May 112013
What If The Sun Disappeared?
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Apr 042013
Everyone is curious about what would happen to Earth if the sun disappeared. In short: We’d be hosed.
Popular science educator Michael from Vsauce returns to the web to discuss gravity and the Sun. As a thought experiment, he asks the interesting hypothetical, “What if the sun disappeared?“
It’s not going to happen, but interestingly enough, if it did, we wouldn’t be aware that anything was wrong for a good eight minutes, as it takes that long for light to travel the millions of miles from the Sun to the Earth.
Random Riddle: 12-10-2012
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Dec 102012
The Facekini
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Nov 212012
This is a little creepy!
Beach-goers usually use sunblock and umbrellas to make sure they don’t get burned, but in China they use something called a “facekini“. The fact that it makes you look like a Mexican wrestler doesn’t seem to bother anybody.
The facekini is being called “China’s latest beach craze”, but according to a Qingdao sales officer, the bizarre mask has been around for at least five years. But photos of Qingdaonese swimmers wearing the bizarre accessory have only recently gone viral on Chinese social sites, and were eventually picked up by Western photo agencies and websites sparking readers’ curiosity. The bizarre clothing item is made of elastic fabric, covers a person’s entire head and neck down to the collarbone and has holes cut out for the neck, nose and mouth. They look pretty creepy, if you ask me, but that’s apparently a very small price to pay in order to protect yourself from getting a tan while going for a swim.
NASA | STEREO Reveals the Entire Sun
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Feb 082011
On Feb. 6th, NASA’s twin STEREO probes moved into position on opposite sides of the sun, and they are now beaming back uninterrupted images of the entire star—front and back.
“For the first time ever, we can watch solar activity in its full 3-dimensional glory,” says Angelos Vourlidas, a member of the STEREO science team at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC.
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Launched in October 2006, STEREO traces the flow of energy and matter from the sun to Earth. It also provides unique and revolutionary views of the sun-Earth system. STEREO, when paired with SDO, can now give us the first complete view of the sun’s entire surface and atmosphere.