Twitterness

On twitter today there was pure gold! Firstly CERN posted this website which just made me grin. It's all about this gnome that is being sent all around the world and having pictures taken in different physics related places. In each place the gnome is weighed and its to show that gravity isn't uniform around the world. The most interesting place was the SNO lab where it is underground and so was 1.03g less than it was in London. Aside from the fact that I'm jealous of a ceramic gnome, I did pick up some places for the world trip!

I also follow 'omgfacts' which aren't always sciency but this one was! Its a bit weird though. Its about using human hair instead of silicon in a solar panel because of the static electricity. Which kind of makes my skin crawl but then it just seems super cool because human hair is just here. But then there must be some kind of problem with it because it was originally reported in the Mail in 2009. It would be cool though!

And then lastly NASA posted this image of the day and it just made me laugh because they all look so uncomfortable. They are the three men that were on Apollo 13 which was described as a  successful failure because the oxygen tank ruptured but a lot was learnt in the rescue mission. And then I just really wanted the moon globe! I found 2 on Amazon, one was £70 and the other was £8 but I didn't get either because I decided I'd regret it later!