Interessante-dingen-topic.

The scientific objective of the Kepler Mission is to explore the structure and diversity of planetary systems.[8] This is achieved by surveying a large sample of stars to achieve several goals:

* Determine how many Earth-sized and larger planets there are in or near the habitable zone (often called "Goldilocks planets") of a wide variety of spectral types of stars.
* Determine the range of size and shape of the orbits of these planets.
* Estimate how many planets there are in multiple-star systems.
* Determine the range of orbit size, brightness, size, mass and density of short-period giant planets.
* Identify additional members of each discovered planetary system using other techniques.
* Determine the properties of those stars that harbor planetary systems.

"Goldilocks planet" is a colloquial term for a planet that falls within a star's habitable zone, often specifically used for planets close to the size of Earth.[1][2] The name comes from the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, in which a little girl chooses from sets of three items, ignoring the ones that are too extreme (large or small, hot or cold, etc.), and settling on the one in the middle, which is "just right". Likewise, a planet following this Goldilocks Principle is one that is neither too close nor too far from a star to rule out life (as humans understand it) on the planet.

Keplermissie Goudlokje

to rule out life (as humans understand it)

Wat een bijzonder pretentieuze zin

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Nobel prize winners Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu and Zhang Guanglei from the Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences discovered a bacteria that lives in panda dung and can break down massive amounts of domestic waste from us polluting humans and turn it into water and hydrogen. The research group is now working on harnessing the produced hydrogen for electricity-producing causes.


Found in only a handful of areas in mainland China, the Giant Panda has a diet which is 99% bamboo. The rare and exotic animal, which can weigh as much 150 kilograms (330 lbs), feeds on 25 varieties of bamboo, consuming as much as 9 to 14 kilograms (20 to 30 lbs) per day.

After identifying some 270 different microorganisms in panda dung obtained from Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo, the researchers isolated five types of bacteria that were the most efficient at breaking down proteins and fats and that could reproduce easily even under high heat.

In one experiment, the researchers mixed the bacteria with 70 to 100 kilograms (lbs) of raw garbage, including vegetable stems, potatoes (raw and fried) and fish remains, and placed it in an industrial waste disposal machine. Seventeen weeks later, only 3 kilograms (6.6 lbs) of waste remained, while the rest had turned to water and carbon dioxide. With a digestive rate of up to 96%, the panda excrement bacteria is significantly more effective than most commercial disposal bacteria, which has a digestive rate of around 80%.

In 2003, Taguchi also claimed it was possible to harvest about 100 liters (26 gallons) of hydrogen gas for every kilogram (2.2 lbs) of waste treated with panda poo. At the time, he was exploring the possibility of integrating a hydrogen fuel cell into a waste disposal unit to sell to food processing companies in Japan.

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mogen toffe plaatjes ook?

Het gaat niet om interessante wetenschappelijke dingen, maar om interessante dingen in 't algemeen. En om daad bij woord te voegen: experimentele games van een getalenteerd man.

Dus toffe plaatjes mogen ook en het topic blijft mooi hier

hier, een foto van jeff wall

Oh wow Zo'n kamertje wil ik ook wel in m'n huis.

[Issun]

In het boek Het Lelietheater door Lulu Wang wordt gesproken over een lapjeskater die jongen heeft. Maar lapjeskaters zijn extreem zeldzaam, omdat een kater twee x-chromosomen moet hebben en een y om lapje te kunnen zijn, en bovendien zijn ze dan steriel. Dus dat kan helemaal niet Goed, dat is misschien niet zo interessant, maar er was geen beter topic voor.

[Chick Rock]

Ik hou er altijd van als ik dat soort fouten vind .

Ja, lapjeskatten zijn bijna altijd poezen en rode katten zijn bijna altijd katers. Toch?

Paranoide schreef:

Ja, lapjeskatten zijn bijna altijd poezen en rode katten zijn bijna altijd katers. Toch?

Klopt, maar rode poezen zijn niet zo zeldzaam. Lapjeskaters dus wel, omdat die XXY moeten hebben ipv de gebruikelijke XY. Wikipedia zegt 1/3000.

Lapjeskaters zijn eigenlijk een soort retards <3

Ik dacht vroeger altijd dat een lapjeskat als vacht van die vierkante stoffen lapjes had met stiksels, want zo was er eentje in een kinderboek getekend. Ik kon dan ook echt niet geloven dat ze werkelijk bestonden.

Hier keken ze naar in 1907.



En dit komt uit 1934.



De geschiedenis van de film bevat bizarre dingen.

Van JohnK's blog:

This is the photo that inspired the first drawings of Ren.



I thought it was funny to see a psychotic chihuahua in a cute sweater and I imagined him doing everything possible to get it off.

