The time-lapse starfield has been edited to show the rotation of the Earth from the point of view of the stars.
Category Archives: Video
Meanwhile, at the All-You-Can-Drink Buffet
Close-up of a mosquito drinking her fill, getting fat
Becoming a Fan o' Flow
Dance it Up, Furball!
Every year the Disney theme parks host a Star Wars weekend, which means one thing: more demented “Dancing with the Star Wars Cast” videos. But 2011 may be our new favorite. We give you Chewbacca grinding to Guns N’ Roses.
Eggs Slowly Over Easy
Breakfast Interrupted, A Perfect Breakfast Meets Slow Motion Mayhem
“Breakfast Interrupted” is a whimsical slow motion ode to breakfast. The video begins with luscious imagery of a lavish breakfast spread, before slow motion mayhem begins at the 25 second mark. “Breakfast, Interrupted” is the creation of Bruton Stroube Studios, a St. Louis production company with a focus on food and beverage commercials. They’ve also posted a making of video for the slow mo curious.
Water Helps Them Relax
cm-scale origamis unfolding when placed on the surface of water, as the paper absorbs the water from capillary action.
Houston, We Have a Negative on that Trajectory
Pair of Ducks? No, it's a Buttered Cat!
Those who have tackled the problem as a thought experiment (meaning, no cats were harmed) have come to the conclusion that the buttered cat would stop falling at some point above the floor. Then, as the cat tries to orient its feet against the attraction of the butter to the floor, the cat would begin spinning -and never stop. The result could be called a true perpetual motion machine.
The claim is that the kinetic energy of the buttered (or jellied) cat is converted into rotational energy as the cat hovers; in that sense it is not necessarily an over-unity device since the cat could then slow down as you tapped into that energy.
Score…a Direct Hit!
Comet hits and there is a coronal mass ejection. Acausal, though.
NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted the ill-fated comet diving toward the sun between Tuesday and Wednesday (May 10 and 11), never to be seen again.
By coincidence, a massive explosion on the sun called a coronal mass ejection also erupted at about the same time.
Peter Pan Science
What is a scientist? It’s someone who never stopped being a kid.