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12 responses to “Icarus”
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Wow. I didn’t know what it was from the thumbnail, and I still don’t know. Gotta love tags.
Beautiful shot.
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Click on Steve’s "Exploratorium" tag and you can see another photo he made of this phenomenon… and an explanation.
I think both photos like are beautiful.
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Wonderful shot!
This reminds me of the time I made a comet for a bunch of eighth-graders. The mixture of water-ice and dry ice looks amazing. In fact, I should try it again with my camera ready. If you’ve ever made a candle by pouring hot wax into chunks of ice, and liked the effect of the resulting cavities, imagine the effect when it’s water that is hardened into a ice form full of cavities left by the dry ice.
(Skip the ammonia if it’s not for an audience– that’s just to give them a good whiff of a comet. Also, coffee makes a good alternative for the organic material.)
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"Icarus, having been taught to fly by his father Daedalus, was destroyed by his rashness. I fear that the same fate may overtake the populations whom modern men of science have taught to fly." –Bertrand Russell, 1924, Icarus, or the Future of Science, on the world’s need for increasing kindliness in step with increasing technical capability
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Ty… always having the right words at the right place from his right soul. My friend. =)
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Very interesting! Is it astronomical, or is it an x-ray? Could be very big or very small. Clever!
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