Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 3 tablespoons melted butter or oil
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla (or peppermint) extract
- 1 tablespoon choc chips
- 1 large mug
Directions
- Add dry ingredients to the mug, and mix well.
- Crack an egg and add it to your mug. Be sure to mix it well to avoid any pockets of flour in the corners. Pour in the milk, oil and chocolate chips, and mix well. Add the vanilla extract.
- Pop your mug into the microwave for 3 minutes on maximum power. Wait until the cake stops rising, and sets in the mug.
- If necessary, run a knife around the sides of the mug, and tip the still warm cake out of the mug and onto a saucer.
‘Laser Comb’ May Aid Search for Earth-Like Alien Planets
Image: This picture illustrates part of a spectrum of a star obtained using the HARPS instrument on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. Credit: ESO
Astronomers searching for alien planets may be a step closer to finding true Earth-like worlds around sun-like stars, by using a new tool that promises to increase the accuracy of planet-hunting instruments tenfold, scientists say.
The laser frequency comb is a calibration tool specifically designed for large ground-based telescopes that search for alien planets through the “wobble method,” which identifies extrasolar planets by the gravitational effect (the wobble) they have on their parent stars.
Today instruments such as the European Southern Observatory’s High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) spectrograph on a telescope in Chile observe planets via the wobble method. But precision is key, and the hollow cathode lamps used to calibrate those spectrometers have their limitations, researchers said — they are not adjustable, can be difficult to gauge, and allow the spectrometers to track the wobble of a star only down to about 30 centimeters per second.
“To detect low-mass planets — down to the Earth mass — in Earth-like orbits requires a precision 10 times better,” study co-author Gaspare Lo Curto of the European Southern Observatory said.
crashlearnedthatfromthepizzaman:
districtnineand-three-quarters:
if this eggplant gets less than 5 million notes i’m going to be so upset
Reblogging because eggplant
Fewer than 5 million notes. Fewer. Not less.
I believe that it is called an aubergine.
IN AMERICA WE LET EGGS BE PLANTS BECAUSE FREEDOM
In Britain we let those AUBERGINES live once we heal them with our FREE HEALTH CARE
NOBODY CARES, ENGLAND
at least America came up with their own word and didn’t steal ours
you used the wrong flag France
RUN PIT. YOU DIDN’T SEE THIS.
How does this eggplant start a British vs. American war?
WHO CARES ABOUT BRITAIN OR AMERICA?
IN MÉXICO WE HAVE FUCKING TACOS
what if i had two pencils and ate them