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Alien water droplets

by Sean Carroll

This guy is having too much fun with high-speed photography.

colored droplets
Reflections from the two flashes look like pairs of eyes, don’t you think? Via the apostropher.

Permission granted from fotoopa. (Thanks!)

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August 8th, 2005 10:44 AM
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2 Responses to “Alien water droplets”

  1. 1.   Quantoken Says:
    August 8th, 2005 at 1:12 pm

    Sean:

    Don’t you realize that you have broken the laws, by illegally copying and uploading copyrighted material to cosmicvariance.com?

    The creator of those photographies explicitly claimed: “All photographs appearing in this fotoopa web site are under the protection of the international copyright laws. No photograph may be reproduced, copied, stored, manipulated or used whole or in part of a derivative work, without the written permission of fotoopa.”

    apostropher at least know better than you by providing a URL but not show the images directly.

    Quantoken

  2. 2.   Aaron F. Says:
    August 8th, 2005 at 3:27 pm

    “Don’t you realize that you have broken the laws…”

    Hehehe… because I just wrote a few paragraphs about the conservation of energy, and I’m familiar with the usual content of Quantoken’s comments, my first reaction to this phrase was, “How could Sean have broken any conservation laws?!” :)





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