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Showing posts with label cool. Show all posts

Saturday, February 28

Many things are possible


2:07 through the hoop is spectacular
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Labels: cool, digg, sport

Wednesday, February 18

Rise of the Wii surfer

This is seriously cool:

posted 3:07 PM 0 comments
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Wednesday, October 1

Four rocky planets

APOD explains.
posted 8:28 PM 0 comments
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Sunday, September 28

Artificial rainbow


  • Via and caption

  • More details from the photographer

  • Prandtl-Glauert (P-G) Cloud Q & A
posted 4:35 PM 0 comments
Labels: cool, digg

Saturday, September 27

To infinity



...and beyond!
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