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Minute physics: There is no pink Nope, none. Pink does not...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:42:15 -0400

Minute physics: There is no pink

Nope, none. Pink does not actually exist. I’m a fan of pink, as you may have noticed from the design of this website, but it doesn’t actually exist. It’s your brain inventing the color because it doesn’t know what else to put there. So… tada.

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abluegirl: The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24,...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:11:39 -0400

abluegirl:

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990. Since then, it has provided us with some amazing images of stars, nebulae, galaxies and other objects. It is expected to function until 2014, when it will be replaced by the James Webb Telescope.

To celebrate the launch date of the HST, here are some Hubble facts, via space.com:

Hubble facts

The Hubble Space Telescope is a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency. Here are some basic facts about the telescope and the mission, courtesy the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which operates Hubble for NASA:

Telescope size

Length: 43.5 ft (13.2 m)

Weight: 24,500 lb (11,110 kg)

Maximum Diameter: 14 ft (4.2 m)

Mission facts

Launch: April 24, 1990 from space shuttle Discovery (STS-31)

Deployment: April 25, 1990

Servicing Mission 1: December 1993

Servicing Mission 2: February 1997

Servicing Mission 3A: December 1999

Servicing Mission 3B: February 2002

Servicing Mission 4: May 2009

Spaceflight stats

Orbit: Average altitude of 307 nautical miles (569 km, or 353 miles), inclined 28.5 degrees to the equator.

Time to Complete one orbit: 97 minutes

Speed: 17,500 mph (28,000 kph)

Data data

Hubble transmits about 120 gigabytes of science data every week. That would be roughly 3,600 feet (1,097 meters) of books on a shelf. The collection of pictures and data is stored on magneto-optical disks.

Power

Energy Source: The Sun

Mechanism: Two 25-foot solar panels

Power usage: 2,800 watts

Batteries: 6 nickel-hydrogen (NiH), with a storage capacity equal to 20 car batteries

Optics

Primary Mirror Diameter: 94.5 in (2.4 m)

Primary Mirror Weight: 1,825 lb (828 kg)

Secondary Mirror Diameter: 12 in (0.3 m)

Secondary Mirror Weight: 27.4 lb (12.3 kg)

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neo-constructivist: (via Light Matters: Louis Kahn and the...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:13:36 -0400

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(via Light Matters: Louis Kahn and the Power of Shadow | ArchDaily)

cameile: Xiao Wen Ju backstage at Cacharel S/S 2013 | Paris

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:04:43 -0400

cameile:

Xiao Wen Ju backstage at Cacharel S/S 2013 | Paris

130423 - halibut and kimchi soup w/ cabbage and lamb

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:38:00 -0400

130423 - halibut and kimchi soup w/ cabbage and lamb

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aninventoryofthepossible: On the modern woman “Having It All.”

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:39:44 -0400

aninventoryofthepossible:

On the modern woman “Having It All.”

n-architektur: Teleférico de Gaia Francisco Vieira de Campos +...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:55:15 -0400

n-architektur:

Teleférico de Gaia

Francisco Vieira de Campos + Cristina Guedes

Photographed by Camille Boulicault

n-architektur: facade by morbs06

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:54:33 -0400

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facade by morbs06

earthtreesandotherthings: GravityONE: A Choreography for...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:53:00 -0400

earthtreesandotherthings:

GravityONE: A Choreography for Militarized Airspace by Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu

The remote territories of the Australian Never Never are anything but empty. The history of these landscapes is one of nuclear testing, rocket launches and black military technologies. The skies over this red earth are scarred with the contrails of experimental weapons flights and charged with the militarized electromagnetic waves that reach out to US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Forgotten, somewhere in this landscape, is an abandoned missile tracking station. From here something else is being launched, a choreographed flock of autonomous gliders, to drift through the air in silent protest. Floating on engineered thermal currents their wingspan antennas broadcast white noise through the electromagnetic landscapes over Australia’s Pine Gap military base, momentarily jamming their telecommunications signals.

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less-ismore: Constant Nieuwenhuys, New Babylon, 1963. “Nomadic...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:32:18 -0400

less-ismore:

Constant Nieuwenhuys, New Babylon, 1963.

“Nomadic Urbanities: Constant’s New Babylon and the
Contemporary City”, by Judie Nichols.

“Constant”, by Linda Boersma.

“Consecuencias de ‘New Babylon’”, de Angelique Trachana,

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