Since the 1970s, people have been hooking up various wacky things to the
Internet. The newest and possibly coolest instance of this wonderful tradition launched this
week. The Web
Lab is physically located in the Science Museum in London, but thanks to the web,
it’s virtually everywhere. Web Lab includes 5 experiments that can be controlled from your
browser, including Universal
Orchestra, which lets you play music with people around the world on instruments in
the museum or online.
When you’re done remotely controlling the experiments in London, you can ponder the awesome
mystery of the hole in Mars.
This remarkable image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
and shows an opening to a cavern. This discovery raises many fascinating questions. How long
has it been there? Why is there a round crater around the hole? Where is the giant pencil that
fits inside?
For those of us back here on Earth, take a moment this weekend to locate your opposite point
on the globe, using the Earth
sandwich find the opposite tool. And if you try to dig directly there, that would
make a crazy cavern.
Each week we publish Fridaygram, featuring cool things from Google and elsewhere
that you might have missed during the week. Fridaygram items aren't necessarily related to
developer topics; they're just interesting to us nerds. This week we offer a Fridaygram tip of
the cap to Mike
Pegg for pointing out the Earth Opposite tool.
