Something cool thread

[Ellis]

http://www.airpano.com/360Degree-Vir...Cairo-Pyramids

Get multiple 360 degree views of the Pyramids in Egypt.
The site also has apps for other landmarks like the Taj Mahal.

[Ellis]

Just a great image of a sculpture...
The Veiled Lady

[S.T.real,lights,out]

From a few weeks ago....not sure if this was posted.

http://gizmodo.com/5946460/google-ma...treet-view-now

[China]

Time lapse video of the Space Shuttle's trip through L.A.:

http://framework.latimes.com/2012/10...ek-across-l-a/

[China]

Cypress Hill Played Through a Squid: Insane in the Membrane, Indeed



Click on the link for the full article

[Koolblue13]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20026938


What a white whale might look like

Researchers in the US have been shocked to discover a beluga whale whose vocalisations were remarkably close to human speech.

While dolphins have been taught to mimic the pattern and durations of sounds in human speech, no animal has spontaneously tried such mimicry.

But researchers heard a nine-year-old whale named NOC make sounds octaves below normal, in clipped bursts.

The researchers outline in Current Biology just how NOC did it.

The first mystery, though, was figuring out where the sound was coming from.

When a diver at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in California surfaced saying, "Who told me to get out?" the researchers there knew they had another example on their hands.

--If you go to the link you can listen and yes, it sounds like a person talking to you, just mumbled. This is amazing. A whale is teaching itself to speak to us. Probably to ask us WTF we are doing.

[Koolblue13]

http://www.mysmallhomestead.com/2009...s-for-vinegar/

have been having a problem with lint accumulating on different clothing when we line dry them. I researched the problem and learned that this often comes from a clogged filter in the washing machine. The suggested remedy is a cup of white vinegar run through a cycle every month. Now I knew that vinegar was good for coffee pots but I didn’t translate that to other appliances.

- Lower your dependency on oil, chemicals and plastic and save a ton of money.

[China]

--If you go to the link you can listen and yes, it sounds like a person talking to you, just mumbled. This is amazing. A whale is teaching itself to speak to us. Probably to ask us WTF we are doing.

Sounds like a drunk person mumble-singing a song through a kazoo.

[Ellis]

VERY interesting!!
If anyone could explain the behavior of the magnet and the copper pipe, I would appreciate it.

[HBnotBlades]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=3EEW44onpHc

VERY interesting!!
If anyone could explain the behavior of the magnet and the copper pipe, I would appreciate it.

Ahhh, a classic example of Lenz's Law. The video is quite dramatic for a demonstration of one of the basic principles of electromagnetism, but that guy doesn't seem like he's that grounded in reality.

As the magnet falls through the pipe it creates a moving magnetic field. A magnetic field that moves across a conductive material will induce a current in that material. This is how electric generators work. A copper wire wrapped around a spinning magnet will see a changing magnetic field and thus, will see a current.



The example with the pipe takes it a step further. The moving magnet induces a current in the copper pipe, but that current generates it's own magnetic field and that field will exactly oppose the one that created it. Basically, as the magnet moves it creates a magnetic field that opposes its own movement. The stronger the magnet, the stronger the opposing magnetic force will be and the closer it will come to "defying gravity".

EDIT: I found a great site with gifs explaining what's happening! http://regentsprep.org/Regents/physi...aw/default.htm

Here's the example of the opposing magnetic fields, the blue circular arrows represent the field that's resisting the movement of the magnet.

[China]

This is not a photograph, it's a pencil drawing:



The drawing in progress:

[10]

[S.T.real,lights,out]

^^^wow, that is awesome!

[Dan T.]

Miniature pencil sculpture

[DaGoonie55]

.....just wow. I don't have that much skill in anything I do. Just amazing.