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My reaction to the media
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This showed up on my news-feed. Just thought Id leave it here.
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Cockpit Photos
Check out this awesome photo from 500px: http://500px.com/photo/34457888
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In a sketch prepared in November 1964, Dr. Wernher von Braun envisioned developing a Saturn V S-II Stage into a space station.
Drawn here in Huntsville. They resurrected one of the Saturn V engines and fired it on a test stand a couple months ago.
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Frédéric François Chopin
Louis-Auguste Bisson
Daguerreotype
c. 1849(via paradoxically-free)
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Galaxy S4: Worth the Upgrade? (Spoiler - YES)
I’ve decided the reason I upgraded from the Galaxy S3 to the Galaxy S4 is because I don’t have enough self loathing in my life. Seriously. It’s not like they’re that different. If I see someone walking down the street carrying the S3 or S4, I’m not going to know which is which. Or really care. But I bought the S4 anyway. Because you know… all the new and shiny.
Even before I pulled the trigger I kept looking at the updated specs of the S4. A nicer screen, more megapixels in the camera. More gestures. More gimmicks. Bigger battery. And all the new and shiny. It’s a compulsion. I couldn’t stop myself. I ordered it.
Since I decided on the Nexus 4, I’ll probably just stick with it but the HTC One is tempting.
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Centerbody Flames
The images shown are photographs of ethylene/air/nitrogen diffusion flames stabilized behind a bluff centerbody. The two images on the top show the centerbody flame photographed from the side (top left) and top views (top right). The blue regions are associated with the flame front and the other colors of the flame are largely due to blackbody radiation from the soot. The intense yellow radiation is from soot trapped in a tight ring vortex downstream of the stabilizing bluff body. The motion of the soot trapped in the vortex can be seen in the longer exposure photograph taken from the top.
The bottom two images are of a centerbody flame with the same inlet flow velocities as the case shown above but with higher nitrogen content in the feed gases. The image on the lower left shows a blue ring flame that forms around the main flame immediately downstream of the centerbody. This blue ring flame exhibits a slight oscillation in the vertical direction. The image on the lower right shows the region downstream of the ring flame for the same conditions. The disturbances in the downstream region of the flame are amplified as it passes through the tube, resulting in the large structures shown in the short exposure (0.8 ms) photo.
Credit: Scott Stouffer, Garth Justinger (University of Dayton Research Institute), Mel Roquemore, Amy Lynch, Vince Belovich, Joe Zelina, Jim Gord (Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base), Keith Grinstead, Vish Katta and Kyle Frische (Innovative Scientific Solutions Incorporated)
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Whenever people argue about Windows vs. Mac, all I have to do is whisper Linux and the argument stops. Then everyone looks at me like I’m That Guy who uses dynamite when you’re playing rock-paper-scissors.
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Sony’s new Android smartphone, the Sony Xperia ZR, can be submerged 5 feet underwater — and lets you shoot full HD videos there.
