In 2010 a tiny blemish appeared in the Saturnian atmosphere, crackling with lightning. Within weeks it became a monster.
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“el infierno está aquí, justo aquí, en la tierra. escondido en un lugar que no podemos ver. nos hacemos ciegos ante las verdaderas manos de satanás que poco a poco roban la comida, hogar y vida de personas, humanos, iguales que nosotros.
nos quejamos diariamente, por cosas que podemos tener otro día.
ellos se alegran de tener un poco más de la mitad de lo que echas a la basura”.
fotografía de james nachtwey. sudan, 1993.
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Photographer Ben Cooper took this photo of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket launching at Cape Canaveral using a sound-activated camera. And when your camera is that close to a launch, your lens probably won’t survive.
The particular setup for this was sound activated. The lens was destroyed but the camera survived this one despite being severed from its ratchet straps and thrown to the ground, and the sound device used for this one disconnected from the camera and thrown about 200 feet backwards into the pad perimeter fence (still worked!). All settings are preset manually.
No one is allowed closer than several miles from a launch.
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[Scientists have managed to develop the lightest material on earth. Made from 90% nickel and consisting of 99.9% air, the material named “ultralight metallic microlattice” can easily balance on top of a dandelion without crushing the seeds. Tobias Shandler, one of the scientists, said the trick is to “fabricate a lattice of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness 1,000 times thinner than a human hair.”] (via)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luzzklBpS41qzt15co1_1280.jpg)
[Scientists have managed to develop the lightest material on earth. Made from 90% nickel and consisting of 99.9% air, the material named “ultralight metallic microlattice” can easily balance on top of a dandelion without crushing the seeds. Tobias Shandler, one of the scientists, said the trick is to “fabricate a lattice of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness 1,000 times thinner than a human hair.”] (via)
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Colossal Storm Rages Over Saturn’s Surface
The largest storm seen on Saturn in more than 21 years has now been encircling the planet for a record-breaking 200 days.
First appearing as a tiny blemish on Dec. 5, 2010, the storm is still going strong today, surpassing the ringed giant’s previous longest tempest, which lasted 150 days back in 1903. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn, has given astronomers a front-seat view of this enormous maelstrom and provided valuable data.
From its humble beginnings, the storm has grown to engulf the entire area between Saturn’s 30th and 51st north latitudes. From north to south, the tempest stretches about 9,000 miles — greater than diameter of the Earth — and covers two billion square miles, or eight times the surface area of our planet.
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