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Chris writes: "I was at Ikea in Emeryville, Ca the other day and got kinda thirsty while waiting in the incredibly long checkout line just before closing. Right above all the waiting customers was a big banner advertising a 22oz soda for $1. When you get to the register, however, your dollar gets you a cup labeled 20oz (the only size cup they had, as far as I could tell). Not the end of the world, but annoying."
If anyone is wondering, here’s the results of my attempt at acetone shrinking a vinyl doll head. Weirdly enough, it didn’t shrink as so much just make the head seem thinner. I’ve compared it multiple times and the features like the nose and lips haven’t changed in size but his ears have and heck, even his jaw has gotten wider.
But yeah I have another My Scene boy head I’m trying to shrink but this time I used pure acetone rather than a nail polish remover since I want a bigger change in size heh.
Instead of a dart at the underarm this pattern eases that seam and shrinks the excess.
A note here to say that now, as construction starts I am not going to cover every step in detail. The instruction sheet needs to be used in conjunction with these photos
See all four photos in Shrinking Comox Glacier Album (Set)
www.flickr.com/photos/7292946@N08/sets/72157645980410590/
This glacier is minor source of fresh water for most of the Comox Valley. Most comes from melting winter snows in the lower mountains and spring rains, both have been reduced in the drought of recent years and followed by hotter and longer summers. We are running short of fresh water in a rainforest!
www.cbc.ca/news/technology/glacier-melt-worldwide-now-cau...
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Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, part of a set showing the changes to the Great Red Spot. There are interesting videos at the image source (see bottom of caption) as well. I couldn't resist turning Jupiter into a round panorama; in this panorama, north is the outer edge. Color/processing variant.
Original caption:
Collecting these yearly images – essentially the planetary version of annual school picture days for children – will help current and future scientists see how these giant worlds change over time. The observations are designed to capture a broad range of features, including winds, clouds, storms and atmospheric chemistry.
Already, the Jupiter images have revealed a rare wave just north of the planet’s equator and a unique filamentary feature in the core of the Great Red Spot not seen previously.
“Every time we look at Jupiter, we get tantalizing hints that something really exciting is going on,” said Amy Simon, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “This time is no exception.”
Simon and her colleagues produced two global maps of Jupiter from observations made using Hubble’s high-performance Wide Field Camera 3. The two maps represent nearly back-to-back rotations of the planet, making it possible to determine the speeds of Jupiter’s winds. The findings are described in an Astrophysical Journal paper, available online.
The new images confirm that the Great Red Spot continues to shrink and become more circular, as it has been doing for years. The long axis of this characteristic storm is about 150 miles (240 kilometers) shorter now than it was in 2014. Recently, the storm had been shrinking at a faster-than-usual rate, but the latest change is consistent with the long-term trend.
The Great Red Spot remains more orange than red these days, and its core, which typically has more intense color, is less distinct than it used to be. An unusual wispy filament is seen, spanning almost the entire width of the vortex. This filamentary streamer rotates and twists throughout the 10-hour span of the Great Red Spot image sequence, getting distorted by winds blowing at 330 miles per hour (150 meters per second) or even greater speeds.
In Jupiter’s North Equatorial Belt, the researchers found an elusive wave that had been spotted on the planet only once before, decades earlier, by Voyager 2. In those images, the wave is barely visible, and nothing like it was seen again, until the current wave was found traveling at about 16 degrees north latitude, in a region dotted with cyclones and anticyclones. Similar waves – called baroclinic waves – sometimes appear in Earth’s atmosphere where cyclones are forming.
“Until now, we thought the wave seen by Voyager 2 might have been a fluke,” said co-author Glenn Orton of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “As it turns out, it’s just rare!”
The wave may originate in a clear layer beneath the clouds, only becoming visible when it propagates up into the cloud deck, according to the researchers. That idea is supported by the spacing between the wave crests.
In addition to Jupiter, the researchers have observed Neptune and Uranus, and maps of those planets also will be placed in the public archive. Saturn will be added to the series later. Hubble will dedicate time each year to this special set of observations, called the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program.
“The long-term value of the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program is really exciting,” said co-author Michael H. Wong of the University of California, Berkeley. “The collection of maps that we will build up over time will not only help scientists understand the atmospheres of our giant planets, but also the atmospheres of planets being discovered around other stars, and Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, too.”
Please direct inquiries for the University of California, Berkeley, to Robert Sanders at rlsanders@berkeley.edu.
To access the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program images and data, visit:
archive.stsci.edu/prepds/opal/
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I think the workforce had it in for the manager today......
The sign reads:
Manager's Sale
As New, Still in wrapping,
Cheap as Chips!
£25 O.N.O.
Contact General Manager, Avis
Elizabeth writes: "Skippy Peanut Butter has been hit by the grocery shrink ray! Jar on the left is a new purchase - 16.3 oz. Jar on right is from a couple of months ago - 18 oz. Needless to say, the price has not gone down at all."
Further west, just north of the rail line and just west of Hygiene and still apparently dodging the rains, I found this barn near McCall Lake. The spring will soon be greening the area up and I better get the camera at the ready. It seems as though the old barn still hangs on as the farming plots continue to shrink as in this scene. My garden plots were larger and were filled with fantastic soil that I also learned to grow. Manure originally came from the word "man" referring to manual labor and to work with the hands. No historical references to industrial fertilizer of the kind that explodes when touched off.
This is all at the end of a week that brought our area above normal 100% sequestered moisture. Still in all, this scene really pops from here but not so much from route #66 to Estes an Rocky Mountain National Park. I am still quite close to the rock train rail line; it runs just south of the lake on it's tangent route to Lyons. It is probably visible behind me.
As it worked out, a great sky developed today, ending days of terrible skies and sprinkles and soon enough brought a slight overcast; I hope the bad skies are not soon back with the weather turn around. I was actually hoping this sky could come around soon while the field was struck yellow. I needed this tweak of scenery and change of editing. I actually have my mind set on a couple other projects too.
With 43299 providing the horsepower at the rear, Virgin Trains East Coast no. 43318 powers towards Brookmans Park with 1B88, the 1606 semi-fast InterCity 125 service from London King's Cross to Newark North Gate.
43318 has recently been adorned in vinyls marking the HST's 40th anniversary on the ECML.