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Photographs of a planet
Posted by Me Missy on Dec 3, 2009 in Geek
I cannot emphasize how cool HiRISE stuff is or how amazing the photographs of Mars are; it makes me wonder how it would feel to step onto another planet; to see the sun and the stars in a completely different way; to live without our moon. I read a lot of fantasy/science fiction and I [...]
Spider Silk Textile
Posted by Me Missy on Nov 22, 2009 in Uncategorized
A couple of crackpots textile makers decided to try to weave a tapestry of spider silk, using over a million spiders (and a half million dollars of their own money — which means each spider was paid .50 for their work) (okay, okay — they didn’t pay the spiders).
I remember these golden orb weavers from [...]