19 month ago
plasticbag : A planet has been found that's only 1.5 times the size of earth and appears to have liquid water running on its surface... - Wow. That's pretty amazing. What interests me is twofold. Firstly, obviously, is there life. Secondly, if there isn't, how easy would it be to introduce some?
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24 month ago
philgyford : World Map - countries of the world - Educational map game (my geography is terrible). (via Haddock)
plasticbag : Identify the countries of the world in a big Flash World Map Game! - I got 36. I can't tell if that's good or not. I suspect it's not the greatest.
jkottke : Test: how well can you pick out countries on a map of the world? - Test yourself: how well can you pick out countries on a map of the world? I got a 59 my first time through...better than I thought I would do. (via plasticbag) [via]
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25 month ago
plasticbag : The Hubble Deep Field - A rather grandiose narrative and some Pink Floyd and pan pipes can't quite obfuscate the idea that in the tiniest patch of our darkest night sky lurk tens of thousands of galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars...
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philgyford : Doom_1.php - Graphic illustrating what would happen to Earth if humans vanished.
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26 month ago
deusx : Damn Interesting - The Gravity Express - "One interesting property of the Gravity Express is that its transit time would always be very, very close to forty-two minutes regardless of the distance travelled."
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26 month ago
jkottke : Bob Holmes imagines an earth without people in New Scientist - Bob Holmes imagines an earth without people in New Scientist. "All things considered, it will only take a few tens of thousands of years at most before almost every trace of our present dominance has vanished completely. Alien visitors coming to Earth 100
philgyford : Imagine Earth without people - life - 12 October 2006 - New Scientist - What would happen to the world if we all vanished. (via Boing Boing)
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Breathing Earth - I'm not normally one for large Flash visualisations, but this representation of people being born, dying and the different countries of the world expelling CO2 is quite extraordinarily beautiful and informative...
jkottke : Breathing Earth is a map of the earth that shows, in realtime, births, deaths, and carbon dioxide consumption of the world's countries - Breathing Earth is a map of the earth that shows, in realtime, births, deaths, and carbon dioxide consumption of the world's countries. Mesmerizing to watch. (via snarkmarket) [via]
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27 month ago
deusx : Damn Interesting � How Bacteria Nearly Destroyed All Life - "the cautionary tale catalogued in ancient rocks warns us that the environment is certainly not impervious to the actions of those living in it."
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31 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Using the New 3D Warehouse Network Link - Un moyen de trouver les modèles SketchUp qui ont été placés sur la vue courante de Google Earth. [via] #
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32 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Be worried, be very worried - Mar 26, 2006 - Be worried, be very worried - Mar 26, 2006: The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame
deusx : CNN.com - Be worried, be very worried - Mar 26, 2006 - "No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth."
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32 month ago
deusx : New Scientist News - And life created continents... - "Life might, in the end, be responsible for the presence of continents on Earth."
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39 month ago
kellan : this not a simulation! - Gorgeous movie of MESSENGER Earth fly by over a 24 hour period #
deusx : jwz - not a simulation! - "It was 270,847 miles (435,885 kilometers) away from Earth - farther than the Moon's orbit - when it snapped the last image on Aug. 3."
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49 month ago
plasticbag : The terrible consequences of love between heavenly bodies - A cartoon about passion and loss at enormous scales
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55 month ago
deusx : Solar wind to shield Earth during pole flip
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