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[glatt]

Best image yet of planets being formed.

This image was made by ALMA, an array of radio telescopes in Chile. Those dark rings in the cloud are areas around the star where matter is clumping together into planets, pulling more nearby matter out of the cloud disk.

Once these planetary bodies acquire enough mass, they dramatically reshape the structure of their natal disk, fashioning rings and gaps as the planets sweep their orbits clear of debris and shepherd dust and gas into tighter and more confined zones.

The new ALMA image reveals these striking features in exquisite detail, providing the clearest picture to date of planet formation. Images with this level of detail were previously only seen in computer models and artist concepts. ALMA, living up to its promise, has now provided direct proof that nature and theory are very much in agreement.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by glatt

This image was made by ALMA

That chick that married Clooney? She's pretty good.

ETA: Nevermind, I got lysdexic for a moment...

[Gravdigr]

Suicidal bunnies - from "The Book of Bunny Suicides" by Andy Riley. First in a series.

Example:


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Simple, but, funny cartoons by Shaghai Tango

Examples:

[xoxoxoBruce]

Love Tango, very original.

[DanaC]

Oh they're really good! Love the wifi pizza slices.



[eta] Oh god, the suicidal bunnies. First couple were mildly amusing, but as you go through them they just get funnier and funnier.

[Carruthers]

This site featured in an article in one of today's newspapers.

Curiosity got the better of me so I had a look.

The site describes itself as 'an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard'.

Forgive me if it has been mentioned before.

http://postsecret.com/

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[xoxoxoBruce]

OH dear, Marshall College has denied tenure to Assistant Professor Henry Jones Jr.

[glatt]

heh heh. I always thought the same thing about him.

[Clodfobble]

That is a good read, Carruthers. I just learned, for example, that the pink bunny whose batteries last longer than anyone else's was originally the Duracell Bunny, until Duracell failed to renew their patent in the US, and Energizer stole it from them. In the UK they apparently talk about the Duracell Bunny in the exact same way we talk about the Energizer Bunny.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

That is a good read, Carruthers. I just learned, for example, that the pink bunny whose batteries last longer than anyone else's was originally the Duracell Bunny, until Duracell failed to renew their patent in the US, and Energizer stole it from them. In the UK they apparently talk about the Duracell Bunny in the exact same way we talk about the Energizer Bunny.

Of all the things that are difficult to accept, but I am learning to deal with, this one gives me an opportunity to exercise the right to refuse to believe something even when cited by a reliable source.

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

In the UK they apparently talk about the Duracell Bunny in the exact same way we talk about the Energizer Bunny.

No, they do it with an accent.

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

No, they do it with an accent.

Sir! I am an Englshman, everyone else speaks English with an accent.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

Sir! I am an Englshman, everyone else speaks English with an accent.

That's because out of any random 10 Englishmen, you can't find more than three who sound alike.

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Time Magazine's top ten photos for 2014