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It should be mentioned that, it was NOT taken off the market because of the radioactivity ...we were still pretty ignorant about the effects of radiation. It was taken off the market because they were expensive, fewer than 5000 sets were sold and, to quote Wiki, "more appropriate for those who had some educational background rather than the younger crowd that the A.C. Gilbert Company aimed for."
In other words, it was removed for marketing reasons.
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You have to wonder if the term "compact" was included facetiously ...and why is there a juggler in the picture?
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"There is absolutely nothing special about the star known to astronomers as 2MASS J17554042+6551277. It's a nice bright star, about 16 times brighter than the sun. And it's located relatively close to Earth, as these things go, about 2,000 light years away." source: Time.com
The left part of this image is a photograph of this star made with the Spitzer telescope. The right half is a NASA photograph taken by the new James Webb telescope after phase 5 of the mirror alignment process. At the time this was taken, there were still several steps to go in the alignment process, and yet this image is better than what Hubble could give us and, many of the galaxies in the background (yes, those are galaxies) where unknown before this photograph was taken.
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All the dark blue stripes are parallel. The pattern fools your brain into thinking they're crooked but they're not. You can prove it by scrolling the picture to the top or bottom of your screen and you'll see they are perfectly straight and parallel.
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This is Lake Oroville, a reservoir formed by the Oroville Dam impounding the Feather River, located in Butte County, northern California. It's also the 2nd largest reservoir in the state. As you may know, the Western U.S. has been in a 20+ year draught until the winter of 2022.
The bottom half of the picture is the lake in the Summer of 2021. The top half is what it looks like as of the summer of 2023 at roughly 115% capacity. This should give you an idea of how much rain we got last winter and, at the time this photo was taken, the state is still experiencing issues with snow melt.
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Here's a few next-level creations from the St. Petersburg Woodcrafters Guild.
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Taking pumpkin carving to the next level.
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This is a flowering Silversword. Silverswords live between 3 and 90 years or more but they only flower once, sending up a spectacular flowering stalk, and then die soon afterward, scattering drying seeds to the wind.
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Dungeon dice are not a modern invention for geeks hiding in their basement ...or their garage, like me. This Roman rock-crystal icosahedron [20-sided] die dates back to around 1st century AD and was used in fortune telling.
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These are the "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula as photographed by The James Webb Telescope. The reason they are called this as they are basically a stellar nursery for new stars. The pillars are composed of cool molecular hydrogen and dust. They may not appear very large in this photo but the leftmost pillar is about four light years in length [roughly 23.5 Trillion miles or 37.8 Trillion kilometers]. The finger-like protrusions at the tops of the clouds are larger than our entire Solar System.
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