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Adhesion – the physics of Space Gardens
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Adhesion is the force of attraction between atoms or molecules of different substances. One example of this is the adhesion between glass and water molecules – resulting in the creation of a meniscus. Adhesion occurs in space, but other forces (like gravity) are less powerful. This allowed Nikolai Budarin to take this image in the Russian Lada greenhouse on the International Space Station (ISS). The stalk supports a drop of water – without bending under its weight. Furthermore, a bubble of air sits suspended, trapped within the droplet In space, however, the air bubble doesn't rise because there's no buoyancy. The force of molecular adhesion sticks the droplet to the leaf – there's no other force to pull it off. |
Happy Birthday, Canaberra
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Canberra’s geological roots are reflected in many of its place names, and conversely many of its rocks reflect the local geography in their names. The view in the photograph is of Black Mountain taken from Mount Ainslie. Both promontories are the product of geological processes dating back to the Silurian Period. Black Mountain is formed of “Black Mountain sandstone” sitting atop “State Circle Shale”. These rocks were laid down around 435 million years ago, when underwater avalanches (turbidites) raced off an ancient continent to the depths of a Silurian ocean. Our view of them is from Mount Ainslie, formed of the “Ainslie volcanics” – about 425 million years old, these are ignimbrites – sub-aerial avalanches this time, of burning hot ash and pumice erupted from Silurian volcanoes set in the shallow seas of the (then) continent’s margin. So, happy birthday Canberra, and as you celebrate 100 years of civic and federal fun, raise a glass of local Riesling (one of the best!) and remember your ancient roots. |
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In the early stages of Japanese history, there were female entertainers: saburuko (serving girls) were mostly wandering girls whose families were displaced from struggles in the late 600s.[6] Some of these saburuko girls sold sexual services, while others with a better education made a living by entertaining at high-class social gatherings. After the imperial court moved the capital to Heian-kyō (Kyoto) in 794 the conditions that would form Japanese Geisha culture began to emerge, as it became the home of a beauty-obsessed elite.[6] Skilled female performers, such as Shirabyōshi dancers, thrived.
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Scorpio Horoscope for week of March 14, 2013
"I am iron resisting the most enormous Magnet there is," wrote the Sufi mystic poet Rumi. He was wistfully bemoaning his own stubborn ignorance, which tricked him into refusing a more intimate companionship with the Blessed Source of all life. I think there's something similar going on in most of us, even atheists. We feel the tremendous pull of our destiny -- the glorious, daunting destination that would take all our strength to achieve and fulfill our deepest longings -- and yet we are also terrified to surrender to it. What's your current relationship to your Magnet, Scorpio? I say it's time you allowed it to pull you closer. |
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May the road rise up to meet you.
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i grew up with stories from my maternal grand-mother and great-grandmother about the 'wee folk' that lived 'back home' in Ireland. My grandmother would sometimes tap my left ear, which has (what i call- a spock ear) and tell me that i had a bit of 'fae' in me. I grew up believing in them, and leaving a saucer of milk out for them at night! My cousins and I would spend hours trying to find fairies and elves! Good memories on this St. Paddy's day weekend! |
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My grandmother, Mary Farrell, born in Glengarriff Ireland, often spoke of the history associated with St.Patrick's Day, and so, like femmeInterrupted, I think about her a lot at this time of year... Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ St. Patrick was born in Roman Britain at Banna Venta Berniae, a location otherwise unknown, though identified in one tradition as Glannoventa, modern Ravenglass in Cumbria. Calpornius, his father, was a deacon, his grandfather Potitus, a priest. When he was about sixteen, he was captured and carried off as a slave to Ireland. Patrick worked as a herdsman, remaining a captive for six years. He writes that his faith grew in captivity, and that he prayed daily. After six years he heard a voice telling him that he would soon go home, and then that his ship was ready. Fleeing his master, he travelled to a port, two hundred miles away,where he found a ship and, after various adventures, returned home to his family, now in his early twenties. Patrick recounts that he had a vision a few years after returning home: I saw a man coming, as it were from Ireland. His name was Victoricus, and he carried many letters, and he gave me one of them. I read the heading: "The Voice of the Irish". As I began the letter, I imagined in that moment that I heard the voice of those very people who were near the wood of Foclut, which is beside the western sea—and they cried out, as with one voice: "We appeal to you, holy servant boy, to come and walk among us." http://i46.tinypic.com/2cetcvs.jpg The reputed burial place of St. Patrick in Downpatrick (Dún Pádraig), Northern Ireland http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ish_clover.jpg According to legend, St. Patrick used the 3-leaved shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to the Irish people. Wearing of the green Originally, the colour associated with Saint Patrick was blue. Over the years the colour green and its association with Saint Patrick's Day grew. Green ribbons and shamrocks were worn in celebration of St Patrick's Day as early as the 17th century. Saint Patrick is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagan Irish, and the ubiquitous wearing and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs has become a feature of the day. In the 1798 rebellion, to make a political statement, Irish soldiers wore full green uniforms on 17 March in hopes of catching public attention. The phrase "the wearing of the green", meaning to wear a shamrock on one's clothing, derives from a song of the same name. |
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwtravel/624...p/p0169pwb.jpg At 2km wide and 100m tall, Victoria Falls is the world’s largest curtain of falling water. It is located in southern Africa, on the Zambezi River at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
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HAPPY St Patrick Day All!!! :)
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