The Kinder Downfall is a waterfall in the United Kingdom that flows upwards.
Ok, so it doesn’t exactly flow upwards, but with certain wind conditions, the water is blown back on itself, and nothing actually reaches the ground below. Check it out:
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Using a McDonald’s paper cup, a McFlurry lid, a latex glove (or a balloon), some tape, and scissors, one “MaddHatter” Instructables user shows you how to make a DIY AirZooka paper cup air cannon that blows puffs of air that you can make smoke rings with. If only all science projects were this easy (and this much fun).
The blanket octopus has a unique defense mechanism. Rather than doing the usual ink cloud and run technique, the blanket octopus unfurls a giant sheet of webbing that easily breaks apart and wraps around a predator’s face, giving the octopus a chance to escape. Plus, he gets to swim around with a cape on, pretending he’s Super Octopus.
Another strange fact about the blanket octopus: “If the male meets a female, he fills one of his tentacles with sperm and tears it from his body. He gives this sperm-filled tentacle to the female, which she then uses to fertilize her eggs. Afterwards, the female leaves the male, who floats away and dies”.
[Via: Spluch]
So the pic I posted from the lunar eclipse may have been the most beautiful, but this pic definitely puts the eclipse to some good use:
[Via: Neatorama]
Khan Amore didn’t just want to find a woman that he felt was perfect, he wanted to make sure he was getting the real deal, so he set out to mathematically calculate the proportions of the perfect woman, using a number called The Devine Proportion. Who knew math could be so sexy?
[Khan Amore's Commentary On The Devine Proportion (Caution: NSFW)]
[Via: Digg]
Using a weather balloon and a little creativity, MAKE wants to experience space. They plan to reach an altitude of 100,000 feet (almost 20 miles), taking panoramic pictures along the way using their four on board cameras hooked up to the MAKE: Controller.. At the topmost point, they’ll be high enough to see a black sky and the curvature of the earth.
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It took 16 people working on this, countless cases of mountain dew, lots of take-out food, and a lot of sleepless nights.
Why go into space you ask? “To take pictures and temperature readings of course!” Sounds good to me. They’ll even be using a GPS logger that will allow you to follow their progress on Google maps in real time. It’s no NASA, but an impressive feat nonetheless.
Last night, the first lunar eclipse in three years occurred, and I was stuck on the West coast and didn’t get to see it. Thankfully, the Internet comes to the rescue in times like this, and you can see what the rest of the world got to see through the magic Flickr eye.
[Via: Flickr]
Sleep is one of those strange things that everyone does but no one really understands. Thankfully, HowStuffWorks has come to the rescue with an article titled “How Sleep Works”. If you’ve ever wondered why people sleep, how people sleep, or what causes dreams, this is the article for you. If you’ve never wondered, then good night, and good luck.
I recently picked up a few new fish for my tank, but somehow I missed the latest innovation in the fish market: the fish tattoo. Done with either dyes or a low level laser, the tattoos can be customized to be or say anything you wish. The days of designer fish are upon us.
[Via: UNEASYsilence]
