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Tech NewsStar Wars Merchandising Is Even More Absurd Outside the US
Human culture has reached a point of no return. The overwhelming barrage of Star Wars merchandise has pulverized the last remaining crumbs of our consumer dignity. Consider this product and cry with us: Star Wars Chicken Hot Dogs with Built-in Ketchup. And it gets worse. The following photos were taken at ten separate supermarkets in … Continued
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Here’s a Rare View of the Soyuz Launch From the Hellish Flame Trench
NASA photographer Joel Kowsky found quite an unusual place to set up one of his remote controlled cameras for this morning’s Soyuz TMA-19M rocket launch: the concrete flame trench, which is intended to vent the exhaust away. Before this, I’d never seen the very first moment of a Soyuz rocket ignition from this point of … Continued
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This Light Painting Pays Tribute to a Classic 1949 Navy Photograph
Navy photographer Eric C. Burgett pays homage to a classic 1949 Life magazine photoseries in this gorgeous shot of an MV-22 Osprey taking off from the Navy’s amphibious assault ship USS Boxer. Compare it to this 66-year-old masterpiece taken by Andreas Feininger for Life magazine: The Slinky-like light pattern was produced by a time-exposure of … Continued
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Photographs Capture What Life is Like in One of the World’s Dirtiest Pits
In the wake of the Paris Climate Agreement, it is pretty shocking to see these photographs taken in the Shanxi province in Northern China. Shanxi is the leading producer of coal in the most populated country in the world, with about 260 billion metric tons of coal deposits, a third of China’s total. The region … Continued
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This Is How the Largest U.S. Military Airplane Gets Stripped Down
You need a large room to strip and reassemble an airplane—especially when it’s the biggest one in your fleet. In this panoramic photo you can see a half assembled Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy during a major inspection at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. All C-5 aircraft in the U.S. Air Force inventory undergo an … Continued
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The Graceful Voyage of a Mountain-Sized Section of Aircraft Carrier
This strange sight is part of a new Royal Navy aircraft carrier–without the actual carrier part–as it makes its way along the hazy River Clyde on its journey from BAE Systems’ shipyard in Glasgow to Rosyth. The 750-tonne steel superstructure will control aircraft operations on HMS Prince of Wales, the UK’s next large warship, which … Continued
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Why Is NASA Building This Giant Soccer Ball?
Because it has a goal! But a different kind of goal to the ones found in soccer: instead, it’s one to put American astronauts on Mars. This bright white ball–a radome, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida–is one of the numerous steps in the ground systems development crucial to achieving that aim. In the … Continued
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This Navy Ship Looks Like It Is Sailing Through Interstellar Clouds
A spaceship navigates interstellar cosmic dust and plasma clouds in the photograph above— or rather, a U.S. Navy ship sails the sea under a starry sky. It was taken on December 7, and the spacey effects are due to the weather not being clear. You’re looking at the aft section of the dock landing ship … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightCygnus Has Safely Made It to the ISS
The Cygnus cargo vehicle that launched on Sunday has safely arrived at the International Space Station, where it was successfully captured via robot arm by NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren at 6:19 a.m. EST. The image above, which was tweeted by Cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, shows Cygnus shortly before it arrived at the ISS. The unmanned … Continued
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There’s an Entire City Hidden Beneath This Thick Layer of Fog
Last night, Pécs, the fifth largest city in Hungary, was completely engulfed in thick early-December fog running off the slopes of the nearby mountains. Only the upper half of the 197 meter-tall TV Tower, standing on the top of the 535 meter-high Misina Mountain, was visible from a neighbour peak. The result is this remarkable … Continued
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East Literally Meets West in This Hybrid Building
Have you ever tried to imagine what a building built from one half US Capitol, and one half Beijing’s Temple of Heaven would look like? Somebody in China has, and you can see the result in the image above. This is not a Photoshopped image. The three-to-four-story building is a real duplitecture gem, currently under … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch This Enormous Floating Crane Lift a Giant Piece of an Offshore Gas Platform
As a fan of huge machineries I have watched this time lapse video at least five times in a row, and I am still speechless. It was produced by News On Request for Norwegian multinational oil and gas company Statoil, and you can watch how an amazingly huge section of the Aasta Hansteen offshore rig … Continued
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Here’s How You Transport a 200-Foot Rocket: Very Carefully
Having an Antonov AN-124 Ruslan, one of the largest cargo airplanes in the world (only the Antonov An-225 Mriya is bigger) is a key part of this operation. This photo above, taken from a distance, shows perfectly how huge the Ruslan really is. Look at the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 stage—about 60 meters … Continued
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This Airplane Looks Like It May Have Flown Back to the Future
We don’t know if Doc Brown worked on this F/A-18C Hornet, seen here taking off. We don’t know if it had a Flux capacitor on board. We also don’t know if it was only traveling at 88 mph when this photo was taken, although it seems unlikely. However, we do know it looks like it’s … Continued
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The Graceful Moment When a Commando Boat Goes Airborne
Airdrop operations never cease to amaze me. This photo shows a special training moment frozen in time: a commando boat slipping out of a Lockheed MC-130J transport aircraft. An MC-130J Commando II from the 9th Special Operations Squadron airdrops a Maritime Craft Aerial Delivery System over the Gulf of Mexico during a training exercise, Nov. … Continued
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An Up-Close Look at The Exclusive Engine for The Next Airbus
Rolls-Royce Holdings has just released this cool factory photograph of their newest large turbofan aircraft engine, the Trent 7000. It’s the seventh generation of their Trent family, and built exclusively for the upcoming Airbus airliner, the A330neo. The Airbus A330neo, successor to the Airbus A330, will be a wide-body twin-engine jet airliner, and its Trent … Continued
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14 Exquisite Clandestine Cameras From The Golden Age of Espionage
The upcoming rare cameras auctions at Bonhams will feature rare photography equipment and accessories crafted by iconic manufacturers (Hasselblad, Leica, Nikon, Rolleiflex just to name a few). But for those who are fond of the history of spying, the real stars of the event on December 3 in Hong Kong) will be these spy-worthy clandestine … Continued
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MRI of Mother and Child Shows Love Through The Eyes of Science
MIT neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe captured this stunning MRI image of herself and her child inside a 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging scanner, creating an emotionally striking yet abstract work of art. Saxe wrote about this image in Smithsonian Magazine: To some people, this image was a disturbing reminder of the fragility of human beings. Others … Continued
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The World’s Largest Radio Telescope Dish Is Taking Shape Like a Giant Puzzle
Within a year, the world’s current largest single-dish radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, will lose its title. It will instead be usurped by this: the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Pingtang County, China. As you can see in this photo taken on November 26th, the construction is well … Continued
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The Only Thing NASA Is Better At Than Space Exploration: Making Up Acronyms
The sounding rocket you can see above will be launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the 4th of December, and according to NASA it “will be MUSIC to the ears of aspiring and early career engineers testing new space technology on a suborbital vehicle.” That’s because the name of the payload stands for Multiple … Continued
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