Mt. St. Helens

IT's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EM Drive Paper Has Finally Been Published

After months of speculation and leaked documents , NASA's long-awaited EM Drive paper has finally been peer-reviewed and published . And it shows that the 'impossible' propulsion system really does appear to work.

I’m serious

Painted priests' tombs uncovered in Saqqara

During excavation work by the French Institute for Oriental Studies (IFAO) at Tabetl Algish in the south Saqqara necropolis, two very-well preserved tombs were uncovered.

The tombs belong to two priests from the reign of the sixth dynasty King Pepi II, and include their skeletons and a few items of their funerary collection. The first priest is named Ankhti and the second is Saby.

Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty explains that the walls of both tombs are very well decorated with paintings depicting religious rituals, among them presenting offerings to deities.

He asserted that the paintings are still bearing their vivid colours as if they were painted yesterday, although they were dug 4,200 years ago. Read more.

Celestial Mapping and Celestial Proportions by Tallmadge Doyle

Norway

A short list of realizations from tonight’s photo sorting/editing session:

I have taken a truly astonishing number of photos of hockey players making ridiculous faces.

Over half of these involve tongues. So many that I literally made a Lightroom tag called ‘put that thing back in your mouth’.

Evidence points to the Carolina Hurricanes system requiring players to stick said tongue out when making a shot.

We could probably power Canada with Jeff Skinner’s grin. Someone should get on that.

Dallas Stars @ Vancouver Canucks || 16 March 2017

Bo Horvat, incoming.

honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

Emerald City Comicon

Con is over and I’m finally back at home recuperating. Sorting through photos was a good way to keep myself occupied in line, but I’ve still got a few hundred more shots to weed through. So far my ECCC folder has about a thousand images in it so this may be a little while.

Photos to be posted include… Tyler Hoechlin Amanda Tapping Jewel Staite Marina Sirtis Anthony Mackie Clark Gregg Orlando Jones

…along with a few shots of our fantastic moderators for the weekend, Grant Imahara and Clare Kramer throughout these sets.

I’ll be putting everything up on flickr first, but will also be posting selected ones here, so keep an eye out!