the secret of bananas – caught on tape
The Sneeze reveals the secret of bananas, just when they thought they were safe.
And not without controversy.
Voyager 2 Detects Odd Shape of Solar System’s Edge
“Voyager 2 could pass beyond the outermost layer of our solar system, called the “termination shock,” sometime within the next year, NASA scientists announced at a media teleconference today.
The milestone, which comes about a year after Voyager 1’s crossing, comes earlier than expected and suggests to scientists that the edge of the shock is about one billion miles closer to the Sun in the southern region of the solar system than in the north.
This implies that the heliosphere, a spherical bubble of charged low-energy particles created by our Sun’s solar wind, is irregularly shaped, bulging in the northern hemisphere and pressed inward in the south.”
Flashy goggles combat space sickness
from NewScientist.com news service
“Goggles that simulate a strobe-lighting effect could prevent the nauseating effects of space sickness – and that of more down-to-Earth travel.
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Reschke suggests astronauts could wear the glasses during the early part of space missions to help them adjust. This would be preferable to anti-motion sickness drugs, which frequently make people drowsy.”
Maybe there is hope yet for those of us who can get queasy turning around to fast on an office chair…
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The Robotic Giraffe
The Robotic Giraffe – Popular Science
The Robotic Giraffe
It walks, it blinks, it seats six, and it blasts Kraftwerk: Meet one man’s 17-foot-tall pet project
It started with a seven-inch walking toy giraffe and a desire to see Burning Man from a higher vantage point. A year later, Lindsay Lawlor rode into the desert art festival atop Rave Raffe, a 1,700-pound robotic giraffe sporting 40 strobes, 400 LEDs and bone-shaking speakers.
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11/7/2008 The Popular Science page is gone, here is the Electric Giraffe home page
LiveScience.com – Light Travels Backward and Faster than Light
LiveScience.com – Light Travels Backward and Faster than Light
It sounds nuts, but a scientist says his team has made light go backward. And this is not a simple trick of mirrors.
Previous work has slowed light to a crawl. But in the new research, a pulse of light is given a negative speed and—as if just to make your head spin—the researcher says the experiment made light appear to exceed its theoretical speed limit. Link
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Man builds 90-ton scale model of cruise ship in back yard
François Zenella, an ex-coal miner, spent 25,000 hours building a 90-ton one-eigth scale model of Royal Caribbean International’s cruise liner, the Majesty of the Seas. In his back yard. He launched it in 2005 and has sailed it ever since. Link via Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
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Welcome to Observe the Banana
Some links, some stories, some interesting things, some observations of the world around me . . . all here for your enjoyment.
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