levitating ants.

Expect stars, volcanoes, ants and robots. And landscapes.
moniledebeaute: Ile de Luzon. Métisses Tagalo-Chinoises. Portraits, 1870-1914. Photographe inconnu. Bibliothèque nationale de France.

moniledebeaute:

Ile de Luzon. Métisses Tagalo-Chinoises. Portraits, 1870-1914. Photographe inconnu. Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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buddhabrot: Echinus Geyser’s pool has your typical bacteria mats providing a colorful display, but the reddish-brown colors in this pool isn’t from bacteria. The rust color comes from the deposit of iron oxide compounds over the eons. Echinus tends to be the most predictabl geyser in the Norris Geyser basin.

buddhabrot:

Echinus Geyser’s pool has your typical bacteria mats providing a colorful display, but the reddish-brown colors in this pool isn’t from bacteria. The rust color comes from the deposit of iron oxide compounds over the eons. Echinus tends to be the most predictabl geyser in the Norris Geyser basin.

nationalgeographicmagazine: Underwater Surfer Photograph by Tony Heff, My ShotSurfer Coco Ho is momentarily suspended weightless between the ocean’s surface and the shallow reef.

nationalgeographicmagazine:

Underwater Surfer
Photograph by Tony Heff, My Shot
Surfer Coco Ho is momentarily suspended weightless between the ocean’s surface and the shallow reef.

kateoplis: Solar Impulse attempts its first intercontinental flight from Switzerland to Morocco without a drop of fuel | MSNBC From the linked article: AP reports — An experimental solar-powered airplane took off from Switzerland on its first transcontinental flight Thursday, aiming to reach North Africa next week. Pilot Andre Borschberg planned to take the jumbo jet-size Solar Impulse plane on its first leg to Madrid, Spain, by Friday. His colleague Bertrand Piccard will take the helm of the aircraft for the second stretch of its 1,554-mile journey to the Moroccan capital Rabat. Fog on the runway at its home base in Payerne, Switzerland, delayed the take off by two hours, demonstrating how susceptible the prototype single-seater aircraft is to adverse weather. “We can’t fly into clouds because it was not designed for that,” Borschberg said as he piloted the lumbering plane with its 207-foot wingspan toward the eastern French city of Lyon at a cruising speed of just 43.5 miles an hour. Before landing in Madrid in the early hours of Friday, Borschberg will face other challenges, including having to overfly the Pyrenees, the mountains that separate France and Spain. Just in case things go disastrously wrong, Borschberg has a parachute inside his tiny cabin that he hopes never to use. “When you take an umbrella it never rains,” he joked in a satellite call with The Associated Press.

kateoplis:

Solar Impulse attempts its first intercontinental flight from Switzerland to Morocco without a drop of fuel | MSNBC

From the linked article:

AP reports — An experimental solar-powered airplane took off from Switzerland on its first transcontinental flight Thursday, aiming to reach North Africa next week.

Pilot Andre Borschberg planned to take the jumbo jet-size Solar Impulse plane on its first leg to Madrid, Spain, by Friday. His colleague Bertrand Piccard will take the helm of the aircraft for the second stretch of its 1,554-mile journey to the Moroccan capital Rabat.

Fog on the runway at its home base in Payerne, Switzerland, delayed the take off by two hours, demonstrating how susceptible the prototype single-seater aircraft is to adverse weather.

“We can’t fly into clouds because it was not designed for that,” Borschberg said as he piloted the lumbering plane with its 207-foot wingspan toward the eastern French city of Lyon at a cruising speed of just 43.5 miles an hour.

Before landing in Madrid in the early hours of Friday, Borschberg will face other challenges, including having to overfly the Pyrenees, the mountains that separate France and Spain.

Just in case things go disastrously wrong, Borschberg has a parachute inside his tiny cabin that he hopes never to use. “When you take an umbrella it never rains,” he joked in a satellite call with The Associated Press.