Sweetteadivination-blog - Sweet Tea Divination

And then there are the so-called “forbidden colors” called red-green and blue-yellow, because scientists suck at naming things. We know they exist, but our retinas piss all over the very idea by crudely approximating them to their base colors when sending the signal to the brain. In an experiment conducted in 1983, researchers figured out they could make volunteers actually see these colors using specifically constructed striped images where one half of an eye’s retinal cells could only see one color while the other saw the other, basically overloading the eye until it went “screw it” and unleashed the forbidden hues.

The volunteers saw colors they had not seen before, but had no words for what they were looking at. It sort of broke their brains for a minute.

5 Insane Things Hiding Just Outside Of Human Perception

Lady Dootle

Hamachi Rose Valentine’s Special at @rockwrapandroll, posted on Instagram.

Leszek Bujnowski, color editing and motion graphic effects by George RedHawk

I don't have enough coffee in me to face today. Shouldn't there be a reset button somewhere around here?

This is so cool

NAAS Astronomy Picture of the Day 2016 September 5 

Spiral Meteor through the Heart Nebula 

What is this meteor doing? Dynamically, the unusually short and asymmetric train may indicate that the sand-sized grain at the center of the glow is momentarily spinning as it ablates, causing its path to be slightly spiral. Geographically, the meteor appears to be going through the Heart Nebula, although really it is in Earth’s atmosphere and so is about one quadrillion times closer. Taken last month on the night of the peak, this meteor is likely from the Perseid meteor shower. The Perseids radiant, in the constellation of Perseus, is off the frame to the upper right, toward the direction that the meteor streak is pointing. The Heart Nebula was imaged in 18 one-minute exposures, of which the unusual meteor streak appeared on just one. The meteor train is multicolored as its glow emanates from different elements in the heated gas.

I love this

Falling Stars

Not sure if I have the right source but I found this beautiful gif in @lsd-kitty‘s archive. When I saw it, I just wanted to make a looping version.

Not as dense of a star field but a great result none the less.

Race Dog

I really like this

Humans are the only species to evolve consciously. Don’t have claws, so we made knives. Can’t run fast, so we made cars. Can’t breathe under water, so we made scuba sets…