View Comments Cory Poole created this video of the 2012 Annular Eclipse by using over 700 photographs shot with a telescope that “has a very narrow bandpass allowing you to see the chromosphere and not the much brighter photosphere below it.”
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Jack Cook and Howard Perlman’s illustration of all the water on Earth as a single sphere showed up on Buzzfeed a week ago, but it just seemed to small to be accurate. Turns out, it is.
Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth’s surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth’s radius. The above illustration shows what would happen if all of the water on or near the surface of the Earth were bunched up into a ball. The radius of this ball would be only about 700 kilometers, less than half the radius of the Earth’s Moon, but slightly larger than Saturn’s moon Rhea which, like many moons in our outer Solar System, is mostly water ice.
View Comments RockyPlanetesimal celebrates the simplistic beauty of side-scrolling video games to Michael Nyman’s “A Wild And Distant Shore.”
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Redditor Insightfrankfurt discovered an easter egg in a 2009 patent filing for a touchscreen Mac that shows just how highly Apple thinks of its products.
At least it looks more normal than this one.
View Comments View Comments A Santa Ana start-up called Liquipel is offering a vapor treatment that applies a “nano coating” to your phone that will prevent it from being damaged from accidental exposure to liquids. I’ll let this 90′s style informercial show you how it works.
The Liquipel site states that there are currently 11 different kinds of phones (Apple iPhone 3G through 4S; HTC Evo 4G, Shift 4G, MyTouch 4G and Thunderbolt; Motorola Droid X and X2; and Samsung Charge) that can be treated for $59.
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