This Year's Top Science Images ?
According to this glitzy new website here are some of the top science images of the year :
http://www.txchnologist.com/2011/ten-of-the-top-science-images-of-2011
I find it curious that what they consider a science image is frequently a photo of some disaster , but just taken from a long range vantage point . For example , my new avatar is a disaster of immense proportions happening many light years from our galaxy .
I'm sure all of you long term NTers remember the following from our previous incarnation :
I'm not sure if that would qualify as a disaster but I expect the next one would :
Oddly enough , viewing it from a high altitude like this , it becomes beautiful but it is an image of the severe floods in Thailand ....
Do you have a favorite image from among these 10 ? Maybe you can suggest better images than these 10 , perhaps from a scientific importance POV ...
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Colorful little dickens ! Usually when they are that brightly colored they are also very poisonous .
These images got my attention. Not sure if they qualify but...
Fukushima
This was last years top science photo. I think it's amazing!
HIV Virus!
Scary shot Larry ! Thanks for posting it .
I assume that the colors are an artificial construct . They don't explain their significance , do they ?
Great choice Mike . There have to be quite a few shots from the Hubble to pick from .
Here are the facts:
A Russian team led by Ivan Konstantinov analyzed data from more than a hundred scientific journals to digitally depict HIV as close to the real thing as possible. The two-tone color scheme shows HIV (orange) attacking and fusing with an immune cell (gray). The triangular cut-away shows how the virus integrates itself to turn the cell into a virus factory.
Really cool!
So this isn't an actual photo at all but just an artist's conception ..... I thought it looked a little to "fabricy" .
Yeah that was quite an event . $#!+ happens when you've got severe budgetary constraints . "Never enough time to do it right , but always enough time to do it over ."
Is odd that I've never seen a scientist wearing that expression . There must be a reason for that ....
Redneck condominium ?
OK you asked for this:
You know I actually find that cool. It shows imagination.... obviously wasted. But cool none the less.
Did you notice the screen saying that the music video was Sting's latest? What mucking forons!
Ok I get it; I feel like themucking foron.
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Don't worry Larry... I'm with ya!
Just laugh at ya self and roll with it, LOL~!
OK, this is more like it . When it comes to science images the journal Nature is a terrific source .
Here is their version of the 2011 highlights .
Here are a several of the more spectacular images from the above link :
I saved the most striking ones for last :
LOL-Rick roll with it!
Actually the cosmic exclamation point sort of fits you, Rich.
My fave is glowing kitty. I still have it in rotation as my screen saver.
I still want one. : )
Truth be told , I always wanted to be a cosmic explanation point ...
As to glow-in-the-dark kitty , I think even dog lovers would like one of those .
Yeah, two tooth maximum to live with these people....
Very Cool Pics...
Rich, you showmen!