Listening to Ira Flato and Flora Lichtman on Science Friday, this afternoon, they described a video - time lapse photography of ice through a pair of polarizing lenses. It sounded so beautiful that I had to go to the ScienceFriday.com website to see the video.
Here is the link to Secret Life of Ice. Note that on my 1 Mb/sec wireless connection, it took about a minute for the buffering to be completed. The video, itself, is another two minutes.
From the Science Friday posting: "Photographer and videographer Edward Aites, of Seattle, submitted this time-lapse video to Science Friday. He looked at ice through a macro lens and cross-polarizing filters, and found a colorful, surprising landscape. This is ice like you’ve never seen it before."
That was really cool. Thank you for sharing the vid.
Posted by: Hattie | February 24, 2012 at 07:47 PM
I loved that....very cool. Thanks CC... ~Joy
Posted by: Joy | February 24, 2012 at 10:13 PM
Fascinating!!!!!! Thanks!!!!!
Posted by: Kay Dennison | February 24, 2012 at 10:34 PM
wow....the world is beautiful right down to the core! thanks for posting this!
Posted by: M.E. | February 25, 2012 at 06:41 PM
I'm glad that all are enjoying the video. BTW: ME has embedded the video on her blog (link to her blog is in the right-hand sidebar).
Posted by: Cop Car | February 26, 2012 at 10:36 AM
First steps towards Ice Nine? ;-)
Posted by: Ole Phat Stu | February 28, 2012 at 09:23 AM
Ah, yes, Stu - Vonnegut was well ahead of us, wasn't he? It's been so long since I read "Cat's Cradle" that I should return to it; but, just now I am reading "The Man-Kzin Wars" per your recommendation. (Now I need to order the next couple of books through the Inter-Library Loan System.)
Some things, Niven/Anderson/Ing foresaw; others, not so much. Since I was always one to chew on nearer-term problems/issues, they were head-and-shoulders ahead of me!
Posted by: Cop Car | February 28, 2012 at 12:52 PM
On Renke's rewccomendation, I ordered Charles Stross's cyberpunk novel 'Accelerando' about the singularity. It just came today. I'll give you an opinion when I'm done reading it. You liking the Man-Kzin Wars series?
Posted by: Ole Phat Stu | February 28, 2012 at 01:26 PM
Yes and No. It is okay; but, I would have enjoyed it more had I read it at age 17 instead of age 74! Undoubtedly, I am catching more of the scientific inconsistencies than previously I would have done; and, I can surely, from the perspective of 2012, more appreciate how well they imagined scientific future developments. Poul Anderson was always a favored author.
Oh! One thing that annoys me is how they write about the sexes. I'm guessing that later books get better about that. For one thing, they make the Kzin, a "feline" culture more nearly mirror (to me, at least) a canine culture. Well...I suppose...aliens might be that way! *chortling"
Posted by: Cop Car | February 28, 2012 at 01:50 PM
Canine? I saw the Kzin as more Klingon ;-)
Posted by: Ole Phat Stu | February 29, 2012 at 12:18 AM
Interesting, Stu. Something I failed to mention was my confusion (if you recall the first book) when the Rover crew were discussing a first- or second-generation planetary system that they were going to explore.
"Dorcas talks of a Bode function. That implies the surviving planets are about where theory says they ought to be. How'd they avoid orbital decay?"
I've done/used Bode plots, but I can't say that "Bode function" was ever a part of my knowledge base. Elucidation?
Posted by: Cop Car | February 29, 2012 at 03:59 PM