I kept trying to upload a bunch of these GIFs but they were too big and I was too lazy to convert them. Look up 3D nebula gifs, they are super awesome.
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The Least Dangerous Game
A blag about engineering, photography, cooking, music, good book quotes, some car racing, and maybe more.
Saw this and got curious about how old my gmail is. I think it makes me an internet hipster with a start date of August 2004.
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The Impossible Girl: Anatomy of a Decision
So, I got invited to the Antares Rocket launch at the Wallops Facility in Virginia. Which is amazing.
But now I face the decision, to go or not to go.
Obviously, the answer is to go. ROCKET LAUNCH!
Less obvious are the reasons not to go:
1) What I thought would be a 2 day event has…
Rocket launches are fucking awesome! However I dont think they send anything big up from Wallops. If it were me I’d probably go, but you have to go down to KSC and watch a Delta IV Heavy or Aries, or a Falcon 9 launch. Big rockets are so fun to watch go up. I am absolutely sure out have fans who are government employees out there who could get you on facility for it. If not the public areas to watch are pretty close to LC39 and the like.
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waves of panic because i have been asked to come and speak with a few teenagers at a high school about why i choose science and what it means to be a woman in a traditionally male field.
basically:
- i am the only girl in a class of 20 (mechanical engineering, btw)
- i am patronized.
- i am pitied.
- my peers question my high grades because they believe that profs favour me because i am the only girl.
- everything is fucking unfair.
so:
yes, teenage girls.
choose science. more girls in the science field will educate people about what women are capable of, and gender stereotypes will start to disappear. so that my generation is the last one to experience this stupidity.
Seriously, holy shit I do not envy you guys, I have several friends who left engineering because of that bull shit.
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when people say “i dont believe in science”
what are you even talking about
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![lamamama:
“But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.”
- Charles Darwin, in a letter dated October 1, 1861 [x]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc5iyanenu1qac0gjo1_400.jpg)
“But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.”
- Charles Darwin, in a letter dated October 1, 1861 [x]
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By now…you should probably know that i uhh..like beards
This has happened to me at almost every party ive been to in the past month. I never know the correct reaction beside drunkenly giggling.
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The video above shows vortex rings of smoke ejected from the burning tire of a moving truck. Without seeing the damaged tire, it’s tough to pinpoint the cause with certainty, but here are a couple of ideas. Typically vortex rings are formed with a burst of air through a narrow orifice; this is, for example, how humans, dolphins, vortex cannons, and volcanoes all make smoke rings. If air is escaping the tire through small holes, this could cause rings. Unlike in those situations, though, the tire is spinning, which means its motion is already imparting vorticity to the flow, so that any air escaping the tire forms a vortex ring. (Video credit: The Armory; submitted by eruditebaboon)
Not correct. The smoke rings are being ejected from the engine which seems to be going through an internal failure and leaking large amounts of un-burnt gas into the exhaust.
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