Another blue gold dress optical illusion

Same wall, same paint colors, same camera.

Debunking the jet fuel can't melt steel argument once again

Of course it is barely worth the time since conspiracy think is impervious to evidence or logic.

Airplane graveyard

Pluto enhanced/false color

New Horizons scientists made this false color image of Pluto using a technique called principal component analysis to highlight the many subtle color differences between Pluto's distinct regions. The image data were collected by the spacecraft’s Ralph/MVIC color camera on July 14 at 11:11 AM UTC, from a range of 22,000 miles (35,000 kilometers). This image was presented by Will Grundy of the New Horizons’ surface composition team on Nov. 9 at the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in National Harbor, Maryland.

Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Operation Licorne nuclear test

Dogs in space

NGC 1999 may have competition!

Although I still think this Hubble image is the best...

... there is a new nebula in town!

New Horizons Pluto Flyby

Naval Concepts of Chemical and Biological Warfare

Water droplet and alka-seltzer in space

Area required to power the world on solar energy alone

Uranium in a cloud chamber

Mars' Own Pickles

See more at the Hudson River Museum.

16 inches of bulletproof glass vs RPG (rocket powered grenade launcher)

(Not even close to working.)

Grand Canyon seen from high altitude balloon (ca. 100,000 feet)

1,000,000 page views!

Although stats were not taken before 2010, and so this is a bit overdue, we are happy to report that HPR has now comfortably passed the 1 million views mark. At between 30,000 and 50,000 views per month, it is clear that the next million won't take quite as long! Thanks to the regular readers for your continued support, and the sponsors who contribute to the continued success of this blog.

Wireless transmission of power (34 kw at 1 mile range)

Atlas V rocket launch bright contrail

US and Korea joint live fire exercise

Race car doing a burnout in IR light

Tiny water droplets mimic simple automata on a glass slide

"One day, as an undergrad messing around in a science lab, Nate Cira observed a curious phenomenon. His droplets of colored water seemed to be alive."

Quartz

Nature article

Moon party

The future is here

Trinity Jumbo Device

The Jumbo device was intended to contain the precious core of the first implosion device, the Trinity shot, in the event of a fizzle.

"As delivered in May 1945, Jumbo was 10 feet (3.0 m) in diameter and 25 feet (7.6 m) long with walls 14 inches (360 mm) thick, and weighed 214 long tons (217 t). A special train brought it from Barberton, Ohio, to the siding at Pope, where it was loaded on a large trailer and towed 25 miles (40 km) across the desert by tractors. At the time, it was the heaviest item ever shipped by rail."

http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/archive/nucweapons/jumbo

Jet contrail

So how big is Pluto?

Google search for "gravity"

Alaska vs Pluto

Yet one more view of the New Horizons flyby

GIF showing New Horizons Pluto flyby mission

Pluto up close!

Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015 when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface. This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraft’s closest approach to Pluto on July 14. The color image has been combined with lower-resolution color information from the Ralph instrument that was acquired earlier on July 13. This view is dominated by the large, bright feature informally named the “heart,” which measures approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) across. The heart borders darker equatorial terrains, and the mottled terrain to its east (right) are complex. However, even at this resolution, much of the heart’s interior appears remarkably featureless—possibly a sign of ongoing geologic processes.

Credits: NASA/APL/SwRI

Space-x Falcon 9 Cato Explosion

Explosions in near space and at high speed are peculiar looking!

A man carrying a baby raccoon on the 1 train

No wonder the MTA is having trouble keeping the subway on time!

What to expect as New Horizons passes Pluto

Airplane wing damaged by impact with drone?

Can't be real, the drone seems to just float past the wing.

Closing the radiation door at NASA

NASA, GOES R systems require calibration prior to integration. This vault simulates the application radiation environment (space) to allow detailed calibration under these conditions. The doors are about 4 feet thick.

Philae - first comet lander - is awake!

Naval Catapult Test (electro-magnetic rather than steam powered)

Dragon pad abort LES test

Dragon traveled from 0-100 mph in 1.2 seconds, reaching a max velocity of 345 mph.

The test simulated how Dragon would carry astronauts to safety if an emergency occurred on the launch pad. Crew Dragon’s abort system is powered by eight SuperDraco engines which together produce 120,000 pounds of axial thrust. The engines are integrated directly into the sides of the vehicle rather than carried on top of the vehicle as with previous launch abort systems. This configuration provides astronauts escape capability from the launch pad all the way to orbit and allows the spacecraft to use the same thrusters to land propulsively on land at the end of a mission.

Rocket butt

Naval rail gun tests

Inside the W48 155mm nuclear warhead

Why science is so hard to believe

www.washingtonpost.com

Rocket Model Flight Tests 1952-1954 NACA Langley

Gau-8 and gear

HPR now mobile friendly!

Blogger and google search now strongly suggest that all blogs work on mobile platforms, i.e. computers with a 124 x 86 pixel resolution and 1 decibit of ram.

Fermi paradox resolved?

Fluorescent rock dust with UV light

N 10,000 onboard footage

A CTI N 10,000 lofts a Madcow Frenzy (30+ lbs) to two miles with 50 g's maximum acceleration.

Steam engine train rides through charming rural villages in China

Halon fire suppression warming sign

Saudi bomb destroys massive ammo depot in Yemen

From a safe distance.

A bit too near for comfort.

Danger close.

Shell from the Paris Gun

Map of Earth vs map of Jupiter

Earth visualizations

Seasonal change in ice cover and plant growth.

Diurnal internet use.

SEM image of a penny, false color

GIF of quasicrystal

mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com

Giant smoke ring over Russia

Of course, the plebs who looked up at the sky for the first time in 3 years were unable to identify this and quickly went for government or extraterrestrial explanations.

Keep the home fires burning...