These are the ‘Live Long And Prosper’ mittens hand-knit (from a soft wool/alpaca blend) and sold by Jennifer Symons of Etsy shop StorySweaters. A pair costs $35 and comes with one right Vulcan mitten with split fingers for Vulcan saluting, and one regular left mitten with non-split fingers for not
This is a video of a giant LED billboard that wraps around the corner of a building playing a video of a spaceship docking with a very convincing 3D effect. I’m not sure what they’re selling, but I’m buying it. “I think they’re selling giant wrap-around LED billboards.” Cover my
This is a video of skinny Batman covering Han’s Zimmer’s ‘No Time For Caution’ from Interstellar on the accordion. You might not think an accordion cover isn’t going to work, but it works. Me? I am not going to work, I’m just going to pound on my keyboard and pretend
This is a video of Youtuber and meteorite ring maker David Windestal crafting a beautiful ring from a 4,566,300,000 year old (20,000,000 years older than earth) iron Muonionalusta meteorite with a very distinct Widmanstätten pattern. If you’re interested in a similar ring, David actually has some pre-made ones available starting
This is a visualization created by MetaBallStudios comparing the sizes of the natural satellites that exist in our solar system, first using New York City as a size reference, then the entire earth. So — what moon is your favorite? “The Death Star.” That’s no moon! “LOL.” LOLOL. Hey let’s
This is a very worthwhile video of the first ‘footage’ of Mars rendered in 4K resolution, using composite images captured by Mars rovers Spirit and Curiosity to create panoramas of the red planet. It is really something. SOMETHING FULL OF ALIENS. Quick, toss me my laser blaster! *fumbles with blaster,
Note: The whole photo can be seen HERE. This is the closest photo captured of the sun to date, taken by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter satellite from a distance of 77-million kilometers. It features thousands of small solar flares scientists have nicknamed campfires. Some more info while I
Using data collected from the eROSITA (Extended Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) instrument aboard the German–Russian satellite Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma over the past six months, a group of researchers have created this x-ray map of the universe in an attempt to help calculate how fast the universe is expanding. Some