Weird Science

[Red7227]

You know all those weird facts you come across that just defy common sense but happen anyway. This is the place for them.

Slinky fact.
No matter how long a slinky is, if it is dropped the bottom will not move until the top has caught up with it.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

 

[Rose]

Way cool!

 

[Shaun__]

I think this video is interesting.

 

[Red7227]

Weirdness with surface tension

 

[SatanJonez]

Best thread ever. I hope you (and others) keep updating it. :dance:

 

[Red7227]

See game of thrones? Think all of that stuff about Ravens is BS?

Half the people I work with would not be able to figure this out.

 

[Sevrin]

I thought this was pretty cool.

 

[Red7227]

OK this is ridiculous. A paper microscope with 2,000 magnification.

Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash has developed a microscope made of paper that costs 50 cents to make. Using the magic of origami, the Foldscope device can focus through a sample mounted on a standard slide in micron-length steps. It can magnify objects 2,000 times with sub-micron resolution without needing any external power.

http://txchnologist.com/post/7925677765 ... scope-that

 

[Red7227]

Firing two identical smoke puffs at each other.

 

[MyraNorth]

 

[SinSeraTea]

Blue schist is my favourite rock. It is a metamorphic rock that only forms under mountains basically. Its similar to Garnet that way.

Particularly mountains where there is basalt and other basalt like rocks being put to serious heat and pressure. The lithosphere under mountains is pushed well into the mantle sometimes because of the crushing weight of the mountain on top of it. Or more commonly Blueschist is found in subduction zones around the world where there is oceanic basalt crust running into the mantle and catching on the continental crust above it.

Why I like it: This shit gets formed in tectonic plate crashing zones. How do we ever see it!? The short answer is that we don't actually know how it gets to the surface for us to marvel over it. That's part of the magic. We know it is more than simple uplift, and the only answers point that it may become displaced relative to other material around it... how? We may never know.

The result is stuff like this.

 

[Ambers Troll]

Have always loved the Darwin Awards.

Makes you think about the role of camming in human evolution.... the most undesirable of us men, such as myself, no longer feel the urge to chase women who will never have us. Women can feel free to select more suitable partners in our various societies, therefore improving the gene pool. :geek:

 

[Shaun__]

 

[Red7227]

A Chinese sculptor's paper art

[vimeo]54967505[/vimeo]

 

[Red7227]

Seen Mass effect? Seen Medigel? Meet VetiGel, the real thing.

 

[Red7227]

Random cool stuff

 

[JerryBoBerry]

More like Tech meets nature. But I thought it would fit in this thread. It's kind of cool.

 

[YelloMit]

Man, this movie was awesome! I loved it as a kid and Kelly LeBrock was such a babe.

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Oh, you're not talking about the movie.

 

[Amelia Liddell]

your kitchen is blue!!

:lol: okay and now for some actual sciency stuff: gifs of liquid DNA molecules crystallizing! (source: http://digg.com/2014/what-dna-looks-like-mssng)

 

[sciencesavvy89]

http://youtu.be/kL8R8SfuXp8

I love this and I have done it before with a few different sculptures!


I love this thread sooooo much it hurts!