Just to show again that Nature contains more wonders than the mind can imagine, Science News reports that the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has spotted the tell-tale signature of antimatter in terrestrial lightning:
Designed to scan the heavens thousands to billions of light-years beyond the solar system for gamma rays, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has [...]
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Antimatter found in lightning?
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Flowchart of the Rings
Posted in Fantasy, Movies, tagged flowcharts, Lord of the Rings, maps, XKCD.com on November 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Via Strange Maps, a rendering of the Lord of the Rings as a flowchart of the progress of the main characters. It’s too big to show here, so a sample will have to do:
Visit XKCD.com for the full diagram. They also have flow charts for Star Wars (original trilogy, of course) and Jurassic Park.
