There’s no science in this post. I just know we’re all gonna want to save this picture for future reference.
(for those who care, it’s ‘shopped, but don’t let that stop you)
Felix Baumgartner’s Test Jump from approximately 71,580 feet - Red Bull Stratos
Watching videos from the Red Bull Stratos project is like the home movies of the most baller, thousand-yard-stare family you’ve ever seen. These dudes are intense, as is the engineering that goes into a project designed to help a man survive a 22.7 mile trip from the edge of space using only a parachute.
Check out this awesome shot from the doorway of the unknown via NPR and Time Lightbox.
It’s time to leave the capsule, if you dare …
Source: youtube.com
Watch this shrimp swim through liquid carbon dioxide like a shrimpy boss.
This is video from a submersible robot near a volcanic vent off of the coast of Japan. More proof that if you can create an environment on Earth, then something will live there, somehow.
(via Life, Unbounded)
Source: blogs.scientificamerican.com
The final four Atlantis astronauts arrive at Kennedy Space Center for Friday’s launch od STS-135.
(via NASA)
Source: twitpic.com
