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Sputnik 23: The Mars Curse

31 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer

In the early days of space probes, there were many attempts to make it to the martian planet. Though many failed to make it there, here is another account of a failed space probe on its way to mars. Though in this case it did leave earths orbit and...

Potato eyes - Infrared split photography

30 Jan 2020 3 minute read 2 comments Solominer

Since getting my second GH3, I can now do some split photography experiments using identical cameras... One modded and one stock. Setting my two cameras aperture, aspect ratio and image size to the same values and taking pictures with each camer...

3D Printed Mason Bee Incubation Box - Macro Photography

29 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer

Using my new GH3 camera and a macro lens, I got some close up photos of this 3D printed object. It took over 6 hours for the printer to make this. And close up each layer of resin can be seen in its design, using a macro lens and some bright lights....

The Pinwheel Galaxy · Messier 101

26 Jan 2020 3 minute read 2 comments astrophoto

The Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101 & NGC 5457) is a spiral galaxy and it is about 24 to 27 million light years away from us. Seen from Earth, it is located in the constellation Ursa Major / Big Dipper / Big Bear and forms a triangle with the stars Alka...

Counterinduction: The Productive Practice of Going Against Common Sense [Useful heuristics and tools of thought]

26 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments rhyzom

"Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myt...

The Crescent Nebula - NGC6888

24 Jan 2020 3 minute read 9 comments astrophoto

The Cresent Nebula (NGC6888) is a bigger (regarding its apparent size) Emission Nebula and is located in the constellation of Cygnus, approximately 4,700 light-years away from us. As already written in my previous posts, the constellation of Cygnus i...

"Proxima c": a new "friend" in the Universe? [ENG/ITA]

18 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86

If its existence will be confirmed, Proxima c it will be the closest exoplanet to the Earth. After the discover of Proxima b in 2016, Proxima Centauri the closest star to the Solar System (about 4,3 light-years) could have a second planet orbiting a...

E-Prime and the Structural Differential (General Semantics) [Useful conceptual heuristics and critical thinking devices series]

17 Jan 2020 8 minute read 0 comments rhyzom

This is from my series/collection of useful conceptual heuristics and tools for thinking (previously was a post giving a quick description of the Cynefin framework). This one concerns the perception and approaching of meaning (semantics), something t...

Sputnik 22 and Sputnik 24: The Mars Curse

17 Jan 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Solominer

In the early days of space probes, many did not make it to their intended targets. These are two cases where Russia attempted to send two space probes to Mars. Along their journey the systems had some malfunctions and in the end the mission failed....

Walk&Talk 4: Ask me your scientific questions

16 Jan 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ropaga

Daily activity Today I went for a long walk with my father. Walking with someone else is much funnier, so when I do I usually last longer, and that is not an exception. For the first time since I came back to Actifit I have surpassed the 10k goal. I...