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Fire In Zero Gravity

Explain yourself!

Basically in a normal flame you have hot combustion products which are less dense than the surrounding air so buoyancy makes them rapidly move upwards. As this is happening they are cooling down and there isn’t enough time to complete combustion so soot is formed. Blackbody radiation from the soot is the characteristic orange part of the flame that we are used to seeing.

In microgravity there is no buoyancy-induced convection so what you see is a pure diffusion flame. That means that there is a thin interface in a sphere around the vaporized fuel stream where the fuel and oxidizer is perfectly mixed to make combustion take place. the fuel burns nearly completely without being pulled away by buoyancy effects, thus you just see a sphere of perfect blue flame.

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Celebrity Spotting

Youtube prankster Ed Bassmaster goes to Beverly Hills where he asks random people on the street to take pictures with him because he thinks they’re famous. It’s probably a lot more fun than actually meeting celebrities.

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First tribe guy with sneakers

That is a tribe from New Guinea. They wear gourds, called koteka.

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Brain Cupcakes

Perfect for Halloween parties! Vanilla cupcakes with chunks of maraschino cherries, cherry vanilla butter cream frosting and brain cupcake toppers made with Lindt white chocolate painted with cocoa butter.

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Piano Recycling

Cool idea, but I’d like to see a more polished version of it. The flowers don’t really seem to match, and something about the whole landscape makes it seem dirty instead of antique or ancient, which I’m guessing is what the person who made it was trying to achieve.

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Usain Bolt is too fast, even when race is over

World famous Usain Bolt made headlines after winning the 100 meters at the international Diamond League meet. A flower girl ran onto the track to congratulate the speed demon, but he was running so fast he couldn’t slow down, and literally dragged her along as he slammed on the brakes.

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Solo Cups

Who puts that few liquor in their drink?

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Chambaland – Semi Charmed Call

Chambaland hits us with the best mashup yet of Call Me Maybe.

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Banksy’s Street Art

Nick Stern uses Banksy’s world-renowned street paintings as inspiration for his amazing photographs. View them all here.

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The Manhattan Project

Photographer Cameron Michael created The Manhattan Project, a stunning time-lapse film of New York City. Michael spent more than five months setting up the perfect shots for this time lapse video of Manhattan.

This time-lapse production has been a wild and exhilarating ride, with a lot of physical work lugging my 120-130 pounds of gear around all of Manhattan. I bent (broke) some laws and made a ton of friends.