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Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:08:08 -0400

fuckyeahillustrativeart: Paco Martinez

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:06:49 -0400

fuckyeahillustrativeart:

Paco Martinez

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Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:15:05 -0500

spent the weekend making a qr-code based pokemon game

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:35:34 -0500

spent the weekend making a qr-code based pokemon game

stillmakingsense: Pi

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:19:36 -0500

stillmakingsense:

Pi

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Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:16:16 -0500

inothernews: sematalba: the-rest-is—silence: wilwheaton: lach...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:16:08 -0500

inothernews:

sematalba:

the-rest-is—silence:

wilwheaton:

lachance1986:

“…I like the amusement parks, and the sun…and girls!”

hahahaha

In the eighties, one spoke about oneself in the third person via talk bubbles.

:-)

rhamphotheca: NASA | Black Hole Launches Bullets of Gas Using...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:15:17 -0500

rhamphotheca:

NASA | Black Hole Launches Bullets of Gas

Using observations from NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite and the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope, an international team of astronomers has identified the moment when a black hole in our galaxy launched superfast knots of gas into space.

Racing outward at about one-quarter the speed of light, these “bullets” of ionized gas are thought to arise from a region located just outside the black hole’s event horizon, the point beyond which nothing can escape.

The research centered on the mid-2009 outburst of a binary system known as H1743-322, located about 28,000 light-years away toward the constellation Scorpius. Discovered by NASA’s HEAO-1 satellite in 1977, the system is composed of a normal star and a black hole of modest but unknown masses…

(read more: NASA Explorer - Youtube)

the-star-stuff: Scientists prepare to capture the first-ever...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:13:55 -0500

the-star-stuff:

Scientists prepare to capture the first-ever picture of a black hole

Tomorrow, astronomers and physicists from around the word will convene in Tucson, Arizona to discuss the Event Horizon Telescope Project — a global network of 50 radio telescopes that together could soon enable us to photograph the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

“What is great about the [black hole] in the center of the Milky Way is that [it is] big enough and close enough,” explains astronomer Dan Marrone, who co-organized the international meeting with astrophysicist Dimitrios Psaltis. “There are bigger ones in other galaxies, and there are closer ones, but they’re smaller. Ours is just the right combination of size and distance.”

Having said that, it’s still going to take just about everything we’ve got to get our black hole in-frame.

“To see something that small and that far away, you need a very big telescope, and the biggest telescope you can make on Earth is to turn the whole planet into a telescope,” Marrone said.

[Via NY Daily News + UA News]
Top image is a simulation of swirling plasma, entering the black hole at the center of our galaxy — by Scott Noble/RIT

inothernews: edgina: Alex varanese: ALT/1977 - We are not time...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:30:01 -0500

inothernews:

edgina:

Alex varanese: ALT/1977 - We are not time travelers

WOOD.

GRAIN.

CASING.

And considering that’s a late 70’s design, not bad at all.

inothernews: A group of researchers in England will build a...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:29:26 -0500

inothernews:

A group of researchers in England will build a working model of Babbage’s Analytical Engine, “a room-size mechanical behemoth” of a computer comprising metal gears and punchcards and conceived of — but never completed — by Charles Babbage in the 1830’s.

Apple employees have termed the venture “Project Microsoft.”

(Awesome blueprint of the Babbage Analytical Engine via the New York Times)

So this is my interpretation of the Kakeya needle...

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:43:04 -0400

So this is my interpretation of the Kakeya needle problem.

Imagine you have a needle on a piece of paper, and you rotate it in some way 360 degrees.

But on each end of the needle there is ink on either end of the needle, so theres a path left over as you move the needle.

This creates a closed shape of some sort.

What is the smallest (area-wise) shape you can make by rotating the needle in a special way.

The simplest approach would be make a circle, but this is a lot of space.

The first image shows how its possible to make a triangle.

But the solution to this problem involves following the flow of the triangle, but making its corners sharper, and making more of them, so its no longer a triangle, its some sort of star.

The more advanced math is breaking down each corner in half of size and doubling the amount, but showing that the sum of the angles is still equal to 360. (second image)

If you continue to do this enough times you end up with a star of an infinite number of points, but an area of zero (image 3).

I just think it looks cool.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS. A show that's never fucked logic so hard.

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:08:13 -0400

i-like-pigeons:

in my first undergrad proof writing class, my professor, a 70 year old algebraist, told me the same thing

Next semester

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:29:03 -0400

Next semester

Riemann zeta function. Now tell me that math is not art.

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:28:09 -0400

Riemann zeta function. Now tell me that math is not art.