amazing science/nature images

[maurvir]

[maurvir]

[ukimalefu]

I've seen images like that before. It is still going, but I read somewhere that it goes a lot slower now because more than one wheels are broken like that, so they avoid using them or put less weight on them.

[ukimalefu]

first crop of vegetables grown without earth, daylight or pesticides

I would think that has been done before...?

[maurvir]

first crop of vegetables grown without earth, daylight or pesticides

I would think that has been done before...?

Yeah, I'm guessing NASA doesn't officially recognize grow ops, though.

The interesting part here is that it is preparation for a possible Mars or moon mission.

[ukimalefu]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_cinnabari

[DukeofNuke]

are the leaves red and shaped like hands? is there a face?...

[ukimalefu]

are the leaves red and shaped like hands? is there a face?...

click the link

[ukimalefu]

[ukimalefu]

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity First Powered Flight

This is the one that will carry passengers eventually.

longer video featuring the pilot explaining things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVETvuGsv-w


Does this belong here? maybe this is more engineering and technology?

[maurvir]

Rocks in the Sea during Sunset Look Like Fire, Iceland

[maurvir]

[Mustapha Mond]

Rocks in the Sea during Sunset Look Like Fire, Iceland

I knew we had a Jedi temple on Earth!

[TOS]

Rocks in the Sea during Sunset Look Like Fire, Iceland

I knew we had a Jedi temple on Earth!

if you zoom in you can see a bearded stick fiddler drinking freakmilk from a weird creature

[maurvir]

[DukeofNuke]

"REMEMBER WHAT YOU'RE FIGHTING FOR, MEN!"

[DukeofNuke]

Here's one for mauvir:

Railway company sues workers over train crash
The Norfolk Southern Railway Co. lawsuit says locomotive engineer Kevin Tobergte and conductor Andrew Hall failed to reduce a train's speed and prevent its collision with another train.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the March 18 crash in Georgetown destroyed two Norfolk Southern locomotives, derailed 13 cars and caused a fire and temporary evacuation. The lawsuit says the men are liable for damages to railway property and costs related to removing spilled fuel.
http://www.wymt.com/content/news/Railwa ... 61153.html

[ukimalefu]

[TOS]

Here's one for mauvir:

Railway company sues workers over train crash
The Norfolk Southern Railway Co. lawsuit says locomotive engineer Kevin Tobergte and conductor Andrew Hall failed to reduce a train's speed and prevent its collision with another train.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the March 18 crash in Georgetown destroyed two Norfolk Southern locomotives, derailed 13 cars and caused a fire and temporary evacuation. The lawsuit says the men are liable for damages to railway property and costs related to removing spilled fuel.
http://www.wymt.com/content/news/Railwa ... 61153.html

holy crap what a precedent this could set

[ukimalefu]

[ukimalefu]

Dione, moon of Saturn

[ukimalefu]

[ukimalefu]

[maurvir]

[TOS]

the latest from juno

[ukimalefu]

believe it or not, it's not a cgi character from a kids movie

[Séamas]

The bird's name is the best part. Blue footed booby.

[maurvir]

This is the reconstructed face of a Bronze Age woman (called Ava) who lived in Scotland 3,700 years ago

[TOS]

funny how everyone from those days had fair complexions

[maurvir]

funny how everyone from those days had fair complexions

In fairness, light skin and reddish hair both came about as a result of moving to the more northern latitudes, so that probably isn't as far off as you might imagine.

[dv]

funny how everyone from those days had fair complexions

3700 years ago isn't very long, and the genetic markers for light skin are pretty well known. I would assume they checked those.

edit: oh, and:

[DukeofNuke]

Looks more like John Legend than Ian Gillian ...

[Aaron_R]

I was going to say it looked like jimmy kimmel

[Mustapha Mond]

Wasn’t that a guess at what Jesus looked like?

[dv]

Wasn’t that a guess at what Jesus looked like?

yup

[ukimalefu]

Those faces are artistic representations of an estimate. All you can say is that face fits that skull and since the person lived in that area most likely looked like that.

Again "artistic representation". But yeah, the artist could make them have bad skin, or be fat, or whatever.

[user]

I was thinking that she was too pretty.

[Metacell]

funny how everyone from those days had fair complexions

In fairness, light skin and reddish hair both came about as a result of moving to the more northern latitudes, so that probably isn't as far off as you might imagine.

Baloney, nothing about moving north makes one fair-skinned or red-haired. Ask the Aleut/Inuk/Eskimo people who've actually physically evolved there over many thousands of years, possessing actual physical adaptations to Arctic climate. the first Homo Sapiens settlers to Europe were black Africans and they didn't get lighter, they got displaced and absorbed. However, the ancestors of the Celtic people, who were the whitest of the white offshoots of the central Asian ancestors of the Slavs, were quite well established in Northern Europe 3700 years ago.

[maurvir]

funny how everyone from those days had fair complexions

In fairness, light skin and reddish hair both came about as a result of moving to the more northern latitudes, so that probably isn't as far off as you might imagine.

Baloney, nothing about moving north makes one fair-skinned or red-haired. Ask the Aleut/Inuk/Eskimo people who've actually physically evolved there over many thousands of years, possessing actual physical adaptations to Arctic climate. the first Homo Sapiens settlers to Europe were black Africans and they didn't get lighter, they got displaced and absorbed. However, the ancestors of the Celtic people, who were the whitest of the white offshoots of the central Asian ancestors of the Slavs, were quite well established in Northern Europe 3700 years ago.

Hmm, it seems you are right: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... story.html

Learn something every day.

[ukimalefu]

the truth is, we're all cylons