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Like a cat, but much more deliberate - I like it!
YouTube user simplydreaming had some fun with his mom’s parrot, Kiwi. I wonder if there is any human equivalent to what animals experience when they encounter a laser pointer’s red dot. -via Urlesque
Roll Cloud Over Wisconsin
What kind of cloud is this?
A type of
arcus cloud called a roll cloud.
These rare long clouds may form near advancing cold fronts.
In particular, a downdraft from an advancing storm front can cause moist warm air to rise, cool below its dew point, and so form
a cloud.
When this happens uniformly along an extended front, a
roll cloud may form.
Roll clouds
may actually have air circulating along the
long horizontal axis of the cloud.
A roll cloud is not thought to be able to morph into a
tornado.
Unlike a similar
shelf cloud,
a roll cloud is completely detached from their parent
cumulonimbus cloud.
Pictured
above, a
roll cloud extends far into the distance as a storm approached in 2007 in
Racine,
Wisconsin, USA.
Saturday is a good day!
I first heard this “The Moth” story on their podcast – it’s great, and doubly so to find a video of Steve. Funny story – I recommend The Moth podcast highly.
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Some bloggers are lucky enough to get occasional frozen dinners. For those of us not so fortunate, Mark Reigelman has provided this alternative.
Link -via That’s Nerdalicious!
Sure, you could rent a U-Haul truck, but those are expensive. And apparently this guy in Toronto hadn’t thought ahead and installed a trailer hitch when he bought his Lamborghini Gallardo. That should be an automatic decision: buy a car, get a hitch.
-via Jalopnik
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Dang yes; I would love to have one of these on my desk!! This is so cool. I really want to make one of these.
At extremes of temperature and pressure above a substance’s so-called critical point, the distinction between liquid and gas phases of that substance stops being meaningful, and the substance enters a homogeneous supercritical phase. For many substances, supercritical temperatures and pressures are difficult to achieve, and that’s doubly true if you’re hoping to achieve them under conditions that still allow for visual observation.
Carbon dioxide, however, has a fairly accessible critical point at about 90° F, 1100 psi, and thus supercritical carbon dioxide can and does have fairly routine industrial applications, notably the decaffeination of coffee. But the really cool part is that, at those temperatures and pressures, it’s not too hard to build a pressure vessel from transparent materials that will actually let you get a good look at a supercritical fluid. Which is exactly what Ben Krasnow—who is fast becoming my personal maker hero—has done.