Ik denk dat ik dit topic blijf uppen tot hij 500 reacties heeft, waarvan 400 van mij. Daarna open ik een nieuwe. Hij zakt altijd vrij snel naar beneden maar soms wil ik iets posten en is 't echt het enige topic waarin het past.

Ik krijg een beetje de indruk dat dit het freaky-forumers-verdomhoekje is

Kijken of het zelfmoordpercentage flink gaat toenemen komende 2 jaar.
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Victor Lustig was renowned as the Man who Sold the Eiffel Tower. He was born in Bohemia but later moved to Paris where he was able to con people on his frequent journeys between Paris and New York. His first con was to show people a device that could print $100 bills. The only problem, he would tell them, is that it only prints one bill every six hours. Many people paid him enormous amounts of money (usually over $30,000) for the device. In fact, the device contained two real hidden $100 bills – once they were spat out by the machine it would produce only blank paper. By the time the buyers discovered this, Lustig was well gone with their money.

In 1925, as France was recovering from the war, the upkeep of the Eiffel tower was an almost unbearable expense for the city of Paris. When Lustig read about this in a paper, he came up with his most brilliant idea. After forging government credentials, he invited six scrap metal dealers to a secret meeting in a hotel. He explained that the City could not afford to keep the tower and that they had to sell it for scrap. He told them the secrecy of the meeting and all future dealings was due to the fact that the public may become distressed at the idea of the removal of the tower.

While it seems implausible, at the time the tower was built it was meant to be temporary and this happened just 18 years after the original date for removal of the tower. Lustig took the dealers in a limousine to tour the tower. One of the dealers, Andre Poisson was convinced that the tale was legitimate and he handed over the money. When he realised he had been conned, he was too embarrassed to tell the police and Lustig escaped with the money. One month later, he returned to Paris to try the whole scam again. This time it was reported to the police but Lustig managed to escape.

At one point, Lustig convinced Al Capone to invest $50,000 with him. He stored the money in a vault and returned it two months later, stating that the deal had fallen through. Capone, so impressed by Lustig’s honesty gave him $5,000 for his effort. In 1934, Lustig was found guilty of counterfeiting. He plead guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in Alcatraz. In 1947 he died of pneumonia whilst in jail in Springfield, Missouri.

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Countess Elizabeth Bathory is considered the most infamous serial killer in Hungarian/Slovak history. Rumors had circulated for years about missing peasant girls; offered well paid work at the castle, they were never seen again. One of these rumors reached the ears of King Mathias II, who sent a party of men to the massive Castle Csejthe. The men found one girl dead and one dying. Another was found wounded and others locked up. Described atrocities, collected from testimony of witnesses, include; severe beatings over extended periods of time, the use of needles, burning or mutilation of hands, sometimes also of faces and genitalia, biting the flesh off the faces, arms and other bodily parts, and the starving of victims. The victim total is thought to number in the hundreds occurring over a twenty-five year period. Due to her social status she was never brought to trial but remained under house arrest in a single room until her death. The idea that the Countess bathed in the blood of her victims is folklore, and one of the few things she did not do.

[Nona]

Oh, misschien wist iedereen het al, maar Giel vertelde me vanmorgen over een tentoonstelling van lichamen. Echte menselijke lichamen, morsdood natuurlijk, en in de meest bizarre posities.

http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/exhibit...rotterdam.html

[Chick Rock]

Gaaf

Rode Panda schreef:

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Victor Lustig was renowned as the Man who Sold the Eiffel Tower. He was born in Bohemia but later moved to Paris where he was able to con people on his frequent journeys between Paris and New York. His first con was to show people a device that could print $100 bills. The only problem, he would tell them, is that it only prints one bill every six hours. Many people paid him enormous amounts of money (usually over $30,000) for the device. In fact, the device contained two real hidden $100 bills – once they were spat out by the machine it would produce only blank paper. By the time the buyers discovered this, Lustig was well gone with their money.

In 1925, as France was recovering from the war, the upkeep of the Eiffel tower was an almost unbearable expense for the city of Paris. When Lustig read about this in a paper, he came up with his most brilliant idea. After forging government credentials, he invited six scrap metal dealers to a secret meeting in a hotel. He explained that the City could not afford to keep the tower and that they had to sell it for scrap. He told them the secrecy of the meeting and all future dealings was due to the fact that the public may become distressed at the idea of the removal of the tower.

While it seems implausible, at the time the tower was built it was meant to be temporary and this happened just 18 years after the original date for removal of the tower. Lustig took the dealers in a limousine to tour the tower. One of the dealers, Andre Poisson was convinced that the tale was legitimate and he handed over the money. When he realised he had been conned, he was too embarrassed to tell the police and Lustig escaped with the money. One month later, he returned to Paris to try the whole scam again. This time it was reported to the police but Lustig managed to escape.

