NASA scientists "fire and ice" in samples brought back by the Stardust mission.
"Remarkably enough, we have found fire and ice," said Don Brownlee, a University of Washington astronomer who is the mission’s principal scientist.
"We have found samples in the coldest part of the solar system. We found samples that have formed at an extremely high temperatures. So the hottest samples that formed at an extremely cold place."
Posted by Alex in Art, Pictures on March 13, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Micro-heroes are fantastic (pun intended) fan-made avatars, usually of action heroes and comic book characters. These arts are drawn in a very specific style and are often intricately animated.
Fore-edge painting is where the page block is fanned and an image applied to the stepped surface. If the page edges are themselves gilded or marbled, this results in the image disappearing when the book is relaxed. When refanned, the painting magically re-appears.
Meet the real von Trapp family, who inspired the movie "The Sound of Music". From the website:
Although most moviegoers’ final image is of the von Trapp clan climbing the Alps to escape to Switzerland, in reality the family emigrated to the United States in 1939 and settled in picturesque Stowe, 325 miles north of New York City.
1. Elmer’s white glue 2. a container to hold glue solution (I’ve chosen a film canister) 3. X-acto knife, and/or box cutter. Both if you have them 4. brush to apply glue solution 5. pencil/pen 6. ruler, or other rigid straight edge
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