Posts Tagged ‘Science’
UPDATE: Apparently we already posted this. Consider this a reminder.
It may be old news to you, but older CRT TV’s used a beam of electrons to create the image on the screen. That beam built the image repeatedly from top to bottom until you turned it off. When you turned it off, that process slowed until it stopped, hence the weird patterns you saw when you turned it off.
Stephan Tillmans decided to photograph that shutdown process as the beams fade away to black. These beautiful abstract images were taken just as the old CRT Televisions were turned off. See the rest on his site.
We only have one more Space Shuttle launch before the most complex piece of machinery built by humans ends its lifespan. In this interesting video, a couple of NASA engineers describe what goes in to the launches using the high speed technical cameras used to analyze each launch.
National Geographic posted some of their favorite astronomic and physics related images taken this year. The shot above of an Annular Eclipse, or one in which the moon doesn’t completely cover the sun, is beautiful. I love the way the contrails of the jet cause the light to refract around the moon. More after the jump.
Usually, the knowledge we acquire about cannonballs is limited to what we learn from pirate movies and The Patriot. Well I bet you didn’t know that cannonballs could float in liquids.
We dream of what it’d be like to touch the clouds we fly through and stare at as children but fog never really gives us the satisfaction because it is normally all encompassing. Well Japanese architect Tetsuo Kondo and German climate engineering firm Transsolar teamed up earlier this year to produce Cloudscapes, an installation to allow you to do just that. Using three layers of different temperature and humidity air, they created a space in which people can travel through clouds. Science and art are amazing. More beautiful photographs after the jump.
