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Heisenberg is scheduled to give a lecture at MIT, but he’s running late and speeding through Cambridge in his rental car. A cop pulls him over, and says, “Do you have any idea how fast you were going?”
“No,” Heisenberg replies brightly, “but I know where I am!”

expose-the-light: If Jupiter Was the Same Distance as the Moon? Redditor jb2386 created this mind-blowing image which shows what Jupiter would look like if it was the same distance away from the Earth as the moon. He figured it out by taking a source picture that had the moon in it, used the correct scale of the Moon to Jupiter and then placed the readjusted size of Jupiter in the image. Because of the planet’s enormous size, we are only seeing about a quarter of Jupiter in the frame! Unfortunately, as cool as it looks, it appears we’d be goners if this actually happened in real life. Check out this relevant video and this explanation.
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If Jupiter Was the Same Distance as the Moon?

Redditor jb2386 created this mind-blowing image which shows what Jupiter would look like if it was the same distance away from the Earth as the moon. He figured it out by taking a source picture that had the moon in it, used the correct scale of the Moon to Jupiter and then placed the readjusted size of Jupiter in the image. Because of the planet’s enormous size, we are only seeing about a quarter of Jupiter in the frame! Unfortunately, as cool as it looks, it appears we’d be goners if this actually happened in real life.

Check out this relevant video and this explanation.

It's OK for vegans to eat oysters

Whether you avoid animal flesh because of ecological or animal-rights concerns, you should enjoy eating raft-dwelling, filter-feeding, central nervous system-lacking oysters. (I like mine raw, with lemon.) 

The article suggests that mussels are ecologically unsound because they are harvested by trawling the sea floor, but I know that some mussels are also farmed on rafts, and therefore are more sustainable than most crops we grow.

Vive la bivalve!

holymoleculesbatman: Ice Flowers These peculiar natural phenomena are formed on new layers of sea ice from saturated water vapors that come up from under the ice through cracks. In contact with the cold air, the vapors start to freeze and the salt on the surface of the ice begins to crystallize, serving as a base for the sublimated water to build off of.  The ‘petals’ of ice flowers are very delicate and will come off when touched.  They usually form in sunlight and typically are visible in the early mornings or in shaded areas.
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holymoleculesbatman: Ice Flowers These peculiar natural phenomena are formed on new layers of sea ice from saturated water vapors that come up from under the ice through cracks. In contact with the cold air, the vapors start to freeze and the salt on the surface of the ice begins to crystallize, serving as a base for the sublimated water to build off of.  The ‘petals’ of ice flowers are very delicate and will come off when touched.  They usually form in sunlight and typically are visible in the early mornings or in shaded areas.
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Ice Flowers

These peculiar natural phenomena are formed on new layers of sea ice from saturated water vapors that come up from under the ice through cracks. In contact with the cold air, the vapors start to freeze and the salt on the surface of the ice begins to crystallize, serving as a base for the sublimated water to build off of.  The ‘petals’ of ice flowers are very delicate and will come off when touched.  They usually form in sunlight and typically are visible in the early mornings or in shaded areas.

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