craigb
http://io9.com/the-most-amazing-science-images-of-2013-1484412171/@maxread
 
I thought the images of the sun spot and solar activity were especially hot!
 
(See what I did there?  )

I watch a daily broadcast on YouTube from S u s p i c i o u sObservers about the Sun...

http://www.youtube.com/user/Su****ious0bservers

He speaks of Flaring and potential, and how Coronal Holes affect Earthquake activity...
It's quite interesting.

Go find the Mythbusters episode where they prove that we did, indeed, go to the moon.

cat lungs actually grossed me out.

batsbrew
cat lungs actually grossed me out.

Not as much as the cat they 'borrowed' them from 

that necklace in a jar was pretty cool. 
 
Here is something that all people fascinated with math are going to love!!!! Four color problem solution!!!
 
http://www.ams.org/notices/200811/tx081101382p.pdf
 
Merry Christmas

With all this talk about penises and toasters … I like the link down at the bottom with a discussion called:
 
“The Paper Where I Accidently Made Genitalia Glow in the Dark” (you have to scroll all the way to the bottom)
 
The quotes from the original article talk about making the “lower vaginal tract" in mice glow.  They also reference glowing poop.
 
Wow, I said penises, genitalia, vaginal and poop … all in one post.  Now that is a gratifying day of posting.

quantumeffect
With all this talk about penises and toasters … I like the link down at the bottom with a discussion called:
 
“The Paper Where I Accidently Made Genitalia Glow in the Dark” (you have to scroll all the way to the bottom)
 
The quotes from the original article talk about making the “lower vaginal tract" in mice glow.  They also reference glowing poop.
 
Wow, I said penises, genitalia, vaginal and poop … all in one post.  Now that is a gratifying day of posting.

I think we have a weiner winner!

backwoods
that necklace in a jar was pretty cool. 
 
Here is something that all people fascinated with math are going to love!!!! Four color problem solution!!!
 
http://www.ams.org/notices/200811/tx081101382p.pdf
 
Merry Christmas

Saved for later reading!

craigb
Go find the Mythbusters episode where they prove that we did, indeed, go to the moon.

 I'm not disagreeing with you craig. I think we did go to the moon. I also think we have faked photos and video. Not necessarily the specific examples given in the Mythbusters show.
 
Not really an outright conspiracy but a  misrepresentation of the facts as they actually happened.
 
The links I posted should at least cause some questions in the mind of any true skeptic. 
 
Why didn't the thousands of people working for NASA have any idea if some of it was faked? Did you know that NASA sent a telemetry satellite into space a short time before the launches in order to "simulate" the telemetery sent from the Apollo missions? If those at mission control were led to believe that the telemetry was from Apollo when it wasn't, then thousands of workers at mission control could have been fooled. Only a small inner circle of people would have had to know.
 
Most television at that time was sent from direct links but the Apollo missions were fed through their own system, hence they had total control of the video which was taped on some of the very earliest video tape machines.They decided what was sent to the uplinks from where ever that was.This is why there was an accidental feed into Australia that had a coke bottle on the set. This was sent before they had changed it.
 
The moonrock with the letter C stamped on it is a little suspect. The fact that scenes shot supposedly within miles of one another had the same backdrops were also a little suspect.I could go on but I'll digress.
 
MOP is that a lot of what happened was twofold. A. We needed to project a certain image to the public on what was happening and keep the rest of what we were doing a secret and B. Kennedy had made this a national goal and some who were in power at the time were not about to loose national face by not letting that happen..one way of the other.
 
Don't forget that the Mythbusters show was  helped by none other than NASA. I'm pretty sure they wanted to get involved early on.JMOP. YMMV.
 
 
 
 

You do know there's a mirror placed on the moon that can be seen by the higher powered telescopes which they use to bounce a laser off of and tell the distance between Earth and the moon, right?