Why o why are rockets painted that way?
… or at all? To paint the lily might well be excess, but there’s very good reasons to paint rockets (or not) Continue reading Why o why are rockets painted that way?
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A star like any other?
Think about it: the idea that the Sun is essentially the same thing as any star doesn’t make any sense. I mean, just look at them, they could hardly be more different! So how the heck do you go about proving such an outrageous idea? Well, it’s been quite a long journey, that started from a number of guesses by ancient “scientists”. Granted, some of them turned out relatively correct, … Continue reading A star like any other?
Why are soap bubbles colored?
Soap bubbles are mostly water and, how we can see every day, water reflects part of the light that hits it. So, when light arrive on a bubble, some of it bounces right off the surface, like it does off the surface of a lake. The rest enters the thin layer of soapy water that forms the bubble. Light travels peacefully through all of it, … Continue reading Why are soap bubbles colored?
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