Space

These don't technically belong here, but they're intended to be space-like. They're images of food on a flatbed scanner with the lid left open.

The creator said:

I've always been a huge space geek for one. I'd also seen other scanography where people scan objects with the lid open to create an all black background and wondered if I might be able to use the same method to make space scenes out of spices for stars/galaxies, liquids for planets, etc. I was pretty surprised at how realistic it all can look.
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Nebula - tea, water, half & half, food coloring
Stars - flour, peppercorns




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Planet and moon - pancakes
Background - olive oil, flour, cinnamon, cumin, seasoned salt




Here's a whole gallery of them. Found them on Reddit.

http://imgur.com/a/s3HzE

 
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Never been a huge fan of Space. Why? No air. I prefer air.

I like the pretty pics, though.

Which reminds me, saw this doc where they were thinking about colonizing the moon--our moon. Well, they figured they'd need some water up there--in addition to air--so all the best and brightest @ NASA and what not set up a yuge lab where they would attempt to extract water from moon rocks. Can't quite remember where they got the moon rocks, but they had enough to give it a whirl and about a zillion $ later, they did, in fact, extract about 1/2 cup of H2O from a big pile of moon rocks at which point, being the best and brightest that they were, concluded that they couldn't get, "water from a stone", so to speak, way too friggin' expensive, and it also wasn't worth the hassle trying to ship fresh H2O up from the Earth, not to mention the impending water shortage on Earth, sooooooo....project scrapped, no moon colonies anytime soon.

They're still selling 1 way tickets to Mars, though, it seems....they really want to colonize space and transport all the human problems up there, I s'pose, but for me, again, not a fan of space, no air, no water, no gravity. I like it here just fine, tyvm.

 
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Lincoln Nebraska, August 21 2017, 11:37CDT, Duration: 2 hours and 53 minutes.

First TOTAL solar eclipse in Lincoln since 1442, before Christopher Columbus !! The next event, 2245 ... hopefully 2 or 3 time CCG Husker winners.

note: annular and total solar eclipses are different

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Omaha is not in the path! Get down to Lincoln, or better yet, farther south toward Beatrice (2m35s at 1:02pm), for a better show! THAT'S RIGHT - IN OMAHA, the eclipse will never be total for you! You will need to use your eclipse glasses for the entire partial eclipse!

And speaking of Lincoln, this second capital city in the path lies near its northern edge, so totality is shorter there - only 1m 25.5s (at 1:02pm) on the grounds of the beautiful State Capitol. The 50-yard-line at Husker stadium gets five seconds less time in the shadow, so you can see how important it is to get as far south as you can!
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NASA and Science's joke: 400 years in the making

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/blogs/nasas-jupiter-probe-just-delivered-punchline-400-years-making

It has become tradition to name newly discovered Jupiter moons after the many girlfriends and boyfriends of the Roman god (when astronomers ran out of candidates in 2004, they started using the names of children born to Jupiter and his many paramours).

Now, with the hope of learning more about our mysterious gassy friend, NASA has sent a probe to Jupiter the Juno spacecraft entered the planet's orbit this weekend, and will come close enough to investigate what goes on over there (i.e. to bust up the party) this August. NASA's big joke? The spacecraft is named Juno, after Jupiter's wife.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/NASAJuno/status/750175911614353408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
 
At first I thought this was photo shopped. But instead of the satellite being in geosynchronous orbit which is between the Earth and the Moon, it is in a Lagrangian point, specifically L-1. I didn't know we had satellites there.

 
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