47 weighs only 10.5 pounds when loaded, it will be able to take off and accelerate upward.

In practice, the actual thrust turns out to be up to around 30% higher. The reason for this is that the gun isn’t just spitting out bullets—it’s also spitting out hot gas and explosive debris. The amount of extra force this adds varies by gun and cartridge.

The overall efficiency also depends on whether you eject the shell casings out of the vehicle or carry them with you. I asked my Texan acquaintences if they could weigh some shell casings for my calculations, but for a while they couldn't find a scale anywhere in the house. I helpfully suggested that given the size of their arsenal, really they just need to find someone else who owned a scale. (Ideally someone with less ammo.)

So what does all this mean for our jetpack?

Well, the AK-47 can take off, but it clearly doesn’t have the thrust to spare to lift anything weighing much more than a squirrel.

We can try multiple guns. If you fire two guns at the ground, it creates twice the thrust. If each gun can lift five pounds more than their own weight, two can lift ten.

At this point, it’s clear where we’re headed:

If we add enough rifles, the weight of the passenger becomes irrelevant. it’s spread over so many of them that they don’t notice. As the number of rifles increases, since it’s effectively many individual rifles flying in parallel, the craft’s thrust-to-weight ratio approaches that of a single, unburdened rifle:

But there’s a problem: Ammunition.

An AK-47 magazine holds 30 rounds. At ten per second, we’ll get a measly three seconds of acceleration. We can improve this with a larger magazine—but only up to a point.

It turns out there’s no advantage to carrying more than about 250 rounds of ammunition. The reason for this is a fundamental and central problem in rocket science: Fuel makes you heavier.

Each bullet weighs 8 grams, and the cartridge (the “whole bullet”) weighs over 16 grams. If we add more than about 250 rounds, the AK-47 is too heavy to take off.

This suggests our optimal craft comprises a large number of AK-47s (a minimum of 25 but ideally at least 300) carrying 250 rounds of ammunition each. The largest versions of this craft could accelerate upward to vertical speeds approaching 100 meters per second, climbing over half a kilometer into the air. (If you want to work through the math on that in more detail, there’s a good primer here.)

So we’ve answered Rob’s question. With enough machine guns, you could fly.

But our 500xAK-47 rig is clearly not a practical jetpack. Can we do better?

My Texas friends suggested a series of machine guns, and I ran the numbers on each one. Some did pretty well; the MG-42, a heavier machine gun, had a marginally higher thrust-to-weight ratio than the AK-47.

Then we went bigger.

The GAU-8 Avenger fires up to sixty one-pound bullets a second. It produces almost five tons of recoil force, which is crazy considering that it’s mounted in a type of plane (the A-10 “Warthog”) whose two engines produce only four tons of thrust each. If you put two of them in one aircraft, and fired both guns forward while opening up the throttle, the guns would win and you’d accelerate backward.

To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds.

As good as this gun would be as a rocket pack engine, the Russians built one that would work even better. The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30 weighs half as much as the GAU-8 and has an even higher fire rate. Its thrust-to-weight ratio approaches 40, which means if you pointed one at the ground and fired, not only would it take off in a rapidly expanding spray of deadly metal fragments, but you would experience 40 gees of acceleration.

This is way too much. In fact, even when it was firmly mounted in an aircraft, the acceleration was a problem:

[T]he recoil … still had a tendency to inflict damage on the aircraft. The rate of fire was reduced to 4,000 rounds a minute but it didn't help much. Landing lights almost always broke after firing … Firing more than about 30 rounds in a burst was asking for trouble from overheating …

But if you somehow braced the human rider, made the craft strong enough to survive the acceleration, wrapped it in an aerodynamic shell, and made sure it was adequately cooled ...

… with a GSH-6-30, you could jump mountains.

nillrecurring:

justinrampage:

Awesome Ramona Flowers / Scott Pilgrim vs. the World cosplay by Tumblr’s very own Abbie Soule (aka “pseud0Kinesis”) that she wore for ConnectiCon 2012. All photos were taken by Laurynn (aka “indigoAnatomy”).

Side Note: I might have to dress my daughter up in a Ramona Flowers outfit similar to this for Halloween, due to the fact her name is also Ramona. :)

Ramona Flowers by Abbie Soule (deviantART) (Facebook) (Twitter)

Via: pseudokinesis | 001138

quando o cosplay fica melhor q a original

fullcosplay:

COSPLAY: Lady Deadpool / Deadpool series

fullcosplay:

COSPLAY: Sniper Wolf / Metal Gear Solid

Sexólogos holandeses propõem legalização da pornografia infantil