This sucker is about 70 kilometers long:
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I have friend who has been trapped in a mostly underground research facility at the South Pole since early winter. She recently broke her foot, which is just tough luck because nobody gets out of there until spring, which is, I think, in October.
This will remind you of the stroy of Dr. Jerri…
HT to :: the
Core 4 :: for the link to the newest
href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08362">picture
of Saturn.
The complete image file is over 35MB. You would
need a 4088x2908 monitor to see the whole thing at full
resolution.
This is one where you have to use your…
It is called Comet Elenin.
Latest indications are this relatively small comet has broken into even smaller, even less significant, chunks of dust and ice. This trail of piffling particles will remain on the same path as the original comet, completing its unexceptional swing through the inner…
NASA's Dawn space ship is getting closer to the asteroid Vesta, and has produced a very short movie. The movie is a compilation of 20 frames, shown here repeating several times:
This movie shows surface details beginning to resolve as NASA's Dawn spacecraft closes in on the giant asteroid Vesta.…
Such nice big healthy sperm. What can we deduce from this? It's very likely that the species has wide sexual dimorphism. So, we should be watching for some evidence of very small females.
Wow! That's a mighty great depression there. Must have been a dramatic collapse. Perhaps due to the failure of rulles.
Mars is a giant ovum?
No, it's a giant golf club, like a giant 3 wood or something (I know squat about golf). That's clearly hitting a ball off a tee there.
Further evidence for "Big Man", the Gargantuan Paul-Bunyan-oid legend in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy.
Just one sperm? No wonder the Martians went extinct with such a low sperm count.
This reminds me of an old science fiction story....oh, yeah.