Starfishes of the Mind

This video clip makes me shriek.  I can not tell whether I am shrieking with delight or terror. Via Everything is Terrible:



Weirdly enough, while reading Echinoblog yesterday, I also came upon a similar clip (embedded below); credits end around 1:30:



If you really want to watch Warning from Space in its entirety, it's here.

Are giant, English-speaking, bipedal starfishes "trending?" Gosh, I hope so!

Polar Buns

Aurora "Lepor"ealis!

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Aurora Leporealis CAPTURED IN A PEEPS DIORAMA!

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Look at the Peeps huskies!  The Peeps reindeer!  I'm pretty sure those are marshmallow flukes flashing back there in the corner...  Peep artist Nina Cois, you are a genius!

Time-lapse night sky video

Fullscreen, baby!


Temporal Distortion from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.

What you see is real, but you can't see it this way with the naked eye. It is the result of thousands of 20-30 second exposures, edited together to produce the timelapse. This allows you to see the Milky Way, Aurora and other Phenonmena, in a way you wouldn't normally see them.

Read the full description here.