vy canis majoris would extend past jupiter if dropped into our solar system. at 0.000005 kg/m3, the star is 100k less dense than the atmosphere of the Earth at sea level, so this is more like a hot vacuum.
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Satellite Archaeology
holy shit:
A study of Cold War spy-satellite photos has tripled the number of known archaeological sites across the Middle East, revealing 1000s of ancient cities, roads, canals, and other ruins.
Internet congestion is on purpose
5 of those congested peers are in the United States and one is in Europe. There are none in any other part of the world. All 6 are large Broadband consumer networks with a dominant or exclusive market share in their local market. In countries or markets where consumers have multiple Broadband choices (like the UK) there are no congested peers.
smoking guns that the thugs at comcast et al are crippling the internet
The cat-toast perpetuum mobile
science: it works, bitches.
ransomware sophistication
ransomware is getting more sophisticated by the day, including different sites for different countries. they even bothered to do a swiss one.
Cthulhu
Dodging bulls
Recortadores is a bloodless type of bullfighting where performance consists of dodging and acrobatically leaping over a bull. who knew?
Brenner’s
Those chocolate pipes
Latency
A+ trolling, would watch again
Copying the Mona Lisa
did leonardo work with a student to paint the mona lisa stereoscopically?
2 years ago, the Prado Museum in Madrid announced that a painting long thought to be a relatively unremarkable copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was actually painted contemporaneously with the original, likely by a student following the master as he drew and painted the portrait. Infrared reflectography found that the 18th century black overpaint obscured a hilly background almost the same as the original. When the black overpaint and varnish were removed from the Prado’s copy, further infrared and X-ray analysis found underdrawings and alterations from the tracing and all the way through the upper paint levels that matched those in 2004 scans of the Louvre Mona Lisa. That means from the initial sketches to the changes and corrections as painting progressed, the Prado copy followed along at each stage.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 