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Camera Obscura - how we really see things

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 23:01.

 

How does a hole in the wall act as a lens?   

How does the diameter of the hole in the wall act with regard to focal distance?

The image above has about a 4 foot focal distance.

Camera Obscura - lots to learn!

Image: George Samuel - about 3.5 minute exposure.

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America's coming cicada invasion: 5 key facts (they taste good - save them for the coming disasters)

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 16:11.

The eastern United States is about to be overtaken by hundreds of millions of fearsome-looking bugsThey're back!After 17 years of hiding in the earth, vast clouds of cicadas are set to swarm the eastern United States in the coming weeks, from Geor

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Complaint needs to be filed against City of Cleveland and Ohio EPA

Submitted by lmcshane on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 07:43.

Community At Large Embraces the Families of Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus, and Michelle Knight with Prayers, Hugs, Blessings, &Love

Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 01:36.
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Today, my heart sunk when a relative got a text that we thought was a too far fetched to be true...but we reacted immediately with phone calls to see if it was true as we didn't have a TV available to see the news...within minutes we were sure the news was true....they found Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus, and Michelle Knight alive along with a little girl later to be found out to be Amanda's daughter.

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TREMONT HOUSE OF HORRORS seymore ave - Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michele Knight, FREE AFTER 10 YEARS KIDNAPPED PRISONERS

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 21:43.

 From left, Ariel, Onil and Pedro have all been arrested in connection with the abduction of Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michele Knight almost ten years ago (ariel, onil, and pedro, Castro, brothers arrested - owner of house)   - CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Cleveland Police confirms that three missing girls were located in a house on Seymour Avenue Monday afternoon.

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Cyber Attack on US Banks and Government Websites Expected on May 7th

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 15:25.

The White House website and eight other federal government sites, plus those of 133 U.S. banking institutions, are listed as targets in an April 24 Anonymous Pastebin post.

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Good to be in AMERICA! Not too much death or destruction! Cool! IMHO

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sun, 05/05/2013 - 19:35.

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The Sun is Not What we We Have Been Told.... Eric Dollard reveals 3 secrets about the Sun

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Sun, 05/05/2013 - 14:00.
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Eyewitnesses: Israel Drops ‘Nuclear-Type’ Bomb On Damascus, 2 Israeli Jets Shot Down, Assad To Declare War On Israel (& america)

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Sun, 05/05/2013 - 00:13.

I’ll continue to follow this as things develop..  -Mort

 

  • [3:12 pm NZT] RT is citing a local journalist reporting 300 people dead and a total of 4 blasts striking the area.

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Redpath Toronto Sennebogen ship sugar unloader

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 05/04/2013 - 20:38.

The hydraulic clam shell bucket - sugar leaking from its corners - holds 10 meters cubed.   

Why doesn't someone fix the leaks?   Lots of sugar lost all over the dock and blowing away in the air.  

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Phase out US nuclear plants, Fukushima

Submitted by Oldroser on Sat, 05/04/2013 - 19:37.

 I read here that the massive disaster at Fukushima was because the operator was too cheap to keep up needed repairs, and now has no incentive to clean up the disaster. www.washingtonsblog.com/cat/sciencetechnology

Scale of the Universe

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Sat, 05/04/2013 - 18:33.

Scale of the Universe – Once it loads, move the tool bar at the bottom right and left. Click on anything to read about it. There's a lot to explore.

http://standeyo.com/

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11 Dollar Beers - Worth it to see Big Papi?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 19:51.

At bat with bases loaded, this was a three run second base homer for Big Papi

But the entire operation is sick.   

Stadium with electronic signs everywhere - blaring out Budweiser!  

You bring a little kid to this shit, and the kid's brain is going to be indelibly impressed with corporate crap. 

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Stephen Randall and his Daughter Scarlet compose and sing a great song - We Will Run Again

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 16:34.

The internet is the coolest vehicle!   Tim Berners-Lee my hat's off to you.   Thanks a lot!

Back when Encyclopedia Brittanica was the home source for information, or going to the library was the means to find out about something --- there was always a pause between when you wanted to know something, and when you could actually find out about that something. 

Not with the internet.  No waiting.

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Working Class Mother Flowers..... Kiss My Arse....

Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 02:41.

You live in the shadows of a forty hour per week job that pays you a decent living...You get off work, toast a beer, and dog out all the poor folks who get any kind of public assistance because you are a "hard-working" American.

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TREMONT SINK HOLES - tremont side walks-streets-yards etc. breaking-cracking apart - sinking

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 21:06.

as sohpia honey yoga and me walk our walk in tremont almost every day we see the side walks that are cracked and sinking - getting worse - almost every block and the streets and the yards like tremont school in the back in the grass area close to the building there is a small sink hole with a red warning cone sticking up to warn folks - this is warning that this will get worse and worse and very large and dangerous sink holes will swallow homes buildings streets side walks people etc. - mother earth is being pulled - collapsing apart -

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CUYAHOGA COUNTY LAND BANK - LIAR LIAR PANTIES ON FIRE - ** ATTEMPTED COVER UP IN PROGRESS ** President Gus Frangos

Submitted by Gone Fishin on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 19:31.

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The Orangutan and the Hound Dog

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 13:43.

we humans learned every thing from our sisters brothers other species - and now we speciesism them -

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THE BRAVE ONE" (for female victims of horrible crimes - this is REAL GUN CONTROL)

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 02:19.
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