Archive for the 'Science' Category

Slow motion lightning strike

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Unlike many other “slow motion lightning” videos available on YouTube (and other internet video websites), this particular video is actually shot at a high frame rate. The other ones are just regular videos played at a slower speed.
Because this video is shot at a high frame rate, you can see exactly — and with lots [...]

Comprehensive NASA photo and moving image collection

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

The Internet Archive has teamed up with NASA to offer the most comprehensive collection of NASA photographs and moving images in one place. The images come from 21 major NASA collections.
I love looking at the old images from the days when NASA first became an agency. They look exactly like photos from a retro-future picture [...]

Real dinosaur at the Natural History Museum of LA County

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Extinct, my ASS! from The Original Joe Fisher on Vimeo.
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has a “live” dinosaur running loose inside the museum!
If you watch the video closely, you’ll see exactly how this dinosaur is living. Man, I really wish I had a dinosaur like this. This would be the ultimate gift [...]

Human ovulation captured on camera

Friday, June 13th, 2008

What is that, you ask? They are photos of the exact moments of ovulation in a woman, of course!
Captured so clearly for the first time by doctor Jacques Donnez at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Brussels, Belgium (while performing a partial hysterectomy), these photos are an incredibly detailed look at how humans initially [...]

Small star unleashes monster flare

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Believe it or not, the image above is a photograph, not a computer generated image!
The star above is called EV Lacertae, and it is smaller and younger than our Sun. However, the flares that are coming from it are the largest and most powerful ever recorded!
For many years scientists have known that our sun gives [...]

Robotic Exoskeletons allow for super-human strength

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

A company named SARCOS has spent 6 years developing an amazing robotic exoskeleton that can make a normal human being have super-human strength!
The company hopes to deploy robotic exoskeletons like this in the military. An exoskeleton like this would greatly aid in the rescue efforts of earthquakes and other natural disasters, allowing a normal human [...]

What is on the other side of the world?

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

My previous post about the time it would take to travel between two places on the globe got me wondering about what exactly would be on the other side of any given location on Earth.
It turns out that zefrank has a Google Maps mashup that can answer this question.
Sorry to break it to ya, but [...]