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Thread: Fuel Droplet Burning in Space is Psychedelic, Man

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    Fuel Droplet Burning in Space is Psychedelic, Man

    Dude! This awesome image looks like a psychedelic 1970′s flashback. But is is actually a droplet of fuel burning in space, on board the International Space Station. NASA explains that because of the absence of gravity, fuels burning in space behave very differently than they do on Earth, and the Flame Extinguishing Experiment on boards [...]

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    This seems like it's cheating. They put the false color in, and then they added in a mirror image to get the bilateral symmetry. It does look like something out of the 70's, but only because they made it that way.
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    Looks like Jack Kirby artwork under a blacklight.
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