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Puzzle photo: Panama Canal related to Mars?
For today’s photo post, we have a puzzle: how is the Panama Canal related to the Planet Mars? Continuing on our earlier Mars theme, this is the Panama Canal, as viewed from the top of Ancon Hill in November 2009. Many giant ship container cranes are visible, together with shipping contains, and builds. There is a tiny-looking ship off to the left, and mountains, grass, clouds, and sky in the distance. The blue water of the canal runs through the center of the photo. Wait, did we say Mars theme? What does the Panama Canal have to do with Mars? Photo credit: Wikimedia/Brian Gratwicke/CC-BY-2 A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed. (more…)… Read the restMars: 3D printing raw material locations?
This 2001 view of mars seen by the Nasa Hubble space telescope might provide some clues as to locations where the raw materials for 3D printing might come from. Continuing on our red planet theme from the last few days, this is a 2001 photo of Mars from the Hubble space telescope.Mars has about 0.5 the diameter of Earth, or a quarter of the surface area. (AKA available real estate for you speculators. 🙂 ) Mars, the God of War, is indeed mostly made of iron as the ancient alchemists thought, or specifically iron(II) oxide, aka rust. (Mars was thought to be the God of War because of its blood color. Iron, of course, was the metal of weapons and war, and rust also resembled blood.) Critically, for expeditions, the poles contain significant amounts of water. The southern white polar ice cap, if melted, would cover the surface 11m in water.… Read the restCooking pots & consciousness (Getty Villa Malibu photos)
Ancient Roman Bronze cooking pots show origin of mirrors. Although it’s tough for animals to recognize themselves in a mirror, humans have been doing it for millennia, as noted in our recent photographs on this theme. Mirrors began to be made since at least the bronze age, and from this photo it’s easy to see where they got the idea: reflections in cookware (not to mention reflections in water like in our last photo, which would be even older). Copper cookware like these ancient cooking pots apparently hasn’t changed that much; these don’t look all so different from copper pots and bowls you might pick up from Target, do they? (Guessing the ones in our photo are pricier.) These are on display at the Getty Villa in Malibu, not far from our HQ in Los Angeles, CA. A lot of Roman silver and bronze cookware was reflective; there are plenty of examples of mirror-like Roman ancient cooking pots on display there.… Read the restRoman One Percent Lifestyle (Getty Villa Malibu photo)
Wondering how the ancient Roman one percent lived? This is our photo of the pool in the Getty Villa Roman-era reconstruction in Malibu not too far from our HQ in Los Angeles, California. The Getty Villa is one of the Getty’s two famous art museums in the area. The building itself is intended to be an exact replica of a Roman-era house buried during the volcano eruption at Pompeii (obviously the owners were definitely in the Roman one percent, even back then). So we had enough of mirrors, self-aware vampires, and Halloween-related posts and thought this would be a nice change. (We originally published as a photo post on our IG feed.) Oh wait, never mind, there are some really old Etruscan mirrors on display here. So looks like we’re back to mirrors and artificial consciousness after all. 🙂 We’ll note that it should soon be possible to take virtual reality tours of ancient buildings, something that wasn’t possible when the Getty Villa in Malibu, CA (Wikipedia) was built.… Read the restRecent Posts
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