amazing science/nature images
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DEyncourt wrote: Tweet of a collection of images taken by Rosetta near its comet.
According to a later tweet: these pictures were taken over 25 minutes. It shows the debris from gas jets plus stars in the background.
The Bad Astronomer explains. He also includes a second video made by the same person who made the first one, but it is stabilized on the stars in the background.
In both of the shown videos at the link--original and star-stabilized--the short video is repeated twice at "original" speed, then repeated twice slowed down, then repeated twice slowed down even more.
BTW: the reason why I always link back to a tweet rather than try to post a Twitter graphic--animated or not--here is that when I have done this all -I- see is:
Image
Perhaps this is due to my (overly paranoid?) suspicion of JavaScripting.
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Perhaps this is due to my (overly paranoid?) suspicion of JavaScripting.
DEyncourt wrote: BTW: the reason why I always link back to a tweet rather than try to post a Twitter graphic--animated or not--here is that when I have done this all -I- see is:
Image
Perhaps this is due to my (overly paranoid?) suspicion of JavaScripting.
to post twitter images, you first need to get them to open in a new tab, then you can get the proper url. But with a gif you can't because twitter turns it into a video, but it still says "gif" on it, and that's a lie, I hate that.
Only imgur gifvs you can turn back to a real gif just by removing the v at the end.
DEyncourt wrote: "Rescued Octopus came back to thank us!"
This incident happened somewhere on the Red Sea.
it's always fun to anthropomorphize
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ukimalefu wrote:DEyncourt wrote: BTW: the reason why I always link back to a tweet rather than try to post a Twitter graphic--animated or not--here is that when I have done this all -I- see is:
Image
Perhaps this is due to my (overly paranoid?) suspicion of JavaScripting.
to post twitter images, you first need to get them to open in a new tab, then you can get the proper url.
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Um, nope. That doesn't work for me.
I CAN cntl-click on that word "Image" (well, if it really a link. That one I posted above is only that word) and view it.
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DukeofNuke
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Elephant seal?
That's a female, then. The males are bigger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpT1u2lFkXs
That's a female, then. The males are bigger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpT1u2lFkXs
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dv wrote:DukeofNuke wrote: Elephant seal?
That's a female, then. The males are bigger.
Maybe a juvenile male? I'm pretty sure that's "competitive male" behavior, but dude thinks the car's a potential rival.
You know how guys can get.
Well it is a little truck
People that do not succeed in politics usually tell the truth too often.
If I could do that I'd probably do that, too.ukimalefu wrote:
University of Manchester "[s]cientists train spider to jump on demand".
Basically to understand the mechanics that jumping spiders used to see if engineers could use that knowledge in the development of micro-robots. Nearly all of the spiders they tried to train failed to understand what the scientists wanted, but they finally came across Kim who was willing to jump without requiring prey--which likely would have changed Kim's behavior from "just" jumping to attack--on the other platform.
Kim's particular spider species lives only for a year so she had died before the completion of this video which was why they were able to get a CT scan of Kim's body.
Basically to understand the mechanics that jumping spiders used to see if engineers could use that knowledge in the development of micro-robots. Nearly all of the spiders they tried to train failed to understand what the scientists wanted, but they finally came across Kim who was willing to jump without requiring prey--which likely would have changed Kim's behavior from "just" jumping to attack--on the other platform.
Kim's particular spider species lives only for a year so she had died before the completion of this video which was why they were able to get a CT scan of Kim's body.
