The Problem with Kinect for Skyrim
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Check out this - blue! - Martian sunset
What explains the weird coloration - blue at the center, rosy pink at the edges - of this picture of a sunset? Well, first of all, it wasn’t snapped on this planet; it was taken by the Spirit Martian rover in 2005, at the Gusev crater. For the science behind the colors, read this excerpt by Robert Krulwich:
Sunshine, as you know, contains many different wavelengths of light. If you catch a beam of light in a prism (Newton did this) it breaks into a rainbow of colors — reds, violets, blues. When the sunshine on Mars hits the clouds of fine dust floating through the air, it also breaks into different colors. Martian dust is exactly the right size to absorb the blue wavelengths of light and scatter red wavelengths all over the sky. That’s why if you are standing on Mars and look away from the setting sun, most of the sky is rosy, pink, and various shades of red.
But now look straight at the setting sun. On Mars, the beams of light streaming toward you, having lost their red waves, show the wavelengths that haven’t scattered off. That remaining light is predominantly blue. So when you look straight at the sun on Mars, you see a haze of blue. Look away from the sun, and the light is red.
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*update from the author*
A lot of people seem grumpy about my latest comic about online gaming as a girl.
I wasn’t implying that girls suck at games. I was implying two things:
- When girls play, often times no one takes them seriously.
- If they screw up, often times the room is filled with lonely dudes who say things like “LOL that’s okay! Will you marry me?” If I screw up I get eviscerated.
In short: a terrible female gamer gets away with way more than a terrible male gamer (like me).
(via oatmeal)
This came from my recent escapades playing Left4Dead online.Again, I meant no ill toward lady gamers.
-Matthew
Project Glass: One day… (by Google)
the future according to google
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Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory - Science is Fun
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Final Hours - The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
this song come to mind when i only have 5 min to finish a chem final and still have a whole problem to do
ASSASSIN’S CREED SET DURING AMERICAN REVOLUTION (PROBABLY)!
Kotaku has provided more evidence to the rumor reported by our friends over at Gamefreaks back in January. Based on this image it looks like the next Assassin’s Creed will indeed take place during the American Revolution.
This new information, along with Ubisoft’s recently stating that an Assassin’s Creed announcement was coming soon leads me to believe that this is probably true.
