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Kung fu nuns of Nepal.

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NASA Voyager Probe Experiences Three ‘Tsunami Waves’ in Interstellar Space

Mars will lose its largest moon, but gain a ring

Mars’ largest moon, Phobos, is slowly falling toward the planet, but rather than smash into the surface, it likely will be shredded and the pieces strewn about the planet in a ring like the rings encircling Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.

UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Benjamin Black and graduate student Tushar Mittal estimate the cohesiveness of Phobos and conclude that it is insufficient to resist the tidal forces that will pull it apart when it gets closer to Mars.

Mars tugs differently on different parts of Phobos. As Phobos gets closer to the planet, the tugs are enough to actually pull the moon apart, the scientists say. This is because Phobos is highly fractured, with lots of pores and rubble. “Dismembering it is analogous to pulling apart a granola bar”, Black said, “scattering crumbs and chunks everywhere.”

Read more about the fate of Phobos

SEMENTINE 

[adjective] 

pertaining to sowing; of the time of seeding fields. 

Etymology: ultimately derived from Latin semen, “seed of plants, animals or men; inborn characteristic; posterity; progeny; offspring,” figuratively, “origin, essence, principle, cause”.

[J. R. Slattum - Seed]

Shooting in Midtown, Manhattan, getting soaked in the pouring rain. This kind of mood is something I’ve been trying to capture for a long time now, I spent about an hour out in the water and shot frames until my camera died.

Photography by Dave Krugman, @dave.krugman on Instagram.

Slap it. Shoot it. Kaboot it.

Gandhi (via nezua)

Shadow illusion

The human brain uses shadows to interpret how objects move. By faking the shadow, one can fake the perceived motion of an object. The red circle moves along a line.

Interactive version:

http://www.malinc.se/m/ModellingIllusions.php