You may have heard that reddit is in a tizzy this past week. After a 48-hour blackout, the r/pics subreddit has gone all John Oliver for reasons. Oliver is all for it, and even offered more pictures to use. The community appreciates it. (via Metafilter)
Mars in color as never seen before. (via Kottke)
RIP James Loveless, Somerset, Kentucky. More viral in death. (Thanks, Brother Bill!)
In the American West, a Clown Motel and a Cemetery Tell a Story of Kitsch and Carnage. (via Strange Company)
What You Need to Know About "New Car Smell."
The Legacy of Leah Chase, the Inspiration Behind The Princess and the Frog's Tiana.
A Jungle Prison Becomes a Spaceport. (via Smithsonian)
How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist. (via Metafilter)
Give all haters MDMA! It's worth a shot anyway.
ReplyDeleteRIP Mr. Loveless.
ReplyDelete"We thank you for your dedication to our brew. We may put your face on a can of Busch once our board members decide our next move. Anheuser Stockholder"
-chuckle- That might actually work. .
“a vast rift valley over 4000 kilometres long and stretching along the martian equator”
ReplyDeleteI guess the Earth’s equator is the sun’s path half way between it’s northern and southern extremes, but how did they establish where the Mars equator is?
The problem with the MDMA story is that; 1. it’s an unusual result, and 2. it could have gone the other way.
Brendan was brainwashed, had his life seriously shaken, MDMA, then brainwashed by the opposite side. Being a member of the opposite side it makes a happy ending for me. But I wonder if some people swing the other way seeking the “pleasantness of social touch”, be it from MDMA, pot, alcohol, LSD, etc.
Bruce, Mars rotates and has north and south poles. From there its easy to determine the equator.
ReplyDeleteOK, thanks. Since Mars is the male planet (Venus=female) I figured it wouldn't do anything right. My mother and a couple ex-wives would second that notion.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the north and south poles swap like Earth? Oh, maybe they are not magnetic like Earth.
@xoxoxoBruce: Mars is believed to have had a planetary geomagnetic field as strong as Earth's about four billion years ago, and then a weaker one up to roughly 3.8 billion years ago, but today it has nothing but some rocks with residual magnetism. Planetary magnetic fields are generated by the core, and Mars' core cooled off and shut the process down. With no magnetic field to protect the atmosphere from solar winds, Mars lost most of its atmosphere.
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