At one point, Lustig convinced Al Capone to invest $50,000 with him. He stored the money in a vault and returned it two months later, stating that the deal had fallen through. Capone, so impressed by Lustig’s honesty gave him $5,000 for his effort. In 1934, Lustig was found guilty of counterfeiting. He plead guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in Alcatraz. In 1947 he died of pneumonia whilst in jail in Springfield, Missouri.

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Countess Elizabeth Bathory is considered the most infamous serial killer in Hungarian/Slovak history. Rumors had circulated for years about missing peasant girls; offered well paid work at the castle, they were never seen again. One of these rumors reached the ears of King Mathias II, who sent a party of men to the massive Castle Csejthe. The men found one girl dead and one dying. Another was found wounded and others locked up. Described atrocities, collected from testimony of witnesses, include; severe beatings over extended periods of time, the use of needles, burning or mutilation of hands, sometimes also of faces and genitalia, biting the flesh off the faces, arms and other bodily parts, and the starving of victims. The victim total is thought to number in the hundreds occurring over a twenty-five year period. Due to her social status she was never brought to trial but remained under house arrest in a single room until her death. The idea that the Countess bathed in the blood of her victims is folklore, and one of the few things she did not do.

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Wah cool ik hou van dat soort verhalen, bijzonder interessant. C/p'tje over de gezellige Schotse familie Bean:

According to The Newgate Calendar, Alexander Bean was born in East Lothian during the 16th century.[1] His father was a ditch digger and hedge trimmer, and Bean tried to take up the family trade but quickly realized that he had little taste for honest labour.

He left home with a vicious woman who apparently shared his inclinations. The couple ended up at a coastal cave in Bannane Head near Galloway (now South Ayrshire) where they lived undiscovered for some twenty-five years. (The cave was 200 yards deep and during high tide the entrance was blocked by water, and is said to be today's Bannane Cave, located between Girvan and Ballantrae in Ayrshire).

Their many children and grandchildren were products of incest and lawlessness. The brood came to include eight sons, six daughters, eighteen grandsons and fourteen granddaughters. Lacking the gumption for honest labour, the clan thrived by laying careful ambushes at night to rob and murder individuals or small groups. The bodies were brought back to the cave where they were dismembered and cannibalised. Leftovers were pickled, and discarded body parts would sometimes wash up on nearby beaches.

The body parts and disappearances did not go unnoticed by the local villagers, but the Beans stayed in the caves by day and took their victims at night. The clan was so secretive that the villagers were not aware of the forty-eight murderers living nearby.

As more significant notice of the disappearances was taken, several organized searches were launched to find the culprits. One search took note of the telltale cave but the men refused to believe anything human could live in it. Frustrated and in a frenetic quest for justice, the townspeople lynched several innocents, and the disappearances continued. Suspicion often fell on local innkeepers since they were the last to see many of the missing people alive.

One fateful night, the Beans ambushed a married couple riding from a fair on one horse, but the man was skilled in combat, deftly holding off the clan with sword and pistol. The clan fatally mauled the wife when she fell to the ground in the conflict. Before they could take the resilient husband, a large group of fairgoers appeared on the trail and the Beans fled.

With the Beans' existence finally revealed to the world, it was not long before King James VI of Scotland (later James I of England) heard of the atrocities and decided to lead a manhunt with a team of 400 men and several bloodhounds, soon finding the Beans' previously overlooked cave in Bannane Head. The cave was rife with human remains, having been the scene of hundreds of murders and cannibalistic acts.

The clan was captured alive and taken in chains to the Tolbooth Jail in Edinburgh, then transferred to Leith or Glasgow where they were promptly executed without trial; the men had their genitalia cut off, hands and feet severed and were allowed to bleed to death, and the women and children, after watching the men die, were burned alive.

http://www.mccoyspace.com/video/Drea..._Live_Feed.mov

een droomsequentiemachine!

de plaatjes werken niet, of wel?

Nou, gelukkig is er altijd nog meer. Ik vind dit een interessant dingetje, een instructiefilmpje over wat te doen als de atoombom valt.

En ik hou van exploded view afbeeldingen:






vooral zo'n keten met schroefjes vind ik erg interessant, dan is het net een zin met letters.

En uit de verzameling oude mugshots:

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[Hanneke]

Goed topic

Let op: dit topic is oud. De laatste reactie was alweer 964 dagen geleden. Reageren op een oud topic mag, maar veel mensen vinden dat irritant. Je zou ook een nieuw topic kunnen openen.





