Can’t believe it has taken this long to come up with this, but perhaps the technology is just now available. Never the less, NASA plans on building a gigantic liquid telescope on the Moon. A huge downfall of trying to view space from Earth is that we have to look through the atmosphere which significantly obstructs our view, not to mention light pollution. NASA figures, if they are going to build a huge telescope all the way on the moon, might as well make it the best ever built. By using a ionic liquid (basically molten salts), and spinning it. The spinning w[...]

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Fire and electricity are common sources of usable light, but how bout liquids? Cristina Ferraz Rigo created a lamp which uses a liquid to produce light. In dark rooms, the liquid glows with intensity when the proper catalyst is mixed with water. Sure, it may not be conventional, but liquid light is some snazzy stuff. [...]

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