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Stream of consciousness

A plant in Madeira, that’s all.

29 Sep 201920 Sep 2019
The inverted google image search gave me a Mexican plant. This is Madeira, though. Google doesn't know everything (yet, thankfully). Do you? What kind of plant is this? © 2019…
Stream of consciousness

Technically, we still haven’t imaged the actual black hole…

26 Sep 201924 Sep 2019
Alright, that's not just nitpicking, that's misunderstanding what language is for. This, right there, with its global network of collaborators turning their telescopes on the same object at given times,…
Stream of consciousness

There’s a first try for everything

22 Sep 201920 Sep 2019
This one's, as you may have guessed, about making water streaming over stones look like silk. I thought, I'd stay away from the scene of the crime and rather crop…
Stream of consciousness

Make no mistake, we’re serious about this

19 Sep 201910 Sep 2019
Yes. We are on our way back. We have lost much of the knowledge that brought us there in the first place, but we are on our way back. When…
Stream of consciousness

Spooky beach

15 Sep 20197 Sep 2019
All powerful sun, lighting up a solar system...and here I stand, under a tiny cloud, as I apparently must, not getting its full blast in my face. Not that I…
Stream of consciousness

Remember a piece of history

12 Sep 20194 Sep 2019
The very first photograph of a solar eclipse: From the source:  Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski made the first solar eclipse photograph on July 28, 1851, also using the daguerrotype process,…
Stream of consciousness

From whence came you, stranger?

8 Sep 20195 Sep 2019
It is curious to realize that wet sand will keep footprints in it, while dry sand won't. I wonder whether it is as simple as a question of friction. Then,…
Stream of consciousness

When “up” and “down” lose their meaning…

5 Sep 201927 Aug 2019
You know, I can't wrap my head around the idea that "up" and "down" may lose their meaning. I mean, you'll still be there thinking of your scalp as the…
Stream of consciousness

When nature applies a warm-color-filter

1 Sep 201931 Aug 2019
It's actually Rayleigh-scatter we are talking about here. During the day, it gives you your blue sky, or at least it contributes to it. In the evening, however, a lot…

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