Therapiesessies met een vijfjarig meisje dat haar adoptieouders wil vermoorden n.a.v. ernstig misbruik toen ze één was. Bizar, treurig en fascinerend.

[Carn]

Paranoide schreef:

Keplermissie Goudlokje

Het gaat alleen niet zo goed met de Kepler

Ja, ik las het. Kapotte vliegwieltjes. Hopelijk kan 't nog gemaakt worden.

Nog veel verdrietiger: deze lijst van bibliotheken die expres verwoest zijn.

Library at Alexandria: Destroyed.
Mayan Library at Yucatan: Destroyed.
Epang Palace and State Archives: Destroyed.
Library at Antioch: Destroyed.
Library of the Serapeum: Destroyed.
Library of Ctesiphon : Destroyed.
Library of al-Hakam II: Destroyed.
Library of Rayy: Destroyed.
Library of Ghazna: Destroyed.
Library of Nishapur: Destroyed.
Library at Nalanda: Destroyed.
Imperial Library of Constantinople: Destroyed.
House of Wisdom, Baghdad: Destroyed.
Madrassah Library: Destroyed.
Bibliotheca Corviniana: Destroyed.

Most of them destroyed for religious motives, the contents being deemed heretical or contrary to the conquering religion, since these were all before the printing press and everything written was written by hand.

[Carn]

Paranoide schreef:

Ja, ik las het. Kapotte vliegwieltjes. Hopelijk kan 't nog gemaakt worden.

Jah. Maar ik geloof dat ie wel braaf zn missietijd heeft volbracht Nu wachten op de James Webb

[Trimm Trabb]

Do you ever wonder why some music isn’t as much fun to listen to as it used to be? It’s because it is literally straining your ears to hear it.
This is a screen shot I took comparing the waveform for two releases of the SAME recording of the SAME song, “Terrible Lie” by Nine Inch Nails.
The top waveform came from the original 1989 CD release. It’s pleasing to hear. It’s dynamic. There are loud parts and there are quiet parts, and it lets you feel the music breathe.
The bottom waveform came from the remastered 2009 CD release celebrating the 20th anniversary. Sure, it’s louder, but take a look at the “brick wall” the signal runs into as it builds. When this happens, the music no longer kicks, it just all levels out. It’s flat. It’s boring. And it fatigues your ears very quickly.
This is a VERY common problem with most CDs recorded and (re)released over the last decade.

Loudness War.

[Carn]

Yep. Het leuke is, you cannot unhear it. Zeker als je wel eens muziek luistert met een (goede) koptelefoon; je hoort het meteen als alles dichtgesmeerd is .

Dit is een treurig voorbeeld:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Me...e_waveform.png

En dan nog zeuren dat we meer cd's moeten kopen, he.

Paranoide schreef:

Nog veel verdrietiger: deze lijst van bibliotheken die expres verwoest zijn.

Er ontbreekt daar in ieder geval eentje in dat lijstje.

De Leuvense bibliotheek, in de as gelegd door de Duitsers in de eerste wereldoorlog als wraakactie omdat de Belgen neutraal wilden blijven en hen niet doorlaten en toen ook nog een beetje weerstand bleken te kunnen bieden. Daar zijn flink wat handschriften en incunabelen in vlammen op gegaan.
De nieuw opgebouwde is in WOII overigens ook verwoest, maar ja, die originelen waren er sowieso al niet meer.

Paranoide schreef:

Nog veel verdrietiger: deze lijst van bibliotheken die expres verwoest zijn.

Ja, dat is zo ontzettend zonde .

Speciaal voor Carn:

Al het water op aarde

Dit is wel een interessante video.

A British company has produced a "strange, alien" material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting a new world record. To stare at the "super black" coating made of carbon nanotubes – each 10,000 times thinner than a human hair – is an odd experience. It is so dark that the human eye cannot understand what it is seeing. Shapes and contours are lost, leaving nothing but an apparent abyss.

If it was used to make one of Chanel's little black dresses, the wearer's head and limbs might appear to float incorporeally around a dress-shaped hole.

Actual applications are more serious, enabling astronomical cameras, telescopes and infrared scanning systems to function more effectively. Then there are the military uses that the material's maker, Surrey NanoSystems, is not allowed to discuss.

The nanotube material, named Vantablack, has been grown on sheets of aluminium foil by the Newhaven-based company. While the sheets may be crumpled into miniature hills and valleys, this landscape disappears on areas covered by it.

"You expect to see the hills and all you can see … it's like black, like a hole, like there's nothing there. It just looks so strange," said Ben Jensen, the firm's chief technical officer.



Asked about the prospect of a little black dress, he said it would be "very expensive" – the cost of the material is one of the things he was unable to reveal.

"You would lose all features of the dress. It would just be something black passing through," he said.