michael:we started testing the Dihedra animation this past week. it’s all starting to come together and we’re very excited. some photos here.

Lucas Debari from Shock Mansion

Six of the 18 James Webb Space Telescope mirror segments are being prepped to move into the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, or XRCF, at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. (NASA:proofmathisbeautiful:macmankev)

Astronaut Leroy Chiao, Expedition 10 commander and NASA ISS science officer, watches a water bubble float between him and the camera, showing his image refracted, on the International Space Station. (via:proofmathisbeautiful)

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Orange - sigfus (proofmathisbeautiful:)

Crack spreading in brittle solids such as rocks or ceramics involves mechanisms that span a vast range of scales: a, macroscopic metre-scale events, for example rock fracture caused by an earthquake; b, mesoscopic micrometre-scale evolution of cracks; c, atomistic nanometrescale details of the geometry of the crack tip; and d, breaking of chemical bonds at the angstrom scale. Via.

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Kostiuk Laboratory at Night

The Droste effect. Clever Wikipedians. “The effect is named after a particular image that appeared, with variations, on the tins and boxes of Droste cocoa powder, one of the main Dutch brands.”

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Niagara Falls dewatered by the Army Corps of Engineers - 1969

Yangtze, The Long River by Nadav Kander (bigfun)

Anti-Paparazzi flash device (timoreilly)